PPL Electric Utilities Deploys Alvarion

WASHINGTON -- Alvarion® Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of 4G networks in the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) market, today announced that Pennsylvania’s PPL Electric Utilities is deploying Alvarion’s BreezeMAX® Extreme 3650 WiMAX solution as part of its smart grid communications network.

The communication network upgrade, enabled by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, constitutes the first phase of PPL’s smart grid project with initial coverage of more than 60,000 customers over 150 square miles in the company’s Harrisburg, PA, operating region. The utility’s smart grid project also includes deployment of a new distribution management system. Future phases that will expand coverage of distribution automation to its other operating regions across central and eastern Pennsylvania are being planned. PPL Electric Utilities serves more than 1.4 million customers.

“We are very pleased with the deployment progress of our next-generation smart grid communication network in our Harrisburg region around the state capital,” said Matthew Green, smart grid program manager, PPL Electric Utilities. “Alvarion’s standards-compliant wireless broadband products have helped us create a robust and secure communication infrastructure in our network. This project enables us to completely transform the electric distribution system and introduce efficient energy optimization and outage management techniques that will benefit our customers.”

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