New Delhi : Alvarion Ltd., the world’s leading provider of 4G networks and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that its video surveillance solutions were selected by the Uttarakhand Police to promote the safety of millions of visitors to Haridwar City during the Kumbh Mela, a religious procession that takes place every 12 years.

Kumbha Mela is a massive pilgrimage – thought to be the largest religious gathering in the world – in which Hindus gather at the Ganges River for holy rituals, that took place this year. It is estimated that nearly 40 million pilgrims visited the Ganges River in Hardiwar City during this time. The network, operating at 5.8 GHz frequency band, connected 45 cameras and covered an area of 20 square kilometers. .

“Given the enormity of this event, it was our top priority to provide a safe environment for both pilgrims and residents in Haridwar City,” said Alok Sharma, Director In General of Kumbh Mela. “Alvarion’s video surveillance solutions provided the flexibility and portability to be rapidly and easily deployed, while ensuring high quality of service (QoS) and security.”

“An event of this magnitude requires intense video security solutions to protect the community and religious devotees without disturbance from surveillance equipment. We are happy to have played a part in providing the technology for such a unique event,” said Santhanam Gopalakrishnan, India Country Manager of Alvarion. “Our broad portfolio of products allows us to develop customized solutions that provide real-time, broadband access to critical databases. We are seeing continuous demand for wireless broadband solutions for the video surveillance market and we continue to deliver solutions that can work for complex business cases.”

Alvarion’s wireless video surveillance portfolio supplies high-quality, reliable solutions with secure encrypted connectivity and high bandwidth support, allowing high QoS for real-time video surveillance. Alvarion provides an end-to-end portfolio of wireless broadband products for a wide range of frequency bands. BreezeACCESS VL is a carrier-class, point-to-multipoint solution for wireless broadband outdoor connectivity and the delivery of high-quality data, voice and video services in urban and rural environments. Alvarion’s BreezeNET® B is a product family of wireless point-to-point bridging solutions for license-exempt frequency bands. BreezeNET B provides an efficient and secure solution for multiple advanced applications such as wireless broadband access, backhaul services for WISPs, private networks connectivity, disaster recovery, video surveillance, IP telephony, video conferencing, e-Education, Telemedicine and SCADA and Intelligent Traffic Networks (ITN).