Alvarion Announces Commercial Availability of BreezeMAX(TM) PRO CPE for WiMAX Networks

8 September 2005

Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world's leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced the commercial availability of BreezeMAX PRO, a WiMAX-ready, cost effective customer premises equipment (CPE) that uses the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface chip. After successful beta trials, Alvarion is now fulfilling orders for the BreezeMAX PRO in volume production quantities for commercial deployments.

As BreezeMAX PRO is the first commercially available subscriber unit to use the new Intel WiMAX chip, it represents another major industry milestone in moving toward the widespread adoption of WiMAX standard products. It is also the culmination of joint development efforts with Intel since 2003.

As a complete WiMAX-ready solution, Alvarion's BreezeMAX offers the market a superior mix of price and performance, while enhancing operators' business models with seamless operation in large deployments. Based on Alvarion's enhanced WiMAX technology, BreezeMAX PRO's advantages of advanced PHY and MAC result in the highest level of modem performance plus a full suite of networking capabilities.

"We are pleased to be one of the first operators in the world to trial the BreezeMAX PRO CPE," said Carlos Morell, CEO of Iberbanda. "Since we began deploying our large commercial deployment last year using BreezeMAX, we have been able to serve large enterprises, SOHOs and residential users, all from the same base station and benefit from the improved performance and economics of this system."

BreezeMAX(TM) is Alvarion's WiMAX-ready platform that uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality and is designed for operators to offer broadband IP-based data and voice services. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer multiple services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station.

"We are committed to WiMAX technology given its cost effectiveness and ability to support wide-scale deployments," said Bertrand Lebarbier, Assistant General Manager of Altitude Telecom. "The integration of BreezeMAX PRO into our WiMAX-ready networks is a welcome achievement, and we intend to make the most of Alvarion's market leadership in the WiMAX arena."

The BreezeMAX platform has been designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard and serves as a base for Alvarion's future mobile solution targeted towards the emerging IEEE 802.16e standard for mobile broadband services.

"With the commercial launch of the BreezeMAX PRO, the first Intel-based CPE, we have now taken the next major step as a company, and as an industry, toward the mainstream use of WiMAX services worldwide. The economic and technological advantages WiMAX offers operators are clearly demonstrated when deploying the BreezeMAX PRO," Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion. "BreezeMAX PRO is further proof of our dedication to lead the WiMAX market to standards-based fixed, portable and mobile solutions."

About Alvarion

With more than 2 million units deployed in 130 countries, Alvarion is the worldwide leader in wireless broadband, providing systems to carriers, ISPs and private network operators, and also in extending coverage of GSM and CDMA mobile networks to developing countries and other hard to serve areas.

Leading the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions. Alvarion's products enable the delivery of business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection, public safety communications, and mobile voice and data. Alvarion works with several global OEM providers and more than 200 local partners to support its diverse global customer base in solving their last-mile challenges.

As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations for more than 10 years from core technology developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's prominent work in the WiMAX Forum(TM) is focused on increasing the widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to mobile WiMAX solutions.

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