Alvarion Enhances BreezeACCESS VL, Its Carrier-Class Broadband Wireles

Alvarion Enhances BreezeACCESS VL, Its Carrier-Class Broadband Wireless Access Platform in 5 GHz

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    TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2005--

Systems Now Features Improved Capacity, Performance, and Deployment Flexibility
    Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world's leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced that BreezeACCESS(TM) VL customers will receive increased capacity, an option for narrower channels for more effective network planning, and improved interference resistance. These improvements are part of both VL hardware and firmware enhancements.
    Now new networks built in North America can enjoy up to a 30% increase in capacity, while European customers can get up to a 50% increase. Also provided is a new channel spacing option of 10MHz, in addition to the 20MHz currently offered, to enable greater flexibility in network planning. Notably significant is the addition of an automatic clear channel selection (ACCS) using a built in spectrum analyzer that detects the noise on each channel, thereby allowing the unit to select the clearest channel. All new hardware is fully interoperable with existing network deployments, which include customers such as Verizon Avenue and British Telecom.
    "In just two years, Alvarion's BreezeACCESS VL has become a leading product for 5GHz network deployments in terms of market share," said Emmy Johnson, Principal Analyst of Sky Light Research. "Its strong reputation for performance is furthered strengthened with these new product enhancements, all of which will help the company to solidify its position with operators around the globe."
    The improved BreezeACCESS VL solution is the latest evolution of the BreezeACCESS product family, a family of more than 300,000 units installed. Superior features such as OFDM non-line-of-sight (NLOS), extended reach of more than 20 kilometers (12.5 miles), high capacity, encryption, and QoS mechanisms enable carriers, mobile operators, ISPs, enterprises and others to reach a vantage point of providing WiMAX services today. The per chassis maximum capacity now reaches over 300 Mbps which is capable of serving more than 3,000 subscribers in a single 3U shelf base station. This release of BreezeACCESS VL is accompanied by an updated version of AlvariSTAR(TM), Alvarion's comprehensive network management support tool with scaleable architecture, topology management, configuration and monitoring, fault management, and performance monitoring.
    "These improvements take forward the current market leading broadband wireless platform in adding capacity and improving performance for carrier-class networks," commented Rudy Leser, Alvarion's VP of Marketing. "We are happy to provide our customers with service levels on par with our WiMAX-ready platform in the provision of high speed data and voice over IP services. Our customers can now improve their business models by adding more subscribers and higher speeds services without expanding their network infrastructure."

    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. For more information, visit Alvarion's World Wide Web site at www.alvarion.com

    This press release contains forward -looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on the current expectations or beliefs of Alvarion's management and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward -looking statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: inability to further identify, develop and achieve success for new products, services and technologies; increased competition and its effect on pricing, spending, third-party relationships and revenues; as well as the in ability to establish and maintain relationships with commerce, advertising, marketing, and technology providers and other risks detailed from time to time in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
    Information set forth in this press release pertaining to third parties has not been independently verified by Alvarion and is based solely on publicly available information or on information provided to Alvarion by such third parties for inclusion in this press release. The web sites appearing in this press release are not and will not be included or incorporated by reference in any filing made by Alvarion with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which this press release will be a part of.

    You may request Alvarion's future press releases or a complete Investor Kit by contacting Carmen Deville, Investor Relations: carmen.deville@alvarion.com or +1-760-517-3188.

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CONTACT: Alvarion Ltd. Investor Contacts: Dafna Gruber, +972-3-645-6252 / 760-517-3187 dafna.gruber@alvarion.com or Carmen Deville, 760-517-3188 carmen.deville@alvarion.com or Press Contacts: In the U.S.: Donna Carlson, +1-972-308-9115 dcarlson@golinharris.com or In the U.K.: Bridget Fishleigh, +44-127-362-4442 bridget@nomadcomms.com

KEYWORD: ISRAEL INTERNATIONAL AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HARDWARE SOFTWARE NETWORKING INTERNET E-COMMERCE PRODUCT SOURCE: Alvarion Ltd.

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