Alvarion Participates in Fourth Public Mobile WiMAX(TM) PlugFest

Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, today announced its participation at the WiMAX Forum®’s fourth public Mobile WiMAX PlugFest in Taipei, Taiwan, with its Mobile WiMAX™ technology. Alvarion demonstrated ASN gateway (ASN-GW) and its award-winning BreezeMAX™ base station with HARQ functionality, designed to ensure continuous quality-of-service for Mobile WiMAX at 2.3, 2.5, and 3.5 GHz frequency bands. "Our many interactions with operators entail the high requirements expected from us as the WiMAX leader,” said Rudy Leser, Corporate Vice President Strategy and Marketing of Alvarion. "Answering to these demands is also manifested by our participation at the PlugFest and commitment to excellence; we see these PlugFests as important steps toward achieving interoperability, one of the most important foundations of open multi-vendor networks. We are committed to further implementing the principles of open networks with our 4Motion solution, which places operators and consumers in the center, reinforcing the complete all-IP OPEN WiMAX ecosystem.” Alvarion’s end-to-end 4Motion offering enables improved capacity and coverage in a mobile environment. Operators can benefit not only from the advanced technology with multi-vendor options, but from a cost-effective solution that is future-proof and scalable. Alvarion’s 4Motion also supports rich media-centric content services such as Mobile TV, VoIP, VOD, and interactive gaming. The company’s professional teams were present at the Mobile WiMAX PlugFest in order to test interoperability performance, HARQ, and Handoff with terminal vendors. About OPEN WiMAX Alvarion’s all-IP OPEN WiMAX architecture is the foundation of its operator-centric best-of-breed 4Motion solution. Whether providing a complete Alvarion-based network solution or combining the BreezeMAX™ superior radio technology with network elements from its world-class ecosystem of partners, Alvarion delivers an end-to-end solution that is tailored to the specific requirements of each operator. About WiMAX Forum® The WiMAX Forum® is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN standard. A WiMAX Forum goal is to accelerate the introduction of these systems into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum Certified™ products are interoperable and support broadband fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile services. Along these lines, the WiMAX Forum works closely with service providers and regulators to ensure that WiMAX Forum Certified systems meet customer and government requirements. Through the WiMAX Forum Congress Events Series of global trade shows and events, the WiMAX Forum is committed to furthering education, training and collaboration to expand the reach of the WiMAX ecosystem. For more information, visit the trade show link at www.wimaxforum.org. "WiMAX Forum” is a registered trademark of the WiMAX Forum. "WiMAX,” the WiMAX Forum logo, "WiMAX Forum Certified,” and the WiMAX Forum Certified logo are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. About Alvarion With more than 3 million units deployed in over 150 countries, Alvarion (www.alvarion.com) is the world’s leading provider of innovative wireless broadband network solutions enabling Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other services. Alvarion is leading the market to Open WiMAX solutions with 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 personal mobile broadband, 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. As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations for over 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 is focused on increasing the widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to Open WiMAX solutions. 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: the failure of the market for WIMAX products to develop as anticipated; Alvarion’s inability to capture market share in the expected growth of the WIMAX market as anticipated, due to, among other things, competitive reasons or failure to execute in our sales, marketing or manufacturing objectives; 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 inability to establish and maintain relationships with commerce, advertising, marketing, and technology providers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s 20-F Annual Report Risk Factors section as well as in other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 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