Burkina Faso's ONATEL Expands Wireless Broadband Network with Additio

    Business Editors

    TEL-AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2005--Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world's leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced that ONATEL (Office Nationale des Telecommunications), the national exchange carrier of Burkina Faso, has deployed an additional $4 million worth of Alvarion equipment. This is the second phase of a project begun in 2003 to provide a full range of toll-quality voice, fax and high-speed IP data services to new residential and MTU/MDU customers. The network was deployed and operational by the close of 2004.
    Alvarion's solution is based on its field-proven MGW(TM) and eMGW(TM) platforms for the 1.9GHz and 3.5GHz frequency bands. ONATEL will use the wireless networks as part of its efforts to increase the country's teledensity, especially targeted for areas without previous telecommunications infrastructure. The MGW and eMGW platforms are particularly cost-effective for topographic conditions found in areas such as Burkina Faso and will ensure robust, secure and reliable services for all deployment scenarios.
    The most recent order represents a significant increase from the number of lines installed last year, bringing the total number of installation sites to four in densely populated, developing areas. In addition, the noteworthy upgrade in this network is the introduction of Alvarion's eMGW, providing high-speed, broadband services for the first time to the country of Burkina Faso.
    "The modularity of our networks allows carriers to build out infrastructure as justified by demand, reducing the need for huge initial investments," said Tzvika Friedman, President of Alvarion. In addition, the fact that one advanced system can support toll-quality voice and fax as well as high-speed Internet access gives the carrier an economic way to address the full communications needs of its customers. We look forward to participating in the future phases of ONATEL's network deployment, and are proud that our technology is helping ONATEL increase opportunities in this developing region."

    About Onatel

    ONATEL (Office Nationale des Telecommunications) is the national exchange carrier in Burkina Faso, a west African nation with a population of more than 13 million. Its growing telecommunications network offers a complete range of fixed, mobile and Internet services.

    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 ten 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 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

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CONTACT: Alvarion Ltd. Investor Contacts: Dafna Gruber, +972-3-645-6252 or 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

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