Notas de Imprensa

Jul 30, 2008

Alvarion® Reports Record Revenues for Second Quarter 2008

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TEL AVIV, Israel – July 30, 2008 - Alvarion Ltd.(NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008.

Highlights:

Record revenues of $69.7 million, up 21% from Q2 2007 Non-GAAP EPS of $0.03; GAAP loss per share of ($0.01)
Cash reserves increased to $149 million
WiMAX revenues of $38 million, up 36% from Q2 2007
Cumulative WiMAX shipments of over $340 million

In the second quarter of 2008, revenues increased to $69.7 million, a 21% increase from $57.6 million in the second quarter of 2007, and a 4% increase from $67.2 million in the first quarter of 2008. BreezeMAX® revenues in Q2 2008 were over $38 million, or about 55% of total revenues.

GAAP net loss in the second quarter of 2008 was ($812,000), or ($0.01) per share, compared to GAAP net income of $136,000, or $0.00 per share, in Q2 of 2007, which included income from discontinued operations of $618,000 , and GAAP net loss of $(601,000), or $(0.01) per share, in Q1 2008.

Excluding amortization of acquired intangibles, stock based compensation expenses and discontinued operations, the company reported non-GAAP net profit of $1.7 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, compared with non-GAAP net profit of $2.0 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, in Q2 2007, and in the first quarter of 2008. The sequential decline in net income was primarily the result of unfavorable currency exchange rates.

During Q2 2008, the company generated positive cash flow of approximately $0.9 million. Cash reserves as of June 30, 2008 totaled approximately $149 million, up from about $148 million in the previous quarter.

For supplemental information to facilitate evaluation of the impact of non-cash charges, results of discontinued operations and comparisons with historical results, see the attached table showing the detailed reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results for Q2 and the first six months of 2008 and the comparative periods.

Comments from Management

”We are proud of our continued growth in Q2 as well as the achievement of several strategic milestones,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “In addition to reporting record revenues and WiMAX shipments, we continued to compete successfully against the major telecom equipment manufacturers and won a large WiMAX project in Latin America. We concluded an important strategic agreement with Nortel Networks, which brings numerous advantages such as R&D support and funding, wider market reach, and extensive planning and rollout capabilities for large deployments. We were one of only four base station vendors to achieve Mobile WiMAX™ Wave 2 certification from the WiMAX Forum®, and during Q2 our customer DigitalBridge Communications, launched the first Mobile WiMAX Internet service in the United States over our WiMAX solution.”

“On a constant dollar basis, we have also achieved our profitability targets for Q2; however, the significant change in the dollar versus the shekel masks the excellent progress we have made in improving our operating leverage. The dollar has declined approximately 6% from the end of Q1 until the end of Q2, and has declined over 12% since the end of 2007 and we continue to focus on mitigating the unfavorable currency impact to the maximum extent possible.

“Meanwhile, current customers are expanding their networks, bookings are strong, and the pipeline of potential new business is large and growing. This further increases our confidence in our ability to achieve the upper end of our target revenue range of $275 to $300 million for 2008.”

Q3 2008 Guidance

The company’s revenue guidance for Q3 2008 is $73 to $77 million. Based on this revenue range, non-GAAP per share results are expected to range between $0.02 and $0.06, based on approximately 65.0 million of estimated weighted average diluted shares outstanding. GAAP results are expected to range between a loss of ($0.02) and earnings per share of $0.02.

Alvarion’s management will host a conference call today at 9:00 a.m. EDT.

Please call the following dial in number to participate:

USA: (888) 428-4480 +1-(612) 332-0637.
International:

The public is invited to listen to the live webcast of the conference call.

For details please visit Alvarion’s website at www.alvarion.com.

An archive of the online broadcast will be available on the website.

A replay of the call will be available from 11:30 a.m. EDT on July 30, 2008 through 11:59 p.m. EDT on August 30, 2008.

To access the replay, please call:

USA: (800) 475-6701
International: +1(320) 365-3844
To access the replay, users will need to enter the following code: 951932.

About Alvarion

Alvarion is the largest WiMAX pure player, ensuring customers’ long term success with fixed and mobile solutions for the full range of frequency bands. Based on its OPEN™ WiMAX strategy, the company offers superior wireless broadband infrastructure and an all-IP best-of-breed ecosystem in cooperation with its strategic partners. Alvarion boasts over 200 commercial WiMAX deployments worldwide (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: 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.

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.

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