Notas de Imprensa

Aug 18, 2005

Kenya Data Networks Expands Its Broadband Network With Alvarion To Serve WiMAX-Ready Services To Businesses And ISPS

BreezeMAX™ 3500 to Provide Triple Play WIMAX Services In Five Kenyan Cities

TEL AVIV, Israel, August 18, 2005 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced that Kenya Data Networks Ltd. (KDN), a subsidiary of Sameer ICT Group, has ordered an initial deployment of Alvarion’s WiMAX-ready equipment, BreezeMAX™ 3500, to bring WiMAX broadband services to businesses and internet service providers (ISPs) in five Kenyan cities. Following successful commercial trials, KDN, an emerging carrier that counts among its customers all the ISPs in Kenya, has now purchased the BreezeMAX to cover the cities of Kisumu, Eldoret, Ukunda, Diani, and Malindi.

KDN plans to extend services to another ten towns in the upcoming weeks and eventually to the capital city of Nairobi. Upon completion of the BreezeMAX installation, KDN plans to offer triple play services of voice, data and video to its customers. Last year, KDN installed Alvarion BreezeACCESS™ OFDM and WALKair™ products in the 3.5 GHz frequency bands to supply highly reliable last-mile access services to Kenya’s major ISP’s, banks, universities, multinational corporations, and small-to-medium-sized businesses.

"Over the years, KDN and Alvarion have developed a strong partnership in the East African market that has allowed us to become the undisputed market leader in our region”, said Mr. Kai Wulff, Managing Director of KDN. “KDN values Alvarion as a real partner that always has an open ear for special customer needs and market requirement and as a result, Alvarion has enabled us to proceed in our commitment towards the ‘Universal Access Obligation” that we have with the Kenyan government and eventually we hope to cover more than 70% of Kenya’s population with affordable broadband services.”

BreezeMAX is Alvarion’s WiMAX-ready platform that uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality to enable operators to offer broadband IP-based data and voice services over a large service area. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer multiple services to thousands of subscribers from a single base station. BreezeMAX networks are already installed with over 100 operators in more than 30 countries.

“For sometime, KDN has shared in Alvarion’s philosophy that wireless broadband is the best economic alternative to traditional wired access, especially for areas with little existing telecommunications infrastructure,” said Zvi Slonimsky CEO of Alvarion. “By becoming the first carrier to bring the advantages of WiMAX to Kenya, they will benefit from the innovation and economies of standard-based equipment while their customers will enjoy broadband speeds and quality of service of a WiMAX-ready platform.” Kenya Data Networks Ltd. (KDN)

KDN is a public data network operators in Kenya. KDN was established early in 2003 in the wake of the liberalization of the Kenyan telecommunications market by the Sameer Group, a major Kenyan conglomerate and a pioneer provider of affordable, mobile, telephone services in Kenya. Having invested approximately $10 million in sophisticated data communications infrastructure, in July 2003 KDN launched commercial Leased Line, Frame Relay, and IP Data services aimed at businesses and large institutions in Nairobi and other areas of Kenya. For more information, see www.kdn.co.ke and www.sameer-group.com

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™ 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

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