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Iberbanda Expands Into Spanish Province Of Castilla Y Leon With Alvarion’s WIMAX-Ready BREEZEMAX™ Network

TEL AVIV, Israel, July 19, 2005 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced another expansion of its WiMAX-ready system based on the BreezeMAX platform with Spain’s emerging carrier, Iberbanda, this time in the country’s largest province, Castilla y Leon. In support of bringing broadband to the province and to generate cooperative projects between Castilla y Leon and Israel, Second Vice President and Minister of Economy and Labor, Mr. Tomas Villanueva, accompanied by other directors of the Government of Castilla y Leon, visited Alvarion’s corporate headquarters yesterday.

In deepening the carrier’s commitment to deploy broadband services in Spain’s rural areas, Iberbanda ordered this initial installation of Alvarion’s WiMAX-ready network to offer a host of high bandwidth applications to business and residential customers. To date, Iberbanda has installed Alvarion’s BreezeMAX networks in the Spanish provinces of Andalusia, Catalonia, and Navarra.

“The broadband program of Castilla y León is to cover most of this province over the next few years to provide broadband services to residences and businesses areas that are currently without access because of the prohibitive costs of wired infrastructure,” said Carlos Morell, CEO of Iberbanda. “Our experience with BreezeMAX in the other regions of Spain lead us to build this network in Castilla y Leon, especially with its mountainous areas full of line-of-sight challenges. In addition, with the province’s population of less than 3 million and given its geographic size, only a WiMAX network provides a profitable business model with a diversified service offering.”

BreezeMAX™ is Alvarion’s WiMAX-ready platform that uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality and is designed for operators to offer broadband IP-based data and voice services. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer multiple services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station.

“Iberbanda is a carrier who has demonstrated its vision of the benefits of broadband wireless over the years with Alvarion,” Tzvika Friedman, President and COO of Alvarion. “Given the size, terrain, the population characteristics of the area, we believe that the initial network in Castilla y Leon has the potential to grow over the next few years, and become one of our largest BreezeMAX deployments. In addition, we are pleased to be part of the public sector’s efforts to bring broadband to the area to further economic development.”

The BreezeMAX platform has been designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard and will be submitted for certification later this year according to the schedule and readiness of the WiMAX Forum labs. The platform serves as a base for Alvarion’s future mobile solution targeted towards the emerging IEEE 802.16e standard for mobile broadband services.

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About Iberbanda

Iberbanda is a provider of advanced LMDS-based broadband services to companies throughout Spain. Using cutting edge wireless and fiber optic technologies, Iberbanda provides high-speed Internet access, data communications, voice, and other value-added IP-based services in Spain’s 72 largest cities. In addition, Iberbanda leases its advanced infrastructure to Application Service Providers (ASPs), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and transport and access services throughout Spain.

Iberbanda’s investors include major international telecommunications, retail, and financial groups, including the Prisa Group (26%), El Corte Ingles (26%), Sercotel (América Móvil) (18%), Omega Capital (9%), Caja Duero (7%), Ibercaja (4%), Caja San Fernando (4%), Caja de Huelva y Sevilla (El Monte) (4%) and Promecal (2%). For more information, visit www.iberbanda.es

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

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.

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