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Alvarion Building Island-Wide Municipal Broadband Wireless Network in Hokkaido, Japan with Hokkaido Seiko Time Systems

After Successful Deployment In the Town of Koshimizu, Additional Municipalities Now Ordering BreezeACCESS® VL in 4.9GHz

TEL-AVIV, Israel, November 16, 2005--Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced additional orders to extend the BreezeACCESS VL network, following a successful initial deployment in the town of Koshimizu, located on Hokkaido Island, Japan. Hokkaido Seiko Time Systems (HSTS), Alvarion’s local partner and the system integrator, is responsible for extending the network to additional municipalities throughout the island

“We are pleased to be part of bringing the broadband revolution to northern Japan,” said Mr.Yasumasa Ito, President of Hokkaido STS. “We began deployment in Koshimizu with a 2.4GHz wireless network, but we soon realized that the band had too many limitations preventing access to many of the city’s residents, including line-of-sight, coverage, and slow speeds. Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS VL solved these challenges for us, due to its advanced OFDM technology for non line-of-sight operation (NLOS) and its use of the less congested 4.9GHz band where the channels are larger. Since this deployment, several other major cities in Hokkaido have contacted us to understand how they could take advantage of the system, and we are now following through on deployments and plans with each of them. We look forward to continued successful network launches with Alvarion,” Mr. Ito-san added.

Within the next three years, Hokkaido Seiko Time Systems plans to deploy thousands more Alvarion CPEs throughout Hokkaido Island and expand its installation in and around the city of Koshimizu to supply residences with broadband data services as well as provide connectivity among the municipality’s offices, libraries, schools, and in and around the train station.

BreezeACCESS VL’s enhanced features such as OFDM non-line-of-sight (NLOS), extended reach of more than 20 kilometers (12.5 miles), high capacity, encryption, and quality of service (QoS) mechanisms enable carriers, mobile operators, ISPs, enterprises and others to provide WiMAX services today. With its advanced features such as 10MHz channel spacing and automatic clear channel selection (ACCS) and its built-in spectrum analyzer to monitor the noise on each channel, BreezeACCESS VL enables greater flexibility in frequency planning.

“This network represents the further strengthening of Alvarion’s presence in Asia Pacific,” commented Tzvika Friedman, CEO of Alvarion. “BreezeACCESS VL’s high capacity and NLOS capabilities, combined with its compliance with strict Japanese regulations, make it the optimal solution to enable Japanese municipalities to have their own broadband networks while providing operators with an excellent business model.”

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About Hokkaido STS

Based on Hokkaido area, Hokkaido STS is a successful company that primarily provides measurement systems for businesses. Currently, the company’s market share is approximately 70% of the Hokkaido market. Beginning this year, Hokkaido STS also works as an Alvarion system partner by providing broadband wireless access systems to municipalities and residences together with a local carrier/ISP company. Together with its partners in broadband wireless, Hokkaido STS is working to close the digital divide in rural areas of Japan. For more information, Hokkaido STS KK Sapporo city, Chuou-ku, Kita 1jou, Nishi 9 choume, 3, contact person: Masato Itoh, masato@hsts.co.jp, 011-261-5755 or visit www.hsts.co.jp

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.

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