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Alvarion Receives First Order for Next Phase of Its Largest Latin American Customer’s Expansion into Additional Rural and Suburban Areas

TEL-AVIV, Israel —October 4, 2004--Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the leading provider of wireless broadband solutions worldwide, today announced that it has received the first order valued at $6 million from its largest Latin American customer for the next phase of its planned access network expansion in response to ongoing strong demand throughout the country.

As in the past, this customer has chosen to deploy Alvarion’s eMGW™ solution in the 3.5GHz band. The previous projects with this incumbent telecom operator were rolled out quickly and successfully, enabling immediate revenue generation. In addition, their rapid deployment plan has helped maintain their leading market share and competitive advantage through top quality service. Alvarion’s proven solution will enable this customer to continue to cost-effectively answer the extremely strong demand for voice and high-speed Internet access services in additional rural and suburban areas throughout the country.

"We are gratified that this valued customer has been pleased with the performance of its Alvarion access network and is continuing to expand into additional areas,” said Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion. “We are proud to be part of such an ambitious program and we look forward to supporting their ongoing expansion. Alvarion’s excellent performance in project management and implementation demonstrates our ability to address additional large projects with major carriers world-wide”.

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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. Leading the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands. 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, and public safety communications. Alvarion works with several top OEM providers and over 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 over 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 deploying OFDM-based systems, the company's prominent work in the WiMAX ForumTM is focused on increasing widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market. 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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