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Rioplex Wireless Using Alvarion Wireless Broadband To Capture Business Customers in Its Region

Mountain View, CA and McAllen, TX USA, December 21, 2005 – Alvarion Ltd, (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced the deployment of a 5,000 square mile broadband network using its BreezeACCESS VL by Rioplex Wireless, a leading Texas wireless broadband operator now targeting high capacity business customers in its service territory. Since its inception in 2002, Rioplex has been using licensed frequencies to serve residential and small business customers, and now is expanding its network using the high capacity BreezeACCESS VL. Rioplex is an end-to-end wireless operator that owns its backbone and last mile networks, and tower infrastructure throughout its service territory. Due to its vertical integration, Rioplex is able to quickly scale this new network.

To date, Rioplex has deployed 23 sectors of BreezeACCESS VL to offer multi-megabit services across its current service territory. With net capacity of over 30 megabits per sector, BreezeACCESS VL allows Rioplex to target high bandwidth consumers and businesses.

“While our licensed footprint covers a very large part of south Texas, our current network only allows us to offer speeds suitable for small office, residential, and nomadic users limiting our ability to capture revenue from high capacity business customers,” notes Othal Brand, president of Rioplex. “As a complement to our existing network, Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS VL gives us the opportunity to build a cost effective, overlay network to connect high value consumers that want multi-megabit services to support bandwidth intensive IP applications such as video and VoIP services.”

Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS VL offers enhanced features such as OFDM for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) connections, extended reach of more than 20 kilometers (12.5 miles), high capacity, encryption, and quality of service (QoS) mechanisms for carrier-class broadband data and voice services. With its advanced features such as 10 and 20 MHz channels and automatic clear channel selection (ACCS) with built-in spectrum analyzer BreezeACCESS VL enables flexibility in frequency planning.

“We are excited to have Rioplex Wireless join the hundreds of operators using BreezeACCESS in thousands of cities across the U.S. to offer broadband services to both residential and business customers,” said Amir Rosenzweig, president of Alvarion, Inc. “Rioplex is an innovative and proven licensed band carrier, and their choice of deploying BreezeACCESS VL in an unlicensed frequency to serve high value, large capacity customers shows the viability of this model for other carriers.”

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About Rioplex Wireless
Founded in 2002 by long time residents of the South Texas Valley, Rioplex Wireless is one of the United State’s largest wireless broadband carriers and the pioneering wireless broadband operator in the South Texas/Rio Grande area. Deploying in both licensed and unlicensed frequency bands, Rioplex owns its end-to-end wireless infrastructure and tower network, as well as licensed BTA’s throughout the region. Rioplex offers nomadic broadband service, as well as multi-megabit fixed wireless.

Rioplex’s unique ability to provide high-speed Data, Voice, and Video to over 5,000 square miles make it the ultimate solution to all of your Internet Service needs, whether it be in your home, office, on your drilling rig, or anywhere in between.

For more information, contact Rioplex Wireless at (956) 683-7979 or info@rioplexwireless.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 ten 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 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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