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Alvarion Introduces Breeze2000™, Its IP-Based CDMA2000-1X Network Platform

IP Architecture Will Offer New Opportunities for Operators to Serve Fixed Residential Users 
 
Tel- Aviv, Israel, March 14, 2005 - Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced the introduction of Breeze2000, an IP-based CDMA-1X RTT infrastructure solution, that will provide wireless telephony and always-on data for mobile and fixed applications.

The fixed residential market will benefit from this solution, tailored especially small to medium scale networks in urban, suburban and rural areas offering operators a cost efficient alternative to traditional wireless local loop technologies. Its distinctive distributed IP architecture will minimize operators’ initial investment in network roll-outs and expedites time-to-market. Product availability is planned for Q2/05.

“With Breeze2000, established operators may migrate seamlessly from legacy networks to next generation networks, while emerging operators can cost-effectively build an IP-based NGN,” commented Rudy Leser, Alvarion’s vice president of marketing. “This compact platform will be scaleable to minimize operators’ initial investment and will enable network growth based on demand,” he added.

Moving to an IP-based CDMA network results in a number of key advantages for service providers, particularly in terms of savings on both infrastructure and backhaul. Breeze2000 will provide transparent telephony services over a V5.2 interface including supplementary services, fax G3, payphone and data services of circuit switched and always-on 153 Kbps peak rate. In addition, it will offer a self-contained IP-switch connected to the PSTN over SS7 or PRI enabling call termination within the local cell for reduced satellite backhaul costs in rural networks. The system will operate in the 450 MHz, 850 MHz, 1900 MHz, and 2100 MHz frequencies.

“Alvarion already dominates the local loop in emerging markets around the world with other wireless products of voice and data. Breeze2000 will extend that reach to the low end ARPU market,” commented Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion. “Breeze2000 will make a solid business case for established and alternative carriers to provide voice and always-on data services to this market,” he added.

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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