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Pennsylvania County Schools, Government Select Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS VL'TM' For Region-Wide Broadband Wireless Network

Replacing Leased Lines Improves Capacity by 10 Times, Produces Savings of More Than $200,000 per Year 
 
Tel-Aviv, Israel, November 18, 2003 – Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the global leader in wireless broadband solutions, today announced that York County, Penn., has selected Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS VL system to replace its current T1-based Internet network used by county schools and other municipal organizations.  Using the BreezeACCESS VL, Alvarion’s high capacity OFDM solution for the 5GHZ frequency bands, the county will link approximately 40 area schools plus other municipal buildings to provide Internet services at higher speeds than current leased lines and at a much lower overall cost.

To fund network deployment, York County utilized a grant that non-profit community development organization Crispus Attucks Association, Inc. obtained from the state to use for Phase I of the effort.  Crispus Attucks, in conjunction with nine local school districts and the library system, will administer the entire project. Leveraging the near-fiber capacity benefits of the new BreezeACCESS VL system, York County’s wireless network will provide each school with up to 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) of connectivity. Crispus Attucks also plans to extend broadband connections to non-profit organizations, libraries and government offices - eventually covering more than 80 buildings throughout the area.

“Alvarion was the clear choice because we needed a low-cost solution that combined both high-speed, non-line-of-sight performance with significant capacity and coverage capabilities to provide the ubiquitous service necessary for connecting all of our schools,” said Bobby Simpson, executive director at Crispus Attucks. “Compared to costly leased lines that we have been using over the past few years, BreezeACCESS VL enables York County to greatly reduce spending while providing much higher bandwidth to each school.” 

Each deployed location has seen an immediate cost improvement of 50 percent over leased lines. County agencies estimate that they will save more than $200,000 per year, a number which is expected to greatly increase in the near future, as capacity requirements grow and more organizations are connected. The savings can be earmarked to fund important educational programs.

“Like many school districts and counties in the U.S., York's administrators wanted to increase their connection speeds for Internet services while reducing the overall cost of educating their youth," said Amir Rosenzweig, president of Alvarion, Inc.  "Wireless broadband is a proven and highly effective way for schools and county organizations to own and manage their own broadband networks for much less then they are paying now.  Even without the community grant, the ROI for this type of deployment is extremely attractive.”

“The deployment by York shows that a tailored wireless broadband network can be effectively deployed and managed by end user customers.  While traditionally a carrier technology for serving rural areas or in the developing world, large carriers are now leveraging these same characteristics of reliability, ease of deployment, and cost effectiveness to fill gaps in their DSL coverage," Rosenzweig added.

About Alvarion

Alvarion is the global leader in wireless broadband, providing solutions to telecom carriers, other service providers, and private network operators with over 1.5 million units deployed in 120 countries worldwide.  With the industry’s greatest breadth of products, Alvarion provides flexible, scalable solutions for maximum customer profits.  From Internet access and network backhaul to enterprise bridging and mobile public safety, Alvarion is the only company that delivers Complete SpectrumTM networks by implementing advanced technologies across a range of frequency bands.  Alvarion, Inc. is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with its corporate offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. 

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