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Alvarion Celebrates a Broadband Wireless Industry Milestone: Half-Millionth Unit Deployed

Alvarion’s Booth At CeBIT To Highlight Latest BWA Developments, Including New-Generation OFDM (Non-Line-Of-Sight) Suite and AlvariBaseTM, New Integrated Base Station 
 
CeBIT, Hannover, Germany, March 13, 2002 -- Alvarion Ltd. (Nasdaq: ALVR), a leading provider of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) solutions, is celebrating the latest BWA industry milestone, namely, the installation of its 500,000th BWA unit, in its booth at CeBIT 2002. The milestone marks a productive period during which Alvarion has deployed fixed wireless networks all over the world for telecom carriers, service providers and enterprises in more than 100 countries, emerging as the leader of the BWA marketplace.

Alvarion’s booth at CeBIT can be found in Hall 13, location A54.

Commenting on Alvarion’s market leadership, Emmy Johnson, President and chief analyst from Skylight Research, said: “Alvarion’s success stems from the value which its technology brings to a broad range of customers, especially in developing markets, like Latin America. As of 3Q01, Alvarion captured 83 percent of the Latin America sub-10 GHz market and over half the worldwide market. Alvarion’s proven ability for large scale deployments, its broad product offerings, and strong partnerships, have contributed to its success even in today’s cautious markets.”

Peter Jarich, Director of Broadband Research from the Strategis Group added, “This is clearly an important milestone for the BWA industry, proving that BWA has indeed a bright future ahead, contrary to common belief. As the telecom market recovers, the entire BWA sector - and leaders like Alvarion - should be positioned for continued growth.”

In a number of high-potential scenarios, Alvarion’s BWA systems have proven to be a superior alternative to wireline access solutions:

• Cellular opeartors use Alvarion networks to leverage their valuable assets. Re-using their real estate (towers and rooftop rights), customer base, and marketing infrastructure, they deploy BWA networks in parallel with cellular networks to support Internet access and high-capacity cellular feeding;
• Incumbent telephone companies use BWA to fill the coverage gaps of DSL, protecting themselves against the challenge of emerging broadband service providers;
• Service providers and regional independent telcos deploy Alvarion networks to establish a presence in areas that incumbents have overlooked, and to address niche business markets. Because Alvarion’s products are fast to install, reasonably priced, and available for the unlicensed as well as licensed bands, they enable service providers to establish a winning range of voice and data services quickly and cost-effectively; and
•  Enterprise customers use Alvarion’s systems to support wireless building-to-building connectivity and WLANs.
  

At CeBIT, Alvarion is unveiling a variety of new additions to its BreezeACCESS, WALKair and BreezeNET solutions:

• A next-generation BreezeACCESSTM OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) solution for the 3.5GHz frequency band, one of the first commercial OFDM solutions. Delivering both speed and bandwidth in non-line-of-sight conditions, the OFDM suite enables operators to expand their customer base and increase their revenues;
• BreezeACCESS SU-R, a compact CPE that provides very simple installation resulting in lower overall installation costs for the operator.
• The AlvariBaseTM product, a highly advanced base station that communicates with both BreezeACCESS and WALKair CPE. The AlvariBase enables the operator to serve a broad range of customers, from SMEs (Small-to-Medium Enterprises) and MTUs (Multi-Tenant Units) to SOHOs (Small Office Home Office) and residential subscribers, all from one base station; and
• The BreezeNETTM DS.11b – Complementing the market leading building-to-building product line, BreezeNET DS.11b delivers a fast and robust wireless infrastructure.
  

About Alvarion
Alvarion is a premier provider of solutions based on Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) Broadband Wireless Access (BWA), used by telecom carriers, service providers, and enterprises worldwide. Alvarion systems provide Internet access and voice and data services in the last mile, cellular network feeding, building-to-building and wireless local area network (LAN) connectivity.

Alvarion offers the broadest range of BWA solutions by market segment and frequency band, designed to address all carriers’ and service providers’ business models. With its combined market experience, strong customer base, diversified distribution channels and field-proven deployments, Alvarion is a leading BWA pure play provider for every end user profile, from residential subscribers to business customers.

This press release may contain 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 inability 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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