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AT&T ALASCOM Selects Alvarion's BreezeMAX for New Commercial WIMAX Rollout

Mountain View, CA, August 6, 2007 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR) today announced a contract to provide AT&T Alascom with Alvarion’s BreezeMAXTM 2.3 GHz TDD equipment as part of AT&T Alascom’s deployment of WiMAX broadband in Alaska.

AT&T Alascom today announced the availability of WiMAX-based broadband in select areas of Juneau. The company plans to announce deployment in additional Alaska communities in 2008. As part of this deployment, AT&T Alascom selected Alvarion’s IEEE 802.16e-based WiMAX solution for offering extended broadband data services in urban, suburban and rural areas alike.

“We are proud to be selected by AT&T Alascom,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “This top-tier company’s rigorous requirements and focus on innovation enable them to continually offer new advanced services, demonstrating their commitment to customers.”

Alvarion’s extensively-tested solution supports up to fourth order diversity for delivering flexible and improved coverage even in difficult terrain, such as the mountainous and wooded areas common to Alaska.  Alvarion’s nomadic self-install Si CPE is designed to incorporate a patent-pending fast-switching algorithm with six integrated antennas.
SIM-card enabled, the Si can be quickly self-provisioned by the user and is available with a wide variety of options, from multiple POTS interfaces to built-in Wi-Fi. AT&T Alascom is using a combination of Si CPEs, with the outdoor Pro model for maximizing cell radius.

About Alvarion

With more than 3 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion (www.alvarion.com) is the world’s leading provider of innovative wireless broadband network solutions enabling Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other services.

Alvarion is leading the market to Open WiMAX solutions with 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 personal mobile broadband, 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.
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 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 Open WiMAX solutions.

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: the failure of the market for WIMAX products to develop as anticipated; Alvarion’s inability to capture market share in the expected growth of the WIMAX market as anticipated, due to, among other things, competitive reasons or failure to execute in our sales, marketing or manufacturing objectives; 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 the Company’s 20-F Annual Report Risk Factors section as well as in other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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