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ISL In Bangladesh Selects Alvarion’s Breeze2000 For Large Scale Network To Offer Voice Services Throughout Southeast & Southwest Regions Of The Country

CDMA2000 1X System Optimal for Rural, Suburban Telephony

Mountain View, California, July 25, 2005 --- Alvarion Inc. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and wireless telephony networks, today announced that Integrated Services Limited (ISL), a carrier that received licenses to operate in several zones in Bangladesh, selected its Breeze2000 system to provide voice services to residences and businesses throughout the country. Operating in the 800 MHz band, 34 Breeze2000 base stations will be deployed to cover approximately half of the rural and suburban areas of Bangladesh. The network is expected to be deployed by the end of the year.

“Using Alvarion’s CDMA2000 system gives us a jumpstart into the competitive voice services market quickly and cost-effectively,” said Mr. Afzal Choudhury, Chairman of ISL. “We were very impressed with Breeze2000’s IP architecture and modular design, which will minimize our initial investments, support a fast deployment schedule and reduce our operations costs significantly. Alvarion’s system is perfectly tailored to our business model and technology requirements to provide quality services.”

Breeze2000 is a wireless solution designed for next generation networks around the widely deployed CDMA 2000-1X RTT standard featuring a migration path to 3G networks along with scalability for fixed applications. When applied to the last mile, the system provides carrier-class telephony and always-on data access for both business and residential users requiring fixed or limited mobility connections. The system employs a distributed structural design that minimizes CAPEX with its IP architecture and reduces OPEX with its minimal backhaul bandwidth requirements. As a result, Breeze2000 is a compact infrastructure solution offering superior performance and value for carriers offering local loop services in emerging markets.

“With Bangladesh’s varied terrain and much of its rural and suburban areas lacking basic telecommunications infrastructure, the extreme cost-effectiveness of the Breeze2000 will make it an ideal last-mile voice solution for many areas of the country. In addition to its scalable IP architecture, Breeze2000 will secure an operator’s investment with a seamless migration to next-generation networks,” said Patrick Duncan, Managing Director, Asia Pacific of Alvarion. “We are excited about this large scale, high profile deployment in Asia Pacific, as it is a model for the many other carriers in the region who can use a fixed CDMA system to quickly build voice infrastructure.”

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About Integrated Services Limited (ISL)

ISL was established in 1993 by the integration of 5 Engineering Service oriented multidisciplinary companies in order to provide telecom services in rural Bangladesh. The company obtained a license for rural telecom to cover 60% of rural area of Bangladesh located in the Southern portion. The company formed a joint venture with a Malaysian company and started service with AMPS technology in 800 MHz band introducing wireless local loop (WLL) solution. ISL bought out the Malaysia company in 2004 and recast the whole project using CDMA2000 technology with an IP based architecture to achieve low operating cost. They have selected Alvarion of the USA who has come with the commitment to develop the network in 264 Upozilla’s covering an area of more than 70,000 Sq. Km with an initial deployment of 34 base stations. The network is scheduled to be operational by December 2005.

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 wireless 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.

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