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May 10, 2005

Alvarion Launches MPOTS Solution For High Density, Cost-Effective Voice Services

ROI Improvements with Extension of WALKair� 1000 Product Line

Tel Aviv, Israel, May 10, 2005 - Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world�s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced the launch of the MPOTS extension of its WALKair�1000, featuring high-density POTS (plain old telephone service) interfaces to offer significant improvements in price per line. The combination of better economics and quick roll-out enabled by WALKair�s wireless configuration improves carriers� business models and increases return on investment.

MPOTS supports up to 64 telephone lines in a single customer premises equipment (CPE) unit. Combined with WALKair�s ability to support a combination of POTS, additional TDM services and other IP services, carriers benefit by lower capital expenditures, while offering both traditional telephony and fast Internet access.

Among other enhancements, MPOTS can accommodate up to 9600 POTS ports per sector in a 28MHz channel. By operating in 3.5 GHz band as well as in LMDS frequencies, carriers receive several network options with regard to regulators and spectrum expenses. Battery backup of the MPOTS CPE qualifies Alvarion�s MPOTS solution as the end user�s primary line.

�Alvarion has identified a wide range of applications for MPOTS, including campus environments, phone supermarkets, business parks, and multi-dwelling residences,� said Rudy Leser, Vice President of Marketing of Alvarion. �With features that significantly increase carrier ROI by multiplying subscribers with less equipment, we expect that MPOTS extension to WALKair will soon be deployed throughout the world.�

MPOTS is an extension of the WALKair�1000 product line, Alvarion�s point-to-multi-point broadband wireless access system for carriers targeting small and medium enterprises (SMEs), multi-tenant and multi-dwelling units (MTUs and MDUs), SOHOs, industrial, retail and residential subscribers. Operating in the 3.5, 10.5 and 26 GHz frequency bands, WALKair� maximizes data throughput with a total cell capacity of 256 Mbps in a 28 MHz channel and more than 512 Mbps in a 56 MHz channel. As a result, a single WALKair� 1000 base station can support up to 2048 CPEs with peak data burst rates of up to 4 Mbps.

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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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