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Testing WiMax Across Italy: Alvarion and Local Partners Selected for WiMAX Trails Nationwide

Various Carriers Now Conducting 11 BreezeMAX™ Trials Throughout Country

Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 11, 2005 – Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced that multiple operators, through Alvarion’s local partners, have purchased its WiMAX-ready platform, BreezeMAX 3500, to conduct 11 WiMAX trials across Italy—the most of any vendor participating in the program. Pilot systems are now operating in Milan, Rome, Arezzo, Piedmont, Val d’Aosta, Sardinia, Abruzzo, Sicily and Parma with the trials scheduled for completion by the end of this year. The Ugo Bordoni Foundation, a research center chosen by the Italian Communications Ministry to conduct WiMAX field trials across Italy, is responsible for handling the pilots and selecting the proposals.

“We are delighted to be building on our already strong presence in Italy in helping to develop the Italian WIMAX market,” said Tzvika Friedman, CEO of Alvarion. “Our strong local relationships, numerous commercial deployments of broadband wireless systems throughout Europe, and our more than 100 installations of WiMAX-ready networks worldwide were key factors in being selected for the most pilot networks of any vendor. We look forward to WiMAX spectrum allocations in Italy in the near future.”

BreezeMAX™ is Alvarion’s WiMAX-ready platform, which was designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16-2004 standards using OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer multiple broadband voice data and services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station. Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 100 installations throughout more than 30 countries around the world.

From the beginning, Alvarion has been at the forefront of broadband wireless standards serving as both a founding and board member of the WiMAX Forum™, as well as having several of its employees holding executive positions in the organization. In addition to numerous BreezeMAX deployments worldwide, Alvarion has achieved many industry milestones, including having the first commercially available WiMAX CPE using the Intel® PRO/Wireless 5116 WiMAX chip.

WiMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, a technology based on the IEEE 802.16 air interface standard and the ETSI HiperMAN wireless metropolitan area network (MAN) standard. WiMAX technology has the capacity to deliver sufficient bandwidth to enable triple-play applications, including high-speed data, toll-quality voice and multimedia content.

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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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