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Irish Broadband To Expand Its Network With $4.3 Million Of Alvarion Equipment

Ireland’s Leading Wireless Broadband Provider Services Dublin Market using WiMAX-ready Products 
 
Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 23, 2005 - Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced the receipt of follow-on orders valued at more than $4.3 million from Irish Broadband, Ireland’s leading wireless broadband service provider, mainly for its license-exempt product, BreezeACCESS™ VL, and as well for BreezeMAX™ 3500, its WiMAX-ready platform, and WALKair3000™ products, to be deployed during the coming year.

These orders enable Irish Broadband to expand its broadband wireless networks that provide high speed internet services throughout Ireland. Paul Doody, Managing Director of Irish Broadband, commented, “In 2002 we set out to build an alternative nationwide IP network, Alvarion have helped us achieve this goal and today consumers throughout Ireland can get access to differentiated, high quality broadband services at the most competitive price points.”

Since 2002, Irish Broadband has been expanding its wireless broadband network using various Alvarion products in both the licensed and license-exempt spectrums. In November 2004, Irish Broadband added BreezeMAX™ 3500, Alvarion’s WiMAX-ready platform, extending coverage to other cities, including Dundalk, Drogheda, Galway, Limerick, and Waterford.

Paul Doody, Managing Director of Irish Broadband, continued, “Alvarion equipment has enabled us to add more customers at higher speeds and more quickly, an advantage that has undoubtedly contributed to our fast growth. Our network is complete in all our major cities and towns and we are now building on this to provide near nationwide coverage by the end of 2005. These orders reflect our continued satisfaction with the high quality of Alvarion’s products and the good service, plus a business model of growing our network as customers sign-on. Upon the acquisition of our 3.5GHz license, we chose to work with Alvarion to roll-out a WiMAX-ready network to take advantage of the advanced functionality and future cost reductions expected to result from standard wireless broadband products.”

Alvarion’s BreezeMAX™ is an OFDM platform with advanced NLOS functionality designed for operators to offer broadband IP-based data and voice services, allowing for the evolution of networks to WiMAX standard solutions. Its carrier-class design supports high QoS and broadband speeds to enable carriers to offer data and toll-quality voice to thousands of subscribers in a single cell.

“Irish Broadband is a natural partner of Alvarion’s given our broad range of products and frequencies, extensive support and industry leadership, advantages that allow us to provide the right solution for all their various applications and needs. They are a visionary service provider and great partner who understands the impact of WiMAX to provide the high speeds and quality of service required today, while enabling a future shift to mobile networks,” said Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion.

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About Irish Broadband

Irish Broadband is a subsidiary of NTR plc, Ireland’s leading private sector developer, financier and operator of public and environmental infrastructure. In July 2002, Irish Broadband received a license to operate wireless broadband networks from Ireland’s ComReg (Commission for Communications Regulation – previously ODTR). Since then the company has deployed an aggressive network rollout and customer acquisition.

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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