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AMA Crosses 2000th CPE Milestone; Emerges as Alvarion's Top North American Wireless ISP

Tel-Aviv, Israel and Amarillo, TX, June 24th 2002. Alvarion Ltd. (Nasdaq: ALVR), a leading provider of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) solutions, and AMA Online, a Texas-based wireless ISP (WISP), today announced that AMA has completed deployment of their 2,000th customer premise unit. AMA’s network covers approximately 15,000 contiguous square miles throughout the Amarillo, Texas area.

AMA is rapidly expanding its network with approximately 30 to 40 customer installations per week. “AMA is Alvarion’s leading Wireless ISP in the U.S.,” said Amir Rosenzweig, President of Alvarion, Inc. “Since they are exceeding revenue projections, they have been able to expand much more rapidly than initially planned.”

AMA operates in an environment where competition includes other license-exempt wireless operators. Designed specifically to deliver wireless broadband in challenging environments, BreezeACCESS™ II also uses license-exempt bands. “AMA’s success is testament to the quality of their total network, their superior marketing and service, and the unique ability of BreezeACCESS II to thrive in a market active with other wireless Internet operators,” stated Patrick Leary, Alvarion, Inc.’s Chief Evangelist for wireless broadband.

Mr. Leary continued, “In addition to traditional Internet services such as access, e-mail and web hosting, the regional ISP offers sophisticated virtual private networking (VPN) for corporate facility connectivity, either directly or over the Internet via dial-up, DSL, ISDN, and wireless technologies. Like many regional service providers, AMA Wireless identified broadband-enabled services as a key driver in achieving its current and future business goals. In order to successfully compete in lucrative, last-mile access markets with the established cable and telephone operators in their region, it was essential to find a network solution that enabled swift and cost-effective entry. Moreover, the equipment deployed would have to reflect the ISP’s commitment to upholding their reputation for providing excellent service at a lost cost to subscribers. Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS product family answered the call on all fronts. Enabling immediate deployment, low entry costs and demand-based build-out, BreezeACCESS provides always-on, high-speed data and voice services across an independent wireless infrastructure.”

“We began our wireless business only eighteen months ago and have managed to grow it in large part because the technology we offer is first in its class,” said Lehmer Dunn, Vice-President of AMA Online. “Alvarion’s wireless broadband solutions enable us to bring our customers reliable Internet services through an easy-to-install, wire-free platform. Alvarion has remained attentive to our needs as they change and grow, and they provide us with excellent support. Using an Alvarion solution, we were able to generate quick ROI and generate positive cash flow from our wireless broadband activity.”

About Alvarion
Alvarion is a powerhouse of point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access (BWA) solutions for telecom carriers, service providers, and Enterprises worldwide. Alvarion’s systems are used to provide Internet access and voice and data services for subscribers in the last mile, as well as for cellular network feeding, building-to-building connectivity, and wireless local area networks (LANs).

Alvarion, which was formed by the merger of BreezeCOM and Floware, offers the broadest range of BWA solutions by market segment and frequency band. Its solutions are designed to address all carriers’ and service providers’ business models. With the combined market experience of its founding companies, a strong customer base, diversified distribution channels and field-proven deployments, Alvarion is the leading BWA pure-play provider for all types of end-users, from residential subscribers to business customers.

This press release may contain 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 inability 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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