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Alvarion Enters the Hotspot Market with BreezeACCESS™ GO

At CeBIT, Alvarion Celebrates 10 Years of Wireless Expertise with Demo of Comprehensive Hotspot Solution

Siemens, an Alvarion Strategic Partner, to Demonstrate the Hotspot Solution at CeBIT 
 
Tel – Aviv, Israel, March 11, 2003 –Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), a leading provider of Wireless Broadband solutions, today announced the launch of its new BreezeACCESS™ GO Hotspot solution at CeBIT 2003. BreezeACCESS™ GO is a uniquely flexible and high-performance Public Wireless LAN solution designed for turnkey installation. Its advanced features have been made possible only through the deep wireless and broadband access expertise Alvarion has amassed through its 10 years of developing the industry’s leading wireless broadband networking technologies.

Hotspots are one of datacom’s strongest new trends. Driven by the growing demand of people on the move, the Hotspot market is expected to grow to tens of thousands of deployments over the next several years and to serve tens of millions of users. Recognizing the exceptional revenue potential of this new market, many businesses that serve people on the move are now planning initial Hotspot deployments, and looking for cost-effective turnkey solutions.

"The BreezeACCESS™ GO is a natural next step for Alvarion – a culmination of more than a decade developing the industry's most powerful wireless LAN and broadband access technologies" said Mr. Tzvika Friedman, President and COO of Alvarion. "To make it the right solution for today’s Hotspot market, we have designed it as a turnkey product that is cost-effective to deploy and effortless to run. The concept is to give management a minimal-investment option for launching Hotspot services without limiting their ability to build-out as warranted by demand. Fully integrated with our robust BreezeNET™ solution, management can easily expand an initial deployment from terminal to terminal, throughout a massive convention complex, or through hundreds of hotel rooms. For low-cost, painless management, we have packaged the solution with a support system that handles all back-office functions, including credit card authorization, billing, and roaming settlement, while simultaneously monitoring QoS issues."

Alvarion's BreezeACCESS™ Go Hotspot system is a flexible end-to-end solution with all the elements necessary to launch a Hotspot installation of any size, and to extend it without limitation. The components of the system include Public Access Controllers (PACs) and the Operations Support System (OSS).

Leveraging Alvarion’s mature, field-proven BreezeACCESS™ and BreezeNET™ technologies, BreezeACCESS™ GO features an extensive feature-set including scalable architecture, remote management capability, auto-provisioning, QoS controls, IPSec-based security, flexible payment plans, and Power-Over-Ethernet. Unique to Alvarion, the technology's support of mobile protocols such as GPRS acts as a "Gateway to the Mobile World," allowing users to maintain access to cellphone-based data services. In addition, the solution’s powerful OSS supports SMS and other authentication methods and roaming settlement capabilities.

Alvarion will launch this exciting new product at CeBIT 2003 (March 12-19) as part of its 10th anniversary celebration.

A BreezeACCESS™ GO demonstration will be given at the Alvarion booth. CeBIT delegates are invited to take advantage of this BreezeACCESS™ GO deployment for free access to the Internet. Free user cards can be obtained at the Alvarion booth A56 in Hall 13. Delegates are also invited to celebrate 10 years of Alvarion at the Alvarion booth on Thursday, 13.3. from 18:30 o'clock. In addition, Siemens ICN, will also demonstrate the Alvarion Hotspot solution at booth C32 in Hall 26.

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 providee 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.

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