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Germany’s Kevag Telekom Satisfies Business Customers With Alvarion Access Network

Well-Financed ISP Offering High-Speed Access Through License-Free Bands 
 
Tel – Aviv, Israel, February 25, 2003 – Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), a leading provider of Wireless Broadband solutions, today announced that Kevag Telekom GmbH, the largest ISP in Germany’s Rhineland-Palatine region, has deployed an Alvarion access network in the license-free 2.4GHz frequency bands. The state-of-the-art network complements Kevag’s existing infrastructure, giving it a cost-effective way to provide high-speed Internet access (2Mbits per second) with Service Level Agreements as required by sophisticated corporate and public-sector customers.

Established in 1997 by the KEVAG power utility and RZ-Online (the online subsidiary of a major regional newspaper), Kevag Telekom has quickly become the region’s largest Internet and Cable TV Service Provider. By deploying an advanced license-free Alvarion network, with the help of the German Alvarion partner Connect Telekommunikationssysteme, Kevag Telekom has expanded the range and quality of services available to its more than 500 Enterprise and government customers. For example, the Alvarion network brings a new level of speed and security to the use of the data retrieval services of the Koblenz City Archive, one of Kevag Telekom’s high traffic customers.

Commenting on the news, Christof Furch, Director of Sales of Kevag Telekom, said, “Alvarion’s excellent technology is a perfect complementary solution for Kevag Telekom. By using the unlicensed bands, we have been able to quickly and cost-effectively roll out a new range of sophisticated Internet Access services that fit the needs of our largest customers. This is helping us to maintain our edge in a competitive marketplace and to continue building market share.”

Rudy Leser, VP Marketing of Alvarion, added, “Kevag’s success shows once again that broadband wireless is an ideal solutions in developed countries as well. We are pleased that another strong operator has come to Alvarion for a cost-effective way to satisfy the needs of its most sophisticated customers and to boost its revenues.”

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About Kevag

Founded in 1997, Kevag Telekom GmbH is the largest regional ISP in the German state of Rhineland-Pfalz. Based on an independent backbone and access infrastructure, it provides the full range of advanced telecommunications and cable TV services to 500 Enterprises and 12,000 residential customers. Kevag is owned jointly by the KEVAG power utility (50%) and by RZ Online GmbH (50%), the online service of a major Rhineland newspaper.

For more information, please see www.kevag-telekom.de

About Connect

“Connect Kommunikationssysteme GmbH” was founded in 1994. The term connect is a synonymous for “good and stabile connection”. Networks for your success is our slogan and our commitment. Connect act as a system house and offers consulting services, installationss and mmaintenance for networks. The Focus is Switching, Management, Security and Wireless LAN. Technical Know How and high-qualified employees are the basics for a long-term customer relationship.

Connect offers Wireless broadband solutions since 1996; typical issues are building-to-building connection, ISP applications and in-house networking. Connect is an authorized Alvarion partner. Connect is an authorized Alvarion partner.

For more information, please see www.cnct.de

About Alvarion

Alvarion is dedicated to delivering seamless wireless broadband networking infrastructure to carriers, ISPs and private network operators, in order to leverage their broadband opportunities into sustainable profits. Alvarion offers premier wireless broadband solutions for access in the last mile, backhauling connection to the backbone and private network connectivity. Featuring the industry's most extensive range of products and international support, Alvarion is a pioneering leader of the converged wireless broadband network. Together with key partners, Alvarion provides secure rich-media networks for business or residential Internet access, corporate VPNs, cellular base station feeding, community interconnection, public safety connectivity and extended hotspots.

For more information, visit Alvarion’s World Wide Web site at http://www.alvarion.com.

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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