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Allot Communications Signs OEM Agreement with Alvarion; Alvarion Integrates NetEnforcer Products in its Broadband Wireless Access Solution for Enhancing QoS

Allot’s NetEnforcer provides bandwidth and SLA management, supplemental IP services and accounting information to enhance Alvarion’s BWA offering
  
Tel Aviv, Israel and Minneapolis, MN, January 15, 2003 — Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ:ALVR) a leading provider of broadband wireless access (BWA) systems and Allot Communications, a premier provider of policy-based networking solutions, announced today that they have signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement. Through the agreement, Alvarion will offer Allot’s NetEnforcer quality of service (QoS) management equipment in its product portfolio worldwide.

The NetEnforcer product line gives Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) operators the power to intelligently shape network bandwidth and deliver system-wide service level guarantees based on the networking needs and business priorities of broadband IP service providers worldwide. Shaping bandwidth is particularly useful with the new bandwidth consuming Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications and the effect the increasing use of these applications has on uplink costs and subscriber satisfaction. The NetEnforcer also allows BWA operators to offer a range of supplemental IP services such as application prioritization (class of service), usage-based billing, traffic monitoring.

“Integrating the NetEnforcer into Alvarion’s product line gives BWA service providers a complete solution for enhancing QoS and bandwidth management,” said Rudy Leser, VP Marketing of Alvarion Ltd. “In addition, it ideally complements the Alvarion offering by giving our customers a scalable, affordable IP-based solution that is quick to deploy, resulting in a fast return on their investment.”

“Alvarion’s selection of Allot’s product gives service providers worldwide several essential benefits,” said PG Narayanan, CEO of Allot Communications Americas. “Enhanced QoS will improve the performance of multimedia traffic, as well as provide the ability for network over-subscription. These factors, coupled with the ability to offer value-added services, will contribute to customer satisfaction as well as improve wireless carriers’ revenue streams.”

About Alvarion

Alvarion is a premier provider of solutions based on point-to-multipoint (PMP) broadband wireless access used by telecom carriers, service providers, and enterprises worldwide. Alvarion systems provide Internet access and voice and data services in the last mile, cellular network feeding, building-to-building and wireless local area network (LAN) connectivity.

Alvarion offers the broadest range of BWA solutions by market segment and frequency band, designed to address all carriers’ and service providers’ business models. With its combined market experience, strong customer base, diversified distribution channels and field-proven deployments, Alvarion is a leading BWA pure play provider for every end user profile, from residential subscribers to business customers.

About Allot Communications

Allot Communications’ policy-powered networking initiative offers bandwidth management solutions for enterprises and IP service providers that improve application performance, throttle non-business uses of the Internet and enable the deployment of business-critical, time-sensitive applications. In enterprise networks, Allot’s solutions allow network managers to enable quality of service (QoS) by linking business policies to specific network actions that improve users’ productivity and contain networking costs. In service provider networks, Allot’s QoS and service level agreement (SLA) enforcement solutions maximize return on investment (ROI) by managing over-subscription, throttling P2P traffic on upstream and downstream links, and delivering tiered services and classes of service.

Allot Communications has regional offices in the USA, France, Japan, Singapore and Israel. Allot is represented worldwide through OEM and distributor channels. Visit Allot on the Web at http://www.allot.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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