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BreezeACCESS™ OFDM Solution For The 5GHz Band Enables Widely Affordable Broadband Connections To Small And Medium Businesses

BreezeACCESS™ OFDM Solution For The 5GHz Band Enables Widely Affordable Broadband Connections To Small And Medium Businesses 
 
 
 
BreezeACCESS™ OFDM Solution For The 5GHz Band Enables Widely Affordable Broadband Connections To Small And Medium Businesses 
 
 
 
 Delivering Speed of 54Mbps in Non Line Of Sight Condition

Product To Be Unveiled at WCA 9th Annual Technical Symposium and Business Expo 
 
 Tel – Aviv, Israel, January 13, 2003 – Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), a leading provider of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) solutions, today announced its new BreezeACCESS™ high-capacity OFDM solution for the 5GHz frequency bands. Targeting SME (small- to medium-sized Enterprises) and MTU (Multi-tenant Unit) markets, the BreezeACCESS VL solution enhances Alvarion’s mature BreezeACCESS with features that cut costs and drive revenues in higher-bandwidth and higher-margin market segments.

In supporting data rates up to 54 Mbps, the BreezeACCESS VL offers throughput matched only by fiber, but at a lower deployment cost per link than xDSL. Combined with features such as support for variable data rates, the high capacity of the solution can also be used to provide expanded services and flexible service level agreements (SLAs) as demanded by many advanced customers. And the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) capabilities in both urban and foliage-dense operating environments means operators can reach more customers in their service areas while reducing overall installation and maintenance costs.

The BreezeACCESS VL comes complete with the full range of revenue-enhancing and cost-saving features resulting from the more than 500,000 deployments of BreezeACCESS systems to date, and it can co-exist seamlessly with already-deployed BreezeACCESS networks operating in other spectrum bands.

The solution will be available for deployment by customers in the United States, Latin America, Africa, and Asia during the first quarter of 2003. The product will be unveiled at Alvarion’s booth at WCA’s 9th Annual Technical Symposium and Business Expo being held from January 13-15, 2003, in San Jose, California, USA.

Commenting on the announcement, Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion, said, “With high capacity and a rich mix of exciting features, our new BreezeACCESS VL is the solution BWA operators need to win over fiber and xDSL in SME and MTU markets. A significant enhancement to our proven BreezeACCESS solutions, the enhanced solution answers the growing demand for 5GHz products, and gives our customers an expanded technology migration path.”

With this addition to the BreezeACCESS product line, Alvarion now offers carriers the largest, most economically compelling complement of BWA products in the market and at the full range of speeds and price points.

About Alvarion

Alvarion is a premier provider of solutions based on Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) 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 the WCA Symposium

The WCA Symposium is the world’s leading showcase for wireless broadband technology and successful business applications. It annually convenes more than 1000 experts from 20 nations. This year’s event features an enhanced format, numerous collocated meetings, and support form more than 30 media partners. For more information, please visit the symposium’s website at www.wcai.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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