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Multitel Uruguay To Deploy Alvarion's BreezeACCESS and WALKair in Advanced BWA Network

Tel – Aviv, Israel, November 21, 2001 – Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR) today announced that it has received follow-on orders for WALKair and BreezeACCESS equipment from Multitel (Enalur S.A.), a Uruguayan operator. Multitel will use Alvarion’s Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) equipment as part of a cutting-edge access solution.

Since the first quarter of 2001, Multitel has been deploying WALKair 1000 base stations in the licensed 26GHz band as a cost-effective backhaul system to feed outlying BreezeACCESS base stations. Using BreezeACCESS equipment, Multitel will offer fixed-rate broadband Internet access to subscribers, enabling them to bypass the use of telephone lines. For small and medium enterprises that require higher bandwidth services, Multitel will provide WALKair terminal stations for direct connection with the WALKair base stations.

Deployed together, BreezeACCESS and WALKair enable Multitel to minimize the cost of offering a uniquely comprehensive range of broadband services demanded both by Uruguay’s residential and business users.

Commenting on the news, Tzvika Friedman, President and COO of Alvarion, said, “We are very pleased to announce the first-ever complementary installation of BreezeACCESS and WALKair technologies. When we announced the merger of BreezeCOM and Floware, we promised that our combined technologies would give rise to an expanded set of cost-effective applications.”

Mr. Friedman concluded, ”Just months after the merger, Multitel is using the best features of both technologies to deploy a uniquely flexible solution that enables it to cost-effectively address a full range of business and residential customers. This ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking will surely pave the way for other innovative operators to imagine new ways of increasing revenues using our BWA technology.”

About MultiTel SA
Multitel (Enalur S.A.), is one of Uruguay’s largest ISPs. Multitel offers high-speed, fixed-price Internet access to homes and businesses throughout the Montevideo city, as well as web- and domain-hosting, Virtual Private Networks and other advanced ISP services. For more information about Multitel, please visit its website at www.multitel.com.uy.

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 for providing Internet access and voice and data services for subscribers in the last mile, for feeding of cellular networks, for building-to-building connectivity and for wireless local area network (LAN).

The merger of BreezeCOM and Floware to form Alvarion has created a company with 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.

For more information, please 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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