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Alvarion Extends its Market Leading BreezeMAX Solution to New Frequencies

World's Most Widely Deployed WiMAX System Now Available in 3.6 GHz Band

CeBIT, Hannover, Germany, March 9, 2006 - Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced the extension of its market leading, BreezeMAX solution to 3.6 GHz with the introduction of the BreezeMAX 3600. Operating from 3.6 to 3.8 GHz and targeted to fixed WiMAX operators in Europe and other countries, the BreezeMAX 3600 enables carriers to offer broadband data, voice and multimedia services with high performance over wide coverage areas. Currently in field trials, the BreezeMAX 3600 is expected to be commercially available in the second quarter of this year.

“Broadening our BreezeMAX product line to new frequencies is part of our ongoing commitment to enable carriers everywhere to leverage all available spectrum for WiMAX services,” said Rudy Leser, Vice President of Marketing of Alvarion. “Our intimate carrier relationships combined with our vast local knowledge in markets throughout the world means we can anticipate the growing demand for WiMAX services and address this demand with the appropriate product. Being the first to offer a WiMAX product in 3.6 GHz is evidence of our continued leadership of the WiMAX market and dedication to bringing ‘personal broadband’ to everyone, everywhere.” 

BreezeMAX™ is Alvarion’s WiMAX platform designed from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards and uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) functionality. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer triple play broadband services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station. Since its launch in mid-2004, BreezeMAX has been successfully deployed in over 150 installations in more than 30 countries around the world.

About Alvarion
With more than 2 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion is the worldwide leader in wireless broadband, providing systems to carriers, ISPs and private network operators, and also in extending coverage of GSM and CDMA mobile networks to developing countries and other hard to serve areas.
Leading the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions. Alvarion’s products enable the delivery of business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection, public safety communications, and mobile voice and data. Alvarion works with several global OEM providers and more than 200 local partners to support its diverse global customer base in solving their last-mile challenges.
As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations for more than 10 years from core technology developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's prominent work in the WiMAX Forum™ is focused on increasing the widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to mobile WiMAX solutions.

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

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