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Inter-Connect in Congo, Improves, Expands its Broadband Wireless Network with New Alvarion Equipment

ISP Now Using BreezeACCESS® VL to Provide Corporate, Residential Users with Broadband Internet

TEL AVIV, Israel, March 21, 2006 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile networks, today announced that Inter-Connect, an ISP and major broadband provider in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is improving and expanding its broadband wireless network with Alvarion’s BreezeACCESS VL system.  Their existing network, which operates in central Kinshasa, was deployed using Alvarion’s earlier generation BreezeACCESS II system in 2.4 GHz. By building the new network in the license exempt frequency of 5.4 GHz and adding additional equipment to cover more of the capital city, Inter-Connect will enjoy improved capacity and provide more bandwidth for higher quality data and voice services to more corporate and residential subscribers. 

“We have been very pleased with both the cost effectiveness and reliability of our Alvarion wireless broadband network, and so are excited to be moving to a next generation system with higher capacity enabling us to provide both data and voice services to more users,” said Mr. Christian Callens, President of Inter-Connect. “Demand for broadband services has grown tremendously in our region of the world, and wireless broadband is the most cost-effective way for us to provide high quality services to these users.”

BreezeACCESS VL’s enhanced features of non-line-of-sight operation, encryption, and quality of service support combined with its high capacity and extended reach of more than 20 kilometers allows carriers, mobile operators, ISPs, enterprises and others to enjoy the benefits of broadband services in license exempt frequencies. With advanced features such as 10MHz channel spacing, automatic clear channel selection, and a built-in spectrum analyzer to monitor channel noise, BreezeACCESS VL also enables greater flexibility in frequency planning and system deployment.

“BreezeACCESS VL’s advanced features, compelling economics, and deployment flexibility means that carriers can offer the highest quality of broadband services today in unlicensed spectrum bands,” said Tzvika Friedman, CEO and President of Alvarion. “Inter-Connect’s well conceived plan to meet the growing demand for broadband in Congo by expanding their current broadband wireless network means they will benefit from the top performance and excellent business case that VL offers in 5GHz.”

About Inter-Connect
Inter-Connect specializes in top quality Internet services to provide broadband in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since its founding in 1997, Inter-connect has been a pioneer in the world of the Internet in Democratic Republic of Congo. In the beginning, its mission was to develop and popularize the communication by Internet all over the country to allow all types of companies a greater communication speeds and to offer the population the means of remaining in contact with their families and friends abroad. Today, the goal is to remain the primary provider of broadband communications of quality and powerful services. For more information, visit http://www.ic.cd/.

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 Inter-Connect ion, 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 ten 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 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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