“Being one of the first few vendors to achieve Mobile WiMAX Wave 2, 2.5 GHz certification, further demonstrates our leadership position in the WiMAX industry,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “We are proud to be at the forefront of the industry with an innovative and mature Mobile WiMAX base station solution. This achievement reiterates Alvarion’s commitment to be an innovative, flexible and customer oriented company and is a significant milestone of our OPEN WiMAX strategy, which we have led from the very beginning. Promoting open networks for next generation Mobile WiMAX solutions in 2.5, 3.5 and 2.3 GHz frequencies will encourage competition and allow freedom of choice to both operators and their customers.”

Alvarion’s BreezeMAX base station incorporates SentieM™ technologies in the end-to-end Mobile WiMAX 4Motion® solution. SentieM™ enhances the Mobile WiMAX basic technology and provides better coverage, capacity and throughput per user. SentieM includes Advanced Antenna and Radio Resource technologies in addition to Distributed Open Network capabilities, enabling operators to improve their business case.

The WiMAX Forum is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN standard. Currently, the organization has more than 500 member companies including service providers, regulators, equipment vendors, chip vendors, and content providers.

About Alvarion
Alvarion is the largest WiMAX pure player, ensuring customers’ long term success with fixed and mobile solutions for the full range of frequency bands. Based on its OPEN™ WiMAX strategy, the company offers superior wireless broadband infrastructure and an all-IP best-of-breed ecosystem in cooperation with its strategic partners. Alvarion boasts over 200 commercial WiMAX deployments worldwide (www.alvarion.com).

This press release contains 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: the failure of the market for WIMAX products to develop as anticipated; Alvarion’s inability to capture market share in the expected growth of the WIMAX market as anticipated, due to, among other things, competitive reasons or failure to execute in our sales, marketing or manufacturing objectives; 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 the Company’s 20-F Annual Report Risk Factors section as well as in other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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