Alvarion among first vendors to achieve certification for outdoor base stations

Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 21, 2009 — Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that its new BreezeMAX Macro Outdoor base station is now WiMAX Forum Certified™ for both 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz frequency bands.

BreezeMAX Macro Outdoor base station is a new carrier-class product that is compact in size and supports advanced mobility features such as handoffs, HARQ, Re-use 1 and 4x4 RF diversity. The new base station, which is part of Alvarion’s end-to-end 4Motion Mobile WiMAX™ solution, optimizes the installation space with a small lightweight form-factor that eliminates the need of an outdoor enclosure or cabinet. This product introduces an environmentally friendly weatherized system, avoiding the use of air-conditioning units, shelters and cabinets, while operating the system in extreme weather conditions.

“WiMAX Forum Certified products are the backbone to creating an open, interoperable network,” said Ron Resnick, president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum. “With 504 deployments in 145 countries, WiMAX is the leading 4G technology today delivering on the promise of affordable, multi-megabit broadband worldwide.”

"We at AT4 wireless, thanks to our testing and technical expertise, are proud to continue our long-standing cooperation with Alvarion with the certification of its latest mobile WiMAX product,” said Luis Fernando Martinez, general manager of AT4 Wireless, a leader in wireless network, services and devices testing. “Alvarion has demonstrated again its commitment to WiMAX technology by expanding the portfolio of certified products with new base stations for outdoor applications."

“Achieving the certification for outdoor products shows our versatility in bringing customized solutions to the market to the benefit of our customers,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion. “The WiMAX Forum certification program continues to enhance the WiMAX ecosystem. This achievement reiterates Alvarion’s commitment to be an innovative, flexible and customer-oriented company and is another important milestone in our Open WiMAX strategy.”

Alvarion’s products use advance technologies to increase power efficiency and reduce product foot print thus minimizing the environmental impact of its solutions and improving operators' business case with lower total cost of ownership. Alvarion works with its partners to meet and often exceed international standards and policies for product design, waste reduction and production.

About Alvarion
Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR) is the largest WiMAX pure-player with the most extensive WiMAX customer base and over 250 commercial deployments around the globe. Committed to growing the WiMAX market, the company offers solutions for a wide range of frequency bands supporting a variety of business cases. Through its OPEN WiMAX strategy, superior IP and OFDMA know-how, and ability to deploy end-to-end turnkey WiMAX projects, Alvarion is shaping the new wireless broadband experience (www.alvarion.com).

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