Alvarion® to Showcase Accton Wireless Broadband End User WiMAX™ Devices, an Important Milestone in Its OPEN™ WiMAX Strategy

Business Wire, Sept 29, 2008

Demonstrating mature and strong ecosystem at WiMAX World

TEL AVIV, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world's leading provider of WiMAX[TM] and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that it will showcase AWB's (Accton Wireless Broadband) new WiMAX product portfolio at WiMAX World, Chicago, October 1-2, Booth #711. AWB's end-user WiMAX devices, now offered as part of Alvarion's OPEN WiMAX ecosystem, represent an important milestone in the companies' strong partnership and further highlight Alvarion's mature and expanding ecosystem.

The display of WiMAX devices will include CPEs, PC cards and USB adapters:

* BreezeMAX[R] Si / WiMAX 802.16e Indoor CPE RG230 supports: 2.3, 2.5, 3.5 GHz frequency bands; MIMO; all-in-one gateway integrated 4 data ports, 2 voice ports and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi gateway; full non-line-of-sight deployment, and more.

* BreezeMAX Pro / WiMAX 802.16e Outdoor CPE OD200 supports: 2.3, 2.5, 3.5 GHz frequency bands; MIMO; separate outdoor and indoor unit performing as a WiMAX modem and LAN gateway respectively, and connects to each other via PoE, and more.

* WiMAX 802.16e USB Adapter US210 supports: 2.3, 2.5, 3.5 GHz frequency bands; MIMO; USB 2.0 host interface, and more.

* BreezeMAX PC Card / WiMAX 802.16e PC Card PC200 supports: 2.3, 2.5, 3.5 GHz frequency bands; MIMO; CardBus host interface, and more.

"We are proud to be showcasing our wireless broadband product portfolio as part of Alvarion's best-of-breed OPEN WiMAX ecosystem," said Benny Glazer, CEO of AWB. "Working closely with Alvarion, we have produced innovative and high level devices for improved customer business case and further proved our capability on delivering qualified WiMAX products to the market. We believe that offering affordable WiMAX end-user devices will spur the mass market to the realization of Personal Broadband access services anytime and anywhere."

Alvarion has already accomplished advanced interoperability with AWB devices. AWB's PC Cards are marketed and sold by one of Alvarion's customers DigitalBridge Communications (DBC) in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where DBC deployed a Mobile WiMAX[TM] network using Alvarion's complete 4Motion[R] solution. DBC offers a true mobile Internet service using Alvarion's WiMAX Forum Certified[TM] BreezeMAX 2500 base station with mobility features such as handoff.

Alvarion's OPEN WiMAX strategy aims to create a standard-based ecosystem of best-in-class vendors so operators can cost-effectively build end-to-end solutions. Through this strategy, mass market devices can be sourced directly from the ecosystem companies. The introduction of AWB devices is an important step in this direction.

"The availability of feature-rich AWB mobile and fixed WiMAX products as part of our 4Motion solution will allow our customers several choices to offer end consumers," said Tzvika Friedman, President and CEO of Alvarion. "Our global customers will now be able to mix different types of devices in their deployments to fit their specific business case. This is a result of our close cooperation and strategic partnership with AWB. A strong ecosystem of devices enables a variety of services including voice, video, and data for optimized user experience."

About AWB

Established in 2006, Accton Wireless Broadband Corp. (AWB), part of the Accton Group, develops WiMAX devices for fixed and mobile solutions being compliant with IEEE802.16e wave 2 standards. Partnering with leading telecommunication vendors and operators, AWB has developed a best-of-breed WiMAX CPE that enables next generation broadband-centric anytime, anywhere access. For more information, please visit www.awbnetworks.com.

About Alvarion

Alvarion is the largest WiMAX pure player, ensuring customer 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 has delivered 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.