Alvarion Ltd. have announced the BreezeMAX™ Si, a self-installable, indoor WiMAX-ready customer premises equipment (CPE) based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard. The equipment uses the Intel®PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface chip. According to the Company website, the BreezeMAX Si would be demonstrated at the WCA annual show, June 29-30, Booth #323, in Washington, D.C., and available for customer trials later this year.

"Alvarion is taking another positive step towards realizing the future of WiMAX technology for use in the home and office," said Scott Richardson, General Manager of Intel's Broadband Wireless Division. "With the Intel® PRO/Wireless WiMAX Modem Silicon, Alvarion's BreezeMAX Si offers consumers a high-quality broadband wireless solution with simple indoor installation."

 This new indoor CPE, together with outdoor CPEs, offers carriers optimization by trading-off coverage, capacity and installation costs. Self-install unit enables carriers to vary their distribution channels to best fit their business models.

Since announcing its WiMAX technology related agreement with Intel in July 2003, Alvarion major mile stones inlcude:

1. Commercial launch of its WiMAX-ready BreezeMAX™ 3500 and subsequent installation with numerous operators worldwide,
2. Live demonstration of triple play services with a WiMAX-ready CPE using the Intel® PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface, showcased in April of this year with Iberbanda's Alvarion network in the WiMAX Forum's Cetecom lab in Malaga, Spain; and
3. The upcoming availability of BreezeMAX at 2.3 and 2.5 GHz.

"BreezeMAX Si represents another significant achievement in Alvarion realizing its WiMAX vision of broadband everywhere. It's small, attractive shape contains the most advanced WiMAX technology on the market today making it easy to deploy and easy to use," said Zvi Slonimsky, CEO of Alvarion. "As the world leader in selling WiMAX equipment, we are continuing to push toward mass market adoption and reducing installation time and cost is a major part of that effort. The enhanced value proposition of a standards-based, self-install CPE with Alvarion's proven reliability and performance will benefit our existing customers as well as the market as a whole."

BreezeMAX™ is Alvarion's WiMAX-ready platform that uses OFDM technology for non-line-of-sight (NLOS)  radio wave propagation. It is designed for operators to provide both broadband IP-based data and voice services. Its carrier-class design supports broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable carriers to offer multiple services to thousands of subscribers in a single base station.

About Alvarion
With more than 2 million units deployed in 130 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.

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

Contact: Carmen Deville, Investor Relations: carmen.deville@alvarion.com or +1-650.314.2653.