Alvarion Launches BreezeMAX, Its WiMAX Platform Developed From The Ground Up Based On IEEE 802.16/HiperMAN Standards

July 28, 2004

Washington, D.C. and Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2, 2004 – Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:  ALVR), the global leader in wireless broadband solutions, today launched its WiMAX™ platform, BreezeMAX, augmenting its leading product portfolio. Based on the IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN standards and WiMAX Forum profiles, BreezeMAX incorporates core wireless innovations and leverages Alvarion’s ten-plus years of experience deploying OFDM systems in commercial broadband wireless access (BWA) networks.  With prominent roles in the WiMAX ForumTM and a history of driving global wireless standards, Alvarion’s significant investment in research and development has resulted in a carrier-class platform that delivers a host of high bandwidth applications from residential to business, MDU/MTU, hotspot backhauling and home networking. The BreezeMAX platform is designed to support WiMAX certified CPEs, which will incorporate the Intel WiMAX chip set as they become available in the market.

The initial release of the WiMAX platform, BreezeMAX 3500, operates in the 3.5GHz frequency band, and has already successfully passed rigorous testing with operators in Europe and Asia Pacific, some of which plan to deploy the system commercially starting in Q3 2004.

“The launch of products that provide a path for operators to WiMAX standardisation is an important development for the industry,” said Michael Philpott, Senior Analyst with Ovum and broadband expert.  “Equipment standardisation is essential if the fixed wireless market is to grow and service providers will demand it. WiMAX brings this standardisation and should assure a place for fixed wireless in the future broadband access market.”

BreezeMAX represents Alvarion’s third-generation OFDM platform with advanced Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) functionality.  The platform is designed to take BWA to widespread deployment by both small and large carriers because of its cost improvement over current solutions, thus creating a faster return on investment.  Its carrier-class design supports quality of service (QoS) and broadband speeds to enable carriers to offer both data and toll-quality voice to thousands of subscribers in a single cell.

“BreezeMAX is the culmination of Alvarion’s decade of BWA technological leadership, our founding role in the WiMAX Forum, and our WiMAX development partnership with Intel,” said Rudy Leser, VP Marketing of Alvarion.  “Our WiMAX platform has been built from scratch; we did not take the easy route and adapt existing products to meet the expected WiMAX standard. Instead we invested time, resources and energy into developing an entirely new product based on what the market now, and in the future, will require.”

BreezeMAX is a modular, scalable platform that offers macro and micro base stations, for dense urban to rural areas. The platform also has a rich portfolio of customer premise equipment (CPE) to address business and residential user markets. The variety of CPEs provide very cost effective solutions that support multiple applications such as IP-based voice and data, including multi-port devices for MDU/MTU, indoor Wi-Fi connectivity, firewall and advanced IP functions for home networking and Hotspot backhauling.  These offerings make BreezeMAX the optimal BWA solution for operators intending to significantly boost their revenue potential.

BreezeMAX has a flexible architecture to support future enhancements such as smart antennas, OFDMA, zero install and mobility. It will continue to follow closely the evolution of IEEE 802.16 standards as reflected in the roadmap of the Intel WiMAX chips and will support additional frequency bands, duplexing schemes, and services as a WiMAX evolution of Alvarion product lines.

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