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Alvarion® Expands Altitude’s Mobile WiMAX™ Network in France

Enhanced broadband services offered over Alvarion’s 4Motion® solution to the regions of Deux Sevres and Jura

Tel Aviv, Israel, November 10, 2008— Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today announced the expansion of its frame agreement with the French WiMAX operator Altitude. Alvarion’s Mobile WiMAX™ 4Motion solution will be used by Altitude to extend its coverage and provide voice and data services at 3.5 GHz to corporate, ISP and residential users in the Jura and Deux Sevres districts.

The rollout of this commercial network is already underway, with plans to be completed in early 2009. The new network will offer an enhanced portfolio of high quality wireless broadband services over Alvarion’s Mobile WiMAX solution, including indoor and outdoor CPEs.

“Building on our success throughout the region of Aveyron, we see an increase in demand for WiMAX broadband services,” said Fabrice Ballart, Managing Director of Altitude Infrastructure. “As always, we are committed to provide the best services and cost effective solutions to our customers, and therefore growing with Alvarion was the natural choice for moving forward and enabling seamless connectivity to the residents of France. This expansion will allow us to reach more customers and offer them the benefits of WiMAX at competitive rates.”

“A pioneer of WiMAX in France, we congratulate Altitude on the expansion of its network and look forward to our long-term partnership,” said Tzvika Friedman, President and CEO of Alvarion. “Increasing network capacity with our Mobile WiMAX solution enables Altitude to maintain a competitive position in the challenging market while ensuring quality of service and innovation for future expansions.”

Alvarion’s end-to-end 4Motion solution is the foundation of the company’s OPEN™ WiMAX ecosystem, which combines BreezeMAX® and other best-in-class systems. A complete all-IP Mobile WiMAX solution, 4Motion is designed to enable service providers to offer subscribers fixed and mobile Personal Broadband services anytime, anywhere. The 4Motion solution is comprised of core network elements, IP radio networking elements and end user devices.
 

About Altitude
Altitude is a telecommunication operator, which invests in broadband technologies to provide solutions for voice, data and Internet businesses, everywhere in France. Altitude takes advantage on its expertise of all telecommunications technologies (xDSL, fiber optics, BLR-WiMAX, ISDN, Edge-GPRS, etc.), to offer its services to many administrations and large companies: MPLS IP VPN, voice over IP, Internet access, hosting, and convergence. For more information, visit www.altitudeinfrastructure.fr.

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.

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