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Kenya Data Networks Expands Its Wireless Broadband Networks with Additional Alvarion Equipment; Operator Also Planning Small BreezeMAX Deployment

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TEL AVIV, Israel --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 29, 2004 -- Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world's leading provider of wireless broadband solutions and a supplier of specialized mobile networks for hard to serve areas, today announced that Kenya Data Networks Ltd. (KDN), a subsidiary of Kenya's Sameer ICT Group, has ordered approximately $900,000 worth of Alvarion BreezeACCESS(TM) OFDM and WALKair(TM) products to expand its existing broadband wireless networks and implement a small deployment of BreezeMAX 3500. With these network deployments, KDN, a data communications carrier, is now emerging as a local loop operator.



"We have found that wireless broadband is the only way to ensure affordable communication services for the greatest number of Kenya's population, both residential and commercial users." said Mr. Kai Wulff, Managing Director of KDN. "Alvarion's wireless technology has been very successful for us in the past and obviously, this is the key factor in our choice to continue using Alvarion equipment to expand our networks. Very shortly, we will also be assessing the viability of using Alvarion's WiMAX solution to provide voice services via VoIP in rural areas as well."

Alvarion's WALKair 1000 in the KDN network serves as the ideal broadband access system for servicing business customers of all sizes, including banks, universities and corporations, offering them one point of access for all their business communication services, including Internet access, virtual private networks (VPNs), leased lines, ethernet, and frame relay, all with enhanced capacity and wide coverage. As an overlay network, the BreezeACCESS OFDM enables KDN to offer broadband network access to ISPs for additional revenue with minimal investment.

BreezeMAX is Alvarion's third-generation OFDM platform with advanced non-line-of-sight functionality. Its carrier-class design supports high 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.

"KDN's network expansion reflects Alvarion's philosophy that wireless broadband is the best economic alternative to traditional wired access, especially for areas with little existing telecommunications infrastructure," said Zvi Slonimsky CEO of Alvarion. "Building on that idea, we are quite pleased to be assisting KDN with their move to next generation solutions with an upcoming deployment of our BreezeMAX 3500 for evaluation as a solution for both voice and data over IP. More and more, emerging carriers such as KDN are appreciating the business case that WiMAX networks will be able to offer."

Kenya Data Networks Ltd. (KDN)

KDN is a public data network operators in Kenya. KDN was established early in 2003 in the wake of the liberalization of the Kenyan telecommunications market by the Sameer Group, a major Kenyan conglomerate and a pioneer provider of affordable, mobile, telephone services in Kenya. Having invested approximately $10 million in sophisticated data communications infrastructure, in July 2003 KDN launched commercial Leased Line, Frame Relay, and IP Data services aimed at businesses and large institutions in Nairobi and other areas of Kenya. For more information, see www.kdn.co.ke and www.sameer-group.com

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.

Leading the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions. Alvarion's products enable the delivery of business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection, public safety communications, and mobile voice and data. Alvarion works with several global OEM providers and more than 200 local partners to support its diverse global customer base in solving their last-mile challenges.

As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations for more than ten years from core technology developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and experience deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's prominent work in the WiMAX Forum is focused on increasing widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to mobile WiMAX solutions.

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

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