ETI Chooses Alvarion® 4Motion® to Expand Delivery of High Quality Voice and Data Services in Country

ETI Chooses Alvarion® 4Motion® to Expand Delivery of High Quality Voice and Data Services in Country-Wide Network in Guinea Conakry, Africa

Alvarion's 4Motion platform offers a scalable end-to-end wireless broadband solution allowing ETI to easily expand coverage to high-end enterprise and residential customers

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alvarion^®Ltd. (NAS: ALVR) , a global provider of optimized wireless broadband solutions addressing the connectivity, coverage and capacity challenges of public and private networks, announced today that ETI, a leading Internet service provider in Guinea Conakry has chosen its 4Motion® 802.16e solution to expand its broadband network from the capital city, Conakry, to cover the entire country covering an area of 246,000 square kilometers (94,981 sq mi).

ETI's network is designed to deliver voice and data services in the 2.5 GHz spectrum to a wide range of customers, including both high-end enterprise customers as well as residential customers.

"After having gained experience with Alvarion's 4Motion over past four years, we were confident in our decision to continue using it as we expand our network from Conakry to cover the rest of the country," states Latif Taleb, Founder and CEO of ETI. "Alvarion's solution demonstrated the necessary QoS, including wire-quality voice and heavy data services that we require in order to deliver a superior customer experience."

Alvarion's 4Motion is highly suitable to offer both voice and data services over the same network. With an advanced dynamic scheduling mechanism, the network prioritizes voice transmission to deliver a large number of voice sessions simultaneously enabling voice services with a MOS score equivalent to wire-line quality.

"We are delighted to continue working with ETI on expanding its network. Winning this expansion project is positive proof of our outstanding technology and expertise," states Hezi Lapid, President and CEO at Alvarion. "Alvarion is known as a technology leader in wireless broadband and as a high-end solution provider. This is the foundation upon which Alvarion's leadership position in Africa was built and will be maintained."

ETI has been an Alvarion customer for over a decade, using its licensed solutions to provide internet access, voice and data services, and backhauling.

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About ETI

ETI SA is a modern structure, focused on state-of-the-art technologies. The purpose of the company is to make modern and powerful technologies available to clients, allowing them to concentrate on their activities and on the opportunities to develop and to conquer new markets. ETI emphasizes the results of the project outcome, and supports its clients by acting as their accelerators of growth. With an accumulated expertise spanning over two decades, ETI guarantees a computing architecture and information system that are reliable, modern and robust.

Internet operator, specialized links and fixed telephony, computing equipment supplier and systems integrator, the basis of ETI's experience can be found in the three specializations that have led the company to the leading position in New Information and Communication Technologies which it occupies in Guinea.

Through a wide variety of technologies (Radio Local Loops, WiFi, ADSL, VSAT and Optic Fiber), ETI provides access to High Rate Internet and specialized links throughout the entire Guinean territory (national coverage). It also offers value added services that consolidate the position which the company occupies in its market (hosting services, manager services, video conference, data center design and execution, technical assistance and after-sales services). But ETI's ambition does not stop there. ETI has succeeded in migrating to the new WiMAX Mobile (802.16^e) technology, in order to bring Guinea into the new mobility era. This is a new and significant challenge for ETI, which, through 4G, will offer the fastest and most reliable connection, a mobile connection accessible to everybody in order to satisfy the expectations and needs of corporate and residential clients. (www.eti.net.gn)

About Alvarion®

Alvarion Ltd. (NAS: ALVR) provides optimized wireless broadband solutions addressing the connectivity, coverage and capacity challenges of telecom operators, smart cities, security, and enterprise customers. Our innovative solutions are based on multiple technologies across licensed and unlicensed spectrums. (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 various 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: our failure to fully implement our 2012 turnaround plan, our inability to reallocate our resources and rationalize our business in a more efficient manner, potential impact on our business of the current global macro-economic uncertainties, the inability of our customers to obtain credit to purchase our products as a result of global credit market conditions, the failure to fund projects under the U.S. broadband stimulus program, continued delays in 4G license allocation in certain countries; the failure of the products for the 4G market to develop as anticipated; our inability to capture market share in the expected growth of the 4G market as anticipated, due to, among other things, competitive reasons or failure to execute in our sales, marketing or manufacturing objectives; the failure of our strategic initiatives to enable us to more effectively capitalize on market opportunities as anticipated; delays in the receipt of orders from customers and in the delivery by us of such orders; our failure to fully and effectively integrate the business and technology of Wavion Inc., acquired by us in November 2011, into our products and realize the expected synergies from the acquisition; the failure of the markets for our (including Wavion's) products to grow as anticipated; our 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; our inability to establish and maintain relationships with commerce, advertising, marketing, and technology providers; our inability to comply with covenants included in our financing agreements; our inability to raise sufficient funds to continue our operations, either through equity issuances or asset sales; and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's annual reports on Form 20-F as well as in other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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