Wintegra’s WinPath Selected for Alvarion’s Next-Generation WiMAX Products

AUSTIN, Texas- November 6, 2006 -   Wintegra announced today that Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world's leading provider of wireless broadband solutions, has selected its WinPath network processor and related software for the company's next generation WiMAX products addressing the 802.16e market.  Alvarion's BreezeMAX^TM, a radio access system and the primary building block of Alvarion's end-to-end 4Motion^TM mobile WiMAX solution, integrates Wintegra's silicon to address the growing demand for mobile broadband, including support for the WiMAX Forum based mobile WiMAX solutions across a broad range of spectrum. These products enable carriers to offer high-performance broadband data, voice, and multimedia services.

Wintegra provides a broad range of integrated silicon and software solutions for WiMAX, 3G and LTE base stations and RNCs, network interfaces, broadband wireless access, 2G and 3G cell site aggregation and backhaul.   The Wintegra fixed and mobile WiMAX solution consists of a family of pin-compatible, software-compatible and fully programmable network processors that can scale from single sector, highly integrated picostations, to multi-sector base stations, incorporating advanced antenna technology.   Wintegra provides a complete software solution that incorporates the necessary scheduling, classification, encryption and QoS capabilities, as well as advanced features such as VLAN marking, payload header suppression (PHS), multiple CS layers, IP fragmentation and GRE and IP-in-IP tunneling, which are required to meet the R6 and R8 specifications of the WiMAX Forum network definition.   These capabilities enable rapid integration with next-generation wireless access networks and ASN gateways.

"We are extremely satisfied with our decision to use WinPath processors and related software in BreezeMAX, our radio access system that is part of Alvarion's 4Motion mobile WiMAX solution," said Tsach Shwartz, Alvarion's Vice President of R & D. "The high performance of the Wintegra solution gives us clear flexibility and robustness advantages in adapting our system to the ever evolving requirements of the mobile WiMAX network standards.  WinPath is one reason why we continue to provide the market leadership that our customers have come to expect."
4Motion is a complete, end-to-end mobile WiMAX solution incorporating advanced radio technologies, QoS mechanisms, IP mobility core components, and multimedia subsystems along with subscriber terminals, an OMC and backend interfaces. Employing software defined radio (SDR), beam forming, multi-in multi-out (MIMO), dynamic bandwidth allocation, and scaleable OFDMA technologies, 4Motion and BreezeMAX offer service providers greater coverage, capacity, and flexibility in their mobile WiMAX deployments along with improved economics.

"We have been very impressed with the innovation and scope of the Alvarion WiMAX and BWA programs, and believe that Wintegra can play a key role in Alvarion's continued success," said Michael Phillip, VP and GM of Wireless Systems at Wintegra.  "Getting the right solution to market quickly is critical in emerging markets like WiMAX and BWA, and Wintegra and Alvarion are clearly aligned in this objective."

With WiMAX customers in North America, Europe, China, Japan, Taiwan and the Middle East, Wintegra continues to enable the worldwide adoption of advanced communication protocols and emerging standards through an innovative mix of software and silicon technologies that support field upgrades as new standards emerge.

WiMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, and is based on the IEEE 802.16 air interface standard and the ETSI HiperMAN wireless metropolitan area network (MAN) standard.   Wintegra is incorporating WiMAX technology into its broad portfolio of solutions for next generation access markets, including VDSL and PON, wireless infrastructure, VoIP routers and gateways, and multi-service access (MSA) equipment.

About Alvarion
With more than 2 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion is the world's leading provider of innovative wireless network solutions enabling personal broadband services to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other applications. 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. For more information, visit www.alvarion.com