Alvarion Mobile WiMAX Solution, 4Motion(TM), Targeted for Multiple Markets, Now Leverages Texas Instruments Wireless Infrastructure Technology

Alvarion Mobile WiMAX Solution, 4Motion(TM), Targeted for Multiple Markets, Now Leverages Texas Instruments Wireless Infrastructure Technology

April 26, 2006

Flexible TI Technology Enables Alvarion to Quickly Roll Out Advanced BreezeMAX(TM) Products

    LAS VEGAS, April 26 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Texas
Instruments' Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced
that Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world's leading provider
of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, has selected the company's portfolio of WiMAX
infrastructure technologies as part of its mobile WiMAX
solution, 4Motion.  Alvarion's BreezeMAX system, the
primary building block of 4Motion's radio access network,
will leverage TI technology to address the growing demand
for mobile broadband wireless technologies, including
support for IEEE 802.16e standards, across a broad range of
spectrum.  These products enable carriers to offer
high-performance broadband data, voice and multimedia
services over wider coverage areas.

    Alvarion's current BreezeMAX WiMAX platform is designed
from the ground up according to the IEEE 802.16 standards
and uses OFDM technology for advanced non-line-of-sight
(NLOS) functionality.  Its carrier-class design supports
broadband speeds and quality of service (QoS) to enable
carriers to offer triple play services to thousands of
subscribers in a single base station. Since its launch in
mid-2004, Alvarion's BreezeMAX has been successfully
deployed in over 150 installations in more than 30
countries around the world. 

    Alvarion is the first to provide WiMAX equipment
incorporating TI's flexible analog and DSP-based
infrastructure technology, compliant with the IEEE 802.16e
standard and its BreezeMax system is well suited to meet
the needs of fixed, portable and mobile wireless broadband
applications. Developing products for fixed, portable and
mobile WiMAX markets is a key to success in this growing
industry, as Forward Concepts estimates that by 2009, sales
of WiMAX equipment for both segments will total $2 billion.


    "Alvarion works closely with carriers around the
world to understand the diverse needs in different regions
for delivering `personal broadband' to everyone,
everywhere," said Rudy Leser, corporate vice
president, strategy and marketing, Alvarion.  "TI's
WiMAX products offer us the high-performance and
flexibility we need to meet this growing demand for current
as well as next generation of services.  Alvarion and TI
have collaborated on past generations of broadband wireless
products, and we are pleased to extend those efforts to the
802.16e market."  TI recently announced its complete
solution for the WiMAX market based on its TMS320TCI6482
1GHz DSP, designed for wireless infrastructure
applications.  The chip is complimented with an advanced
software library that reduces product development time,
while allowing manufacturers to customize the software and
add their own intellectual property.  TI's flexible
solution supports both fixed and mobile applications across
multiple frequency bands, enabling equipment manufacturers
to create cost-effective system configurations that can be
used for multiple broadband wireless applications. 

    "We have worked closely with Alvarion to help
define the right solution for this growing market and will
continue to focus on providing optimized solutions to best
meet industry demands," said Sandeep Kumar, worldwide
strategic marketing manager with TI's Communications
Infrastructure Group. "Our newest mobile WiMAX
offering easily integrates with Alvarion's existing
infrastructure products, allowing service providers to
quickly meet market requirements."

    Alvarion will continue to deploy products incorporating
TI's WiMAX technology this year. 

    About Alvarion

    With more than 2 million units deployed in 150
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 10 years
from core technology developments to creating and promoting
industry standards.  Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE
and HiperMAN standards committees and experience in
deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's prominent work
in the WiMAX Forum(TM) is focused on increasing the
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 http://www.alvarion.com .

    About Texas Instruments

    Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP
and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world
signal processing requirements. In addition to
Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors
& Controls, and Educational & Productivity
Solutions.  TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has
manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25
countries. 

    Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol TXN.  More information is located
on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com .

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