MCI WorldCom International CEO Liam Strong and Excite@Home's Adam Grosser Join SkyStream Networks' Board of Directors

Business Wire, April 4, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000

SkyStream Networks Also Announces New Appointments to

Management Team

SkyStream Networks, a provider of broadcast Internet equipment, today announced the addition of Liam Strong, CEO of MCI WorldCom International, and Adam Grosser, president of Subscriber Networks for Excite@Home, to its board of directors. Strong and Grosser bring valuable technical expertise, insight and senior-level experience to the board.

Grosser and Strong join four current board members that include Geoff Yang, partner, Institutional Venture Partners; Wendell "Van" Van Auken, general partner, Mayfield Fund; Jim Olson, president and CEO, SkyStream Networks; and Jim Ramo, chief executive officer of Geocast Network Systems.

"Liam will be instrumental in helping to drive SkyStream's strategy further into the European and Asian markets and will facilitate relationships with important global contacts," said Jim Olson, president and CEO of SkyStream. "Adam's expertise in the convergence of cable networks and the Internet as well as his connections to major content players will be invaluable as SkyStream furthers its momentum in the cable market."

As CEO of MCI WorldCom International, Strong is responsible for more than $1.5 billion in voice, data and Internet revenues throughout Europe and Asia. During Strong's tenure, the MCI WorldCom team has built European and Asian networks from 6 to 16 countries. Prior to joining MCI WorldCom in 1997, Liam served as CEO of Sears plc (Europe) where he was responsible for more than $3.0 billion in apparel revenues sold through department stores, mail order and specialty outlets.

As president, Subscriber Networks for Excite@Home, Grosser oversees residential broadband sales and marketing; commercial access, hosting and e-commerce solutions; company-wide customer care; and an integrated engineering, network and product operations team. This represents over 1600 employees. Prior to joining Excite@Home in 1997, he was the president and CEO of Catapult Entertainment, which was acquired by Mpath Interactive in 1996. Prior to Catapult, he was the senior vice president of new media at Sony Pictures.

Today, SkyStream also announced the appointment of Valerie Wilson to vice president of business development. She is responsible for driving the company's business development initiatives and alliances that are key to SkyStream's growth and strategic positioning in the Broadcast Internet. Wilson previously served as vice president of communications investment banking at FleetBoston Robertson Stephens. While at Robertson Stephens, she was instrumental in the execution of many public equity and merger and acquisition transactions for Internet infrastructure and software companies, including Alteon WebSystems, Avanex Corporation, Efficient Networks, Extreme Networks, F5 Networks, Juniper Networks, Redback Networks and Turnstone Systems.

Also, the appointments of Bethany Mayer to director of product marketing and Kate Patterson to director of investor relations were announced today. Mayer joins SkyStream from Cisco Systems where she worked since 1993 in product management, most recently working on the development of Cisco's consumer product strategy. Prior to Cisco, Mayer managed product development for Apple Computers' PowerBook laptop product line. Patterson comes to SkyStream after leading investor relations programs for Informix Corporation and 3Com Corporation.

About SkyStream Networks

SkyStream Networks develops and sells a new category of networking products, called media routers, that enable the Internet to connect with broadcast networks, such as cable, satellite and digital television networks. SkyStream's media routers enable service providers to combine the quality, scalability and efficiency of broadcast networks with the personalization of the Internet to deliver multimedia-rich content simultaneously to a large number of users. SkyStream's source media routers aggregate and distribute content across broadcast networks. The company's edge media routers receive content from broadcast networks and redistribute this content over the existing Internet infrastructure.

SkyStream's customers are broadcast service providers, Internet service providers, telecommunication service providers and content distribution providers around the world, including CableCom, EchoStar Communications Corporation, iBEAM Broadcasting, Granite Broadcasting, Loral CyberStar and Telefonica. SkyStream partners include BroadLogic, General Instrument, Harris Corporation, International Datacasting, Irdeto Access, Lucent Technologies, Nagra, Philips and Scientific-Atlanta. SkyStream sells its products through its direct sales force and through distribution partners worldwide. SkyStream corporate headquarters are in Mountain View, California with regional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Ontario, Canada; London, England; and Hong Kong. SkyStream Networks' website can be found on the Internet at http://www.skystream.com.