Acopia Wins ''Product of the Year'' for Networking Equipment; ARX Switches Awarded Gold in the Networking Equipment Category by the Editors of TechTarget's Storage and SearchStorage.com

Business Wire, Jan 12, 2005

LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks, Inc., the pioneer of Adaptive Resource Networking products, today announced that the company's ARX1000 and ARX6000 switches were awarded Products of the Year in the networking equipment category in Storage / SearchStorage.com's 2004 Products of the Year awards. The ARX series won the Gold in its category, and overall was one of 5 Gold award winners selected out of over 200 products.

"Acopia is honored to have been awarded The Product of the Year in the networking equipment category by such a prestigious group of industry experts," said Brendon Howe, Acopia's VP of Marketing and Business Development. "This recognition further validates the ground breaking innovation of the ARX products and the tremendous value provided to our customers."

"This is the first product to put NAS virtualization within an Ethernet switch," one judge wrote in commenting on the ARX Gold Award. "It delivers lots of functionality, excellent performance, and value. In a world of rapidly proliferating NAS boxes, Acopia brings a sensible, elegant way to manage NAS capacity and has the switch smarts to implement tiered storage at the network layer."

The Products of the Year awards were judged by editors of Tech Target's Storage and SearchStorage.com, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. The products were evaluated according to the six categories: innovation, performance, ease of integration, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. The winning products were announced on January 10, 2005 and will be featured in the January 2005 issue of Storage and online at www.searchstorage.com.

About Storage:

TechTarget's Storage is the only monthly publication that provides IT executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. TechTarget distributes the magazine to a controlled, qualified circulation of 50,000 storage-focused IT professionals. Storage has received numerous awards, including eight ASBPE Awards for Editorial Excellence and two Folio:Show "Ozzie" Awards. In addition, the editorial staff of Storage has for two consecutive years been named a finalist for the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Awards for Excellence in Business Journalism.

About SearchStorage.com:

TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 290,000 IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs, including original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers.

About Acopia Networks

Acopia Networks, headquartered in Lowell, MA, is the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking platforms that provide a new foundation for intelligently managing the global distribution of data. Acopia's switches hide the "back end" complexity from users and increase the utilization of today's resources. The company was founded in 2002 by industry visionary and serial entrepreneur Cheng Wu and a team of talented engineers from companies such as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), EMC (NYSE: EMC), Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) and others throughout the high technology industry. Information about Acopia's products and services can be found at http://www.acopia.com.

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