Neterion Xframe Adapters Support Solaris 10; Neterion's 10 Gigabit Ethernet Products Achieve Solaris Ready Certification

Business Wire, March 14, 2005

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Neterion, Inc. (formerly S2io, Inc.), an industry pioneer in the emerging 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter market, announced that its Xframe(R) family of products will support the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) for SPARC(R), x86 and x64 architectures. Additionally, its Xframe product line has achieved Solaris Ready Certification. Achieving the Solaris Ready status allows Neterion to display the programs logo on its Xframe products. The logo indicates to customers that Neterion's 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters have complete in-depth interoperability, compatibility and functionality testing on SPARC, x86 and x64 platforms running Solaris.

"The 'Solaris Ready Program' ensures that our products have met some of the most stringent testing requirements in the industry for system compatibility, interoperability, ease-of-installation and functionality as defined by Sun," said Dave Zabrowski, President and CEO of Neterion. "We look forward to providing 10 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities to help meet the high performance demands of our customers."

"Solaris Ready partners, such as Neterion, provide reassurance and investment protection to their customers," noted Juan Carlos Soto, Software CTO and senior director, market development engineering, Sun Microsystems Inc. "Neterion's support for Solaris 10 and the work they have accomplished certifying and qualifying its Xframe family of products give customers a wide range of high performance networking choices for the industry's gold standard operating system for Sparc, x86, and x64 systems. Neterion will continue to be an important partner as our joint customers deploy 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity within enterprise data centers."

In addition, Neterion will be working with Sun to deliver an iWARP-enabled offload engine with RDMA functionality to enhance performance and scalability in intense server/storage environments. Further announcements regarding this agreement will be made during the course of 2005.

About Neterion, Inc.

Founded in 2001, Neterion Inc. has locations in Cupertino, Calif. and Ottawa, Canada. Neterion delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware & software solutions that enable OEMs to solve their customers' high-end networking problems. The company's line of Xframe(R) products is based on Neterion-developed technologies that deliver new levels of performance, availability and reliability in the datacenter. Xframe and Xframe II include full IPv4 and IPv6 support, and comprehensive stateless offloads that preserve the integrity of current TCP/IP implementations without "breaking the stack." Xframe drivers are available for all major operating systems, including Sun Solaris 9 and 10, Microsoft Windows, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, and Irix. Neterion has raised over $42M in funding with its latest C round taking place in June 2004. Formerly known as S2io, the company changed its name to Neterion in January 2005.

Further information on the company can be found at http://www.neterion.com/

About Xframe II

In addition to the better performing bus interface, Xframe II benefits include ease-of-design and implementation by reusing many of the same technologies introduced by Neterion's first product. Xframe II also adds new features including the exclusive technology called "Large Receive Offload" to remove bottlenecks on the receive side. Xframe II maintains hardware and software compatibility with the previous generation product.

The Neterion, Xframe, Xframe II names and logos and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Neterion, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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