Sprint, NetLogic Microsystems Join Road to 100G Alliance

The Expanding Alliance Broadens Membership, Adds Service-Provider Perspective

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Road to 100G Alliance announced today that the Sprint Nextel Corporation (Sprint), a leading supplier of comprehensive wireless and wire-line services, and NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a leading provider of knowledge-based processors, have joined the alliance as contributing members. The Road to 100G Alliance is a global community of leading hardware, software and equipment vendors, along with service providers, dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of a new era of next generation networking platforms.

"We welcome Sprint as our first service provider representative to the Road to 100G Alliance. Sprint's perspective will help guide the Alliance in terms of new services and applications for advanced network and telecom equipment, and will certainly bring to light many important issues," said Bill Weisinger, Road to 100G Alliance Chairman and President. "We are also excited to have NetLogic Microsystems join our Alliance as they will bring their broad perspective on high-speed integrated circuits that accelerate the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia content for high performance networks."

Unlike many existing standards bodies, the Road to 100G Alliance is focused solely on identifying and addressing the complex implementation and integration issues which might compromise the adoption and proliferation of next generation telecommunications and network solutions. The Alliance exists to make recommendations which ensure interoperability between the myriad of technologies that enable equipment for a variety of new applications.

The Road to 100G Alliance will be hosting a panel session at the NXTcomm 2008 conference in Las Vegas, which will focus on the applications that are driving the adoption of 100G. For more information please visit the Road to 100G website (http://www.roadto100g.org/nxtcomm.php).

About the Road to 100G Alliance

The Road to 100G Alliance is a nonprofit corporation formed by its Members for the purpose of providing seamless interoperability among the disparate, standards-based components required in building high capacity network elements. Product offerings from the Members can deliver the high performance required in next generation equipment by providing solutions capable of up to 40-Gbps line rates scalable to 100-Gbps today. The establishment of a 100G ecosystem will serve network equipment vendors and their service provider and enterprise customers with valuable services and will facilitate a more aggressive creation of the next generation networking infrastructure.

For more information about the Road to 100G Alliance, please visit us at http://www.roadto100g.org/.

CONTACT: Ken Hagihara of Integrity Public Relations, +1-949-768-4423, ken@integritypr.net, for Road to 100G Alliance; or Road to 100G Alliance, 5126 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 10, San Jose, CA 95129, marketing@roadto100g.org

Web site: http://www.roadto100g.org/

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