Patent Holder, Inventor and Product Developer, Scherer Played Key Role in Defining the Fibre Channel Marketplace

Cupertino, CA — March 27, 2007 — Neterion, the industry leader in the emerging 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter market for server and storage environments, announced that Greg Scherer has joined the company as Vice President of Product Planning.

Formerly, Mr. Scherer held posts at Emulex as Sr. Vice President of Business Development and Chief Technical Officer. During his tenure at Emulex, which spanned 24 years, Mr. Scherer was instrumental in driving multiple leadership positions in Networking and Storage market segments.

"Greg Scherer's decision to join Neterion's senior management team is a major validation of our company's leadership position in the 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter market," said Dave Zabrowski, president & CEO of Neterion, "As our company reached a new level of maturity, we needed someone with his expertise and talent to lead the long term technology roadmap and expansion plans. Greg was one of the industry leaders to drive the successful product development and customer adoption of Fibre Channel. We are excited to see him play a similarly important role in I/O virtualization and fabric convergence at Neterion, as we lead the adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in enterprise data centers."

For over two decades Scherer contributed to the development of ASIC, firmware, hardware and software, and worked closely with server and storage vendors to meet user demand in their rapidly expanding markets. He played a key role in defining many of the initial Fibre Channel specifications and later worked closely with technology partners (OS, switch and bridge vendors) to solidify the early technology and its specifications.

Scherer is the inventor of Emulex's ground breaking host software/driver architecture, called SLI, which has been deployed on millions of installed FC HBAs to date.

He was also instrumental in the development and deployment of Emulex's LightPulse™ line of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, which launched the company into a multi-billion dollar market cap with over $400M in annual revenue.

"There is little doubt that for IP SANs and data center networking applications, 10 Gigabit Ethernet is where the action is," noted Greg Scherer. "Neterion has made the right technology choices to position the company as the clear winner in this space. These include developing a unique V-NIC?architecture optimized for I/O virtualization, providing true hardware-based RDMA support, an exclusive in-hardware LRO?patent, low-power and low-cost native state-machine design, and readiness for LOM applications. Neterion is the only company positioned to compete in all segments of the market, from industry-standard servers, to enterprise servers, blades and storage appliances. The company's growing customer base, its industry-leading family of 10 GbE products and the most seasoned management team in the market made this a very simple decision for me."

About Neterion, Inc.
Founded in 2001, Neterion Inc. has locations in Cupertino, California and Ottawa, Canada. Neterion delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware & software solutions that solve customers' high-end networking problems. The Xframe?line of products is based on Neterion-developed technologies that deliver new levels of performance, availability and reliability in the datacenter. Xframe, Xframe II and Xframe E 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 Microsoft Windows, Linux, HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Sun's Solaris and SGI's Irix.

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