Kanata, Ontario, Canada — August 19, 2008 — Neterion, Inc., the industry leader in 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) adapters for server and storage environments, announced today that David Brown has been appointed Vice President of Engineering and General Manager for Neterion's office in Ottawa, Canada. Brown has over 20 years of general, R&D and engineering management expertise in both dynamic start-up environments and large organizations.

Brown is an established engineering veteran in the semiconductor, systems and software industries, having spent most of this decade in leadership roles at early-stage technology companies, LoBenn, as President and MKC Networks, as General Manager and COO. He has also held leadership positions over large engineering teams as General Manager at Cadence and CEO at West End Systems. Brown spent the bulk of his early career in semiconductor design and processing, moving up the engineering ranks during Mitel's growth phase, ultimately leading the entire IC development team.

"David comes to Neterion with a successful and proven track record and is the ideal candidate for leading our engineering team in Ottawa," said Dave Zabrowski, President and CEO of Neterion. "In his dual role as General Manager of the Ottawa office, David will be invaluable as we continue to deliver products for the most demanding server and storage systems, drive development of new products in the 10 GbE and I/O virtualization space as well as penetrate new markets."

In his new role at Neterion, Brown is responsible for all Ottawa-based engineering functions including chip design, verification and firmware for existing and new products in addition to serving as the General Manager of the Ottawa site.

Brown received his education at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta with the Electronics Engineering Technologist Program.

About Neterion
Neterion is the leader in 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters that provide high speed solutions for customers' server and storage systems. Xframe® and X3100 Series are the industry's highest performing line of 10 GbE adapters, allowing IT managers to virtualize many more applications per physical server - including the most I/O-intensive ones -- drastically decreasing costs when deploying virtualized servers. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California with an additional office in Ottawa, Canada. More information on Neterion, Inc., can be found at http://www.neterion.com/.

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