Joins Adaptec, Broadcom, Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Network Appliance to Solve Critical I/O Bottleneck Problems

SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 15, 2002 — Neterion Inc. (formerly S2io Inc.), today announced that it has become the first elected voting member of the newly formed Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Consortium. The RDMA was recently formed to solve bottlenecks hampering high-speed data transfer between network computing devices.

Founded in May by industry leaders Adaptec, Broadcom, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Network Appliance, the RDMA Consortium is developing standard's based methods of increasing the efficiency of data communications over TCP/IP networks. RDMA technology enables removal of data copy operations and reduces latency by allowing one computer to directly place information in another computer's memory, thereby improving application response time without negatively impacting the performance of the receiving computer's central processor.

"The RDMA Consortium will be instrumental across the industry in laying the foundation for enhancements to end to end I/O communications that will dramatically improve total system cost and performance." said Dave Zabrowski, Neterion's President and CEO and recent head of HP's PC organization. "By joining these elite technology companies, Neterion Technologies will be the recognized industry leader in the emerging 10Gigabit I/O market".

The RDMA Consortium plans to complete the initial specification of RDMA over TCP/IP by year's end and will submit the draft specifications to the IETF for consideration. Neterion will support the RDMA specification in its products in 2003.

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 enable OEMs to solve their customers' high-end networking problems. The company's line of Xframe® 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 Microsoft Windows, Linux, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Sun's Solaris and SGI's Irix. 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/

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.

About the RDMA Consortium
The RDMA Consortium is an open industry forum chartered to develop architectural specifications necessary to implement products that provide RDMA technology over TCP/IP. Membership information, contacts for respective founding companies and other RDMA Consortium materials can be found at http://www.rdmaconsortium.org.

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