Cupertino, CA — April 18, 2006 — Neterion, Inc. announced that the company is the market leader in the 10 GbE adapter market based on results that are contained in a new report by The Linley Group, the leading provider of independent technology analysis for the networking-silicon industry. Neterion's market share was placed at 48.7% with an annual growth rate of 156.8%.

"This portion of the report provides a number of important indicators," noted Bob Wheeler, Senior Analyst at The Linley Group and coauthor of the study. "It reveals that the 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter market is in the first stages of a growth curve. In addition, it's clear that Neterion has established itself as the market leader with a share of close to 50%."

According to Principal Analyst, Linley Gwenapp, the data in the study spans a mixture of established and emerging product markets, providing insight into how the future will unfold as newer technologies displace mature ones.

"It's very gratifying to receive independent validation of our leadership position in the 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter market from such a respected organization as The Linley Group," stated Dave Zabrowski, President and CEO of Neterion. "These growth figures also support our own research: IT administrators in enterprise data centers are beginning to recognize the price/performance advantages of 10 GbE for high speed server and storage networking applications."

The report is available now directly from The Linley Group. For further details, visit http://www.linleygroup.com/Reports/mn_guide.html.

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, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Sun's Solaris and SGI's Irix.

Xframe is a registered trademark of Neterion, Inc.

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