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“With this announcement, we have just doubled the value proposition of 10 Gigabit Ethernet,” said Dave Zabrowski, Neterion’s President & CEO. “Boosting the network performance while preserving their investment in Ethernet is very attractive to data center managers, who are faced with exponentially increasing bandwidth needs. Customers can implement a 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution in hours, and immediately reap the benefits of higher performance. Neterion is the first to offer a product with the double data rate bus, and deliver the full speed of 10 Gigabit-persecond.” Systems equipped with the PCI-X 2.0 bus are expected to be introduced throughout 2005, as server vendors continue to help end-users in their server virtualization and consolidation strategies. “This is a very savvy move on the part of Neterion,” noted Vernon Turner, Group Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Computing at IDC. “They are providing OEMs with an easily integrated product that delivers true 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance for high-end server and storage applications. And they have done this without requiring the vendors to make any changes to their existing Operating Systems or to break the TCP/IP stack.” Neterion will be making additional product and customer announcements throughout 2005.