Industry Veteran Roland Thibodeau to Head Sales Team and Lead Neterion's Channel Development Program

Cupertino, CA — May 3, 2005 — Neterion, the industry leader in the emerging 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter market for server and storage environments, announced that it has named Roland Thibodeau as the company's Vice President of Sales. Thibodeau has over twenty years of sales, marketing and strategic planning experience in network infrastructure hardware and software markets.

"We're very pleased to have an individual with such proven ability join our management team," said Dave Zabrowski, President & CEO of Neterion. "Roland has co-founded very successful companies, built and led multi-million dollar sales organizations and developed outstanding partners programs. His sales expertise will be a great corporate asset as we continue our leadership position in the 10 Gigabit Ethernet market."

In 1995 Thibodeau co-founded JNI Corporation, a Fibre Channel storage networking products company. As EVP of Sales, he helped lead sales growth from $3M to $108M in four years. Red Herring recognized the company's 1999 IPO in its Top Technology IPOs for that year. JNI was acquired in 2003 by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NasdaqNM: AMCC) for $190M. Thibodeau later co-founded Coalsere, a distributed network storage infrastructure software firm. The American Electronics Association recognized the company as having the most innovative product and technology for 2003.

"I've worked with some very successful companies in the past and when I looked at Neterion I saw the same qualities: a superior management team, solid financial backing, outstanding design engineers and a product roadmap based on customer's real needs," stated Thibodeau. "I'm extremely impressed with their existing customer base and look forward to helping Neterion accelerate their momentum in the 10 Gigabit Ethernet server and storage markets."

Thibodeau has extensive management experience from the startup level through Fortune 500 firms in areas that include contract negotiations, direct and indirect channel program development, building domestic and international sales teams, strategic planning and raising capital. Thibodeau is a Navy Veteran having been Honorably Discharged in 1967.

About Neterion
Neterion delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware and 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 (PCI-X 1.0), Xframe II (PCI-X 2.0) and Xframe E (PCI express) 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. For more information, please visit the Neterion website at: http://www.neterion.com.

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