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To: w2j2 who wrote (23992)	9/8/1999 9:00:00 AM
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Ancor Communications Expands California Sales Office; New Director Joins Company to Better Serve West Coast Customers SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancor Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: ANCR), the leader in proven, scalable Fibre Channel fabrics, announced today that it has expanded its OEM sales effort by adding Jim Burton as an additional sales director and moving its California sales office to a larger facility in Newark. Burton joins Ancor with more than twenty years of successful sales and sales management experience, primarily in the computer storage industry. He has held sales management positions at Maxtor and Quantum (where he was 1997's Salesperson of the Year), and his customers included Acer, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics. "Jim's experience in the storage industry as well as his relationships with key OEMs strengthens our West Coast team," said Paul Pasqua, Ancor's vice president of sales. "We look forward to providing better service and developing new relationships with key OEMs in California, Washington, Colorado and Texas." Ancor's new sales office is located at 39899 Belentine Drive, Suite 200, Newark, CA 94560. Ph: 510-438-6814. Ancor's key West Coast OEMs include Sun Microsystems, Hitachi Data Systems, MTI Technology, and Prisa Networks. About Ancor Communications Ancor Communications Inc. provides GigWorks(TM) high-performance Fibre Channel switches for storage area networks (SANs). The company was the first to deliver a Fibre Channel switch, and the first to top the one-gigabit performance level. Ancor is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, the Storage Networking Industry Alliance, the ANSI Standards Committee, and the University of New Hampshire Fibre Channel Consortium to promote the advancement of Fibre Channel standards and interoperability. Information on Ancor is available on the World Wide Web at ancor.com For more information about Fibre Channel technology and Ancor Fibre Channel solutions, call 800-342-7379 or access World Wide Web site ancor.com . Media, contact Mary Miller, Ancor, at 612-932-4071 or marym@ancor.com or Aaron Pearson, Shandwick, at 612-841-6217 or apearson@shandwick.com . Forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 are qualified by the risk factors outlined in the documents Ancor Communications, Inc. files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SOURCE Ancor Communications, Inc. CO: Ancor Communications, Inc. ST: Minnesota, California IN: CPR SU: PER 09/08/1999 08:45 EDT prnewswire.com