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To: peter a. pedroli who wrote (746)	1/8/2001 4:37:52 PM
From: John William Anderson	Respond to of 825

Topic : Interphase Corp (INPH) << Previous Next >> Archive Article 11 of 11 Monday January 8, 2001 09:31 AM Company Press Release Interphase Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters Part of Virtual Storage Innovation; PowerSAN Line Chosen by Neartek for New Storage Technology DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001--Interphase Corporation (Nasdaq:INPH), a leader in Fibre Channel and next generation telecommunications technologies, has been chosen by Neartek, Inc. as a provider of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for its new virtual storage solution. The Virtual Storage Engine offers diverse server connectivity options and is using Interphase's PowerSAN(TM) Line of products for Fibre Channel interface connections. The virtual storage solution from Neartek is already deployed in over 50 sites throughout Europe and is currently being introduced to North American markets. "We chose to use Interphase HBAs for a number of reasons," said Clement de la Jonquiere, chief technical officer of Neartek. "First, they use quality parts including the Tachyon chip on their adapters. Second, by working together, we were able to develop the driver target, which emulates the tape drive on the top of the adapters, in a way that increases performance. And third, unlike some other options, Interphase had a development kit that was ready and available." Interphase's PowerSAN Fibre Channel family of HBA products have become part of the flexible and customized Virtual Storage Engine that gives customers interoperability, performance and availability to Storage Area Networks, Network Attached Storage and Direct Attached Storage environments. The much anticipated system architecture provides clients benefits including greater reliability, improved performance, reduced access time, improved security, automatic data management and cost control. Neartek's system is one of the first true enterprise virtual storage architectures because it releases storage from the constraint of mapping memory from the mainframe. It offers almost unlimited storage capacity and accessibility by decoupling storage from server and operating system dependencies thereby allowing data to be located anywhere in a physical storage layer. The system also centralizes storage management functions including backup, archiving, disaster recovery and hierarchical storage management. "Working with Neartek and virtual storage allows us to capitalize on our expertise in Fibre Channel technology," said Greg Kalush, president of Interphase. "As evidenced by our relationship with Neartek, Interphase is again showing our commitment to work with our partners to provide innovative storage solutions to the worldwide marketplace." About Interphase Corporation Interphase Corporation designs and delivers high performance connectivity adapters for computer and telecommunication networks. The company's products connect computer and telecommunication servers to SANs, wide area networks and local area networks using Fibre Channel, Asynchronous Transfer Mode, SS7, Frame Relay and ISDN technologies. Headquartered in Dallas, with offices in Austin, Paris, London, and Bangkok, Interphase 1999 revenues were 73.5 million. Clients include Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Motorola Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Raytheon Company. Additional information about Interphase and its products is available through the company's Web site at www.interphase.com. About Neartek Neartek offers expertise in Enterprise Virtual Storage Architectures including VTS, SAN and Serverless Backup Solutions for Mainframes as well as Midrange and Open Systems. Neartek's family of intelligent storage solutions, including HBS and LSM, are specifically designed to help organizations worldwide more effectively build and deploy highly reliable, available and manageable business storage architectures in today's complex network environments. To help its customers, store, share, protect and retrieve data throughout the enterprise, Neartek also provides Professional Consulting Services, Installation and Support. Neartek, HBS and LSM solutions, are sold and supported through a worldwide network of value added resellers, system integrators and distributors. PowerSAN is a trademark and the interphase logo is a registered trademark of Interphase Corporation. All other trade and service marks are property of their respective companies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Interphase Corporation, Dallas Margaret E. Lietzke, 214/654-5133 or 214/215-5687 mlietzke@iphase.com or Investor Contact: Steve Kovac, 214/654-5000 IR@iphase.com

To: peter a. pedroli who wrote (746)	1/9/2001 8:33:12 AM
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(COMTEX) B: Interphase Introduces Onboard ATM Processing Capability B: Interphase Introduces Onboard ATM Processing Capability Jan. 09, 2001 (Fiber Optics News, Vol. 21, No. 2 via COMTEX) -- By Cindy H. Dubin Dallas-based Interphase [INPH] will release its intelligent asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) controller for the third-generation wireless 4532 ATM OC- 3/STM-1 PMC controller in the first quarter of 2001. The 4532 communications controller allows carriers of wireless services and existing optical infrastructures to provide faster networking systems with higher capacity and efficiency for advanced voice, video and data convergence. The 4532 is a PCI mezzanine card that works with CompactPCI, VME or proprietary systems, and allows these systems to have direct connectivity to SONET and SDH optical networks. The 4532 is one in a series of products that Interphase is releasing that have more on-board intelligence than typical I/O adapters or line cards, says Linsey Matthews, product marketing manager for Interphase. "If you look at most telecommunications infrastructure equipment today, a lot of it is based on switching equipment, which is large and expensive and manufactured by a very small list of telecommunications OEMs," she says. "CompactPCI is an emerging standard for the creation of computer-based, server-based equipment that can bring a lot of the features and functionality of the large switching equipment onto a computing platform. CompactPCI is becoming the de facto standard for telecommunications server-based equipment." Matthews says CompactPCI offers several advantages, such as the ability to allow multiple slots on the same system chassis to share information. "In the case of our product, it allows the 4532 ATM controller to exchange data with other cards on the system. CompactPCI and the 4532 Communications Controller allows the user to take all the intelligence processing of several different servers and switches in a central office environment, and bring them onto one computer-based platform, saving real estate investment for that equipment." The Interphase card allows the incorporation on-board ATM switching functions. "Essentially, we take functions typically performed by an ATM switch, and bring it onboard to the server where bandwidth may be aggregated and processed," she says. "There are savings in the number of access modules you have to have in the network." Interphase claims that the 4532 is the first commercial, off-the-shelf, carrier class SONET interface. "We are well ahead of the marketplace in terms of intelligent ATM switching," says Matthews. "There are ATM adapters that perform segmentation and reassembly onboard, but they don't have any intelligence processing capability or any master capability to control functions from their system slot or nonsystem slot. Our product is able to do that." (Linsey Matthews, Interphase Corp., 214/654-5000.) -0- Copyright Phillips Publishing, Inc. * end of story *