San Jose, Calif. — April 7, 2003 — Alacritech®, Inc., the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems, today announced that Sony Corporation has chosen the Alacritech Gigabit Accelerator to provide customers of its XPRI digital editing system with the industry’s most efficient design for TCP/IP offload and network rendering connectivity. Running in conjunction with Sony’s XPRI content creation tool, Alacritech TCP/IP accelerators offload network processing and eliminate network bottlenecks to significantly increase the productivity of editors creating digital content.

Alacritech’s Gigabit Accelerator is well known as providing industry-leading performance in data-intensive environments. The TCP/IP accelerator is based on the company’s patented SLIC Technology® to offload network processing from host software to silicon to achieve outstanding performance in servers, workstations and networks.

“Alacritech’s TCP/IP accelerators are specifically designed to improve performance in data-intensive applications like digital content design,” said Kim Peyser, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Alacritech Inc. “Alacritech’s cards are well suited to provide customers of the XPRI editing station with the highest workstation and network performance possible. We look forward to working with Sony to increase the productivity of their customers.”

About Sony XPRI Digital Workstation
XPRI is Sony’s award winning non-linear content creation system for DTV era, designed for sophisticated content creation workflow. With the newly introduced Realtime HD effects board and Network Rendering function, XPRI will enable faster and more productive editing capabilities that will provide a higher level of creative output.

About Alacritech Acceleration Technology
As systems and servers are burdened with increasing amounts of network traffic, they are forced to process data faster and more efficiently. Alacritech’s SLIC Technology, a data-path TCP/IP offload architecture, is designed to enhance Ethernet/IP network performance as well as dramatically reduce network overhead. Alacritech TCP/IP accelerators use the Internet Protocol Processor (IPP), a custom, programmable ASIC developed to offload TCP/IP processing from host software to the IPP ASIC to reduce CPU utilization, increase data throughput and decrease network latency. Alacritech’s Gigabit Accelerators are the only Integrated Storage Network Interface Cards (IS-NICs) to provide hardware acceleration for both IP storage and standard Ethernet traffic. All Alacritech products offer industry-standard failover and link aggregation.

About Alacritech, Inc.
Alacritech, Inc. was founded by Larry Boucher, creator of the SCSI interface, to deliver upon his vision of eliminating the server bottleneck. Today, Alacritech is the innovator of network accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems. Alacritech’s products are based on the company’s patented SLIC (session-layer interface control) Technology to optimize the performance of servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology is the first fully compatible and scalable technology to offload network protocol processing, primarily TCP/IP, from software on the host system to silicon on the adapter. Based in San Jose, California, Alacritech is privately held. Alacritech is a member of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance, the iSCSI Consortium and the Storage Networking Association (SNIA) as well as a founding member of the SNIA IP Storage Forum. For more information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.alacritech.com.

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