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Ateonix Ships World's Highest Capacity NAS Appliance

Ateonix Networks Inc, a leading provider of network appliances, has announced the availability of the highest capacity, 1 Terabyte (TB), powerful 1U Network Attached Storage appliance for the small to mid-size business market.

With Maxtor's fastest, largest-capacity MaXLineII, 250GB drives, Ateonix Networks pioneers the release of the world's first 1 TB, ATA/IDE Network Attached Storage Appliance Server (NASAS), unleashing a new era of Network Attached Storage and unparalleled expansion capacity.

"We are delighted that we've been able to demonstrate the power, capacity and value of the Ateonix scalable software platform with our new NASAS-2040 appliance," said Ben Chen, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ateonix Networks, Inc. "After we received our first 250 GB Maxtor MaXLine II drives, installation was complete within ten minutes, creating the world's first 1 TB, 1U NAS appliance. The high capacity MaXLine drives and the instant scalability provided by NASAS-2040's exceptional software proved to be an unbeatable combination."

"We welcome Ateonix to our growing list of MaXLine customers," said John Vossoughi, vice president of Pan American Sales at Maxtor Corporation. "Our MaXLine drives are specifically engineered for this type of near-line application. In a NAS solution such as the Ateonix appliance, users can instantly recall archived data much quicker than on a medium such as tape."

What does 1 TB of storage mean for you and me? 1 TB = 1,000GB. In terms more easily understood, if the digital data stored on NASAS-2040 was comprised of mpeg musical files, NASAS-2040 would hold 200,000 songs or an entire collection of 20,000 CDs.

NASAS-2040 ships diskless from Ateonix Networks. Stocked with four new 250 GB ATA/IDE Maxtor hard drives from an Ateonix solution provider, NASAS-2040 scales to 1 TB, an eye-catching 100% jump from the 480GB models sold by three top NAS vendors. MSRP with 1TB installed is $4,299.00.

NASAS-2040 is the first NAS appliance with full operating system in flash memory, providing maximum reliability, two-dimensional scalability, more storage, better economics and unmatched price/performance compared to competitors in its market space. Demonstrating NASAS-2040's fast, high-performance access to data storage, Industry-accepted NetBench tests show that NASAS-2040 10/100BaseT has a throughput of 75 Mb/Second, far better than three top NAS appliances that have throughputs of 30-40 Mb/Sec. The Gigabit-enabled model performs at 250 Mb/Sec.

The plug and play, easy to use appliance with NAS-in-a-Flash setup allows users to scale storage without adding IT staff. With this breakthrough technology, NASAS-2040 is positioned as the leader in the hottest sector of the technology market -- storage.

As companies large and small realize that their daily business and livelihood depends on data, they are allocating resources and spending money on storage. The storage market has reflected that growth, with analysts expecting the market's worth to reach $6.7 billion by 2004 (Gartner).

Increasing data backup and email archiving as well as burgeoning data, document imaging, audio and video storage demand contribute to expanding storage needs. A large percentage of this growth is attributed to the small/mid-size business market, which consists of businesses, workgroups, and remote offices as well as education and government institutions.

NASAS-2040 will continue to be the logical data storage solution for companies with growing storage needs.

Ateonix currently ships NASAS-2040 in 1U models with 10/100BaseT and Gigabit Ethernet ports scalable to 160, 240, 320, 480, 640, 800GB and 1 TB. NASAS-2040 is available now for volume shipments. Please contact sales@ateonix.com for more information.

About Ateonix Networks Inc

Ateonix Networks Inc is a worldwide company providing cutting edge network appliance technology for small to mid-size companies, workgroups within larger companies and similar organizations -- a market which continues to grow over 110% every year. Ateonix's core technology includes solid-state-disk embedded systems, network attached storage, embedded servers/routers and video/audio streaming. Its patented technology is changing the way companies provide information and access to the Internet, and is quickly establishing Ateonix as a global leader in network appliances. Ateonix Networks and its products can be found on the Web at www.ateonix.com. Ateonix Networks is a privately held and VC funded company based in Fremont, California.

Contact: Monica Stoner, Ateonix Networks, 510-226-2613, monica@ateonix.com.