Acopia Wins ''Product of the Year'' for Networking Equipment; ARX Switches Awarded Gold in the Networking Equipment Category by the Editors of TechTarget's Storage and SearchStorage.com.LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks, Inc., the pioneer of Adaptive Resource Networking products, today announced that the company's ARX1000 and ARX6000 switches were awarded Products of the Year in the networking equipment category in Storage / SearchStorage.com's 2004 Products of the Year awards. The ARX series won the Gold in its category, and overall was one of 5 Gold award winners selected out of over 200 products. "Acopia is honored to have been awarded The Product of the Year in the networking equipment category by such a prestigious group of industry experts," said Brendon Howe, Acopia's VP of Marketing and Business Development. "This recognition further validates the ground breaking innovation of the ARX products and the tremendous value provided to our customers." "This is the first product to put NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. within an Ethernet switch A device that connects clients and servers to each other in an Ethernet network. See switched Ethernet. ," one judge wrote in commenting on the ARX Gold Award. "It delivers lots of functionality, excellent performance, and value. In a world of rapidly proliferating NAS boxes, Acopia brings a sensible, elegant way to manage NAS capacity and has the switch smarts to implement tiered storage at the network layer." The Products of the Year awards were judged by editors of Tech Target's Storage and SearchStorage.com, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. The products were evaluated according to the six categories: innovation, performance, ease of integration, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. The winning products were announced on January 10, 2005 and will be featured in the January 2005 issue of Storage and online at www.searchstorage.com. About Storage: TechTarget's Storage is the only monthly publication that provides IT executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. TechTarget distributes the magazine to a controlled, qualified circulation of 50,000 storage-focused IT professionals. Storage has received numerous awards, including eight ASBPE ASBPE American Society of Business Publication Editors (professional membership society established in 1964 for business press editors) ASBPE American Society of Business Press Editors Awards for Editorial Excellence and two Folio:Show "Ozzie" Awards. In addition, the editorial staff of Storage has for two consecutive years been named a finalist for the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Awards for Excellence in Business Journalism. About SearchStorage.com: TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 290,000 IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs, including original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers. About Acopia Networks Acopia Networks, headquartered in Lowell, MA, is the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking platforms that provide a new foundation for intelligently managing the global distribution of data. Acopia's switches hide the "back end" complexity from users and increase the utilization of today's resources. The company was founded in 2002 by industry visionary and serial entrepreneur Serial entrepreneur Business person that successfully starts (does not kill) a number of different businesses. Cheng Wu and a team of talented engineers from companies such as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : EMC), Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP NTAP Network Appliance, Inc. (stock symbol) NTAP Never Take Another Puff NTAP National Track Analysis Program NTAP Notices to Airmen Publication NTAP Windows NT Application Processors NTAP Naval Training Acquisition Process ) and others throughout the high technology industry. Information about Acopia's products and services can be found at http://www.acopia.com. 2005 Acopia Networks, Inc. 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