Adara Networks and Sun Microsystems to Bring Advanced Urban Networking to Lost Rabbit Development.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2004

Residences and Businesses of new multi-use development to receive

leading edge, value-added technology services

Adara Networks(TM), the rising star in advanced networking, located in Scotts Valley, California, today announced the collaboration between Adara Networks, Sun Microsystems and Neopolis Development LLC to provide advanced networking to the Traditional Neighborhood Development ("TND") project of Lost Rabbit in Central Mississippi.

Lost Rabbit is envisioned as a unique and innovative blend of commercial space and residential homes, situated in a beautiful natural setting with boat marinas, parks and planned public spaces. As a TND, Lost Rabbit will combine an historic town atmosphere with the most leading edge technology advancements.

Lost Rabbit will showcase the technology services of the Adara Networks and Sun Microsystems collaboration, and will be able to provide both wired and wireless Internet access and services. The services will feature an online community portal, IP telephony, real time security monitoring, digital cable television, and video-on-demand over IP. The video services will be the first and only full video over IP system in any development. These services will not only be available to businesses but to residences and visitors in public spaces. This network will be the most dynamic and intelligent IP infrastructure ever deployed in a real estate development and will be a model for existing and new developments nationwide.

It is a goal of the development to enable such a rich set of services for commercial inhabitants that it allows their business to operate with better profitability. For the first time in a non-retail setting, where a business chooses to locate can truly impact their bottom line.

"The residents and people working within Lost Rabbit will want the desirable combination of a township with an historical feel with one supplying the most modern amenities technology can provide," states Richard Ridgway, manager of Neopolis Development LLC, "After evaluating numerous options, we elected to collaborate with Adara and Sun Microsystems to design and deploy the network that will support the services our home owners and businesses owners will come to rely upon on a day to day basis and a network that we could grow with and support services that have yet to be envisioned. We believe that this offering will be a deciding factor when attracting new residents."

"We chose Lost Rabbit because of their desire to differentiate their development for their residential and commercial inhabitants," according to Eric Johnson, CEO of Adara. "We immediately saw the opportunity to collaborate and deliver an infrastructure that truly set this development apart for all others and serve as a real estate development model for this nation in the 21st century. As the demand for these value added technology services increases, the revenue potential nationwide will be significant. Adara Networks and Sun Microsystems are posed to take advantage of this increasing market need."

Adara's proprietary software platform is a set of technologies which enable networks to scale and perform without regard to the number of servers, users, and objects -- offering functionality, features and benefits not available from any other vendor. Adara proprietary routing breaks all barriers to scaling, enabling the virtualization of server networks on an Internet wide scale without any central points to congest or fail; and can offer dynamic provisioning, QOS and extensibility. Adara provides virtually local performance and delivery of services in the operation of network- and Web-based applications. This addresses the greatest desire of application vendors and users making Adara's application layer service and agnostic routing the premier platform for all application vendors, enabling the optimal deployment, distribution, and interconnection of their customers.

About Adara Networks, Inc.

Headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, Adara Networks is the first company to provide route optimization based on true Layer 7 (Application) based information. Adara's core technology enables enterprises, carriers and service providers to optimize their networks without the need to re-architect and in a manner that is non-disruptive to existing network routers, caches, servers and other equipment and technologies. Privately held, the company is fully funded from private investors. Contact Adara at [e-mail] or visit the website at www.adaranet.com for more information.

About Neopolis Development LLC

Based in the Jackson Metro Area, in Ridgeland, Mississippi, Neopolis is a Traditional Neighborhood Development company. While the partners of Neopolis have considerable real estate and project development expertise, Lost Rabbit represents the first in what the company believes will be a series of TNDs it will develop in the Southeastern United States. Lost Rabbit has been master planned by one of the world's leading town planning firms, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and represents the most sophisticated neighborhood planning principles used anywhere to date. Contact Neopolis at [e-mail] or visit the website at www.lostrabbitms.com for more information.