Altera Helps INRANGE Break the SAN Barrier.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001

Storage Area Networks Conference/ Altera Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR) announced today that INRANGE Technologies (Nasdaq:INRG), a leader in scalable storage networking solutions, has selected Altera system-on-a-programmable chip (SOPC) products for use in its unique Extended Credit Addressing Facility (XCAF(TM)) technology. INRANGE's storage area network (SAN) products make it possible to access data over great distances. Prior to the introduction of XCAF, 10 kilometers was the distance limitation between devices in a SAN. XCAF allows any port in INRANGE's industry-leading FC/9000(TM) Fibre Channel Director to communicate with any other port in a SAN over 100 kilometers. This distance extension enables users to realize the true promise of storage area networks: data that is easier to access, manage, backup, and share regardless of where it is located.

Jay Morris, director of sourcing and supplier development for INRANGE, explained their device selection criteria, "We considered devices from all of the leading programmable logic suppliers. Altera provided the best combination of value, performance, device utilization, and support for this project. Further, the availability of APEX(TM) 20KE devices in compact FineLine BGA(TM) packages meant that we could minimize board space and maximize our cost effectiveness."

In order to develop the XCAF technology, INRANGE had to meet rigorous performance requirements in their design. "We needed the design to run at over 100 MHz in order to meet our goal of allowing any port in the SAN to communicate with any other port over 100 kilometers away with no performance degradation," said Nick Hannon, vice president of storage network switching development. "The phased-locked loops (PLLs) in the APEX 20KE devices were key to achieving our targeted speed."

"Enabling breakthrough products like those from INRANGE is exactly what Altera SOPC solutions excel at," said Alain Bismuth, vice president of new market development at Altera. "We are excited that our APEX 20KE devices played such an important role in allowing INRANGE to overcome the 10 kilometer SAN barrier."

About INRANGE Technologies (www.inrange.com)

INRANGE Technologies designs, manufactures, markets and services networking and switching products for storage, data and telecommunications networks. Our products provide fast and reliable connections among networks of computers and related devices and are used in global 2000 businesses and other enterprises that operate large-scale and heterogeneous systems where open connectivity, reliability, and continuous availability are critical. Our products are designed to be compatible with various vendors' products and multiple communication standards and protocols.

About Altera

Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company(R), was founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs). Altera's CMOS-based PLDs are user-programmable semiconductor chips that enhance flexibility and reduce time-to-market for companies in the communications, computer peripheral, and industrial markets. By using high performance devices, software development tools, and sophisticated intellectual property cores, system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions can be created with embedded processors, memory, and other complex logic together on a single PLD. Altera common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol ALTR. More information on Altera is available on the Internet at http://www.altera.com.

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