Atrica Appoints New Vice President of Marketing; Former Calient Networks VP, Timothy Dixon, Joins Optical Ethernet Leader.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2002

Atrica Inc., a leading provider of Optical Ethernet equipment for the $15 billion Metro networking market, today announced that it has appointed Timothy Dixon, an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry, as Vice President of Marketing. In his new role, Mr. Dixon will report directly to President and CEO, Vivek Ragavan, and will drive and manage Atrica's corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and standards activities. Mr. Dixon replaces David Yates who has left Atrica to pursue other interests.

Most recently, Mr. Dixon was Vice President of Marketing for Calient Networks, a provider of intelligent, all-photonic switching systems and software. Prior to joining Calient, Mr. Dixon spent several years at ADC Telecommunications where he was the Vice President of Strategic Marketing for the company's Teledata subsidiary. Before ADC, Mr. Dixon held various engineering, project management and business development positions at Tellabs, Inc., where he was responsible for development and growing revenues of Tellabs' TITAN 5500 digital cross-connect product from $10 million to over $200 million in just three years. Mr. Dixon holds a BSEE from Purdue University and is pursuing his MBA at Auburn University.

"Tim brings with him many years of experience in all aspects of marketing and product management, and has a proven track record with the organizations we focus on -- the world's service providers," said Vivek Ragavan, president and CEO of Atrica. "We are pleased to have Tim on board to help take us to our next level of growth."

"Atrica has quickly emerged as a leader in the Optical Ethernet space and owes its success, in part, to its ability to attract top-notch executive talent," said Alex Balkanski, General Partner of Benchmark Capital and Atrica board member. "The addition of Tim Dixon to the executive team continues Atrica's tradition of hiring the best and brightest."

"I am impressed with what Atrica has already accomplished since inception two years ago," said Tim Dixon, vice president of marketing at Atrica. "The company has a compelling value proposition for carriers, a top-notch team of managers and investors, and superior, differentiated technology. I am excited about continuing and expanding upon Atrica's success in the Metro Ethernet market."

About Atrica

Atrica's mission is to deliver the most cost-effective, high-performance Optical Ethernet platforms to forward-thinking service providers who are building next-generation Metro networks today. Atrica is a privately held company based in Santa Clara, California, with R&D facilities in Israel and business development and sales offices throughout Europe and Asia Pacific. The company has received a total of $117 million in funding to date, including seed funding from 3Com Corporation, first round financing from prominent Silicon Valley venture funds Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital, second round financing from five leading global service providers and a third round led by St. Paul Venture Capital. For more information, visit Atrica on the Web at www.atrica.com.