CentrePath Reaches 100th Customer Milestone; Company Optimizes Optical and Storage Networks For Leading Organizations in Financial Services, Healthcare, State & Local Government and Other Key Industries.

WALTHAM, Mass. -- CentrePath, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent management solutions for optical and storage networks, today announced that it has reached a significant corporate milestone and is now proud to serve more than 100 customers. CentrePath helps organizations build and manage their optical and storage networks and through its patent-pending Magellan technology, provides customers the ability to perform rapid event correlation and accurate problem resolution across multi-vendor, multi-domain and multi-protocol networks.

"CentrePath has quietly been building up an impressive arsenal of customer successes in a very hot area - the convergence of optical and storage networking," said Mike Karp, senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates. "Customers choose CentrePath for its in-depth expertise and ability to correlate events across multiple domains. The net result is that their customers can more efficiently and cost-effectively build and manage their optical and storage network environments."

New customers include financial services firms with business continuity initiatives, healthcare organizations with growing requirements to digitize and move medical images across a network, state and local government agencies who are building sophisticated broadband communities, as well as organizations across all industries that have network convergence initiatives where voice, video and data are being consolidated on a single network.

Fifth Third Bank, a leading financial services company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, works with CentrePath for its business continuity initiatives. The bank needed resilient, geographically dispersed data operations to assure business continuance in the event of a disaster. "We partnered with CentrePath because they could guide us through the process of implementing optical technology," said James Lancaster, Vice President, Fifth Third Bank. "Having a partner that had dealt with this technology before was a real benefit. The knowledge exchange between CentrePath and Fifth Third Bank was crucial to our success."

City of Auburn, Indiana, a local municipality, is working with CentrePath to build a broadband community. "CentrePath has been a great partner and they represent the high quality and commitment to excellence we strive for in ourselves and our partners," said Chris Schweitzer, Information Systems Manager with the City of Auburn, Indiana. "Their team was instrumental in the design, implementation, and ongoing management of a city-wide optical network that connects 12 of our departments and offers community broadband services to companies and consumers in Auburn."

"We are seeing a new wave of demand for optical and storage networking technology driven by bandwidth-intensive applications and the underlying need for higher levels of service availability," said Jim Sullivan, CEO of CentrePath. "Our growing customer list and outstanding customer service record demonstrates the value that CentrePath is delivering to some of the most demanding IT environments in the world."

About CentrePath

CentrePath helps organizations build and manage their optical and storage networks. Through the delivery of intelligent management solutions, CentrePath improves service availability while reducing the ongoing costs associated with the management of these critical networks. CentrePath's solutions meet the stringent requirements of business continuity, replication, and other mission-critical environments where voice, video and data are converging on a single network. CentrePath is located in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.centrepath.com, email [e-mail], or phone [phone].

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