Ciprico Awarded Patent for Media Server with Single Chip Storage Controller.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Ciprico Inc. (NASDAQ:CPCI) today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company approval of a U. S. Patent titled "Media Server with Single Chip Storage Controller." This patent derives from Ciprico's proprietary Media Vault RAID controller technology acquired as part of the Huge Systems acquisition.

James Hansen, Ciprico Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said: "We are delighted that this patent award has been added to our nascent portfolio of intellectual property. Through a unique, highly integrated single chip design the patent provides the beginning of a patent portfolio that we continue to invest in, to protect the development of high performance, very low latency, and high-reliability media servers and storage systems, particularly for remote streaming media playout devices that will exist at remote sites such as cable head-ends, airports, theatres, etc.

"Analysts believe that the digital cinema market alone will triple from 500 TB in 2005 to over 2,182 TB by 2007. Video on Demand will grow similarly from 29,000 TB to over 61,612 TB by 2007. As we develop products for these emerging markets this patent and future portfolio additions will allow us to set new standards for cost, performance, and reliability."

Michael H. Anderson, Chief Engineer for Ciprico said, "We are excited that the U.S. Patent Office has allowed our claims, which include a hardware based streaming Engine that automatically formats data from disk storage into TCP/IP packets for subsequent delivery to remote play out devices. As the iSCSI and streaming media markets emerge, and performance requirements continue to increase, this could be a key technology in our portfolio that will provide us a sustainable competitive advantage."

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About Ciprico

Ciprico designs products and provides system solutions for digital media workflows. Ciprico is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with sales and reseller offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China. More information about Ciprico is available at www.ciprico.com.

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