Cygnet Expands Its European Sales Support; CD and DVD Jukeboxes are Universal.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000

Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc. of Milpitas, California, a privately held company, announces its id 100 CD and InfiniDISC+ Jukebox product lines are now supported from their International Sales Office.

The sales of Cygnet's Jukeboxes to internationally based corporations and governments have stemmed the need for a new sales and support office in Braintree, England. Cygnet's office now offers sales and support services for their entire family of jukeboxes within Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Managing the Cygnet international sales operation is Mr. Michael Murphy, who holds the position of Director of International Sales. In this role, Mr. Murphy will manage the day-to-day operations and sales efforts in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The email address for Mr. Murphy is [e-mail].

id 100

The id 100 is a desk side jukebox that uses CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM, and DVD-RAM drive technologies. It is a flexible solution for easily creating, duplicating, storing, managing and accessing up to 100 discs. The id 100 is a modular, high-performance library system that addresses the users full spectrum of DVD/CD generation, publishing, archiving and management needs.

This small footprint optical jukebox can automatically record and access 100 CDs or DVDs at a time or batches of discs. Easily reconfigurable, drives can even be swapped on-site as requirements grow and change so a new drive technology can be integrated as it becomes available.

The id 100 system holds from 1 to 5 magazines, each containing up to 20 discs. It provides the user with easy and immediate access to up to 470 gigabytes of data.

InfiniDISC+

The InfiniDISC+ jukebox is a revolutionary concept in flexible automated storage technology, making it the first jukebox to support DVD-RAM technology. It combines high performance jukebox robotics, CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM, or DVD-RAM drives, and up to 7 storage carousels to provide over 7 terabytes of storage space. Two important advantages of the InfiniDISC+ are reliability and the ability to directly connect to a network using InfiniNET and improve data transfer rates comparable to a hard drive RAID using InfiniRAID.

Highly regarded by the industry for its flexibility and expandable and upgradeable features, the InfiniDISC can be configured with 2 to 28 drives and can accommodate up to 1,750 discs.

Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc.

Cygnet Storage Solutions Inc., an ISO9001 certified manufacturer, is a leading provider of an increasingly wide array of CD and DVD storage and automated recording solutions used in commercial and government applications. Cygnet, the first to have integrated DVD-RAM technology into its jukeboxes, has installed its id100, InfiniDISC, and InfiniDISC+ into key applications and has been instrumental in ushering CD and DVD storage and archival solutions into the storage industry mainstream. Its diverse and popular product line includes CD and DVD jukeboxes, CD auto-loading duplicators, towers, network attached storage devices and network servers. Cygnet is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

For more information about Cygnet, call +1 800-7CYGNET for North and South America or visit www.cygnet.com.

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