Interphase Announces Availability of Gigabit Ethernet AdvancedMC Product; High-Performance Adapter Delivers Expansion of GigE Connectivity for AdvancedTCA Platforms.PLANO, Texas -- Interphase Corporation (Nasdaq:INPH), a leading international supplier of next-generation networking technologies, today announced the availability of the SlotOptimizer(TM) 364G AdvancedMC(TM) Quad Gigabit Ethernet Card, the first in a comprehensive portfolio of AdvancedMC products that enable the delivery of advanced services in telecommunications networks. The new AdvancedMC adapter is designed specifically for converged next-generation and wireless network applications that require multiple high-speed, high-bandwidth Ethernet ports directly connected to the processor blade, and provides optimum performance and CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. utilization for even the most demanding applications. Designed for use in AdvancedTCA(R) and MicroTCA platforms, the Interphase 364G product features four independent 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet ports, high-performance Gigabit Ethernet controllers, up to x4 PCI Express 1.0a links, auto-negotiation and compatibility with PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Express-compliant host systems. The 364G also features an Intelligent Platform Management Interface The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification defines a set of common interfaces to computer hardware and firmware which system administrators can use to monitor system health and manage the system. Several dozen companies support IPMI. (IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) A protocol for monitoring server hardware for temperature, voltage, chassis intrusion, etc. Introduced in 1998 by Intel, HP, NEC and Dell, IPMI defines a standard set of messages for the characteristics of hardware ), enabling the card to be monitored and controlled by remote shelf management controllers. In addition, the product comes with inherent robustness, reliability and hot-swap capabilities delivered by the AdvancedMC form factor. Software support for the 364G includes drivers for Carrier Grade Linux A specification that defines an industrial strength operating system environment using Linux. Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) covers hardware, availability, clustering, security, serviceability and performance. and Sun Solaris(TM) environments. Key applications enabled by the SlotOptimizer 364G include Serving GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. Service Nodes, softswitches, MSC (1) (MSC.Software Corporation, Santa Ana, CA, www.mscsoftware.com) Founded in 1963 by Richard H. MacNeal and Robert G. Schwendler, MSC is the world's largest provider of mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) strategies, simulation software and services. servers and OAM&P platforms. "The delivery of the 364G demonstrates Interphase's continuing investments to deliver advanced technology solutions to the marketplace," said Prasad Kallur, vice president of strategic marketing at Interphase Corporation. "This product will enable telecommunications equipment manufacturers to deliver high-throughput, highly reliable and cost-effective AdvancedTCA platform architecture-based network infrastructure products to the marketplace." Interphase has performed pre-integration and testing with many of the AdvancedTCA single board computer carrier products to ensure ease of system integration. The 364G is a member of the Interphase SlotOptimizer family of PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. (454G), PCI (554GB and 564GB) and AdvancedMC products that deliver high-throughput Ethernet connectivity to host processors across PCI, PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. and PCI Express bus interfaces. The SlotOptimizer 364G, along with other Interphase AdvancedTCA and AdvancedMC products, will be featured in the Interphase booth (D173, Hall 1) at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 13-16, 2006. Please contact Interphase for pricing of the SlotOptimizer 364G and availability of other AdvancedMC products offered by Interphase. About Interphase Corporation Interphase Corporation (Nasdaq:INPH) is a leading provider of robust building blocks, highly integrated subsystems and innovative gateway appliances for the converged communications network. Building on a 30-year history of providing advanced I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output solutions for telecom and enterprise applications, and addressing the need for high speed connectivity, Interphase has established a key leadership role in delivering next generation Advanced TCA(R) (ATCA See AdvancedTCA. ) and AdvancedMC(TM) (AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. ) solutions to the marketplace. Headquartered in Plano, Texas with sales offices across the globe, Interphase clients include Alcatel, Ericsson, Fujitsu Ltd., Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Motorola Inc., Nortel Networks Ltd., Raytheon and Samsung. Additional information about Interphase and its products is available on the company's Web site at www.interphase.com. Interphase is an Affiliate member of the Intel(R) Communications Alliance. The Intel Communications Alliance is a member-based program comprised of communications and embedded developers and solution providers. Members are committed to providing a strategic supply of standards-based solutions to the communications and embedded market segments. For more information, please visit: www.intel.com/go/ica. Safe Harbor This press release contains forward-looking statements with respect to financial results and certain other matters. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995 and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, fluctuations in demand, the quality and price of similar or comparable networking products, access to sources of capital, general economic conditions in the company's market areas, and that future sales and growth rates for the industry and the company could be lower than anticipated. Interphase, SlotOptimizer and the Interphase logo are registered trademarks of Interphase Corporation. 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