University of Mississippi Deploys the New Cenus Technologies NPX System; Cenus Technologies Breakthrough System to Enhance the University of Mississippi Network.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2003

Cenus Technologies(TM), an emerging technology company located in Scotts Valley, California announced today that the University of Mississippi has installed the Company's NPX(TM) system in a pilot program. The program goals for this limited scale deployment initially call for the University to familiarize itself with the advanced features and functionality, and next generation routing technology in the Cenus NPX; and to project how these novel-networking systems can be deployed commercially in the University's network to enhance performance, security and reliability.

"We're excited about the opportunity to work with Ole Miss," states Eric Johnson, CEO of Cenus Technologies. "The NPX(TM) is already being deployed in many commercial applications to provide better performance, security and resilience to those networks and so by allowing Ole Miss to work with and deploy our technology, we hope to provide an independent voice in the educational sector as to the benefit of the Cenus system."

University of Mississippi is a member of the Internet2, and is an emerging leader in early adoption of advanced networking. Internet2 is a consortium being led by 202 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today's Internet in its infancy. The primary goals of Internet2 are to:

-- Create a leading edge network capability for the national

research community

-- Enable revolutionary Internet applications

-- Ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and

applications to the broader Internet community.

Cenus has developed a means of virtualizing such a network of globally distributed servers into a single load-balanced cluster, unifying resources for storage and application support to provide greater performance and enhanced reliability.

New Technology to Solve Existing Problems

"The Cenus NPX(TM) was created to solve the issue of proper utilization of bandwidth," says Dr. J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Cenus' Chief Scientist and Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "Today's networks need to be able to make optimal use of all resources. The NPX accomplishes this through a multifaceted approach that provides new technologies to take advantage of those resources."

With the installation at University of Mississippi, Cenus hopes to establish that NPX(TM) technology can provide a positive benefit to networks of all types. In addition to directly benefiting the University, the NPX may also be deployed to provide better intercollegiate networking within the state, allowing better communication and cooperation between campuses of the University of Mississippi and other colleges in the state of Mississippi.

Cenus - Sun Partnership

The NPX(TM) systems deployed on the University of Mississippi campus were hosted on Sun Fire platforms from Sun Microsystems. Sun platforms are the preferred hardware for Cenus, because they provide a range of performance options that allow the company to deliver a system based on the user's need, neither overbuilt nor underpowered.

"The choice of Sun hardware is a key to our success," notes CEO Johnson. "As the Cenus Layer 7 Routing Technology has unprecedented speed of execution and it can deliver the performance and scalability of an ASIC based system on a general purpose processor. Therefore, rather than design a custom ASIC, or an entire custom platform, which would slow development and greatly elevate development costs without providing significant performance benefits, we chose Sun. By opting to go with an established platform, we were able to be far more flexible in our designs and realize our vision faster. Perhaps of equal importance, we gained Sun, the premier platform in the industry, as a partner. The Sun and Cenus alliance, both industry leaders, is a proven formula for success."

The Sun and Cenus partnership was announced in November of last year.

About Cenus Technologies

Headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, Cenus Technologies is the first company to provide route optimization based on true Layer 7 (Application) based information. The Cenus core technology enables enterprises, carriers, and service providers to optimize their networks without the need to re-architect and without disrupting existing network routers, servers and other equipment and technologies. Privately held, the company is fully funded from private investors. Contact Cenus at [e-mail] or visit our website at www.cenus.com for more information.