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NXTcomm 2008
Booth Sl4121 - Astute Networks, Inc. Stephanie Booher, +1-858-673-7700 ext. 219 Marketing & Communications Manager sbooher@astutenetworks.com Astute Networks is the leading provider of bladed storage solutions optimized for the most demanding applications on the edge of the network. Whether you are deploying applications such as Telecom's AAA, IPTV/VoD, Military C4I or Video Surveillance, our focus is to provide the

most reliable storage platform with the highest performance, greatest rack densities, and power efficiencies--while being easy to deploy and maintain. Our solutions enable you to achieve lower lifecycle costs, faster time to market, and more competitiveness for you and your company. We build-in the features needed to provide you edge storage solutions so you can focus on your business.

To address the current and emerging demands of these large communications networks, we have pioneered the Astute Networks Edge Storage Architecture (ESA). This is the first edge storage architecture built specifically for the edge of the network applications and designed to provide the advantages of the blade form factor, with the performance and reliability of fibre-channel rack-mount storage. The bottom line benefit for customers is a bladed storage solution that helps drive up revenues, drives down lifecycle costs and provides a competitive edge for quicker time to market.

Astute Networks partners with best-in-class server companies to market proven and tested solutions built on ESA. The first product family designed on this architecture is the award winning Astute Networks' Caspian R1100 Edge Storage Blade (Caspian R1100), Caspian R1100 is the industry's first 10Gb iSCSI ATCA bladed storage platform optimized for applications in distributed edge environments. The combination of our Caspian R1100 and the best in class servers produce an integrated platform for next generation applications.

Astute Networks is a venture-funded company located in San Diego, CA and is backed by prestigious venture capital firms, including Sevin Rosen Funds, Tallwood Venture Capital, Scale Venture Partners, KeyNote Ventures and US Venture Partners (USVP).

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