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Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ:SILC) (TASE:SILC) today announced that it has received a series of orders from a leading application delivery company for its cutting-edge 10Gbps external Intelligent Bypass Switch (IBS) and that the customer has also provided Silicom with a forecast indicating the potential for a flow of repeat orders.

The customer selected the Silicom external IBS after a thorough evaluation of the marketplace, which confirmed that the Silicom product offers an optimum mix of innovative features backed by full customization options and support, all at a reasonable price.

“We are very excited that such a prestigious customer has selected our innovative 10Gbps IBS product, especially since it has already given us several orders and a forecast for more,” commented Shaike Orbach, Silicom’s

President and CEO. “We believe that this success will lead to widespread interest and sales for additional external BYPASS products, and will therefore help us to further grow our revenues and expand our customer base. As such, the IBS could become a strategic complement to our market leading internal BYPASS solutions, helping us to extend Silicom’s reputation as the industry’s trusted one-stop-shop for innovative, top-performing Bypass solutions.”

Like all of Silicom’s Bypass solutions, the Intelligent Bypass switch (IBS) is used to protect and maintain network integrity at times of in-line appliances failures. As an intelligent solution, the IBS self generates a “heartbeat” with which it is able to relieve the in-line application from the task of sensing a failure and initiating the Bypass process, thereby facilitating an exceedingly simple integration of the external BYPASS into the network. The IBS can also provide Silicom’s Redirector capabilities, increasing the range of applications for which the IBS can be used.

Mr. Orbach concluded, “The IBS is just one of our recent product innovations, the latest fruit of our continuous investment in innovative R&D. These efforts have expanded our product portfolio with many new “standard” products as well as our unique Redirector and SETAC. Each of these products expands our addressable markets, adding to our ability to continuously generate growth.”


About SilicomSilicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance server/appliances networking solutions. The Company's flagship products include a variety of multi-port Gigabit Ethernet, copper and fiber-optic, server adapters and innovative BYPASS adapters designed to increase throughput and availability of server-based systems, WAN Optimization and security appliances and other mission-critical gateway applications. For more information, please visit www.silicom.co.il : .

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