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NetLogic Microsystems Delivers Knowledge-Based Processors for Juniper's E-Series Edge Routers

Posted on: Thursday, 9 December 2004, 09:00 CST

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL), the leader in the design and development of knowledge-based processors, today announced that it is delivering its NL5000 knowledge-based processors for Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR), E-series platform edge routers.

"We believe Juniper's E-series platform further validates the acceptance of our knowledge-based processors by industry leaders in various end-market segments," said Martyn Humphries, vice president of Marketing for NetLogic Microsystems. "We are continuing to demonstrate our track record of being the first to deliver the highest performance and highest technology devices in the marketplace, making our knowledge-based processors a perfect fit for Juniper's E-series platform edge routers."

Juniper's E-series platform edge router is a central component of the infranet edge. Its modular architecture, which enables customers to add capacity and services as their needs grow, has been deployed in many different roles in the world's largest broadband networks. The E-series platform is capable of providing multiple services including: broadband remote access server, broadband video services, dedicated access, VoIP, Internet access, security services, network address translation and others, on a single platform.

Juniper has also used NetLogic Microsystems' products in two prior generations of edge router products. NetLogic Microsystems' ability to consistently be the first to deliver the performance and features that the high-end edge router market requires, has allowed NetLogic Microsystems to steadily increase the knowledge-based processor content in Juniper's E-series platform designs.

The key to knowledge-based processor design is the use of parallel processing and deep pipelining techniques, which allow devices to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, including forwarding, QoS classification and ACL security, at higher throughput rates. Using these techniques, NetLogic Microsystems' knowledge-based processors enable networking systems to meet the needs of both today's demanding 10-Gigabit Ethernet systems as well as future generations of networking systems, which will require even more complex, wire-speed processing.

NetLogic Microsystems' NL5000 knowledge-based processors are built on an advanced 7-layer copper 0.13um CMOS logic process with high-speed and low-power transistors. In conjunction with the NL5000 processors' innovative architecture, the high-speed transistors available on TSMC's 0.13um process maximize performance, enabling processor speeds in excess of 300MHz, which is the fastest available for these applications today, while achieving lower power than can be attained with less advanced processes that may have lower speed transistors or more resistive aluminum interconnects.

NetLogic Microsystems NL5000 processors are available in production quantities now. For volume pricing information please contact sales@netlogicmicro.com. For more information on these products, visit: http://www.netlogicmicro.com/products/kbp.html.

About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks transforms the business of networking by creating competitive advantage for our customers with superior networking and security solutions. Juniper Networks is dedicated to customers who derive strategic value from their networks, including global network operators, enterprises, government agencies and research and educational institutions. Juniper Networks' portfolio of networking and security solutions supports the complex scale, security and performance requirements of the world's most demanding mission critical networks. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

About NetLogic Microsystems

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL), a fabless semiconductor company located in Mountain View, Calif., designs, develops and markets high performance knowledge-based processors for a variety of advanced Internet, corporate and other networking systems, such as routers, switches, network access equipment and networked storage devices. NetLogic Microsystems knowledge-based processors use advanced processor architecture and a large knowledge database containing network and network user information to make complex decisions about individual packets of information traveling through the network. Knowledge-based processors significantly enhance the ability of networking OEMs, to supply network service providers with systems offering more advanced functionality for the Internet, such as voice transmission over the Internet, or VoIP, virtual private networks, or VPNs, and streaming video and audio. NetLogic Microsystems also provides NPU interface knowledge-based processors solutions to Intel and AMCC network processors that accelerate design and development of leading-edge networking equipment. For more information about products offered by NetLogic Microsystems, call 650.961.6676 or visit the NetLogic Microsystems Web site at http://www.netlogicmicro.com.

NetLogic Microsystems and the NetLogic Microsystems logo are trademarks of NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

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"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding NetLogic Microsystems' business which are not historical facts may be "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and expectations of future events that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results and trends may differ materially from historical results or those projected in any such forward-looking statements depending on a variety of factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, customer acceptance and demand for our products, the volume of sales to our principal product customers, manufacturing yields for our products, the timing of manufacture and delivery of product by our foundry suppliers, the length of our sales cycles, our average selling prices, the strength of the OEM networking equipment market and the cyclical nature of that market and the semiconductor industry. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's registration statement on Form S-1, as amended, as well as other reports that NetLogic Microsystems files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and NetLogic Microsystems undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason, except as required by law, even as new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.

Source: Business Wire

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