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iReady Wins Prestigious 2003 Comet Award; Recognized for Industry Leadership In TCP/IP Storage Networking Market

Posted on: Monday, 22 September 2003, 06:00 CDT

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- iReady Corp., the leader in Internet protocol processing in hardware, today announced that the company has been awarded the prestigious 2003 Comet Award. The fourth annual Comet Awards sponsored by Communication Systems Design has recognized iReady for its industry leadership in the TCP/IP storage networking market.

The Comet Awards are presented each year to technology innovators that are changing the landscape of the communications industry. iReady was selected from a pool of over 65 emerging companies by a panel of editors representing Communication Systems Design, EE Times, and CommsDesign.com. iReady was honored as one of the hottest companies in the communications industry based on its vision, technology prowess, and domain expertise in delivering hardware-based TCP/IP acceleration products for the emerging iSCSI and high speed Ethernet interconnect markets.

"We evaluate hundreds of emerging products each year and are looking for solutions that have the promise to spur growth in new market opportunities," said Loring Wirbel, editorial director of Communication Systems Design Magazine. "iReady is doing just that by offering a winning combination of new industry price points, driven by an unprecedented level of chip integration that includes iSCSI acceleration, a full TCP/IP offload engine, Gigabit Ethernet MAC and PHY functions and an IPsec encryption/decryption block in a single form factor."

Using a highly integrated approach, iReady delivers patented technology to achieve line-rate Gigabit Ethernet performance while providing built-in scalability for storage networking performance environments. With the ethernetMAX controller fully integrated on iReady HBAs, companies can leverage their existing Ethernet investment at a fraction of the cost of proprietary storage networks.

"We are honored to be a recipient of this year's Comet Award and view this as a key industry milestone in our efforts to provide storage networking OEMs with the industry's first fully featured chip solution that achieves an unmatched level of price and performance in the iSCSI and Gigabit Ethernet markets," said Ryo Koyama, co-founder and CEO of iReady. "The ethernetMAX controller is redefining the HBA storage market by providing the lowest entry price point for iSCSI, IPsec, and full transport offload engine (TOE) HBAs that allow companies to take full advantage of their existing Ethernet networks."

About Communication Systems Design

Communication Systems Design (http://www.commsdesign.com/) is the technical magazine for engineers and managers involved in the design of communications products, systems and equipment for the Personal, Home/SoHo, Enterprise, and Infrastructure applications. The editorial focuses on the development of these applications, current technologies enabling these designs and the emerging technologies that will affect future designs. With a qualified circulation of 40,000 communications engineers and managers, Communication Systems Design is published by CMP Media LLC.

About iReady

Privately held iReady Corp. is the foremost expert in silicon-based TCP/IP stack processing. The company's patented ethernetMAX solutions provide highly scalable, full transport offload for ultra-high-performance Ethernet networking and the assurance of field-proven interoperability with some of the largest electronics companies in the world. The iReady iSCSI Storage Adapter and Secure Storage Adapter offer a one-stop, time-to-market solution for OEMs seeking to deliver line-rate Gigabit Ethernet performance with the industry's most integrated iSCSI controller and a full suite of iSCSI initiator and target software. iReady has headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and operates a semiconductor design center in Honolulu. For more information about iReady, call 408-330-4500 or visit http://www.iready.com/.

NOTE: iReady and the iReady logo are registered trademarks of iReady Corporation. ethernetMAX is a trademark of iReady Corporation and National Semiconductor Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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