NetXen Strengthens Management Team with New Executive Appointments

David Barney Joins NetXen as Vice President of Software Engineering; Sanjeev Jorapur Named Vice President of Technology

Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 9, 2006 - NetXen, Inc., a leading provider of breakthrough 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) technology and products, today announced the appointment of David Barney as vice president of software engineering and Sanjeev Jorapur as vice president of technology. The addition of these industry veterans to the NetXen management team strengthens the company's technical leadership and focus on driving product and technology innovation in the 10GbE market.

David Barney is a 20-year veteran of the computer systems industry, with extensive experience in the server, workstation and storage market segments. Prior to joining NetXen, he was senior director of engineering at Network Appliance, where he was responsible for building the teams, and developing the process and infrastructure, necessary for engineering to scale and meet the expectations of enterprise customers. Before that, he held senior management and technical leadership positions at Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and NCR. Mr. Barney holds a Bachelor's degree in Management Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Sanjeev Jorapur has 20 years of experience in enterprise and network computing. He joined NetXen in 2003 as director of software, leading the architectural and technological efforts behind NetXen's products. Prior to NetXen, he co-founded CoWave Networks, which pioneered the wireless mesh architecture. At CoWave, he was responsible for the architecture and software development of its initial products. He also has held senior technical positions at HP, where he was one of the key architects of a distributed, multi-node system. Mr. Jorapur holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in computer science from IIT, Mumbai.

"The addition of David and Sanjeev to our management team strengthens our technology leadership and focus on product development and innovation," said Govind Kizhepat, founder and CEO of NetXen. "Their extensive backgrounds will help us stay ahead of the curve and continue NetXen's tradition of providing high-performance, cost-effective solutions to drive the adoption of 10-Gigabit Ethernet."

About NetXen, Inc.
NetXen, Inc. is a privately held company that manufactures intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking chips that advance enterprise datacenter performance and agility. Founded in February 2002 by chip design veteran Govind Kizhepat, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with an office in Pune, India. NetXen's protocol- and OS-agnostic Intelligent NIC^®s are designed for volume 10 Gigabit deployments and are targeted at server, storage, security and networking systems. Additional information about the company and its patented chip architecture is available at www.netxen.com.

NetXen, the NetXen logo, and Intelligent NIC are trademarks of NetXen, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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