Aurora's Director of Engineering Named CTO of StarFabric Trade Association

Aurora Joins StarGen as Founding Member of StarFabric Trade Association

Brockton, MA, October 15, 2002 - Aurora Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of fabric and I/O connectivity solutions, announces that Frank Fitzgerald, the company's Director of Engineering, was named Chief Technology Officer of the StarFabric Trade Association at it's inaugural meeting. In addition to being a founding member of the Board of Directors, Fitzgerald was also elected as an executive officer.

"As CTO of the StarFabric Trade Association I am excited to play a vital role in the future development of the StarFabric Architecture and future migration to PCI-Express™ Advanced Switching," says Fitzgerald. "I am pleased to be a founding member of the association and am ready to promote the availability, reliability, and scalability of StarFabric."

The StarFabric Trade Association is a non-profit, open membership industry group responsible for owning, developing, and promoting the StarFabric switched interconnect technology. The association's membership includes a wide range of companies creating interoperable switches, bridges, and other components that leverage the existing StarFabric technology and address new applications and markets. StarFabric is fully compatible with existing PCI software and hardware while currently offering a seamless migration path to advanced switching technologies, such as PCI Express.

"Frank's experience and leadership as CTO will be pivotal as we continue to promote StarFabric as well as the future migration to PCI Express Advanced Switching as the next-generation interconnect solution," said Tim Miller, president of the StarFabric Trade Association and vice president of marketing and sales at StarGen, Inc. "Since its inception, Aurora has played a vital role in the development of the StarFabric Trade Association."

About Aurora Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1988 as a third-party developer of connectivity products for the Sun Solaris marketplace, Aurora has evolved into an early-to-market developer of board- and system-level products based on Switch Fabric/StarFabric® that are ideal for applications that support multiple classes of high-speed data traffic, including legacy, path routing, and multicasting.

Since it's founding, Aurora has achieved expertise in direct-to-bus synchronous WAN communications and high-port count serial connectivity solutions. While continuing to enhance its legacy serial products for the Sun marketplace, Aurora is expanding its connectivity products with a special focus on Switch Fabric/StarFabric technologies, emerging PICMG® standards, and Linux®.

Aurora Technologies, Inc. is a Carlo Gavazzi Group Company.

For more information about Aurora Technologies, Inc., please visit http://www.auroratech.com.

About the StarFabric Trade Association
Based in Massachusetts, the StarFabric Trade Association, a non-profit, open membership industry group, was created to develop and promote the StarFabric switched interconnect technology. The founding members represent a wide spectrum of organizations, which together provide the broad and diverse perspective required to ensure StarFabric will continue to meet the dynamic market requirements of next generation embedded and communication systems.

StarFabric is a powerful switched interconnect technology for backplane and chassis-to-chassis applications. It enables next generation Embedded Distributed Processing applications to meet market demands. The technology provides for unprecedented levels of scalability, performance and availability for a wide range of systems. It supports multiple classes of traffic, adding further flexibility and enhancements to systems while utilizing existing standards-based software and hardware investments.

The StarFabric Trade Association owns the StarFabric Architecture and is responsible for all future enhancements. (www.starfabric.org)