Aurora's New StarFabric Paper Outlines Seamless Migration to Advanced Switching Technologies

BROCKTON, MA, December 6, 2002 - Aurora Technologies, Inc. announces the availability of the Starting with StarFabric: The StarFabric Connectivity Guide, a primer designed to educate readers about the features and benefits of the new Switch Fabric technology.

As bandwidth demands and performance requirements continue to grow, current PCI technology will have difficulty supporting the anticipated levels of growth needed by next-generation server and enterprise networks. After reading Aurora's StarFabric Connectivity Guide, people will understand how connectivity technology has evolved over the years and why StarFabric has emerged as a leader in next-generation Switch Fabric connectivity. The guide compares StarFabric with other next-generation technologies and explains the benefits of migrating from legacy connectivity to StarFabric. The guide also describes Aurora Technologies StarFabric-based products and where they are best applied in various networking system applications.

"StarFabric is at the forefront of Switch Fabric technology," says Frank Fitzgerald, Director of Engineering at Aurora Technologies, Inc. "And The StarFabric Connectivity Guide will help people understand and evaluate various Switch Fabrics technologies in order to plan their migration from PCI to StarFabric and beyond."

StarFabric is a powerful switched interconnect technology with sophisticated features, such as advanced switching for complex connectivity between many devices, Quality of Service (QoS), high availability, and serviceability. StarFabric is fully compatible with existing PCI software and hardware while offering a seamless migration path to advanced switching technologies, such as PCI Express. StarFabric technology, originally created by StarGen, Inc., is an industry open architecture available through membership in the StarFabric Trade Association (http://www.starfabric.org) of which Aurora is a founding member.

Aurora's Starting with StarFabric: The StarFabric Connectivity Guide is free and available for download from Aurora's website at http://www.auroratech.com/guide_request/starfabricform.html.

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 Carlo Gavazzi Group Companies
CG Mupac, Aurora Technologies, Computer Systems Group, and Channel Access have joined forces to form the Carlo Gavazzi Group Companies, which is owned by Carlo Gavazzi Holdings of Switzerland.

Building on their individual strengths, the Carlo Gavazzi Group Companies are a source for single components to application-ready systems. The group meets the time-to-market needs of the computer telephony integration, industrial control and automation, military, financial services, and medical industries.