Aurora’s StarFabric Development Kit Accelerates StarFabric
Product Development and Time to Market

Brockton, MA - January 31, 2003 - Aurora Technologies, Inc. announces the release of its StarFabric Development Kit for designers interested in a portable tool kit for quick-to-market StarFabric application development.

The StarFabric Development Kit integrates Aurora Technologies’ CP-SFX8 Fabric Card with CG Mupac’s 2.17 backplane and 585 Series eight-slot, portable aluminum enclosure.

Aurora’s PICMG 2.17 compliant CP-SFX8 6U Fabric Card lets you implement a centralized fabric topology in a CompactPCI chassis. The Fabric Card’s many features include: an efficient, low (less than 3µs) latency design, eight links to the backplane with a switching bandwidth of 5 Gbps per port and 40 Gbps aggregated, two front panel links to connect to external chassis for fully redundant, fault tolerance, a PMC site that operates in monarch or non-monarch mode, and Microsoft Windows and Linux compatibility.

Highly serviceable and maintainable, CG Mupac’s 9U 585 Series of CompactPCI® Portable Enclosures features a flush card cage accommodating eight 6U x 160mm CompactPCI boards housed in a vertical orientation. The backplanes support IPMB as specified in PICMG 2.9 rev. 1.0, 5.0 or 3.3-volt keying and Hot Swap. Optional 1101.11 compliant 80mm transition I/O cards are supported. One 5.25” x 1.63” device is available on a double-wide carrier card, and two 3.5” x 1.0” devices (one accessible) are available on a single-wide carrier card. The 585 Series accepts Pentium®, Celeron®, or Pentium II/III CompactPCI SBCs.

“The StarFabric Development Kit gives system designers the tools they need to realize the benefits of the StarFabric switched interconnect in their system designs today,” says Jeffrey Russell, President and CEO of Aurora Technologies, Inc. and CG Mupac. “This is simply another step forward in the Carlo Gavazzi Group’s commitment to creating integrated systems that help customers bring their products to market more quickly and efficiently and without hassle.”

The StarFabric Development Kit is priced starting at $4,900. Those interested in purchasing this product, please contact Aurora Technologies at 508.588.6110.

A high-resolution digital photograph of the StarFabric Development Kit is available upon request.

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 multipleclasses of high-speed data traffic, including legacy, path routing, and multicasting.

Since its 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 www.auroratech.com.

About CG Mupac
CG Mupac, an ISO certified company, designs and manufactures standard and custom Single – Board Computers (SBCs), chassis, and integrated system products. The company’s experienced teams of design and engineering professionals work closely with customers to provide “total cost solutions” through integrated system designs that meet specific application needs.

CG Mupac is committed to expanding its depth of systems products by investing heavily in design engineering talent and product development software. Coupled with a vertically integrated manufacturing capability, the company has a decided advantage in providing Industrial, Military, Telecom, and Medical customers with the most cost-effective solutions for their integrated electronic systems. The company has design and manufacturing facilities in Brockton, MA; Houston, TX; Garland, TX; and Sparks, NV.

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.

For more information, contact:

Kerry Dwyer
Aurora Technologies, Inc.
508-588-6110 ext. 374
kerryd@auroratech.com

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