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McDATA� Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT), a leading provider of data access solutions, today announced FICON read acceleration functionality for the UltraNet� Edge Storage Router and USD-X platforms. Coupled with its existing write acceleration capability, this combined functionality dramatically reduces tape backup and recovery time, delivering local-like read/write performance for FICON-based tape storage over a WAN wide area network. As a pioneer in the industry, in 1989, McDATA first introduced remote tape backup/vaulting over extended distances as a cost-effective approach for disaster recovery and archive. Tape vaulting over distance reduces the possibility of lost, damaged or stolen tapes, and improves data security and availability because it allows companies to electronically transfer backup data to disaster recovery facilities rather than physically transporting tape or relying on a courier service. The new FICON read acceleration functionality allows customers to place FICON tape or virtual tape wherever it makes business sense, regardless of distance from the host, and without compromising recovery performance. The architecture also helps administrators reduce the impact that any one data center outage or regional disaster will have on the entire network by allowing them to spread their corporate storage infrastructure over multiple power grids and greater distances. �McDATA has a long history of remote storage networking innovation,� said Michael Frendo, Sr Vice President, Engineering, McDATA. �Today we are the market leader in both mainframe storage networking and long distance solutions and we are the only storage networking vendor that supports both read and write acceleration for both mainframe and open systems tape and virtual tape. With this new read pipelining functionality, we can give customers a cost-effective alternative to mainframe disk mirroring for business continuity, disaster recovery and data mobility.� About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq:MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT) is the leading provider of storage networking solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and WAN environments. With nearly 25 years' experience developing SAN products, services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked data. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains statements about expected future events that are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties. Readers are urged to consider statements that include the terms "believes", "belief", "expects", "plans", "objectives", "estimates", "anticipates", "intends", "targets", or the like to be uncertain and forward-looking. Factors that could cause actual results to differ and vary materially from expectations include, but are not limited to, McDATA�s relationships with EMC, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems and the level of their orders, aggressive price competition by numerous other SAN and IP switch suppliers, OEM qualification of our new products -- such as the Intrepid 10000 Director, integration of CNT�s sales and marketing functions, manufacturing constraints, constraints in obtaining third party product for resale and other risk factors that are disclosed in McDATA�s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These cautionary statements by McDATA should not be construed as exhaustive or as any admission regarding the adequacy of disclosures made by McDATA. All cautionary statements should be read as being applicable to all forward-looking statements wherever they appear. McDATA does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. McDATA(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT), a leading provider of data access solutions, today announced FICON read acceleration functionality for the UltraNet(R) Edge Storage Router and USD-X platforms. Coupled with its existing write acceleration capability, this combined functionality dramatically reduces tape backup and recovery time, delivering local-like read/write performance for FICON-based tape storage over a WAN wide area network. As a pioneer in the industry, in 1989, McDATA first introduced remote tape backup/vaulting over extended distances as a cost-effective approach for disaster recovery and archive. Tape vaulting over distance reduces the possibility of lost, damaged or stolen tapes, and improves data security and availability because it allows companies to electronically transfer backup data to disaster recovery facilities rather than physically transporting tape or relying on a courier service. The new FICON read acceleration functionality allows customers to place FICON tape or virtual tape wherever it makes business sense, regardless of distance from the host, and without compromising recovery performance. The architecture also helps administrators reduce the impact that any one data center outage or regional disaster will have on the entire network by allowing them to spread their corporate storage infrastructure over multiple power grids and greater distances. "McDATA has a long history of remote storage networking innovation," said Michael Frendo, Sr Vice President, Engineering, McDATA. "Today we are the market leader in both mainframe storage networking and long distance solutions and we are the only storage networking vendor that supports both read and write acceleration for both mainframe and open systems tape and virtual tape. With this new read pipelining functionality, we can give customers a cost-effective alternative to mainframe disk mirroring for business continuity, disaster recovery and data mobility." About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq:MCDTA)(Nasdaq:MCDT) is the leading provider of storage networking solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and WAN environments. With nearly 25 years' experience developing SAN products, services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked data. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains statements about expected future events that are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties. Readers are urged to consider statements that include the terms "believes", "belief", "expects", "plans", "objectives", "estimates", "anticipates", "intends", "targets", or the like to be uncertain and forward-looking. Factors that could cause actual results to differ and vary materially from expectations include, but are not limited to, McDATA's relationships with EMC, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems and the level of their orders, aggressive price competition by numerous other SAN and IP switch suppliers, OEM qualification of our new products -- such as the Intrepid 10000 Director, integration of CNT's sales and marketing functions, manufacturing constraints, constraints in obtaining third party product for resale and other risk factors that are disclosed in McDATA's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These cautionary statements by McDATA should not be construed as exhaustive or as any admission regarding the adequacy of disclosures made by McDATA. All cautionary statements should be read as being applicable to all forward-looking statements wherever they appear. McDATA does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.