Top 10 Raptor Networks Benefits

• Winner of the 2005 Reviewboard Select Award for "Best Switching Solution of the Year."


• The world's first distributed network switch architecture in a market in which all competitors' products embody centralized architectures


• Highly disruptive performance/price to traditional architectures, offering 10-100 times the speed at one third to one tenth the price


• Highest performance 10 Gigabit wire speed offering currently on the market


• Versatility to run the most advanced new data applications including network attached storage, clustered computing, and VOIP


• Cost-effective "Distributed Network Switching Technology" is fully compatible with existing legacy switching products, allowing performance enhancing upgrades or complete network buildouts at a fraction of the cost of centralized architectures


• Products are able to provide a technology refresh to meet newer 10Gb Ethernet standards without the need to replace previous cabling plans or existing switch products


• Company is horizontally integrated in a marketplace where competitors are vertically integrated; silicon fab, production, and level 1 support are outsourced to improve cost effectiveness and responsiveness to market demand


• Continued commitment to R & D, with two new families of unique routing/switching systems - T-Rex and Predator - to line extend product line


• Umbrella patent on distributed Ethernet switching filed, with other patent applications planned

Corporate Overview

Raptor Networks Technology, Inc. provides standards-based modular switching technologies to augment networks that provide newer services such as video, VoIP, high-speed storage and other high bandwidth and latency- sensitive network applications.

The Company's patent-pending "Distributed Switch Fabric" technology allows a single network switch to be created from discrete elements connected by fiber, which are geographically dispersed over hundreds of miles. This enables network buildouts and upgrades of traditional chassis-based installations with immediate availability of high speed, high bandwidth networks at a fraction of the cost offered by traditional core-edge architectures. Raptor moves these processes out of the software into the hardware and integrates the control locally with the fabric chips, resulting in a decrease in inter-chip operations, and reducing the need for chips overall. Latency improves, reliability improves, and costs are reduced.

Reviewboard Magazinestates, "The Ether-Raptor embodies a reduced form factor, is less costly, significantly faster, and more versatile than the Cisco 6500 series family. This is one of the best switches in the world, and should be thought of when you are planning your network infrastructure. Winner of the 2005 ReviewboardSelect Award for Best Switching Solution of the Year." The article also says that the list price of the Raptor Networks ER-1010 is onefifth the cost of the Cisco product, its ease of design is superior, and that Raptor can "create unique redundant and resilient backbone systems that allow a backplane to extend over multiple floors, buildings, cities."

Quality-of-service is maintained by intelligently managing different data types traveling from the same source to the same destination. Rather than dedicated parallel networks that increase system costs and hamper system scalability, Raptor optimizes the handling of all data packets on a single network by monitoring and differentiating data types, significantly reducing latency on latency-sensitive data types.

Ninety-five percent of existing networks (single data type) were not built for today's applications. Raptor's products provide a technology refresh to reach newer 10Gb Ethernet standards without the need to replace previous cabling. Raptor designers are tailoring this powerful architecture to new realms and focusing on sectors of the economy that have particularly urgent high bandwidth data transport needs: government, education, financial, entertainment, telecom, and healthcare.

Products & Services

Raptor is in full production of its Ether-Raptor switches, with $1.2 million in inventory produced, the software complete, and patents filed. No one but Raptor provides:

• Distributed "single fabric" technology
• Simplified topologies radically improving redundancy and resiliency
• Open standards for connectivity, reducing costs
• Low latency supporting video, voice and storage data streams
• Wire-speed at high traffic levels for high performance
• Layer 2-7 classification providing security and Quality-of-Service control.

The Ether-Raptor ER-1010 1010 (patent pending) can scale from 2 to 16 interconnected members, creating one distributed fabric with unparalleled performance and reliability. An ER-1010 fully loaded has six 10Gb ports, which can talk to the outside world as 10Gb Ethernet or as 10Gb RAST connecting to other ER-1010s. Each ER-1010 can be separated up to 10km from other members and maintain all of its capabilities.

The Ether-Raptor ER-1808 1808 (patent pending) can be a member of the Ether-Raptor series scalable architecture or a stand-alone eight-port 10Gb Ethernet switch. As a stand-alone solution it has eight XFP connectors with options for 300m, 10km, or 40km pluggable transceivers. The ER-1808’s Quality of Service packet processing combined with its low latency hardware ensures an excellent solution for converged networks.

The RN2, RN4 and RN 6 Network Interface Cards (NICs) (patents pending) offer the solution for implementing multiple network segments, mission-critical redundant networking and high performance servers. Raptor Gigabit adapters ease network congestion, simplify network management, and provide the highest server throughput while minimizing CPU utilization. The RJ45 connectors are fully interoperable with existing Cat 5 cable.

Leadership

Tom Wittenschlaeger, CEO and President
Appointed CEO in March 2004, Mr. Wittenschlaeger completed a $7.35M equity raise in the first 75 days of his tenure. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, of Personnel Group of America, Inc., where he supported a comprehensive financial restructuring and bond exchange. He was a key member of the technical staff at General Motors Hughes Electronics, served for five years as Hughes' Corporate Director of Market Research, and led the team that rebundled Hughes' $6B defense business prior to its sale to Raytheon. He brought the air traffic control business of the Command and Control Systems division from a $120 million loss position to profitability in 18 months. His final role within Hughes was Director of International Finance and Business Assessment at Hughes Space and Communications.
Mr. Wittenschlaeger also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of ViaSat Satellite Networks, commandeering the business from a heavy loss to profitability in 11 months, and from $3.9 million in revenues to over $65 million two years later. An Electrical Engineering graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he has completed post-graduate certification in Nuclear Engineering. A graduate of the UCLA Executive Program in Business and co-founder of the school's Executive Program in Marketing, he was the winner of the inaugural Malcolm R. Currie Corporate Innovation Award at Hughes Electronics.

Edwin Hoffman, Chief Development Officer
Mr. Hoffman's background includes extensive engineering and sales engineering experience with Reuters, Alcatel, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Cabletron, Marconi, and MTI. He has managed mixed technology projects with individual project revenues of over $80M and total revenues in excess of $100M annually. In the last five years, he has held sales engineering, account management, and executive positions for Cabletron Systems Inc., MTI, and DEC. Mr. Hoffman obtained a computer engineering diploma at the Control Data Institute in London, England.

Bob van Leyen, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. van Leyen has more than 24 years of experience in the high-tech industry, with executive positions in Finance, Operations and General Management. He was employed for 12 years by Mentor Graphics, ten years with Data General Corporation and two years with Wyle Systems. He has been in charge of the corporate treasury function for a public company with $400 million of annual revenues and has managed and coordinated an initial public offering of an issuer's securities. Mr. van Leyen attended the Dutch Institute of Chartered Auditors and holds Dutch degrees equivalent to a U.S. Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Business Administration.

Ananda Perera, Chief Technical Officer
As senior technology architect for Network Storage Solutions in California, Mr. Perera managed a system-engineering group to facilitate VAR and end-user clients. He was Director of Consulting for Amdahl Corporation and served as Director of Quality Assurance for Viacom and as Senior Network Design Consultant for Unisys. Mr. Perera holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Columbo in Sri Lanka, as well as other industry qualifications in networking and storage technologies.

Erich Umar, Vice President of Sales
Mr. Umar is a seasoned executive with more than 17 years in all aspects of sales and customer service relating to computers and networking technologies. He served in leadership posts at Netix Computers, Quest Systems and recently a decade at Instinet Corporation, where he held key positions including Vice President of Field Services. He transformed Field Services into a technical sales and solutions architecting resource, successfully increasing per capita production 100% over three years. In 2002, Mr. Umar co-initiated, planned and executed the complete migration of more than 1,500 Instinet clients from its proprietary network to alternative deliveries, resulting in a $30M cost reduction

Charles A. Boris, Vice President OEM/Channel Business Development With more than 25 years of sales management experience in the enterprise systems and information technology segments, Mr. Boris served as Director of Channel Sales and Alliances at Hightower Software, where he was responsible for building relations with key Network security partners and large Telco and System Integrators. As VP Regional Sales for Niksun Corporation, he was responsible for opening up the first Enterprise customers on the West Coast including Disney Worldwide Services, Experian, and Qualcomm. Prior to Niksun he was VP Business Development and Channel Sales at Affiliated Computer Services