NETGEAR Announces New Network Storage Solution Based on Zetera Technology

NETGEAR Announces New Network Storage Solution Based on Zetera Technology

Unique IP-based Network Storage Technology From Zetera to Power NETGEAR Products Targeting Digital Home and SOHO Markets

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NETGEAR(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, and Zetera Corporation, the developer of breakthrough network storage technology, today announced at CES 2005 NETGEAR's new network storage solution based on Zetera's unique patent-pending network storage technology. This new storage line will provide home and small office/home office (SOHO) customers a low cost, high performance network data storage solution.

Customers will now be able to easily share disk drives and access them over a network from any PC or server with this new network storage solution from NETGEAR and Zetera. For the same price of a standard external hard drive, home consumers will now be able to buy a centralized data storage solution that will stream multiple high definition films, music and access personal files simultaneously over wired and wireless networks.

"The digital media revolution has created demand for high performance networked storage," said NETGEAR's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Lo. "Families are accumulating massive quantities of digital photos, digital videos, and MP3 music. They want to store their precious data securely, and share it across all their computers and audio-video devices. NETGEAR's new storage solution based on Zetera's network storage technology combines high performance, data protection, and immense expandability -- all at very attractive price points."

Zetera's innovative network storage technology enables low cost home storage devices to perform at levels previously reserved for high-end business class storage area networks (SAN). For consumers, this means new storage solutions for protected media vaults, enabling automated backups through a pair of mirrored hard drives making digital content available throughout the networked digital home.

The storage solution accommodates up to two standard IDE hard drives of any size. Based on current drive capacities on the market today, this device enables users to attach up to 400 gigabytes of storage to their home networks, and can be continually upgraded to larger drives as they become available.

It comes with an easy to use graphical user interface that enables quick and simple configuration, as well as the opportunity to do more sophisticated customization for experienced users. Hard drives can be subdivided into multiple drives for easy segmentation and storage of data, while data mirroring is accomplished through a simple utility to ensure the safe backup of information.

"As one of the leading and most trusted retail brands, NETGEAR is ideally suited to bring our storage technology to home networking consumers, and we are looking forward to having Zetera network storage technology as part of the NETGEAR product family," said Zetera's CEO Chuck Cortright.

Zetera technology architecture uses the standard building blocks of Internetworking Protocol (IP) and industry-standard network switches to deliver storage solutions that scale smoothly from consumer applications to massive data center arrays.

The first NETGEAR products based on Zetera's network storage technology are expected to ship in the second quarter of 2005 and will be available through NETGEAR's consumer and reseller channel partners.

About Zetera Corporation

Founded in 2002, Zetera Corporation is a developer of a patent-pending technology that enables networked storage to be realized at unprecedented price-performance levels. The technology was invented by the creators of the IDE and ATAPI disk drive standards, which have shipped in billions of disk drives. Leveraging the latest IP advances, Zetera has created a new class of network storage technology that is superior in performance, cost, scalability and compatibility to all other types of network storage. Based in Irvine, Calif., Zetera licenses its technology to leading storage, computer, peripheral and device manufacturers worldwide. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.zetera.com.

About NETGEAR(R), Inc.

NETGEAR(R) designs technologically advanced, branded networking products that address the specific needs of small and medium business and home users. The company's suite of over 100 products enables users to share Internet access, peripherals, files, digital multimedia content and applications among multiple personal computers and other Internet-enabled devices. NETGEAR is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.netgear.com or call 408-907-8000.

NOTE: NETGEAR and the NETGEAR logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NETGEAR, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Information is subject to change without notice. All rights reserved.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for NETGEAR, Inc.:

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Specifically, statements concerning NETGEAR's new network storage products and their expected performance characteristics, specifications, availability, market acceptance, market growth, specific uses and user feedback, and the general market position of NETGEAR and its products and technology are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the following: the actual price, performance and ease of use of NETGEAR's network storage products may not met the price, performance and ease of use requirements of customers, the performance of NETGEAR's network storage products may be adversely affected by real world conditions, the ability of NETGEAR to successfully incorporate the Zetera technology into its new storage products and timely release such products for general availability, the ability of NETGEAR to market and sell its products and technology, the impact and pricing of competing products and the introduction of alternative technological solutions. Further information on potential risk factors that could affect NETGEAR and its business are detailed in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties listed in the section entitled "Risk Factors Affecting Future Results", pages 15 through 22, in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 3, 2004, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 17, 2004. NETGEAR undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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CONTACT: Doug Hagan of NETGEAR Inc., +1-408-907-8053, or
doug.hagan@netgear.com; or Ken Hagihara of Integrity Public Relations,
+1-949-768-4423, or ken@integritypr.net, for NETGEAR; or Jennifer Tolkachev of
Lages & Associates, +1-949-453-8080, or jennifer@lages.com, for Zetera

Web site: http://www.zetera.com/

Web site: http://www.netgear.com/


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