For Immediate Release

FatPipe Networks™ is Granted a Third Patent for its Router Clustering Technology, Providing Fault Tolerance and Greater Bandwidth for Wide Area Networks

FatPipe Networks receives another patent for its development of router-clustering technologies which combine routers and multiplex data packets using multiple data links simultaneously over separate data streams

Salt Lake City, UT: January 7, 2003 - FatPipe Networks™, the inventor of router clustering devices for reliable, redundant and fast Internet/WAN connections, announced today that it has successfully secured a third patent for its router clustering technology. The patent covers the principal technology incorporated in all FatPipe products, called RAIL, or Redundant Array of Independent lines. RAIL bonds multiple DS3, T1, DSL, Cable, ISDN and/or wireless connections over private or public wide area networks, resulting in greater bandwidth and redundancy.

Router aggregation is achieved without making changes to packets, network operating systems, or TCP/IP stacks, and does not require Border Gateway Protocol programming. From a single end approach, the patented technology can perform its tasks at a CPE, without the need for a reciprocating technology at the receiving site or at the ISP. The patent also covers what is called a dual end solution. A dual end solution is where two or more data networks, utilizing multiple routers, share data streams that are multiplexed by the FatPipe technology and split at the packet level. The packets are then recombined by another FatPipe product at another remote location.

Ragula Bhaskar, Ph.D., CEO, and Sanchaita Datta, CTO, are the inventors of FatPipe's router-clustering technology. FatPipe products are designed to provide fault tolerance, additional speed and security for VPNs, Thin Client, public, private, Frame Relay Networks, and other WANs serving medium to large size companies that require these services for mission critical data transmission deployed over WANs.

All FatPipe products use the RAIL technology to accomplish bonding of routers. FatPipe's MPVPN, MPFR and IPVPN products use FatPipe's dual end solution.

"It's exciting to be the pioneers in the area of providing fault tolerance for wide area networks," commented Datta. "Our latest patent combined with prior patents, which protect our security and redundancy technology features, are simply a confirmation of our leadership in the marketplace."

About FatPipe Networks
Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, FatPipe Networks is the creator and patents holder of leading-edge technology that provides highly redundant, reliable and high-speed Internet access for mission critical applications. FatPipe products enable companies to obtain low cost, highly redundant and fast Internet/WAN access, allowing such corporations to implement Intranets, Thin Clients, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and other web-based applications. www.fatpipeinc.com

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