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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Thomas Skrobacz, Business Development, Boulder Instruments (303) 485-2721 x101, tom@boulderinstruments.com Boulder Instruments is a DBA of Conduant Corporation New Product Announcement: StreamStor PCI-816XF exceeds 1Gbps Sustained Recording and Playback on Hard Drives! Longmont, Colorado (August 20, 2001) Boulder Instruments (www.boulderinstruments.com) announced today its latest addition to the StreamStor family of real time storage systems, the PCI-816XF. The PCI-816XF provides a 64bit PCI interface, an FPDP interface (defined by Interactive Circuits and Systems, Ltd) and sustained recording and playback at speeds expected to reach 200 Mbytes/Sec! The PCI-816XF is an ideal storage solution for extremely high data rate applications including video, digital cinematography, simulation, and radar. We are very excited by the early interest in our latest high-end streaming technology product, the PCI-816XF. Increases in hardware performance, specifically network & processor, continue to outpace the performance of both SCSI and IDE disk drives, creating a storage bottleneck for real-time applications. StreamStor optimizes hard drive performance and aggregates an array of disks to sustain extremely high performance. With an onboard real time operating system, StreamStor supports direct data transfers from the acquisition source and dynamic memory allocation - overcoming bottlenecks common to RAID type storage systems for real time recording and playback, said Tom Skrobacz, VP of Business Development. The XF also includes features to enable data mirroring for customers that demand both cutting edge performance and data redundancy. With the FPDP interface customers can save time and money by eliminating the need to purchase a separate board for data acquisition. The FPDP interface allows them to conveniently connect their data source directly into the storage system. StreamStor PCI-816XF Sustained Recording Duration at 20 Mbytes/Sec 100 Mbytes/Sec 200 Mbytes/Sec 1024 Minutes 205 Minutes 102 Minutes Figure 1: Recording duration based on sixteen (16) 75GB IBM DeskStar Drives Boulder Instruments has already amassed a queue of orders for the new product to both domestic and international customers. First shipments are expected in the October timeframe. StreamStor offers the only direct to storage digital PCI and CPCI recording and playback solutions available for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Boulder Instruments designs and manufactures real-time disk-based recording systems for scientific, military and commercial applications. Its current products can record and playback hours of digital data with industry leading sustained performance on hard drives. It is a privately held company located near Boulder, Colo. For more information, visit the Boulder Instruments Web site at www.boulderinstruments.com, email info@boulderinstruments.com, or call 303-485-2721. ###