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New Firmware Enhancements for the McDATA Intrepid FICON Converter McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT), a leading provider of data access solutions, announced the general availability of new firmware for its unique Intrepid FICON Converter (IFC), a cost-effective solution for attaching ESCON peripherals directly to FICON channels. The McDATA IFC is a key component of McDATA's portfolio of mainframe solutions and another tool to help customers get the most out of their existing SAN investments. By providing native FICON to ESCON protocol conversion, customers can enjoy the performance and scalability benefits of FICON, while reducing costs and protecting investments. This new firmware release provides additional solution support to meet various customer requirements for connectivity across campus, metro and wide area networks, including support for FICON direct attached, fabric attached and cascaded fabrics as well as extended ESCON fabrics using McDATA's USDX platform. In addition, this release provides support for additional devices, including ESCON director and NCR Teradata support, and delivers significant improvements in system performance. "McDATA continues to bring products and solutions to market that improve storage networking interoperability and extend the value of our customers' investments," said Raj Das, vice president of product marketing, McDATA. "With these new firmware enhancements, we deliver increased configuration flexibility and provide the solution support and performance required by our global mainframe customers." About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) is the leading provider of data access 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.