Solarflare Communications Names Cyrus Namazi as Vice President of Marketing

Solarflare Communications Names Cyrus Namazi as Vice President of
Marketing 


IRVINE, Calif., June 6  /PRNewswire/ -- Solarflare Communications Inc., a
provider of high-performance communications semiconductors and the leader in 10
Gbit/s Ethernet over copper (10GBASE-T) transceivers, has appointed Cyrus
Namazi as Vice President of Marketing.  Mr. Namazi will report to Russell
Stern, CEO of Solarflare.

"We are extremely delighted and enthused to have Cyrus join the Solarflare
executive team.  His experiences in the market development of new
communications standards will be instrumental to the company's next phase of
development," said Russell Stern, "Cyrus will be responsible for all marketing
and business development activities at Solarflare".

Mr. Namazi was formerly senior director of marketing and application
engineering for Infineon Technologies (NYSE:IFX) Wireline Communications Group,
a leading supplier of semiconductor and system solutions for the automotive and
industrial sectors, wired communications markets, secure mobile solutions and
memory products.  Before joining Infineon, Mr. Namazi was employed at Broadcom
Corporation where he led Broadcom's foray into the ADSL market and spearheaded
its market entry and strategic direction in the DSL market.  Prior to Broadcom,
he held various positions at AMD where he was last responsible for strategic
direction of communication and networking platforms. In spring, 1998 he led the
creation and launch of the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) and
served as its president and chairperson for over two years.  Prior to AMD, he
worked at IBM/Lexmark in a variety of engineering and business positions.

Mr. Namazi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from
the University of Missouri-Rolla, and an MBA from the University of Southern
California.

About Solarflare

Solarflare Communications is a developer of high-performance semiconductor
solutions for system connectivity.  Solarflare's communications architectures
and algorithms improve data rates, costs, and distances and enable existing
networks to migrate to next generation speeds without replacing the physical
infrastructure.  The company's products enable enterprises to migrate local
area networks (LANs) to next generation speeds without costly upgrades to the
infrastructure.  Solarflare's first products address the operation of Ethernet
at 10Gbit/s over installed structured copper wiring in the enterprise.

Solarflare is headquartered in Irvine, California, and may be contacted at
1-949-581-6830 or at .  Additional company information is available at
http://www.solarflare.com/. 

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