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PKO Bank Polski, the largest commercial bank in Poland, has partnered with McDATA to help improve the bank's operational efficiency as its drives forward with new market tools such as internet banking and new channels of distribution based on mobile technologies. Part of a modernization initiative, PKO has launched an aggressive business reengineering strategy designed to create a firm base for the bank to take advantage of growing competitive opportunities in the European banking market. PKO's goal is to maintain its existing market position as a modern, dynamic universal bank in Poland, while actively expanding into other Eastern European markets. Key to PKO's success is a new Integrated Information Technology System and the development of a bank technology platform that incorporates McDATA's 10000 Directors (i10Ks) and 4700 Fabric Switches. "McDATA and EMC impressed us with the i10K's partitioning and security features, along with their rich experience in FICON," said Andrzej Krzesniak, director of computing centre at PKO BP. "While we initially considered Brocade's Silkworm 48000, after evaluating the McDATA solutions, we chose to replace our Brocade switches with an additional order for 10 FICON-enabled 4700 Fabric Switches." Four i10K directors have been installed. PKO has successfully migrated to McDATA 4700's, given their superior scalability and flexibility over the Brocade alternative. About McDATA (www.mcdata.com) McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) is the leading provider of storage networking 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, 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.