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McDATA Corporation (NASDAQ: MCDTA)(NASDAQ: MCDT) today announced that Medmark, a leading Value Added Distributor and Solution Provider in the Middle East, officially signed an international distribution agreement during the opening of McDATA's new European Briefing Center (EBC) in Munich, Germany. Medmark will distribute McDATA's Fiber Channel, IP and Remote Office Consolidation (ROC) products via an established network of Value Added Resellers in the Middle East countries. McDATA is the leading provider of storage networking products and solutions for the enterprise and delivers the industry's most robust SAN and network optimization products throughout the world. McDATA's Fibre Channel SAN Switching products include its enterprise-class directors, affordable Fabric Switches and space-efficient blade switches. The ROC solution is a comprehensive offering of products and services that optimize remote office environments by consolidating remote office infrastructure and data management to the data center. The ROC comprises McDATA's infrastructure products, the company's SAN routing and extension products, WDS accelerators and Exchange replicators as well as connectivity services, support and professional services. "We are enthusiastic with our relationship with Medmark, which will enable the development of McDATA's data access solutions in the Middle East, and will bring significant value to customers poised with low speed lines and high communications costs," said Daniel Sazbon, vice president of McDATAChannels EMEA. "We are delighted to add McDATA products to the Medmark product range. The quality and reliability of these products, coupled with McDATA's 24 years of experience in the IT environment, were key factors in our decision to enter into this partnership", commented Robert Kikano, managing director of Medmark. About Medmark Medmark is a leading Value Added Distributor and Solution Provider in the Middle East. Established in 1995, with branch offices in Bahrain, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Medmark specialised in the distribution, sales and support of complex information technology products and printing systems. Medmark operates throughout the Middle East via an established network of Value Added Resellers. 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.