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McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq:MCDTA) (Nasdaq:MCDT) will announce its second quarter fiscal year 2006 financial results after the close of the market on Thursday, August 24, 2006. Financial results will be released over Business Wire and First Call. Following the press release, McDATA will host a conference call at 3:00 p.m. MDT (5:00 p.m. EDT). The call is being webcast live via the Internet at www.mcdata.com. McDATA Q206 Financial Results Conference Call Time: Thursday, August 24, 2006, at 3:00 p.m. MDT Dial-in: 706-679-8352 Webcast: www.mcdata.com 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 -- 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.