ALAMEDA, Calif., and MUNICH -- Infineon Technologies AG(DAX/NYSE: IFX), a leading supplier of communications integrated circuits,and Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), a leading provider of softwareand services for connected smart devices, today announced a partnership toprovide network system OEMs with fully managed Layer 2 switch solutions.Through a value-added reseller (VAR) agreement, Infineon will provide aturn-key solution for high performance, compact switches targeted at networkapplications for small-to-medium businesses, based on its 26 port AR2224Ethernet switch-on-a-chip and Wind River Tornado® for Managed Switches (TMS)2.0 embedded software.

"We believe that Layer 2 switches will be the largest growing segment of the120 million port LAN market by 2003," said Daniel Wong, a vice president inInfineon's communications group and the general manager of the LAN BusinessUnit. "By bundling the Wind River software with our switch-on-a-chip, we'reproviding a very attractive and competitive solution to companies buildingsystems for this high-growth market. One that will allow for a low cost,low-component count and low power implementation of managed switches forenterprise LAN and MDU/MTU applications."

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