Marvell Rolls Out DASH Technology, Ushering in New Era of Standards-Based Enterprise PC Manageability


SANTA CLARA, California, September 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company to Demo DASH Technology at Fall IDF

Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a leader in storage, communications, and consumer
silicon solutions, announced it is demonstrating Marvell(R) Yukon(R)
technology for advanced PC manageability based on the Desktop and Mobile
Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) standard, at the Fall Intel Developer
Forum (IDF) in San Francisco.

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DASH is a new standards-based architecture from the Distributed
Management Task Force (DMTF) that brings a new level of IT tracking and
control for Enterprise PCs. It is designed to allow IT managers to securely
and remotely track, inventory, query and manage DASH-based PCs. IT managers
are also expected to be able to remotely diagnose and rectify a number of
common PC failure conditions, even if a DASH-based PC fails to power up.

Marvell is a Leadership member of the DMTF workgroup chartered with the
creation of the DASH industry standard. Marvell is also working closely with
ecosystem vendors, including leading chipset and console providers, to ensure
a seamless adoption of this new technology within its PC OEM customer base.

"With the rapid enablement of DASH technology, Marvell is continuing to
increase its leadership role in Enterprise PC manageability and security
technology," said David Young, vice president and general manager,
Connectivity Business Unit, Communications and Consumer Business Group.
"Marvell's innovative Yukon controllers are enabling IT managers to meet the
escalating challenges of managing an organization's dispersed PCs, while
coping with the increasing demands for data protection, network security and
government compliance."

Marvell is already at the forefront of enterprise PC security technology
with the roll out earlier this year of the industry's first LAN controller
based on the Media Access Control Security (MACSec) standard. MACSec is
designed to protect an enterprise's data and network from unauthorized
stations, securing wired Ethernet and protecting LANs from attacks such as
passive wiretapping, masquerading, man-in-the-middle and some
denial-of-service attacks.

Marvell's Yukon products include a family of pin-compatible LAN
controllers that use a common software driver. This approach provides PC
vendors with significant flexibility in leveraging a single Yukon motherboard
design across a variety of platforms, offering a range of performance and
functionality options, including enterprise PC manageability and LAN
security.

To view a demonstration of the Marvell Yukon DASH technology, please
visit Marvell at IDF Booth #531 at the Moscone Center West, San Francisco
from Sept. 18 to Sept. 20. For further information about Yukon products and
reference designs please contact a Marvell sales representative or
distributor through the Company's website at:
http://www.marvell.com/sales/index.jsp. More information about DASH and DMTF
can be found at http://www.dmtf.org.

About Marvell

Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) is a leader in the development of storage,
communications and consumer silicon solutions. The company's diverse product
portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller,
wireless and storage solutions that power the entire communications
infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home and storage networking. As
used in this release, the terms "company" and "Marvell" refer to Marvell
Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit
http://www.marvell.com.

Marvell(R) is a registered trademark of Marvell or its affiliates.
Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

For Further Information Contact:

    Linda Sanders
    Marvell Semiconductor
    +1-617-505-6282
    lsanders@marvell.com


    Web site: http://www.marvell.com
              http://www.dmtf.org



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