MONROVIA, Calif.-- May 11, 2004 -- GNP, a Systems and Solutions Provider (SSP) of engineering, design, integration, manufacturing and complete product life cycle support resources for companies in the communications, healthcare, government and defense industries, today announced that it had formed a partnership with ZNYX Networks, the leading supplier of high-availability embedded Ethernet solutions for CarrierClass™ systems. This new alliance will focus resources from both companies on developing advanced system solutions for homeland security applications that acquire, store and manipulate voice, video and other high bandwidth data to monitor and protect facilities and infrastructure.

GNP's new Homeland Defense Systems will be based on the new emerging industry standard Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) chassis with ZNYX Networks' AdvancedTCA ZX5000 series Ethernet switch product line and ZNYX Networks' OpenArchitect® for managed switches. The ZX5000 with OpenArchitect provides a high availability control plane software platform enabling solutions with continuous service availability, non-blocking L2-L7 switching, class of service and filtering with high-speed fault tolerant failover on a switch-to-switch, VLAN-to-VLAN, or port-to-port basis.

"ZNYX Networks is a pioneer in open standard solutions for high-availability Ethernet switching and was one the first companies to market with a Gigabit Ethernet switch for the new ATCA systems, " said Roger Baar, PhD, President and CEO of GNP. "ZNYX's system building blocks are key computing elements in building high availability computing systems that can handle fault tolerant mesh networking and the high data rates encountered in many homeland security surveillance applications. We look forward to working with ZNYX Networks to develop world class solutions for this emerging marketplace."

"With years of experience in designing, building, and deploying high availability computing solutions, GNP is the ideal partner for moving our ATCA switch, software and protocol products into the homeland defense arena," said Connie Austin, President and CEO at ZNYX Networks. "With our industry-leading OpenArchitect software suite, GNP can leverage the extensibility of the OpenArchitect environment to rapidly create and deploy customized applications with a shorter time-to-market."

Pioneers in High Availability embedded Ethernet solutions; ZNYX Networks specializes in the development of comprehensive high-availability solutions for CarrierClass™ systems. Equipment manufacturers and system integrators rely on ZNYX Networks to create next-generation solutions with high availability, optimal performance and strict compliance to telecommunications standards. The ZNYX Networks line of product and services consists of pre-built, pre-tested embedded network and switch solutions providing advanced Layer 2-7 packet classification and filtering technologies that offer design engineers significant "time to market" advantages. Privately held, ZNYX Networks is headquartered in Fremont, California, with advanced research centers in Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Ottawa, Canada. The Professional Services Group is based in Ottawa, Canada, and sales offices are located throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.znyx.com or e-mail sales@znyx.com.

GNP is an ISO 9001: 2000-certified Systems and Solutions Provider (SSP) of engineering, design, integration, manufacturing and complete product life cycle support resources for companies in the communications, healthcare, government and defense industries. The company leverages COTS technology to reduce cost and accelerate product realization cycle times, while providing customization services for optimizing the end product for turnkey projects ranging from simple devices to the most complex systems. GNP's unique ecosystem leverages strong long-term partnerships with key technology leaders in the chip, board, system, middleware and operating software arenas, to set the standard for rapid time-to-market and on-time delivery. This modular approach allows customers to choose exactly the right capabilities for solving their systems integration challenges, while maintaining core competencies in-house to achieve the highest return on investment. For more information on GNP's products and services, visit the company web site at http://www.gnp.com/.