FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, April 16, 2001

Network Appliance and Widevine Technologies Collaborate to Provide Streaming Security for Enterprises

Companies Offer Secure Online Sales Training, eLearning, Corporate Communications, and Document Dissemination

Sunnyvale, CA, April 16, 2001 – Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, and Widevine Technologies, Inc. announced today that they are working together to offer secure streaming media solutions for enterprise content delivery networks (CDNs). Today's enterprises require solutions that enable them to scale their IT infrastructures to meet increasing demands without additional resource allocation and with the lowest total cost of ownership. This collaborative solution offers enterprises using streaming media solutions for enterprise CDN applications (such as eLearning, corporate communications, and online training) to deliver of those services safely by utilizing shared encryption across networks such as the Internet. At the center of today's enterprise are its knowledge and its data - this solution assures enterprises' data and knowledge integrity, enabling safe proliferation of enterprise CDN services using existing Internet and intranet technologies.

"NetApp® Enterprise CDN solutions deliver seamless integration for global content delivery, including document dissemination, HTML pages, and streaming media applications that offer corporate training and eLearning. Teaming with Widevine for shared encryption ensures that enterprises can more securely use the public Internet to deliver sensitive corporate information. Together, we offer the tremendous knowledge benefits and cost savings of enterprise CDNs, with unprecedented levels of security for streaming media delivery," said Amit Pandey, senior director of content delivery marketing at Network Appliance.

"New business models and innovative new uses for Internet-based communications at corporations and institutions are skyrocketing, driving demand for innovative enterprise CDN solutions from Network Appliance," said John Beyer, chief executive officer, Widevine Technologies. "NetApp and Widevine are collaboratively improving streaming security to protect proprietary information and copyrighted content from being stolen, pirated or viewed by unintended individuals or audiences. Fulfilling the increased demand for communications security on the Internet, Widevine Cypher is opening new doors for even more uses of streaming media and enterprise CDNs among customers."

At the heart of the companies' collaboration is Widevine Cypher, which works in conjunction with NetCache™ solutions from Network Appliance to deliver powerful, secure streaming media functionality enterprise CDNs.

Widevine Cypher is a patent pending communications security product that enables shared encryption for streaming media on the Internet and private networks. Among its capabilities are:

• Complete transparency on both the server and client end, allowing customers to continue using the hardware and software they already own.
• Full compatibility with all current standards-based streaming media technologies, including RealNetworks®, Windows Media™, QuickTime™ and MPEG.
• Client-side security and monitoring prevents streams from being captured by network stack hacking, screen-scraping, and other common techniques by shutting down streams automatically when such attacks are detected.
• Modular client shim design allows easy development and instant deployment of new encryption algorithms, enhanced client side security technology, custom back-channel data communication and much more.

About Widevine Technologies, Inc.
A communications security and network technologies company, Widevine Technologies is an emerging leader in the development of Internet infrastructure security products and technologies. The company's products are platform and format independent and provide value-added services and technologies for Internet streaming media and copyright protection. Founded in 1999, Widevine Technologies is based in Seattle, Washington. The core of the company is a world-class team of streaming media and encryption technology developers. For more information about Widevine Technologies, please visit www.widevine.com.

About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc., a veteran in network file storage and content delivery, has been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a member of both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 index. Major corporations and service providers, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions.

The company pioneered the concept of the "network appliance," an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. NetApp storage and content delivery platforms (filers and NetCache™ appliances) are coupled with powerful content distribution and reporting software. This center-to-edge™ solution offers seamless data management from the back-end data center to the edge of the network quickly, simply, and reliably. The Network Appliance product portfolio utilizes the company's innovative data access software, known as the Data ONTAP™ operating system, as well as standards-compliant hardware. It also offers multiprotocol support and transparent integration for UNIX® and Windows® environments.

Media Contact:
Eric Moser
Ruder Finn Chicago (for Widevine Technologies)
Tel: +1 312 329 3908
mosere@ruderfinn.com

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