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Press Release

Woven Systems Names Michael Langley Vice President of Sales

Proven Networking Sales Executive to Drive Woven Growth and 10 GE Market Share

Santa Clara, CA - June 4, 2007 - Woven Systems™, Inc., the leading innovator of Ethernet fabric solutions, announced today that Michael (Mike) Langley has joined the company as vice president of sales. Mr. Langley will report to Harry Quackenboss, Woven president and chief executive officer, and will be responsible for building the company's sales organization and delivering on the company's revenue and market share plans.

"We are pleased to have a sales executive of Mike's caliber join our management team," said Harry Quackenboss, president and chief executive officer of Woven Systems. "His demonstrated team-building skills, strong networking expertise and exceptional sales track record makes Mike the ideal person to help us expand our sales presence around the globe."

Prior to Woven, Mr. Langley served as vice president of North American sales at Force 10 Networks, where he built and motivated a highly successful sales team, doubling sales year over year and delivering record revenues for Ethernet switching products. Before joining Force 10, Mr. Langley served as a major account manager at Cisco Systems selling end-to-end network solutions to the top Fortune 500 companies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Langley held sales management positions at Interphase, Network General, and Cabletron Systems.

"Woven's scalable Ethernet Fabric approach to solving customers' networking challenges driven by scale-out computing is unique in the industry," says Langley. "I'm excited about joining Woven and look forward to building a highly effective sales organization to increase the Company's market share and growth."

Woven Systems recently announced its EFX 1000 Ethernet Fabric Switch, a new class of switch, to meet the growing needs of Enterprise and Internet data center interconnect requirements. With up to 144 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) ports, the EFX 1000 features a high density energy-efficient switch platform that may be interconnected to create very large Ethernet fabrics scaling to over 4000 10 GE ports. Woven's unique switch architecture incorporates patented vSCALE™ technology with Active Congestive Management to dynamically manage the distribution of traffic through an Ethernet fabric, providing for optimal network performance and better user experiences. At 1/5th the cost, 1/5th the rack space and 1/5th the power consumption of alternative systems, Woven delivers the lowest total cost of ownership in the market today.

About Woven Systems

Woven Systems is an innovative network infrastructure provider that offers the industry's first massively scalable Ethernet fabric switching solutions for data centers. Fully compliant with IEEE Ethernet standards, Woven redefines network performance and efficiency with Active Congestion Management for balancing traffic, operational simplicity, and a significantly lower cost of switching. The Woven solutions deliver the performance and scalability of InfiniBand™, the reliability of Fibre Channel and the ease-of-use of Ethernet. For more information, contact Woven Systems at the company's web site www.wovensystems.com.

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