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Marvell Enables Secure And High-Availability IPv6 Deployments With New Packet Processor

New Prestera-EX Devices Offer Customers Advanced Features in Standalone Systems to Terabit Chassis, While Simplifying IPv6 Network Development

Sunnyvale, California (September 27, 2004) – arvell® (NASDAQ: MRVL), a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications and storage solutions, today introduced the new Prestera®-EX116 and -EX126 packet processors that offer the industry’s most comprehensive support for IPv6 and enable customers to quickly incorporate IPv6 features into their product portfolios.  The new Prestera-EX devices offer full routing and switching capabilities in hardware for simplifying customers design efforts and accelerating their time-to-market.

“With support now available in leading switches, routers, and operating systems, IPv6 is quickly becoming a must-have feature for a broad variety of networking equipment,” said Bob Wheeler, Senior Analyst for The Linley Group.  “The most challenging part of IPv6 deployment is coexistence with IPv4 networks through tunneling and translation schemes.  Development efforts, such as those undertaken by Marvell, are enabling broader adoption of IPv6 by delivering comprehensive support in a cost effective manner.”

IPv6 is an evolutionary standard that enables customers to manage the growing number of networked consumer electronic devices without running into the addressing scheme limitations inherent to IPv4.  Unique to the Prestera-EX devices is comprehensive IP-in-IP tunneling support that enables coexistence with current networks as well as the migration from IPv4 to next generation IPv6 networks.  With line rate IPv6 Unicast and Multicast routing, the Prestera-EX devices also offer high-performance capabilities for emerging peer-to-peer multimedia applications.   In addition, the new Prestera-EX devices support sophisticated L2-L4 traffic classification, filtering, and prioritization schemes that meet customers’ stringent security and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements.

Purpose built for the Enterprise Core and Enterprise/ISP Aggregation networks, the new Prestera-EX devices offer advanced features such as Policy Control Lists (PCLs) enabling IT managers to define policies for managing user access to network and system services.  Marvell’s new Prestera-EX devices also feature SecureControl technology, a new and innovative approach to CPU traffic management, to address the high-availability requirements of mission critical systems.

“With the recognition of the inherent benefits from increased security, QoS and scalability, the technology industry and governments worldwide are driving the adoption of IPv6,” said Paul Valentine, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Marvell.  “Incorporating IPv6 features was a clear requirement and Marvell was able to leverage its expertise and experience to develop a highly integrated, comprehensive solution.  Marvell is now uniquely positioned to offer a complete portfolio of IPv6 capabilities from SOHO to Enterprise with products at every performance point including Fast-, Gigabit-, and 10 Gigabit-Ethernet.” 

About Prestera-EX Devices

The Marvell¨ Prestera-EX family of Packet Processors delivers multi-layered switching with an industry-leading feature set. The Prestera-EX116 integrates 48 Fast Ethernet (FE) ports, 4 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports and a 16 Gbps uplink bus.  The Prestera-EX126 integrates 12 GbE ports and a 16 Gbps uplink bus. The EX family provides the ideal solution for rapid development of high-port density chassis, stackable and standalone switches with uncompromising, non-blocking performance and scalability.

Availability

The new Prestera-EX116 and -EX126 devices are sampling now to key OEM customers.  To shorten customers’ design cycles and accelerate time-to-market, Marvell provides complete Prestera-EX System Development Kits which include development boards, reference designs and the Prestera Software Suite – a well defined family of device drivers - along with schematics, layout files and other documentation. 

About Marvell

Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is the leading global semiconductor provider of complete broadband communications and storage 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, including Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (MSI), Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (MAPL), Marvell Japan K.K., Marvell Taiwan Ltd., Marvell International Ltd. (MIL), Marvell U.K. Limited, Marvell Semiconductor Israel Ltd. (MSIL), RADLAN Computer Communications Ltd., and SysKonnect GmbH.  MSI is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and designs, develops and markets products on behalf of MIL and MAPL.  MSI may be contacted at (408) 222-2500 or at www.marvell.com.

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Words such as “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “can,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “shall,” “continue,” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements in this release.  Statements referring to or based on uncertainties also identify forward-looking statements.  These statements include those relating to Marvell products simplifying IPv6 network deployment, Marvell products simplifying customer design efforts and accelerating customers’ time to market, the technology industry and governments driving the adoption of IPv6, and the ability of Marvell products to shorten customers’ design cycles.  All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in these statements.  Some risks and uncertainties include the timing, cost and successful completion of development and volume production, end-customer qualification and adoption, and the timing, pricing, rescheduling, or cancellation of orders.  For other factors that could cause Marvell’s results to vary from expectations, please see the sections titled “Additional Factors That May Affect Future Results” in Marvell’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2004 and Marvell’s subsequent reports on Form 10-Q.  We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements.

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