Small Tree to Support PCI Express

Chippewa Valley, WI, December 29, 2005-Small Tree Communications, leading manufacturer and designer of high performance networking products for Mac OS X, will remain on the forefront of leading edge technology for Apple users by being the first company to offer support for the PCI Express (PCI-E) IO Bus included in the recently announced Power Mac lineup. Product support availability from Small Tree is scheduled for early 1Q 2006.

Designed to match the higher speeds of today's CPUs, PCI-E provides users with higher performance, lower cost solutions. PCI-E offers a high-speed, switched architecture, can accommodate GbE and 10GbE and generally provides higher average sustained throughput than a PCI-X design.

"Small Tree Communications is committed to being at the forefront of networking technology for the Apple platform and first to market with unique networking products," stated Corky Seeber, president of Small Tree. "Small Tree was first to the Mac market with IEEE 802.3ad Ling Aggregation, 10Gb Ethernet, copper and optical multi-port GbE interfaces and we are now proud to be the first to offer PCI Express support to the Mac community."

About Small Tree Communications

Small Tree Communications is dedicated to providing unique leading edge enterprise networking solutions to the Mac. With world-class high performance computing experience from its team of networking and kernel developers, Small Tree brings new technology peripheral products to meet the demanding application requirements of Mac customers. Small Tree provides leading edge InfiniBand solutions and offers copper and optic-based multi-port gigabit Ethernet cards and 10Gb Ethernet adapters for the Mac. For more information, please visit www.small-tree.com.