TORRANCE, CA - May 26, 1998 — TRENDnet, announces a major alliance with two of the biggest IT companies in Brazil. TRENDnet Brazil hosted the IBM and Lotus Latin America ’98 Partner summit that took place at the Transamerica Hotel at Comandatuba Island-Bahia-BA-Brazil from April 19 to the 24^th. Over 600 people attended this years event to learn about web-based development trends, hardware component administration, e-Business, and sales strategy. TRENDnet provided all of the networking products for the summits needs.

"TRENDnet, Lotus, and IBM are now strategic partners who are working together to install seamless networking solutions in the Latin American market and beyond," says Pei Huang, President of TRENDnet Marcio Matos, Lotus Vice-President Latin America, says he wants to "keep the same team for next year," and Jose Motta, President of TRENDnet Brazil says, "This years summit was a great success and we are looking forward to next year."

You can count on TRENDnet, and TRENDnet Brazil being there whenever quality and commitment to service is involved. TRENDnet has been in the marketplace since 1990 and is a global supplier with business partners in the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. TRENDnet positions itself as a high quality, low-cost, network solutions provider for all business environments.

TRENDnet is a global provider of award-winning networking and surveillance solutions to small and medium-sized businesses, as well as home office users. Building networking solutions since 1990, TRENDnet enables users to share broadband access, multimedia content, and networked peripherals for true anywhere connectivity. TRENDnet's diverse product portfolio includes PoE, switches, Industrial, IP cameras, NVRs, fiber, Powerline, wireless, KVM, USB, and more. To learn more about TRENDnet, please visit www.trendnet.com.