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 ist ein weltweiter Anbieter preisgekrönter Netzwerklösungen für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen und private Anwender. TRENDnet bietet seit 1990 Netzwerklösungen und ermöglicht es Anwendern Breitbandzugang , Multimediainhalte und vernetzte Peripheriegeräte zu teilen und damit wirklich überall verbunden zu sein. Die breit gefächerte Produktpalette von TRENDnet umfasst PoE, Switche, Industrieanwendungen, IP-Kameras, NVRs, Glasfaser, Powerline, Wireless, KVM, USB, und vieles mehr. Weitere Informationen zu TRENDnet finden Sie unter www.trendnet.com.