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 von preisgekrönten IT-, Überwachungs-, Transport- und Stromverteilerlösungen sowohl für Privatanwender als auch für Unternehmen jeder Größe. TRENDnet entwickelt seit 1990 zuverlässige Netzwerklösungen und ermöglicht Anwendern die gemeinsame Nutzung von Breitbandzugängen, Multimedia-Inhalten und vernetzten Peripheriegeräten für echte Konnektivität an jedem Ort. Das vielfältige Produktportfolio von TRENDnet umfasst Multi-Gigabit-, industrielle, PoE-, Netzwerk-Switches, Glasfaser, Wireless, IP-Kameras, NVRs, Stromverteilung, KVM, Patch-Panels, Powerline, USB und mehr. Um mehr über TRENDnet zu erfahren, besuchen Sie bitte www.trendnet.com.