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Dust Networks Appoints Steve Toteda as Vice President of Marketing

Toteda to lead drive towards broad adoption of wireless sensor networking technology

Hayward, Calif. (June 5, 2007) – Dust Networks™, the leading provider of highly reliable, low-power wireless sensor networking (WSN) systems, today announced the appointment of Steve Toteda as vice president of marketing. Toteda will lead Dust Networks’ worldwide marketing efforts and focus on expanding the company's leadership position across a broad range of markets.

“We are thrilled to have Steve on board to lead our marketing efforts at such a pivotal time in the wireless sensor networking industry,” said Joy Weiss, president and CEO of Dust Networks. “Steve's extensive systems-level background and his experience in both the semiconductor and enterprise networking industries are tremendous assets to the company as adoption of our network-ready system-on-chip based products accelerates.”

Toteda brings 18 years of marketing and technical experience in the semiconductor, wireless and wireline communications equipment industries to Dust Networks. Most recently, he served as group manager for the IP Communications Terminals product group at Cisco Systems, where he focused on delivering enabling technology and IP telephony products to the market, and rapidly grew top-line revenues for Cisco's award winning line of wired and wireless IP phones and terminal adaptors. Prior to Cisco, Toteda served as executive vice president of sales and marketing for Komodo Technology, a leading developer of IP telephony products, which was acquired by Cisco. Prior roles included senior engineering and product management with LSI Logic, Cirrus Logic and Harmonic Lightwaves.

“I'm excited to be working with the team that pioneered reliable, low-power wireless sensor networking, and I look forward to working with our world class OEM customers to drive broad adoption of wireless sensor networking technology,” said Toteda. “This is an exciting time for the company and the industry, as our customers go to market with revolutionary wireless solutions that integrate Dust's TSMP-based products across a wide range of applications.”

About Dust Networks
Dust Networks, the leader in embedded wireless sensor networking (WSN), provides ultra low-power, highly reliable products to OEMs in the industrial automation, building automation and defense markets. Dust enables its customers to offer monitoring and control solutions that provide unprecedented access to information from the physical world, resulting in improved operations, safer work environments, and increased competitive advantage. Dust's network-ready SoC-based products provide complete wireless sensor networking (WSN) solutions that are proven, scalable and easy to integrate for fast time-to-market applications. SmartMesh products utilize the Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol (TSMP), pioneered by Dust Networks, which serves as the foundation for the industry's most flexible, low-power mesh architecture. Dust partners with industry and standards groups such as ISA and the HART Foundation to ensure the broad adoption of interoperable wireless sensor networking products. Dust Networks is a recent recipient of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Award. For more information please visit www.dustnetworks.com.

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