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Pluribus Networks, Inc. What We Do Pluribus Networks delivers software-defined networking as an open application platform in today’s data centers. The company’s flagship product, Netvisor®, is the industry’s first distributed network hypervisor operating system, converging compute, network, storage and virtualization with an open, programmable approach. Why We Do It We give our customers an unprecedented level of visibility and control over their network. Our approach brings the new application economy to the network by separating the networking hardware, including white-box switches, from network applications delivered by Pluribus and by third-parties. Key benefits of the company’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) programmable platform include: service provisioning speed and agility; network flexibility and holistic management; better and more granular security; enhanced application performance management through real- time visibility (and the ability to record this data for forensics purposes); efficiency and lower operating expenses; virtualized network services, and lowered CAPEX through network disaggregation – enabling freedom from legacy vendor hardware refresh cycles. How We Do It The Pluribus Netvisor® abstracts the underlying merchant silicon from the SDN applications by tightly coupling the switching silicon and high-performance compute. This enables fusing of the physical and the virtual, the ‘overlay’ and the ‘underlay’ and permits IT to program the network like a server. We support both Intel and Broadcom switching silicon via both Pluribus-sourced hardware platforms as well as those offered by 3 rd parties. Major Customers A sampling of customers includes Oracle, CloudFlare, the Stanford School of Engineering, and Lucera. We also have more than 20 large enterprise and service provider customers via TIBCO, an OEM channel partner. Super Micro Computer, Inc. is also an OEM of the Netvisor® operating system. Pluribus customers are supported by a 24x7 global support organization. Management Team Kumar Srikantan President and CEO Sunay Tripathi Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer Robert Drost Co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer Ken Yang Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Engineering George de Urioste Chief Financial Officer Mark Harris Vice President of Corporate Marketing Bob Layton Vice President, Americas Enterprise and Channel Sales Alessandro Barbieri Vice President, Product Management Shirish Joshi Vice President, Operations Dirk Campbell Vice President, Customer Advocacy Investors Pluribus Networks has raised $97 million, positioning it as the best-funded SDN startup in a market expected to grow to $8 billion by 2018, per analyst firm IDC. Temasek, the $176 Billion sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, led the latest round, with existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow, and AMT Cloud Ventures participating. Strategic investors in the recent financing include Ericsson (the Swedish telecom with a market capitalization of ~$41 Billion), Lenovo (the world’s largest personal computer vendor in 2014) and Newtech, a leading turnkey datacenter infrastructure provider in Asia.

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Page 1: Pluribus Networks Fact Sheet

Pluribus Networks, Inc.

What We Do Pluribus Networks delivers software-defined networking as an open application platform in today’s data centers. The company’s flagship product, Netvisor®, is the industry’s first distributed network hypervisor operating system, converging compute, network, storage and virtualization with an open, programmable approach.

Why We Do It We give our customers an unprecedented level of visibility and control over their network. Our approach brings the new application economy to the network by separating the networking hardware, including white-box switches, from network applications delivered by Pluribus and by third-parties. Key benefits of the company’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) programmable platform include: service provisioning speed and agility; network flexibility and holistic management; better and more granular security; enhanced application performance management through real-time visibility (and the ability to record this data for forensics purposes); efficiency and lower operating expenses; virtualized network services, and lowered CAPEX through network disaggregation – enabling freedom from legacy vendor hardware refresh cycles.

How We Do It The Pluribus Netvisor® abstracts the underlying merchant silicon from the SDN applications by tightly coupling the switching silicon and high-performance compute. This enables fusing of the physical and the virtual, the ‘overlay’ and the ‘underlay’ and permits IT to program the network like a server. We support both Intel and Broadcom switching silicon via both Pluribus-sourced hardware platforms as well as those offered by 3rd parties.

Major Customers A sampling of customers includes Oracle, CloudFlare, the Stanford School of Engineering, and Lucera. We also have more than 20 large enterprise and service provider customers via TIBCO, an OEM channel partner. Super Micro Computer, Inc. is also an OEM of the Netvisor® operating system. Pluribus customers are supported by a 24x7 global support organization.

Management Team Kumar Srikantan President and CEO Sunay Tripathi Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer Robert Drost Co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer Ken Yang Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Engineering George de Urioste Chief Financial Officer Mark Harris Vice President of Corporate Marketing Bob Layton Vice President, Americas Enterprise and Channel Sales Alessandro Barbieri Vice President, Product Management Shirish Joshi Vice President, Operations Dirk Campbell Vice President, Customer Advocacy

Investors Pluribus Networks has raised $97 million, positioning it as the best-funded SDN startup in a market expected to grow to $8 billion by 2018, per analyst firm IDC. Temasek, the $176 Billion sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, led the latest round, with existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow, and AMT Cloud Ventures participating. Strategic investors in the recent financing include Ericsson (the Swedish telecom with a market capitalization of ~$41 Billion), Lenovo (the world’s largest personal computer vendor in 2014) and Newtech, a leading turnkey datacenter infrastructure provider in Asia.

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Board Members Mukul Chawla Temasek Kittu Kolluri New Enterprise Associates Mark Siegel Menlo Ventures Jerry Yang AME Cloud Ventures Kumar Srikantan President and CEO Sunay Tripathi Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Robert Drost Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer Ken Yang Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Engineering

Awards Red Herring 2014 North America Top 100 Interop Tokyo 2014 Cloud Platform Best of Show AlwaysOn 2014 Global 250 and 2015 OnCloud 100 CRN 2014 Top 10 Coolest Virtualization Startups TMC’s SDN Zone 2014 Excellence in SDN Tech Trailblazer 2014 for Virtualization STAC M3 w/ Lucera 2014 Record Scores in 5 of 17 Benchmarks for McObject eXtreme DB Business Insider 2015 Top 26 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career On

Patents 8,891,543 Method and system for processing packets in a network device 8,811,153 Switch fabric for network devices 8,767,752 Method and system for resource coherency and analysis in a network

More than 25 additional patents are in various stages of approval.

Contact Information 2455 Faber Place, Suite 100 Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA www.pluribusnetworks.com

U.S.A & Canada International 855.GET.VNET 1.650.289.4717