Enabling Global Connectivity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Camille Cox
805-497-6400
camille@onrampcomm.com
Heike Stabenow
408-727-6600
hstabenow@catc.com
CATC AND DASHCOURSES LAUNCH SERIES OF INTEGRATED TRAINING
SOLUTIONS FOR LEADING COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS
Companies to elevate technology education with joint offer of
comprehensive, hands-on training classes
Santa Clara, Calif. and Phoenix, AZ, March 16, 2004 — Computer Access Technology
Corporation (CATC) (NASDAQ: CATZ), a leading global communications protocol expert
company, today announced an integrated training offering with dashcourses Inc., a leader in
technical training solutions. Together, the companies will deliver open enrollment, hands-on
training on InfiniBand®, iSCSI, PCI Express™, SAS, SATA, SCSI, and USB at the CATC
headquarters in Santa Clara.
"CATC believes that this collaboration will significantly increase our customers’
productivity by raising the quality of technical education currently available to engineers and IT
professionals," said Carmine Napolitano, president of CATC. "Combining the domain expertise
of CATC as a leading protocol expert, and dashcourses, a global application-oriented technical
training company, the joint offerings provide a comprehensive, end-to-end training solution –
bringing customers the best of both worlds.”
The courses will be presented by dashcourses and are directed at engineers and
developers. Classes will be held at CATC’s offices in Santa Clara, CA or on-site at customers’
facilities worldwide, and generally run two to three days – featuring demos and hands-on lab
exercises. During the lab sessions, participants will use state-of-the-art CATC expert protocol
analyzer and exerciser products to perform analysis and debugging of live devices and systems.
Students will create live networks and record, analyze, and debug packet-level traffic while
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receiving in-depth training on the latest protocol architecture. The first class will focus on USB
architecture and is scheduled to start April 28th.
"We are excited to bring our courses and highly skilled instructors to the West Coast,"
said Marianne Cherney, CEO and founder of dashcourses, Inc. "Holding the classes at CATC’s
facility provides participants with access to the industry's top analyzers and exercisers, and a
better opportunity to learn first hand how PCI Express, USB, and other computer and storage
devices communicate with each other."
Students will be using the CATC PETracer/Trainer™ PCI Express protocol analyzer and
exerciser; the CATC IBTracer/Trainer™ InfiniBand protocol analyzer and exerciser; the CATC
USBTracer/Trainer™ USB protocol analyzer and exerciser; SASTracer/Trainer™ Serial
Attached SCSI (SAS) protocol analyzer and exerciser, and SATracer/Trainer™ Serial ATA
protocol analyzer and traffic generator. All products are based on CATC’s modular Universal
Protocol Analyzer System™ (UPAS™) and utilize the powerful CATC Trace™ expert analysis
software system for decoding and analyzing traffic.
For more details on training topics, schedules, pricing, and to register, please visit
www.catc.com/training/.
About dashcourses, Inc.
Dashcourses develops and delivers unbiased courses and programs for the technical
community worldwide in the areas of InfiniBand, Linux, Networking and Communications, PC
Architecture, Power PC, Software Engineering, and Web Design. dashcourses’ workshop
oriented classes allow attendees to ‘learn by doing’ in an environment that fosters skill mastery
through class lecture and exercises. Course exercises provide a foundation that enables
attendees to use the technology in class, identify the pros and cons of the technology and leave
the classroom ready to put the technology to work in their environment. dashcourses, Inc., is a
privately held company in Scottsdale, Arizona that develops, tailors, customizes and licenses
courses for delivery at customer facilities worldwide. For more information regarding
dashcourses and its technical training offering, please visit http://www.dashcourses.com/ or call
877-710-5455.
About CATC
Computer Access Technology Corporation (CATC) (NASDAQ: CATZ) is a global
communication protocols expert company, providing test and measurement solutions for
Computer I/O, Storage and Networking protocols, enhancing productivity and time to market.
CATC develops, manufactures and markets advanced protocol analysis expert systems for
established and emerging digital communications standards including Bluetooth, Fibre Channel,
IEEE 1394, InfiniBand, PCI Express, SCSI, Serial ATA and USB. Semiconductor, device,
system and software companies use CATC’s products during each phase of their products’
lifecycles from development through production and market deployment. CATC's expert
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protocol analysis systems allow customers to monitor communications traffic, diagnose design
and operational problems and confirm interoperability and standards compliance. Technicians
also use CATC's test and analysis products on production lines and for maintenance of
deployed systems and networks. CATC was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Santa
Clara, California. For more information regarding CATC and its products, please visit
http://www.catc.com/.
Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on CATC's current expectations, such
as availability of product, market acceptance and competition, management capability and experience,
levels of growth, profitability and shareholder value. These forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in
the forward-looking statements, such as CATC's production of new products, market acceptance of its
products, competitive pressures, management performance, success of growth, profitability and
increased shareholder value. These factors, as well as other factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially, are discussed in more detail in CATC's Annual Report on Form 10K, filed February 20,
2004, Form 10-K/A, filed on March 3, 2004 and subsequent filings CATC may make with the SEC, as
amended, which can be viewed at the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at
http://www.sec.gov/
Corporate Contact for CATC:
Heike J. Stabenow
408-727-6600
Corporate Contact for dashcourses, Inc.:
Local: 480-391-0791
Toll Free: 877-710-5455
hstabenow@catc.com
info@dashcourses.com
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CATC, Computer Access Technology Corporation, CATC Trace, IBTracer/Trainer, PETracer/Trainer, Universal Protocol Analyzer
System, UPAS, SATracer/Trainer, SAS Tracer/Trainer, and USBTracer/Trainer are proprietary marks of Computer Access
Technology Corporation. All other company names and marks may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are
associated.
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