NETGEAR Named a Worldwide Leader for SMB Storage by Revenue

Leading analyst firm ranks NETGEAR amongst top revenue-generatingstorage vendors and first amongst providers of low-cost storagesolutions

Malaysia — June 10, 2009 — NETGEAR(r), Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwideprovider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions,today announced that Gartner(r) has confirmed that NETGEAR is now theworldwide leader in sub-US$5,000 business Network-Attached Storage (NAS)systems and that it ranks among the top six vendors in the overallbusiness NAS market. Gartner’s April 2009 report, “Market Share: NetworkAttached Storage/Unified Storage, Worldwide, 2009” details this marketleadership as part of an examination of total revenues and units shippedin 2008. This evaluation places NETGEAR among the leaders in theindustry.

“NETGEAR is proud to announce our rankings in this report. We believeGartner’s evaluation represents our strong presence and robust growth inthe storage market,” said Drew Meyer, NETGEAR’s director of storageproduct marketing. “More importantly, we feel this report recognizes thestrength and quality of the ReadyNAS(r) line of storage appliances.NETGEAR is fully committed to delivering our SMB customers and channelpartners the most advanced and reliable storage platforms in theindustry.”

In the report, Gartner compared NAS/unified storage solution vendors’end-of-year results from 2008 to those of 2007 and found that NETGEARconsistently ranked highly. For vendors with solutions priced at lessthan US$5,000, Gartner estimated that NETGEAR had taken 23 percent ofthe market share in terms of vendor revenue. Amongst vendors withsolutions priced at less than US$25,000, NETGEAR was ranked third invendor revenue, delivering a revenue growth rate in excess of 127percent. Finally, NETGEAR proved its high standing by outpacingtraditionally strong storage competitors when comparing revenues acrossall major NAS vendors.

NETGEAR’s ReadyNAS products have received high acclaim since theirintroduction to the market – winning such esteemed awards as CRN’s 2008“Best Product of the Year” for storage and Small Business Computing’s2009 “Excellence in Technology” award for network-attached storage, aschosen by readers. NETGEAR’s ReadyNAS appliances come with full 24/7technical support and an industry-leading five-year warranty. Inaddition, a free 30-day trial of the ReadyNAS Vault Internet backupservice is available now on all ReadyNAS systems, with both monthly andannual capacity-based pricing plans available. More information for theentire ReadyNAS product line can be viewed at http://www.readynas.com<http://www.readynas.com/> .