Ottawa, Canada – May 13, 2008 – Axentra announced today that Network Products Guide, a world-leading Silicon Valley Communications publication about technology solutions, has named the HipServ Home Server Software Platform a winner of a 2008 Product Innovation Award. This annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes, and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

HipServ is a home server software platform that puts your digital photos, music and videos at your fingertips whenever, wherever, simply. It allows users to centrally and securely store, manage and automatically backup their precious digital content, share their content with family and friends via simple email invitations, and access their content remotely via the Internet and mobile devices. To read more about this product innovation, please visit www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations/.

“The goal of any product innovation must always remain a positive change, making solutions better than before,” says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. “HipServ is innovative in that it is the only Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server-based embedded solution that allows OEMs and SPs to quickly go to market with a secure, branded home server solution.”

“Network Products Guide’s recognition of HipServ further validates our solutions as excellence-in-class and ahead of the curve,” said Marc-Antoine Benglia, President & CEO of Axentra. “Product innovation is key to our continued commitment to meeting our customer needs and providing them with ground-breaking solutions.”

The HipServ Homer Server Software Platform is currently available on the LaCie Ethernet Disk mini – Home Edition, which includes 500 GB of space for $199 USD, including free remote access and sharing. For more information please visit http://www.axentra.com/en/store/index.html.