SCOTTS VALLEY, CA, August 29, 2005 -- Adara Networks™, the rising star in advanced networking, today announced it has reached terms with Health Pathways™, Inc. to become a member of Adara’s growing network of Value Added Resellers.

Health Pathways is a healthcare information services and technology company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Health Pathways is focused on bringing new methods to accelerate healthcare innovation to its customers, with a core goal of better patient care. Through its four distinct divisions, Health Pathways special combination of expertise in technology and healthcare makes it uniquely qualified to facilitate the early introduction of more efficient solutions for both government and commercial clients that assist them in improving supply chain management, medical product development, workflow process and product safety.

“We continually perform extensive research and assessments of advanced technology and found the Adara NPX to be very unique in it’s capabilities and that it truly enhances the value and capabilities of many vendor’s hardware and software products,” stated J. Randall Hoggle, R.Ph., President and CEO of Health Pathways, Inc. “Further, we found that the Adara NPX provides solutions to the problems that current vendors’ products and services simply are incapable of solving.”

Michael Emelio, Health Pathways General Manager said, "As a company that is focused on bringing advanced technologies to our customers, we have an appreciation for the fact that Adara Networks provides a true leap in next generation, high performance, secure network computing. The critical nature of our customer’s environments demand nothing short of flawless delivery of information. Adara is at the forefront in delivering this capability and enhances Health Pathways’ ability to introduce and deliver world-class products to our customers. We are extremely excited to be able to bring Adara to the table.”

“Health Pathways and Adara joining forces will deliver critically important solutions to the complex issues the health care industry is facing,” summarized Lee Miller, Adara’s National Channel Manager. “Adara’s due diligence of Health Pathways revealed a track record of exceptional competencies that are perfectly suited for what Adara’s solution provides to the networking marketplace.”

President Bush has charged The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the creation of a National Health Information Network in order to achieve uniform national data standards and health information privacy that will support the efficient electronic exchange of specified administrative and financial health care transactions. No less than 30 major criteria have been established for a Universal Health Identifier (UHID), including complete security, accessibility, and universality, the ability to support every living person in the foreseeable future.

Adara Networks is the only company that has developed the technology and products to allow these national goals to be fully met in the manner as provided for in this program. Specifically, Adara has developed the only networking products in the world which, among other functionalities, allows UHID’s to be located, accessed, and distributed from anywhere in the world, to anywhere they are needed on demand, instantaneously, securely --with zero latency.

Adara’s proprietary software platform is a set of technologies which enable networks to scale and perform without regard to the number of servers, users, and objects – offering functionality, features and benefits not available from any other vendor. Adara proprietary routing breaks all barriers to scaling, enabling the virtualization of server networks on an Internet wide scale without any central points to congest or fail; and can offer dynamic provisioning, QOS and extensibility. Adara provides virtually local performance and delivery of services in the operation of network- and Web-based applications. This addresses the greatest desire of application vendors and users making Adara’s application layer service and agnostic routing the premier platform for all application vendors, enabling the optimal deployment, distribution, and interconnection of their customers.

About Adara Networks, Inc.
Headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, Adara Networks is the first company to provide route optimization based on true Layer 7 (Application) based information. Adara’s core technology enables enterprises, carriers and service providers to optimize their networks without the need to re-architect and in a manner that is non-disruptive to existing network routers, caches, servers and other equipment and technologies. Privately held, the company is fully funded from private investors. Adara Networks is an authorized Sun Microsystems Independent Software Vendor (NASDAQ: SUNW). Contact Adara at sales@adaranet.com or visit the website at www.adaranet.com for more information.

About Health Pathways, Inc.
Health Pathways, Inc. (TM) is a U.S. based privately held healthcare information services and technology company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Health Pathways focuses on "Accelerating Healthcare Innovation" through a series of four divisions. The NetHealth Trust(TM) division provides healthcare workflow process improvement and business automation for government and commercial customers. The Synterga(TM) division assists the distribution channel in assuring medical product distribution system integrity and product safety. The MedSolution Technologies, Inc. division provides medical care information management services with special emphasis on medical imaging management services for clinical trials. The Biosciences Corporation(R) division provides business advisory and medical product development expertise. Visit the Health Pathways website at www.healthpathways.com for more information.

Contact:
Lillian Arbuckle Withrow
Adara Networks, Inc.
831-440-4947
lwithrow@adaranet.com