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Silver Spring Networks Expands Executive Team George Flammer to lead Engineering, Raj Vaswani Appointed CTO

San Mateo, CA, June 26, 2006 - Following a year of customer acquisition, product advancement and exciting partner developments, Silver Spring Networks, innovators of standards-based utility networking technology, announced today that George Flammer has joined the executive team as Vice President of Engineering. George will be responsible for leading the engineering effort and will report to Scott Lang, President and CEO.

“I am delighted to be a part of this great team and company. Silver Spring Networks is delivering the next generation utility network that is critical to ensuring the reliability of utility services. After more than 20 years successfully designing and implementing large-scale, high-speed radio data networks, I am excited about the opportunity to apply my experience to enhance this unprecedented solution for the utility industry.” explains George.”

George has more than 20 years of experience in software and hardware development. Prior to joining Silver Spring Networks, George was Director of Communications Technology at Metricom where he was a key contributor in the design and development of the Ricochet high-speed data radio product and data service. After leaving Metricom in 1998, George co-founded G3M Corporation as its CTO. There, his primary responsibility was the design and development of the Panthera product line. George joined Rosum in September 2002 as Director, Systems Engineering and was named VP Engineering in early 2003. At Rosum, George built and guided multidisciplinary teams in the development of real-world indoor positioning.

George earned his BSEE from Stanford University. He has also authored more than 20 domestic and international patents as well as several papers and magazine articles in the fields of software development, radio and packet communications and automated testing.

In a related announcement, Raj Vaswani will serve as Chief Technology Officer full time. Raj had previously served as both CTO and Vice President of Engineering.

“George has had a distinguished career designing successful large scale, high performance networks. He is a terrific addition to our talented team of utility and networking leaders.” said Scott Lang, President and CEO of Silver Spring Networks. “Utility companies are facing enormous challenges, but the flexibility and long term adaptability of technology choices they make today should not be one of them. Silver Spring Networks delivers advanced solutions that are open and based on proven technologies, enabling utilities to break away from proprietary technologies. George’s depth of engineering experience, particularly in large, distributed networking, accelerates our ability to deliver superior products for utilities around the world.”

”Raj has done an outstanding job managing broad responsibilities. The addition of George to our team will allow Raj to focus his attention on longer term initiatives that will continue to demonstrate Silver Spring Networks commitment to innovative solutions for today and the future.”

About Silver Spring Networks

As the leader in standards-based IP networking products, Silver Spring Networks enables utilities to deploy a scalable, reliable infrastructure from the substation to the customer premise. By deploying a shared network infrastructure, utilities can implement advanced metering, distribution automation, demand response and other applications at a fraction of comparable costs. A standards-based network lowers not just capital costs, but total cost of ownership over the life of the system. When planning the infrastructure of tomorrow, it helps to partner with a company that makes it available today. For more information, visit: www.silverspringnetworks.com.

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