AT&T Network Systems, Intel, and Hybrid Networks, Inc., Sign Agreements to Enable High-Speed Interactive Data Services to Home Personal Computers.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 1995--AT&T Network Systems, Intel Corporation, and Hybrid Networks, Inc., today announced they have signed agreements to work together to enable the delivery of high-speed data services to home personal computers over broadband networks.

The new high-speed services will allow home PC users access to a wide range of interactive, multimedia services such as on-line information, electronic banking and shopping, personal financial and travel planning, classroom lessons, games, home office, and the Internet.

These services will be delivered to home PCs at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than standard telephone modems, so users will receive rich, multimedia information and complete transactions more quickly.

In their agreement, AT&T and Intel will team to offer a comprehensive package of network and customer premise elements to cable TV and local telephone companies, creating a set of viable two-way, interactive PC services which they can deliver over their current and planned broadband networks.

Intel will provide its CablePort adapter technology, which allows PCs to connect to broadband networks. AT&T Network Systems will offer broadband networks and end-to-end network integration.

In a second agreement, Hybrid Networks, Inc., will work with AT&T Network Systems to integrate its Point of Presence CyberMaster and CyberManager network elements into AT&T's consumer broadband network offer.

"We see this as a new opportunity for AT&T to bring to the marketplace further enhancements to its full end-to-end consumer broadband offer platform that will enable households to utilize PC interactive data services, interactive TV, and telephones simultaneously," said Marcy Garriott, AT&T Network Systems vice president of visual/multimedia communications. "This agreement allows us to offer an exciting array of high-speed data revenue generating services to our customers right away, and again demonstrates that we will support the full range of broadband access systems."

"The PC is clearly the platform of choice for interactive multimedia data services to the home," said Avram Miller, Intel vice president for corporate business development. "The combination of high-performance PCs and high-speed communications is creating a brand new medium upon which a variety of new multimedia applications can be built. This agreement is the latest in a series of steps Intel is taking to enhance the PC platform for communications and ensure access to it in the home."

"Over the past five years, Hybrid has had extensive discussions with the major network services providers in order to develop a broadband consumer network architecture strategy," said Howard Strachman, president and chief executive officer of Hybrid Networks, Inc. "Our Point of Presence network architecture, combined with the system integration expertise of AT&T Network Systems and the PC expertise of Intel, provides the most comprehensive solution to launching high-speed interactive PC services."

Hybrid Networks, Inc., the leading asymmetric networking company, is the manufacturer and supplier of the Hybrid Point of Presence, a networking hub linking the Internet and other multimedia content providers to the broadband network.

AT&T Network Systems is the world's largest manufacturer of network telecommunications equipment and supplier of end-to-end solutions used by network service and information providers around the world.

Intel, the worlds largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking, and communications products.

CONTACT: AT&T Network Systems

Terry Romano, 617/574-3157

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Intel

Tom Waldrop, 408/765-8478

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Hybrid Networks

Craig Strachman, 408/725-3262