Ariel Corp. Names Matthias Markert As European Director.

CRANBURY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1999--

Ariel Corp. (Nasdaq:ADSP), a leading supplier of open remote access solutions, today appointed Matthias Markert to head their European organization.

His appointment signals a major thrust by Ariel to solidify and extend its European sales and distribution channel while establishing itself as a major supplier of access equipment to the pre-press industry and technical OEMs. Markert will coordinate operations in Ariel offices located in Germany and France. He will report directly to Jay Atlas, president and chief executive officer of Ariel Corp.

In a related announcement, Richard Flocco, Ariel's VP of Operations, will manage European operations and engineering, reporting to Jay Atlas, president and CEO.

As manager of Ariel Europe, Markert will be responsible for building the sales and distribution channel for Ariel's network access products. Initially, Markert will focus on key networking OEMs and distributors who serve the telecommunications and pre-press industry. Markert will also be responsible for integrating newly acquired Paris-based SCII S.A., a leading manufacturer of ISDN products for the pre-press and OEM network access markets.

"We're excited to have Matthias on board as manager of Ariel Europe," said Jay Atlas, Ariel president. "Europe represents a key market for Ariel, and Matthias has established a proven track record building sales and project management infrastructure for a number of successful manufacturers, OEMs, and VARs in the networking business throughout Europe and the U.S."

Markert brings more than 13 years of sales, marketing, project management, and engineering experience in the networking industry to Ariel. This experience encompasses all aspects of network system infrastructure, including LAN/WAN hardware components, wiring systems, network operating systems (including Banyan Vines, NetWare, Windows NT, and Unix), middleware, and database management.

Prior to joining Ariel, Markert was the director of Digi International's European OEM/VAR business, and the vice president of international OEM/VAR business for ITK Telekommunikation AG in Dortmund, Germany. While in these positions, Markert was responsible for key account management, VAR channel management, and overall project management, including hardware and software development and integration.

Markert has also served as a sales manager at go-net Netzwerk- und Datensysteme GmbH in Dortmund, where he was responsible for acquiring and managing turnkey LAN/WAN networking projects (concept, design and implementation), and as a consultant at BBN Deutschland GmbH, Munich/Germany (a subsidiary of Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc. in Cambridge, Mass).

Markert holds a degree in precision engineering (Diplom Ingenieur Allgemeine Feinwerktechnik). He is married and has three daughters.

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Ariel Corp. (Nasdaq:ADSP) is a leading provider of high-density remote access plug-in cards for applications such as Internet access, corporate Intranet/Extranet access, on-line services, telecommuting, transaction processing, and unified messaging. Ariel's remote access products make it easy for OEMs and system integrators targeting ISPs, corporate enterprises and other service providers to add high-density remote access to open systems platforms running a variety of popular operating systems, including Windows NT and Linux.

Ariel's high-density remote access cards provide V.34, V.90-compatible 56K, and basic rate ISDN remote dial-in, LAN dial-out, and Internet back-haul. Available in ISA, PCI and CompactPCI formats, the cards connect to T1, E1, ISDN, and POTS lines. Ariel's remote access products run Windows NT and Linux out of the box. An SDK is available for OEMs who want to use Ariel's remote access products with other operating systems.

For more information on Ariel products, please contact Ariel Corp. at 2540 Route 130, Cranbury, N.J. 08512. Phone [phone]. Fax [phone]. Email: [e-mail]. World Wide Web: www.ariel.com.

For more information on Ariel's European operations, please contact Matthias Markert at Ariel Corp., Stockumer Str. 394, 44227 Dortmund. Phone [phone]. Fax [phone]. Email : [e-mail].