Attachmate and Westinghouse To Expand Remote Access Managed Services Offering; Westinghouse to add ISDN and resell RLN Application Server.

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1996--Attachmate - The Intranet Company(tm) - and Westinghouse(r) Communications, a leading Frame Relay Network service provider, today announced plans to extend their systems integration agreement by adding ISDN connection support to Westinghouse's managed network access service that provides remote access to customer LAN's.

Additionally, Westinghouse will sell the Remote LAN Node(r) (RLN(r)) Application Server with their managed network access service. The addition of ISDN will significantly enhance the performance of remote user connections, and the RLN Application Server will allow customers to further boost the performance of specific applications accessed remotely.

The managed network access service offering, LAN Dial Remote Access (LDRA) from Westinghouse Communications, enables users to access their corporate LAN and the Internet from any remote location via a toll-free 800 async or ISDN number. Users are relieved from having to be concerned about modem pools, phone numbers, security administration, software upgrades or maintenance. The service currently supports V.34 standard modem access at speeds up to 28.8 Kbps and ISDN connections at speeds up to 64bps.

"We are very excited about the benefits this enhanced solution can bring to mobile and home-based users," says Leon Edelsack, Westinghouse vice president of Data Network Services. "A simple, yet secure means to exchange information with the central office fits nicely with what our customers are telling us they need. Of particular interest is the ability to utilize a completely managed service, which relieves their overworked staff from dealing with the technology headaches."

Westinghouse provides and manages a complete LAN dial remote access service over a single frame relay connection to the customer premise. At the heart of the LDRA solution is Attachmate's RLN Server, providing seamless connections for remote users through the Westinghouse frame relay network, into the customer's central office LAN.

The LDRA service is an especially attractive add-on for customers who already use frame relay to interconnect their office LANs. With the addition of ISDN remote user connections, LAN Dial Remote Access now delivers the convenience of a managed service solution, and the performance of high-speed, user-to-office connections free of asynchronous bottle-necks.

Westinghouse LDRA customers can further improve the remote performance of Windows(r), Windows 95, and DOS applications with the addition of the RLN Application Server. The RLN Application Server powered by WinFrame is employed when access to high-bandwidth applications is needed. Performance is enhanced because the applications and data remain local to the LAN. Only keyboard, screen and mouse commands are transmitted over the WAN, greatly reducing the bandwidth requirement.

Best of all, the inclusion of application server technology can remain transparent to end users. Users simply select desired applications and RLN runs them using the optimal access method.

In 1995, Mikasa, one of the world's largest distributors of fine ceramic dinnerware, crystal, flatware and giftware, replaced its private line network with Westinghouse's Frame Relay and LAN Dial Remote Access service.

"Westinghouse provided a great design that will allow our sales reps, retail outlets and group managers easy access to our AS/400s and our Novell servers," says Don Sanginaro, Mikasa senior vice president. "Buying a managed service enabled us to accelerate our remote access plans by as much as a year," estimates Sanginaro.

"Fortune 1000 companies are more frequently seeking single source managed service providers to implement complete end-to-end communications solutions," said Todd Mavis, Attachmate(r) vice president of Business Development. "Attachmate and Westinghouse have teamed-up to provide a complete managed service that allows corporate customers to realize the competitive advantages of remote computing."

Availability

LDRA is currently available from Westinghouse Communications by calling 800/447-2111.

Attachmate - The Intranet Company(tm)

Attachmate is a leading provider of high quality universal information access software and services that help organizations build secure Intranets. The company's object-oriented client, server, authoring tool and management software safely link together enterprise systems, Internet systems and people. These solutions allow desktop and mobile users to transparently access, manage and share any business information inside or outside the organization.

The company leverages its 14 years of corporate expertise in enterprise and Internet technologies by providing comprehensive and knowledgeable customer consulting and support services in more than 30 countries to help organizations build high-performance and secure Intranet client/server systems. The sixth largest PC software company in the world, Attachmate employs over 2,000 people.

For more information about Attachmate's products, contact Attachmate's headquarters in Bellevue at 206/644-4010 or toll free 800/426-6283. Attachmate's World Wide Web address is http://www.attachmate.com.

Westinghouse Communications

Westinghouse Communications designs, builds and manages one of the most advanced communications networks in the world. As a single-source supplier of leading-edge technology, Westinghouse provides a full array of multi-vendor products and services including local area networks, wide area data networks, long distance telephone services, messaging services and video conferencing.

Westinghouse Communications is a division of Westinghouse Electric Corp., a diversified technology based $9 billion multi-national enterprise in business for more than 100 years. -0-

-- Attachmate, RLN and Remote LAN Node are registered trademarks and Attachmate - The Intranet Company is a trademark of Attachmate Corp.

-- Westinghouse is a registered trademark of Westinghouse Corp.

-- Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.

-- Other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

CONTACT: Attachmate Corp., Bellevue

Walter Conner, 206/649-6551

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or

Westinghouse Communications

Eileen Zebroski, 412/244-6558

NOTE TO EDITORS: In the Internet/email address noted in this news release, there is an "at" symbol between walterco and attachmate.com. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems.