Bay Networks Licenses Rapid Logic's WebControl 2.0 for Network Products.

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 1998--

New Release of WebControl Allows Bay Networks To Leverage SNMP, Shorten Time-To-Market for Web-Based Management

Rapid Logic, Inc., today announced a multiproduct licensing agreement with Bay Networks to incorporate Rapid Logic's WebControl 2.0 embedded Web-based management technology into Bay Networks' stackable and chassis connectivity products. Bay Networks is among the first customers to license the new upgrade of WebControl.

The agreement will allow Bay Networks to use WebControl's visual Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool to build HTML interfaces quickly and easily for several stackable and chassis-based management modules, with an option to extend the license to additional products and product lines.

"We selected Rapid Logic's WebControl after a thorough evaluation of several competing products," said James Reeves, director of engineering in Bay Networks' Workgroup Products Division. "WebControl with VxWorksoffers us a superior time-to-market solution, allowing us to dynamically improve and modify our HTML GUI with no change or recompilation of our core source code. It also lets us take advantage of our existing SNMP investment by inheriting all our Epilogue and SNMP Research MIBs. And with the visual integration tool, WebControl clearly leapfrogs the competition."

Bay Networks will use WebControl's single-click real-time operating system (RTOS) integration to deploy Rapid Logic's OpenControl Backplane(tm) on Wind River System's VxWorks. For example, Bay Networks' System 5000 Ethernet switches will include a built-in, Web-based network management system that serves up key information such as device summary, configuration, fault management, statistics, applications and support. WebControl will supplement Bay Networks' existing Web-based management interface as well as augment the SNMP and RMON support provided by Bay Networks' Optivity(r) network management software.

Like all of Rapid Logic's products, WebControl 2.0 leverages Rapid Logic's OpenControl Backplane (OCB), the company's "write once, present anyhow" architecture. The OCB acts as a call manager between the Web interface and the underlying embedded C code, providing the complete separation of"The combination of VxWorks and WebControl provides a superior time-to-market solution for Web-based management technology, offering significant benefits across the entiregins shipping this week, includes a number of new features that ease integration and speed time-to-market. The most notable include drop-in support for and dynamic inhererprises, service providers and telecommunications carriers. The company offers frame and ATM switches, routers, shared media, remote and Internet access solutions, IP seWeb site at http://www.baynetworks.com, or call erially from actual future events or results. Feaders are referred to the documents filed by Ba in the forward-looking statements.

About Rapid Logic, Inc.

Founded in 1996 by the pioneers of Webng firm; Tom Shanahan, Chief Financial Officer orowing list of Rapid Logic product licensees includes Anritsu Corporation; Asante Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASNT); Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.; Digital Microwave Corporation (NASDAQ:DMIC);Larscom (NASDAQ;LARS); PairGain Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAIR); Performance Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PTIX); RedBack Networks, Inc.; and XLNT.

For more information about Rapid Logic and its Open Control family of configuration and management solutions, call 510/749-09ated at 1040 Marina Village Parkway, Alameda, CA 94501.

Note to Editors: Rapid Logic, OpenControl Backplane, WebControl, JavaControl and The Power of Distributed ms, Inc. Other brand and product names are regisogic.com

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