Bay Networks Maintains Leading-Edge Web Strategy With Interwoven TeamSite; TeamSite Provides Advanced Web Production Environment & Process Control.

LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 1998--Bay Networks,(R) Inc. (NYSE:BAY), a leading supplier of internetworking solutions, is continuing its leadership in state-of-the-art web development with the announcement today that it is using Interwoven TeamSite to manage the production of its business-critical extranet at http://www.baynetworks.com. TeamSite gives Bay Networks a structure that enables its global web team to efficiently take advantage of new web technologies to create a dynamic, interactive resource for customers and partners. At the same time, TeamSite provides a complete process control system that lets Bay Networks maintain site integrity while including more knowledge workers from across the organization in the development of web content.

TeamSite supports a web production process for all content development, testing, deployment and maintenance -- assuring content accuracy and site integrity. It enables dozens, even hundreds, of web publishers to work collaboratively and simultaneously on new content and changes. TeamSite's unique open structure provides the compatibility that accommodates Bay Networks' existing systems and supports all users' tools of choice, from HTML editing tools to sophisticated site management solutions. TeamSite gives Bay Networks an efficient testing environment in which developers can access any previous versions of files on the fly and maintain workflow through the assignment of files to contributors.

"TeamSite enables our team to author content faster, easier, and more accurately, which in turn leads to greater quality in the corporate website," said Tim Chandler, manager of Strategic Web Development at Bay Networks. "TeamSite offers an open solution making our adoption of an exciting new application much simpler. By distributing and automating much of the process, TeamSite enables us to concentrate on developing content that better serves our customers instead of managing logistics."

The Bay Networks website is robust and extensive, so two critical requirements TeamSite offers are the ability to handle very large sites and support for existing software tools, including Documentum, FrontPage and BroadVision. Because of its focus on the capabilities enabled by new technologies, Bay Networks also required an open solution that could support new content types. TeamSite supports Bay Networks' continuing efforts to develop interactive, dynamic web applications with distributed, concurrent development, file-level and site-level versioning, and immediate in-context integration and test.

TeamSite allows the intranet development process, managed primarily through Documentum, to integrate with the Internet website development process, allowing authorized internal documents to be rapidly deployed to the external website. Similarly, the open file-system structure of TeamSite's Intelligent File System allows web developers to take full advantage of tools like Microsoft Front Page, not only for authoring of web content, but also for site management operations such as checking links.

TeamSite's SmartContext QA feature provides an ideal testing environment for web content, allowing Bay Networks to test new material on the entire website, including CGI, JavaScript and application code. This empowers contributors to immediately integrate and test their work in the context of the complete baynetworks.com website. Content need not be published to a separate system, and the system can scale to support any number of contributors.

The Bay Networks website delivers a complete solution to customers and partners worldwide. By using TeamSite to manage the production of www.baynetworks.com, Bay Networks is providing its visitors business-critical information through a richer, more dynamic experience.

About Bay Networks

Bay Networks - Where Information Flows(tm). Bay Networks, Inc. (NYSE:BAY) is a leader in the worldwide networking market, providing a complete line of products that serve corporate enterprises, service providers and telecommunications carriers. The company offers frame and ATM switches, routers, shared media, remote and Internet access solutions, IP services, and network management applications, all integrated by Bay Networks' Adaptive Networking strategy. With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Bay Networks markets its products and services around the world, providing 7x24 support coverage. For additional information visit the company's World Wide Web site at http://www.baynetworks.com or call 800-8-BAYNET.

About Interwoven

Interwoven, Inc. is the leading provider of systems for Enterprise Web Production, managing the development and deployment of large, dynamic Internet Web sites and sophisticated web applications on corporate Intranets. Interwoven's solutions are built for the world's largest, most complex web operations, supporting multiple web teams and potentially thousands of contributors distributed across the enterprise.

Interwoven's flagship product, TeamSite, meets the need of complex web environments, supporting workflow processes and managing the development of absolutely every type of content. Interwoven TeamSite enables an organization to harness the power of its Web teams by enabling efficient collaboration and drastically streamline content development, integration and test. The open TeamSite architecture allows customers to leverage investments in best of breed authoring and site development tools, Web servers, connectivity solutions and application servers. Interwoven is located at 885 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, CA 94022; phone: [phone]; fax [phone]; Web site at http://www.interwoven.com: e-mail to [e-mail]. -0-

Note to Editors: The Interwoven name and logo are registered trademarks of Interwoven, Inc. The names TeamSite, SmartContext, Site Rollback and OpenDeploy are trademarks of Interwoven, Inc. All other products and company names are properties of their respective owners.

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