GRIC Communications Teams With Cisco to Strengthen Cisco Internet Mobile Office Initiative.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2001

GRIC to Play Key Role in Providing Global Broadband Roaming

Solutions to Business Travelers Offering Them Secure,

Cost-Effective Access to the Internet and Corporate Networks

From Virtually Anywhere in the World, Anytime

GRIC Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:GRIC), a leading provider of Internet-based mobile office communications services, today announced it has become a member of the Cisco Internet Mobile Office initiative developed by Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO) to provide global broadband roaming services to mobile business professionals, and to promote secure, standards-based broadband Internet access in public spaces. As part of the agreement, GRIC and Cisco will develop a sales plan for the wireless local access network (WLAN) Internet roaming settlement solution to infrastructure and service providers.

The Cisco Internet Mobile Office solution is comprised of wired and wireless products and technologies from Cisco, including an end-to-end security solution based on the Cisco Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology, which supports secure remote access computing. GRIC's leadership and expertise in the remote access industry enables Cisco to offer enterprise customers a complete roaming Internet access service that delivers seamless connectivity between a company's global business professionals and its corporate network.

Multinational corporations with employees who travel around the world on business can take advantage of GRIC's unmatched global network coverage of more than 12,000 dialing locations around the world, more than 7,500 of which are located outside North America. Leveraging its expertise and relationship with service providers in dial-up roaming, GRIC announced in April the formation of the Global Broadband Wireless Alliance. Partnerships with wireless service providers and equipment vendors, such as Cisco, are significant steps in GRIC's ability to execute on its vision of making wireless connectivity available to global business travelers worldwide through the GRIC Alliance Network.

"GRIC's vision of empowering the mobile office is very much in line with the objectives of the Cisco Internet Mobile Office initiative. We expect to play a key role in Cisco's mobility program," said Hong Chen, CEO of GRIC Communications. "By providing secure and reliable access to the Internet or to their corporate network from virtually anywhere in the world -- as well as 'hot spots' such as airports, hotels and convention centers -- companies can empower their mobile workers to achieve increased productivity while they are on the road."

"Cisco is proud to have GRIC as a member of the Cisco Internet Mobile Office program, enabling global business travelers to enjoy the enhanced experience of being able to access corporate documents and applications they need from anywhere, anytime," said Ron Willis, Vice President of Marketing in the Commercial Line of Business, Cisco Systems, Inc. "Together with GRIC and our other leading technology partners, we look forward to extending the power of the Internet to traditionally unconnected spaces more than ever before."

In conjunction with Cisco, GRIC will deploy a widespread broadband network that allows service providers to provide global functionality and deliver the bill for that service in a single, integrated invoice, regardless of the traveler's point of connection to the Internet at the time the service was purchased. Global broadband roaming is a key component of the Cisco Internet Mobile Office solution that delivers comprehensive wired and wireless broadband connections to "hot spots" such as hotels, airports, convention centers and other public places. GRIC and Cisco will also certify the GRIC global Internet roaming and settlement technology as interoperable with Cisco products -- such as Cisco-based Ethernet connectivity at wired access points and Cisco-based Aironet Wi-Fi products for wireless access points -- for use in CIMO deployments. GRIC's participation in standards bodies like Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA) and Wireless Internet Service Provider roaming (WISPr) -- of which GRIC is a co-chair -- to develop the requirements for broadband settlement will also be a key contribution to the CIMO program.

"With the enterprise WLAN equipment market expected to reach $4.575 billion by 2005, the need for secure and reliable broadband roaming Internet access has never been greater," said Allen Nogee, Senior Analyst of Wireless Component Technology at Cahners In-Stat Group. "GRIC Communications and Cisco Systems have the experience, resources and expertise to establish the necessary infrastructure that empowers mobile workers with easy-to-use, reliable and secure access not only to their email, but to more sensitive corporate resources, as well."

About GRIC Communications, Inc.

GRIC Communications, Inc. is a leader in delivering Internet-based mobile office communications services to ISPs, communications providers and enterprise customers. Combining state-of-the-art technology with its managed global GRIC Alliance Network(TM) of more than 300 service providers, GRIC delivers its services in more than 150 countries and enables Internet access through more than 12,000 dialing locations. Winner of Frost & Sullivan's 2000 Market Engineering Award for Customer Service Leadership in the global Internet roaming market, GRIC is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., and has offices in the U.S., Asia and Europe. Visit GRIC at www.gric.com.

This news release may include "forward-looking" statements, including projections about our business, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For example, statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on information available to us at the time of the release and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations as a result of numerous factors, including the unproven nature of the global broadband Internet roaming market and uncertainties regarding customer acceptance of future broadband Internet access services that we may offer; the timing of deployment by our alliance members of new broadband Internet access sites in geographical locations where coverage is not yet available; our ability to obtain broadband Internet access from service providers at competitive prices; the emergence of competing access technologies that could cause end users to adopt Internet access solutions not based on broadband; the extent to which our revenues derived from dialup Internet access may be displaced by revenues derived from broadband Internet access; and our inexperience in providing broadband Internet access services, which makes it difficult to predict our performance. These and other risks and uncertainties associated with our business are detailed in our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q on file with the SEC and available through www.sec.gov.

About Cisco Systems

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