STRATACOM ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY'S FIRST WIDE AREA FRAMEWORK TO EXTEND SWITCHED
AND ROUTED CAMPUS NETWORK ARCHITECTURES

Introduces STRATM

WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 30, 1996 - StrataCom today unveiled STRATM, the
industry's first standards-based ATM architectural framework that
integrates emerging switched campus and routed network architectures and
existing network systems with the full efficiency and performance of wide
area ATM (see editors note).

Under STRATM, the company announced a unique set of new wide area
networking products and capabilities (See release: "New STRATM Products
Broaden the Use of ATM for Enterprise and Carrier Applications") that will
allow users to leverage the power and economic benefits of ATM in their
enterprise and service networks.

Committed to ensuring compatibility with existing and emerging ATM
standards, STRATM includes a testing program that guarantees users of
interoperability with third-party equipment that has successfully passed
specific levels of compliance testing.

ADDRESSING FIVE KEY BUSINESS CONCERNS

STRATM has been explicitly designed to respond to the application of ATM in
addressing users' top business concerns of flexibility, efficiency,
growth, reliability and manageability. Unlike LAN architectural
approaches, STRATM overcomes several critical wide area networking issues
such as the inability to support all information types and services over a
single infrastructure, scalability limitations, the fair allocation and
efficient use of expensive bandwidth, and unpredictable service quality.

As a result, with STRATM, users will now be able to select the campus
networking model that best suits their requirements and extend that model
across the wide area ensuring quality of service, efficient use and
dynamic allocation of bandwidth, and any-to-any connectivity.

NEW STRATM PRODUCTS AND ADVANCED CAPABILITIES

To help meet these issues, StrataCom will deliver an array of new products
and advanced capabilities over the next 12 - 18 months, some of which
include:

 An 8-slot enterprise ATM switch
 Enhancements to StrataCom's BPX ATM switch
 A port concentrator for StrataCom's IPX and IGX switches
 A flexible voice shelf for the IPX and IGX
 The integration of the ATM Forum's private network-to-network interface
 (PNNI) specification
 Voice over frame relay to voice over ATM interworking

As part of the STRATM program, product details will be released as they
become available.

"The industry has been so preoccupied with ATM in the local area that the
business value of ATM hasn't been established because we can't get it out
of the premise," stated Tom Nolle, president of CIMI Corporation,
Voorhees, New Jersey. "STRATM is a framework squarely directed at solving
this problem - answering many of the questions surrounding how users can
take advantage of ATM now for their current set of applications, protocols
and public services."

"StrataCom is taking an architecturely open position," stated John Coons,
director and principal analyst of wide area networking for Dataquest in
San Jose, California. "They are letting users pick whatever campus
architecture they want and complementing those decisions by providing
seamless connectivity and value-added features across the wide area using
ATM."

Coons pointed out that most of the internetworking architectures have
failed to address the essential requirements of service quality, traffic
management, bandwidth utilization, scalability, and transporting delay
sensitive-type traffic. "STRATM attempts to address these issues in a
standards-based fashion but where standards are incomplete or missing such
as PNNI, voice over ATM or ABR, StrataCom has forged ahead," concluded
Coons.

STRATM FRAMEWORK

STRATM is based on five fundamental elements needed to build a production-
class infrastructure capable of supporting existing low-speed as well as
emerging high-speed applications. These elements are: multiservice
networking, resource optimization, scalability, availability and network
management.

The foundation to support all of these elements is an ATM virtual circuit
core. In turn, all services, such as frame relay, voice, video, ISDN,
SMDS, X.25 and native ATM are adapted and mapped to ATM switched,
permanent or dynamic permanent virtual circuits with the appropriate
service quality.

"Today's router-based Internet model is the perfect example of how ATM can
be applied to add immediate value in boosting performance, scale and
quality of service," said Peter Alexander, executive director of marketing
at StrataCom. "STRATM was created to give users a simple and logical
framework within which they can implement ATM now and receive substantial
value from doing so."

STRATACOM

StrataCom, Inc. (NASD:STRM), based in San Jose, California, USA, develops,
delivers and supports FastPacket networking systems for ATM applications
in private wide area networks and public carrier service offerings, such
as frame relay and ATM. StrataCom's family of products, including IPX",
IGX, BPX, AXIS, FastPAD, and EdgeConnect, is used to integrate and
transport a wide variety of corporate information, including voice, data,
video, LANs, image and multimedia traffic in narrowband to broadband ATM
network applications. VISIT STRATACOM'S HOME PAGE AT
http://www.stratacom.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS

WHAT IS STRATM?

STRATM is a networking framework built on a set of fundamental principles
and associated products and capabilities that helps users migrate to
Asynchronous Transfer Mode networking. STRATM is designed around five
elements or core competencies needed to take full advantage of ATM in the
wide area. These are: multiservice networking (adaptation and
internetworking), resource optimization (service classes and traffic
management), scalability (distributing or centralized call processing and
path determination), availability (redundancy), and network management
(cost allocation, billing and fault resolution)

LEGAL NOTE: The forward - looking statements in this release should be read
together with materials regarding product development in StrataCom's 10K
and 10Q reports, available from StrataCom.
 
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