ATTACHMATE AND CISCO ANNOUNCE NCIA SUPPORT IN INDUSTRY-LEADING EXTRA!
PERSONAL CLIENT

EXTRA! Personal Client support for Cisco's NCIA gives customers a
high-quality, end-to-end, desktop-to-host TCP/IP connectivity solution

BELLEVUE, WASH. -- Attachmate - The Intranet Company - today announced
support of Cisco Systems' Native Client Interface Architecture (NCIA) in
EXTRA! Personal Client 6.1. EXTRA! Personal Client is Attachmate's
industry-leading SNA, TCP/IP, and Internet connectivity product and NCIA
is Cisco's desktop-to-mainframe TCP/IP access solution.

EXTRA! Personal Client is the industry's leading Intranet desktop client
software. It provides the most powerful Windows, Windows 95 and Windows NT
access technology to mainframes, AS/400's, Digital and HP systems; and
includes high-performance TCP/IP applications, Internet browsing with
Netscape Navigator, remote access with RLN, Intranet conferencing with
OpenMind and software management with NetWizard  all in one package. This
announcement allows companies to leverage their investments in SNA by
routing it over TCP/IP via the innovative NCIA protocol.

When using EXTRA! Personal Client to access SNA mainframes, for example,
NCIA support prevents the loss of application functionality common to
other TCP/IP implementations such as TN3270, which places an extraordinary
cost and performance hit on companies because expensive TCP/IP interface
software must be installed on the mainframe.

"Attachmate's addition of NCIA support to EXTRA! Personal Client
exemplifies Cisco's commitment to defining new access technologies," said
to Nick Francis, director of marketing for Cisco Systems' Interworks
Business Unit. "By working with leading partners like Attachmate, Cisco
can significantly increase its penetration into the 3270 desktop market."

"NCIA support extends the degree of control and performance available to
companies using EXTRA! Personal Client," said Todd Mavis, vice president
of worldwide business development at Attachmate. "NCIA's capabilities
extend the SNA architecture within the framework of an IP-based network.
It allows companies to use the Intranet paradigm to deliver host data at
the desktop through EPC with no decrease in functionality. Companies now
realize all the benefits of EXTRA! Personal Client as if connected via an
SNA network. The net result is a decreased cost of network ownership and
increased manageability."

As TCP/IP-based networks become the de facto standard within corporations,
EXTRA! Personal Client support for NCIA will significantly aid
corporations seeking to migrate to an Intranet information systems
structure. NCIA's encapsulation of SNA traffic inside an IP packet
provides a secure and manageable infrastructure that allows access from
any point in the network. Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
further enhances NCIA by cost-effectively managing network resources,
allowing priority to be given to mission-critical SNA traffic in an NCIA
packet.

In creating NCIA, Cisco Systems combined the full functionality of native
SNA interfaces at the host and client while leveraging the functionality
of the TCP/IP backbones found in today's corporate Intranets. EXTRA!
Personal Client allows customers to seamlessly access, manage, and share
information across the Intranet. The consolidation of SNA networks and
non-SNA networks into an IP-based multi-protocol Intranet, accessed
through EXTRA! Personal Client 6.1, gives corporations significant cost
savings through elimination of redundant and expensive wide-area
communications links and reduction of personnel costs through simplified
management of multi-protocol environments.

In addition to user-transparent NCIA support, EXTRA! Personal Client 6.1
also supports IBM's CICS Server, as well as other host access options. The
product also includes a 32-bit version of Attachmate's award winning
NetWizard software management program and integration of Wollongong's
TCP/IP technology, including the stack and a high-performance NFS client.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

EXTRA! Personal Client 6.1 with NCIA support is available now at a
suggested retail price of U.S. $425. EXTRA! Personal Client 6.1 is
available to the channel through major distributors including Merisel,
Ingram Micro, and TechData. Localized German, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese versions will be available in the
second quarter of 1996.

ATTACHMATE - THE INTRANET COMPANY

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 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. Attachmate is ranked as the sixth
largest PC software company in the world according to Softletter. The
company employs over 2,000 people worldwide.

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

ABOUT CISCO SYSTEMS

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the leading global supplier of
internetworking solutions, including routers, LAN and ATM switches,
dial-up access servers and network management software. These products,
integrated by the Cisco IOSSM software, link geographically dispersed
LANs, WANs and IBM networks. Cisco SystemsSM news and product service
information are available at World Wide Web site http://www.cisco.com.
Cisco Systems is headquartered in San Jose, California.
 
 =========================================================
 From the 'New Product News' Electronic News Service on...
 AOL (Keyword = New Products) and Delphi (GO COMP PROD)
 =========================================================
 This information was processed from data provided by the
 company/author mentioned. For additional details, please
 contact them directly at the address/phone# indicated.
 Trademarks are the property of their respective owners!
 =========================================================
 All submissions for this service should be addressed to:
 BAKER ENTERPRISES,  20 Ferro Dr,  Sewell, NJ  08080  USA
 Email:   rbakerpc@aol.com   --or--   rbakerpc@delphi.com
 =========================================================
