DIGITAL ANNOUNCES WORLDWIDE VERSION OF WIRELESS LAN PRODUCTS

Continues enVISN Architecture Momentum with Digital's RoamAbout 2.4 GHz
Wireless Product Offerings...

TELECOM'95, Geneva, Switzerland -- October 2, 1995 -- Digital Equipment
Corporation today introduced the expansion of its award-winning RoamAbout
wireless LAN products into the international marketplace. Mobile users
worldwide can now connect to their network infrastructure -- wirelessly --
with reliable, high- performance client/server access.

With this announcement, Digital's RoamAbout product line will include
wireless modems -- both PC Cards (formerly PCMCIA) and ISA NICs -- that
use the 2.4 GHz frequency band and support the two major types of wireless
modem technology known as frequency hopping (FH) and direct sequence (DS).
This gives customers a choice of wireless technology that best suits their
mobility and application needs.

In addition, Digital's RoamAbout Access Point, engineered with a standard
PC Card slot for its wireless interface, is now the first and only
wireless bridge to support both FH and DS radio technologies in the 2.4
GHz band, and the DS radio technology in the 915 MHz band. This protects
customers' investment by providing the flexibility to easily add new
technologies, and also enables network and IS managers to manage and
support multiple wireless technologies with only one bridging platform.

"Extending our award-winning RoamAbout products to the international market
is a direct response to our customers' interest in the fast-growing
worldwide wireless LAN and remote access markets," said Dr. Laurence G.
Walker, vice president and general manager of Digital's Network Product
Business. "We continue to deliver products that strengthen our enVISN
architecture by seamlessly integrating remote and mobile users into their
enterprise networks."

"Digital's philosophy is to address the needs of the mobile workforce by
keeping the technology simple and making it work reliably to provide
performance robustness," according to Virginia Brooks, senior research
analyst at the Aberdeen Group. "Digital's approach is sound and ensures
the adaptability needed to stay abreast of a multifaceted technology that
is still evolving."

Digital's RoamAbout Solution

Digital's family of RoamAbout wireless LAN products capitalizes on
Digital's high-performance bridging expertise. The RoamAbout Access Point
is a full-featured, compact, easy-to-install, and SNMP-manageable wireless
bridge offering protocol independent bridging, address and protocol
filtering, and down-line load capabilities. Because of its wireless
bridging design, adding new wireless technologies to the RoamAbout Access
Point is a simple software upgrade.

As part of a fully manageable and scaleable product set, Digital's
RoamAbout Access Point can be used as a standalone device, or installed in
Digital's MultiStack System, DEChub 900 MultiSwitch, or DEChub 90.
Customers can now have untethered access to basic networks, as well as to
sophisticated networks such as virtual LANs.

Powerful roaming capabilities embedded in Digital's RoamAbout solution give
customers unlimited mobility across multiple LAN segments, and across
routed subnets with a complementary software product, RoamAbout Mobile IP.
By allowing customers to "roam" while they work, these products increase
employee productivity and reduce costs by allowing continuous wireless
connections to the wired network.

New Products Now Internationally Available

As part of its RoamAbout announcement, Digital is introducing:

     *  Digital RoamAbout Access Point -- a robust, full-featured,
        technology-independent wireless bridge.  Allows wireless
        portables, desktop PC's and handheld devices (with or
        without embedded radios) equipped with RoamAbout or
        compatible technologies to access the wired network. Priced
        at $1,795 and available immediately.

     *  Digital RoamAbout 2400 FH/PC Card -- A high-performance
        wireless modem based on FH radio technology that is
        installed in the PC Card slot of a portable or handheld
        computer, or Digital's RoamAbout Access Point.  Priced at
        $695 and available immediately.

     *  Digital RoamAbout 2400 FH/ISA NIC -- A high-performance
        wireless modem based on FH radio technology that is
        installed into a standard PC/AT ISA bus slot.  Priced at
        $595 and available immediately.

     *  Digital RoamAbout 2400 DS/PC Card -- A high-performance
        wireless modem based on DS radio technology that is
        installed in the PC Card slot of a portable or handheld
        computer, or Digital's RoamAbout Access Point.  Priced at
        $695 and orderable in November.

     *  Digital RoamAbout 2400 DS/ISA NIC -- A high-performance
        wireless modem based on DS radio technology that is
        installed into a standard PC/AT ISA bus slot.  Priced at
        $695 and orderable in November.

All RoamAbout PC Cards and ISA NICs include point-to-point diagnostic tools
to assist customers in positioning their wireless devices for optimal
performance.

Special Package Pricing

As part of the RoamAbout 2.4 GHz announcement, Digital is offering special
packaged pricing consisting of a RoamAbout Access Point with any RoamAbout
PC Card priced at $1,995, and a special 5-pack price for RoamAbout PC
Cards priced at under $3,000.

Market Leadership

Digital holds a leadership position in major elements of the convergence
market--switching, routing, FDDI, and remote access. The company pioneered
a convergence model for networking, in which hubs, routers, and switches
are deployed on a single integrated platform -- the DECswitch 900
MultiSwitch.

According to revenue figures from International Data Corporation (IDC), and
Dataquest, Digital hold the number three position in LAN switching, and
high-end and low-end routers and the number two position in Ethernet
switching and FDDI hub technology. These same industry analysts rank
Digital number two in Remote Access in North America and number two in
both LAN switching and routing in Western Europe. Digital's experience in
networking is evidenced by the fact that the company has networked more
than 13 million users worldwide.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking,
software, and services, together with industry- focused solutions from
business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global
marketplace.
 
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