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Technology Stocks : Ascend Communications (ASND) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: djane who wrote (45969)	5/4/1998 2:07:00 AM
From: Gary Wisdom	Respond to of 61433

WSJ picked up the new news on Ascend in Monday's edition. Guess everyone's joining us now on the ride to $50. Dow Jones Newswires -- May 3, 1998 Ascend To Unveil New Pdts, Push In Virtual Pvt Networks Mkt By Mark Boslet PALO ALTO (Dow Jones)--Ascend Communications Inc. (ASND) will unveil on Monday new products and a strategy to broaden its offerings in the virtual private networking market. Virtual private networks are dedicated communications tunnels, or avenues, set up across public and private computer networks to assure higher quality service. "This is a huge market" that is starting to take off this year and which will "explode" in 1999, said Kurt Bauer, Ascend's vice president of access product management. Ascend will announce two software products designed to let network managers better control, examine and receive reports on the performance of virtual private networks. A third product, designed to work with Ascend's IP Navigator software, will enable Internet protocol-based virtual private networks on networks of frame-relay and ATM, or asynchronous transfer mode, switches. The three products will be available this summer, Bauer said. -By Mark Boslet; 650 496-1366