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To: pat mudge who wrote (6431)	9/10/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Respond to of 18016

Tuesday September 1, 12:18 pm Eastern Time Ericsson Expands in Wireless Data Communications Area -- Offers Mobile Access to Local Area Networks STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1998--Ericsson has expanded its wireless data communications activities with a decision to exploit the Wireless LAN (WLAN) market. This has until now been one of the few areas within wireless communications not covered by Ericsson. Ericsson will have a full range of Wireless LAN products available by the end of 1998. The first products are sourced from BreezeCOM and based on the IEEE's recently formalized 802.11 standard. Ericsson will enhance the product offer with complementary security solutions that will make this WLAN offer the most secure on the market. WLAN solutions from Ericsson will address the enterprise market, but also public ''Hot Spots'', such as airports frequented by travelling businesspersons. ''Wireless data communication is one of our priority areas at Ericsson,'' says Sven-Christer Nilsson, CEO of Ericsson. ''Recent announcements, such as Ericsson's involvement in projects like Bluetooth and Symbian are proof of our interest and efforts. The fact that we enter the WLAN market is yet another example of the importance for us to be able to offer our customers total solutions in the wireless data communications sector.'' The Wireless LAN solution will ensure secure access to intranets (and the Internet) for travelling business persons who transmit and receive large amounts of data. It will truly be possible to communicate whenever wherever. Security issues have been one of the main hindrances in the uptake of WLAN applications. Ericssons security solutions will mean protection against information tapping, and against illegal access to LAN network resources by unauthorized traffic by introducing an internal ''Firewall'' node. Ericsson's Firewall Unit will utilize the IP Security (IPSec) protocol; a standard based method of providing privacy, integrity and authenticity to information transmitted across IP networks. Ericsson believes that competitive pricing and expanded bandwidth, together with increased interoperability between products, is driving the Wireless LAN market. There is no longer only a WLAN market for vertical applications, such as for warehousing, logistics, retail or medical segments. Instead we will have horizontal applications, i.e. general office use, independent of industry segment. These are going to be the true drivers of the WLAN infrastructure growth. Ericsson is actively participating in the ETSI standardization of Hiperlan/2, and is currently developing products according to this standard. Hiperlan/2 is operating in the 5GHz band that is expected to be available world wide for WLAN operation. The Hiperlan/2 system will provide an effective user capacity in the order of 20-25 Mbit/s, i.e. comparable to the performance of wired LANs. Ericsson is also an active player in IETF, working on future standards for security and mobility in wireless local area networks. Information regarding Ericsson's Wireless LAN Systems' offers and activities will continually be posted on ericsson.se Global information about Ericsson and its products is available on the World Wide Web at ericsson.se Ericsson's 100,000 employees are active in more than 130 countries. Their combined expertise in fixed and mobile networks, mobile phones and infocom systems makes Ericsson a world-leading supplier in telecommunications. Contact: Ericsson, New York Kathy Egan Per Bengtsson 212/685-4030

To: pat mudge who wrote (6431)	9/10/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

Pat, NEW YORK - AT&T is expected to launch within a month a major high-speed communications service that will let many of its 10 million business customers cut costs by combining their phone and computer networks. Code-named AT&T INC - for Integrated Network Connect - it won't actually be available to customers until 1999, people close to the project tell USA TODAY. Sprint unveiled a similar service, called ION, three months ago. And newer carriers such as Qwest, Level 3 and IXC also plan to carry voice and data on a single network. AT&T spokeswoman Kate Rankin declined to comment on the launch, saying: "We are still testing the service. We are not ready to go into any level of detail." But the rollout of the network would be a major step in CEO C. Michael Armstrong's overhaul of AT&T, and a bellwether of industry change. Armstrong is racing to reengineer the USA's largest carrier as the focus of telecommunications shifts from voice to transmitting video, voice and data. Armstrong already has gained the industry's attention from high-profile deals to buy Teleport Communications Group and Tele-Communications Inc., and to partner with British Telecom. The overhaul of AT&T's network is just as important. AT&T will deploy an Internet-like digital technology known as ATM, for asynchronous transfer mode. It converts information into the ones and zeros of computer language, breaks it into tiny pieces, stamps them with an address and sends them into a shared transmission line. The technology also is at the heart of Sprint's $2 billion ION service. ATM and IP are more efficient than traditional phone lines, which reserve a separate circuit for every call, and the quality is improving. The new service will offer AT&T and its customers two major benefits, analyst Ken McGee of The Gartner Group market research firm says: Lower prices. AT&T's bids for corporate contracts are 5% to 12% higher than those of MCI and Sprint, McGee says. AT&T could start to close the gap in a year or two. More flexibility. ATM allows customers to instantly order phone lines, high-speed data lines or features with the click of a computer mouse. It also will let AT&T expand its consulting businesses, giving it the ability to monitor customer networks with sophisticated ATM devices it installs on their premises. That sort of entrepreneurial effort is critical for AT&T, which must expand beyond long-distance to up revenue and stock value. By Steve Rosenbush, USA TODAY and we alll know which managment platform will be used by AT&T (see NN's press releases, may 1998) Regareds Zbyslaw