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Japan's Largest Telecommunications Company Partners With Novell To Deliver Global Networking Solutions NTT Provides Customers with Secure and Manageable Business-Class Internet/Intranet Networking Services SAN JOSE, Calif. -- July 9, 1996 -- Novell, Inc and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), the largest telecommunications company in Japan, announced today the availability of NTT Network Connect Services (NNCS) based on Novell's Directory Services™. The NNCS offering was officially announced in Japan on July 4 and will be commercially available on July 10. NNCS will provide Japanese companies with business-class Internet/Intranet services that extend the reach of traditional networks to include customers, partners and vendors, allowing businesses to be more responsive to customer needs and changing markets. NNCS will connect Japanese businesses to more of the people, information and resources they need to maintain a competitive advantage. "NTT, one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, has selected Novell as the strategic business partner of choice for Internet/Intranet services, proving that no one knows network directory services like Novell," said Tom Arthur, vice president and general manager of Novell's Internet Infrastructure Division. "It is our goal to provide global business class Internet/Intranet services by supplying Novell's Directory Service through partnerships with Internet Service Providers and telecommunications companies." NTT joins AT&T as the world's second largest telecommunications company to deploy Novell's NetWare Connect Service (NCS) as their business-class internetworking service. By subscribing to a business-class Internet service, customers gain direct access to all Internet applications and resources with the added benefits of a secure, reliable and managed network environment. NCS became commercially available in 1995 through AT&T's NetWare Connect Service (ANCS) and is currently serving a rapidly growing base of AT&T and Novell customers. NNCS enables businesses to outsource the complexity and cost of maintaining wide-area intra- and internetworking access, while gaining a higher level of network security, reliability and management. A key technology incorporated into NNCS is Novell Directory Services (NDS™), the industry's most-widely adopted directory service. NDS will be used as the global directory within NNCS providing a single source for locating and accessing customers, business partners, vendors and network resources through a private, secure and reliable Internet service. Through a single login, users can also access all network and Internet services and applications. NNCS provides businesses with the opportunity to benefit from a global network without the costs associated with creating, maintaining and upgrading an internal network infrastructure. In addition, NNCS enables customers and select partners to access the network from remote locations, improving a company's productivity. For example, a company with several offices can allow authorized users direct access to the NNCS network--saving both valuable time and overhead costs associated with capital equipment and dedicated transmission lines. "We have launched NNCS as a network service for our business customers which enables secure connections between LANs and PCS," said Shigeru Ikeda, executive vice president of NTT's Multimedia Business Department. "At NTT, we are working on ISDN and multimedia services such as Future Multimedia Now-ISDN and the ISDN Interface Multimedia Conferencing System Phoenix, solidifying NNCS's importance in the realization of multimedia networks."
Other NNCS Components In addition to NDS, Novell provides NTT with the following products and technologies which are incorporated into NCS:
"Since May 1996, Hallmark has been using AT&T's version of NCS to give our remote sales force access to applications running on the company's host systems in Kansas City," said Mike Goodwin, telecommunications and network manager for Hallmark. "With the services provided by NCS, we've been able to concentrate on our business objectives by automating the retail sales force, eliminating costly overhead for capital equipment, and dramatically reducing the ongoing costs associated with maintaining a wide-area network. Frankly, we don't want to be in the asynchronous network-management business. We're the world's leader in personal greeting cards and we intend to maintain that competitive advantage."
Leading Telecommunications Companies Partner with Novell In addition to NTT, Novell has been working with several major telecommunications companies to develop business-class internetworking services, including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Unisource, and Telstra. These companies will work together to interconnect their networks under the umbrella of NCS, allowing customers to easily access users and information located on any of the affiliated networks. Also, Novell is a founder of the Multimedia Services Affiliate Forum (MSAF), and has helped successfully recruit 30 of the world's leading telecommunications and high technology companies. The charter of MSAF is to develop interoperable global networks that go beyond geographical and organizational boundaries. "The deployment of NNCS is consistent with the efforts of the Multimedia Services Affiliate Forum (MSAF) to provide secure and reliable access to applications across the Internet, Intranets and other networks," said Lov Kher, MSAF Executive Director. "This announcement is in line with MSAF's focus on eliminating geographical boundaries and extending the reach of interoperability in worldwide communications." Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and its subsidiaries are the largest suppliers of telecommunications services in Japan, offering telephone, telegraph, leased circuit, data communications facility, digital data exchange, mobile communication services and other services, as well as providing telecommunications equipment. The business of Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) is connecting people with other people and the information they need, enabling them to act on it anytime, anyplace. Novell is the world's leading network software provider. The company's software products provide the distributed infrastructure, network services, advanced network access and network applications required to make networked information and computing an integral part of everyone's daily life. NetWare and Novell are registered trademarks, and NDS and NetWare Directory Services are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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