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Eicon Announces Support for Novell's new IntranetWare™ Eicon ISDN and WAN Drivers to ship with IntranetWare™ MONTREAL -- August 26, 1996 -- Eicon Technology announced today integrated wide area networking support for Novell's new IntranetWare™ product, the full service intranet and Internet access platform. Using Eicon's line of high performance WAN and ISDN adapters in conjunction with IntranetWare, corporations can easily evolve their LANs to corporate intranet and/or Internet services over wide area networks such as ISDN, X.25, Frame Relay or PPP leased lines. Eicon adapters install into IntranetWare servers, providing a complete wide area intranet/Internet platform without the need for an external router.
Eicon Hardware Drivers Integrated in Novell IntranetWare Shipping with the IntranetWare solution from Novell are drivers for Eicon's ISDN and WAN interface adapters. These drivers support ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI), multi-BRI (4BRI) and Primary Rate Interface (PRI) connections in addition to leased line, X.25 and Frame Relay WAN connections. With integrated Eicon driver support, Novell's IntranetWare is "WAN-ready" and customers need only purchase Eicon interface cards for Internet and intranet connectivity. "Novell's IntranetWare solution was designed to provide businesses with all the necessary network infrastructure to build their corporate intranet and Internet connections." said Denice Gibson, senior vice president and general manager for Novell Distributed Networks Business Unit. "Eicon Technology complements this solution by offering a choice of wide area networking options for these connections with their ISDN and WAN interface adapters."
Moving from LAN-centric Computing to Intranet Service Platform As businesses migrate towards building corporate intranets and providing Internet services to their users, they are faced with the challenge of consolidating new wide area networks with their existing network infrastructures. Novell's IntranetWare builds upon the NetWare network operating system, providing the enhanced feature set (high performance Web server and browser, IP/IPX gateway, multiprotocol router) to facilitate this evolution from IPX or IP-based networks to heterogeneous intranet/Internet networks. "With IntranetWare, NetWare transitions from a LAN Operating System into an intranet service platform," said Igor Krichevsky, Business Unit Manager for Novell Server Business Unit at Eicon Technology. "By enabling Internet and intranet connectivity over wide area networks, IntranetWare facilitates the modern enterprise's requirement to unify geographically dispersed networks. Branch offices will no longer need to be dependent on standalone routers to connect with each other and to the Internet because this functionality is built into the IntranetWare platform."
Pricing and Availability Eicon ISDN and WAN adapters which support Novell's IntranetWare are certified by Novell Labs, and are currently shipping, with pricing starting at $795 US.
About Eicon Technology Eicon Technology is a worldwide provider of desktop and server-integrated information access solutions for the networked enterprise. The company develops, markets and supports hardware and software products that enable personal computers from a wide range of industry-standard platforms and operating environments to access corporate internetworks, IBM SNA networks and on-line information services. The products are sold in more than 70 countries through an extensive distribution network. Eicon Technology shares are traded on The Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange under the symbol EIC. Other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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