Novell BorderManager Safely Extends Business to the Internet

Industry's First Integrated Family of Network Services Demonstrates Novell's Internet Leadership

PROVO, Utah -- August 25, 1997 -- Novell Inc. today announced availability of their newest Internet/intranet product, Novell® BorderManager. BorderManager is the industry's first integrated family of directory-based network services that centrally manages, secures and accelerates user access to information at every network border - the point where any two networks meet. Through a single point of administration, companies can manage network security policies, protect confidential information, establish user access privileges to Internet content, and reduce WAN connectivity costs. BorderManager significantly improves intranet and Internet access performance, and provides a standards-based performance foundation to support a company's network infrastructure.

As customers begin to exploit the Internet as a business tool, manageability, security and performance of their networks become increasingly challenging tasks. Tightly integrated with Novell Directory Services™ (NDS™), the world's leading cross platform directory with over 20 million users, BorderManager decreases the cost of managing an intranet and safely extends a customers' business to the Internet.

"Novell recognizes the business opportunities that the Internet offers our customers," said Michelle Arden, vice-president of Novell's Border Services Group. "To exploit these opportunities, barriers must be overcome in management, network security and quality of service. BorderManager solves these problems. Now customers have the confidence to integrate the Internet as a critical part of their business." "Novell has done a great service to public education by making BorderManager available at an affordable price," said Ernie Nicely, Director of Computer and Technology Services at Phoenix, Arizona Elementary Schools. "The CyberPatrol feature is perfect for managing students' access to the Internet. The firewall gives an especially high level of security by allowing us to create our own IP addresses, known only to us internally and not accessible by outside hackers. Best of all, the caching system is like a rocket on rails. Unbelievable!"

"With the international focus of the Guggenheim Museum, we need to provide our staff fast, secure and economical access to the Internet to enable collaboration between the museum and the art world," said Leonard Steinbach, Director of Information Technology at the museum. "BorderManager's Virtual Private Network service provides us with great cost savings by allowing us to deliver secure Internet access without upgrading our current leased line."

BorderManager Saves Customers Time and Money

BorderManager delivers the most comprehensive family of integrated Internet/intranet management, security and performance technologies available today. It allows customers to connect existing networking products--both Novell and non-Novell technologies--to the Internet with confidence. BorderManager features include:

• SINGLE-POINT OF ADMINISTRATION allows centralized, policy-based management of access privileges for inbound and outbound users--significantly simplifying administration, improving security and reducing administrative expenses.
• NOVELL DIRECTORY SERVICES, the premier LDAP directory, automatically replicates security data and controls access across your entire network. NDS automates network administration, reduces administrative errors, and ensures consistent user access to intra/Internet resources.
• USER LEVEL ACCESS CONTROLS allow organizations to define access privileges to the Internet by user, group of users, time of day, application and content category.
• CROSS-PLATFORM SUPPORT allows customers to use popular browser clients for Windows, Unix and Macintosh to take advantage of BorderManager's unique user level access controls.
• FIREWALL SERVICES provide increased security through three levels of firewall protection including packet filtering (Level I firewall), circuit gateways (Level II firewall) and application proxies (Level III firewall). A network address table (NAT) also allows unregistered IP devices to connect to the Internet.
• VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK SERVICES deliver secure, encrypted connections over the Internet and reduce costs for expensive dedicated private lines.
• ADVANCED PROXY CACHE SERVICE significantly accelerates Web access performance, reduces network/intranet traffic and offloads Web server workload by up to 90 percent. BorderManager delivers the most scalable, hierarchical caching services with a performance capacity of up to 4,055 hits per second and 85,000 active connections using Intel architecture servers.
• REMOTE ACCESS AND ROUTING SERVICES provide cost-effective, remote client dial-up connections to a company's network and secure WAN routing services.
• RUNTIME VERSION OF INTRANETWARE allows customers to easily deploy BorderManager services within a company's Windows NT or UNIX environment or on new servers in a Novell IntranetWare network.
• NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR VERSION 3.01 provides the industry's leading Web Browser for client- side access.
• MICROSYSTEMS' CYBERPATROL offers category-based content filtering to help eliminate access to objectionable Web content.

Pricing and Availability

BorderManager will be available for purchase from Novell resellers on August 28. BorderManager is competitively priced as a concurrent network user model, starting at $2,495 for the five network user kit and is offered in various network user stratifications up to 5000 concurrent users. Also available is a BorderManager Add-On Server kit for $1,995, which allows customers to distribute BorderManager services and network users across different servers and multiple sites. BorderManager will initially be offered in English and will be made available later this year in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese versions.

BorderManager Upgrade Pricing

Customers who have purchased Novell's MultiProtocol Router 3.1 and NetWare Connect 2.0 prior to October 1, 1997 will be able to upgrade to BorderManager at significantly reduced prices.

Additionally, customers who have purchased the following products will also be eligible to upgrade to the complete BorderManager family:

• Microsoft Proxy 1.0
• Netscape Proxy Server
• Check Point Firewall 1
• Raptor Eagle NT
• Trusted Information Systems Gauntlet
• Cisco PIX

About Novell

Founded in 1983, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) is the world's leading provider of network software. The company offers a wide range of network solutions for distributed network, Internet/intranet and small- business markets, as well as the network computing industry's most comprehensive education and technical support programs. Information about Novell and its complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com .

BorderManager, IntranetWare, NetWare and Novell are registered trademarks and NDS and Novell Directory Services are trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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