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Twentieth Century Fox Selects Novell's BorderManager Enterprise Edition to Link Global Operations over Internet Virtual Private Network Uses Novell Directory Services for Internet E-mail and File Sharing Worldwide PROVO, Utah — Sept. 28, 1999 — Novell, Inc. today announced that Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is deploying the Novell® BorderManager™ Enterprise Edition suite in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that securely links 34 offices worldwide over the Internet, including the Los Angeles headquarters and offices as widely located as London, Mexico City and Tokyo. Twentieth Century Fox estimates savings of more than $600,000 per year from the VPN, which enables Fox employees to exchange Novell's GroupWise® e-mail and share other data files over the Internet, thereby avoiding the substantially higher costs of leased digital lines or dial-up services. Novell's BorderManager Enterprise Edition, including VPN services, enables Twentieth Century Fox to use industry-leading Novell Directory Services® (NDS®) to centrally manage secure access to customer, sales and other business information. The Novell Internet software runs on Novell NetWare® server platforms used to connect and manage network access for more than 5,000 PC users within Twentieth Century Fox worldwide. The VPN uses 128Kbps dedicated connections primarily attached to UUNET's Internet backbone. "Novell's BorderManager VPN enables Twentieth Century Fox to extend our existing network infrastructure to the Internet and improve communication and collaboration throughout our worldwide organization at a fraction of the cost of leased lines or dial-up services," said Daniel Bittner, Fox's director of International Networks and Operations. "The directory-based Novell solution also provides us with a foundation for new Web-based services such as remote access for telecommuters and a company-wide intranet." Twentieth Century Fox's international motion picture and home entertainment distribution divisions identified a need for global Internet access. "After we gathered all the business's requirements, a BorderManager solution was the obvious choice," said Mike DeBrincat, Fox's director of Infrastructure Architecture. Senior Network Designer Jennifer Alex and Senior Network Analyst Richard Tanaka deployed BorderManager in 14 key locations around the globe within four months. According to DeBrincat, centralized management of Internet security and access through NDS contributes to the cost savings provided by the VPN solution. In addition, the underlying NDS and NetWare platform provides the reliability Twentieth Century Fox needs to support mission critical applications worldwide on a 24x7 basis. About Novell's BorderManager Enterprise Edition Novell's BorderManager Enterprise Edition is a high-performance Internet security management suite from Novell that addresses the industry trend towards consolidated management of security services. BorderManager Enterprise Edition includes firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), strong authentication and caching services all integrated with Novell Directory Services, enabling businesses to manage the entire suite of Internet security services from a single, centralized administration console. BorderManager Enterprise Edition provides an extensible security management framework that allows companies to add security services as business needs dictate, and secure single sign-on to network services as well as directory-based policy management that lowers security administration costs by up to 70 percent. The latest version builds on the previous success of Novell's BorderManager, a fourteen-time industry award winner, now deployed worldwide in leading business and government intranet and Internet infrastructures. About Twentieth Century Fox Twentieth Century Fox, a unit of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation Company, is recognized as an innovative industry leader engaged in the financing, development, production, distribution and marketing of motion pictures, and television and home entertainment programming throughout the world. About Novell Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's leading provider of directory-enabled networking software. Novell solutions give businesses total control of their private networks and the Internet, simplifying the management of user access and identity. Novell's worldwide channel, consulting, developer, education and technical support programs are the most extensive in the network computing industry. For information on Novell's complete range of products and services, contact Novell's Customer Response Center at (888) 321-4CRC (4272), or visit Novell's Web site at http://www.novell.com. Press may access Novell announcements and company information on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com/pressroom. In addition, detailed comparisons between Novell products and competitive offerings from other vendors are available on the Web at http://www.novell.com/advantage. For information on the Year 2000 status of Novell products, please access Novell's Year 2000 Web site at http://www.novell.com/year2000 or contact Novell's Customer Response Center at year2000@novell.com. Novell, NetWare, GroupWise, NDS and Novell Directory Services are registered trademarks, and BorderManager is a trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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