Check Out ODS' New Home Page on me World Wide Web Server

Customers can now obtain product information and technical support via ODS'
new Home Page at http://www.ods.com

Richardson, Texas--May 17, 1995--Today, Optical Data Systems, Inc. (ODS),
(NASDAQ-NMS:ODSI) announced the opening of the ODS Home Page on the
Internet's World Wide Web. The home page was created to supply customers
with up-to-date information on the latest networking and internetworking
products and services for the local area network (LAN) market from ODS.

The web site is divided into a Guest Area for the curious and a Registered
Users Area for those who need more detailed, technical information on ODS
products. To access the registered users area, simply fill out the
information in the pop-up registration window. The information will be
processed and a user ID and password will be sent to the requester's
e-mail address.

Guest Area

The Guest area provides a wealth of information for the casual browser.
Users can access the ODS company profile containing the ODS mission
statement and vision for future LAN products; an entire catalog containing
product pictures, descriptions and technical specifications, and press
releases covering recently introduced products by ODS, organized by
topic.

Registered Users Area

The Registered Users area provides additional information on Technical
Support information, including a quarterly Tech Newsletter and Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs). Also included is information on maintenance
programs, training class topics and time schedules, financial information
for investors, and a FTP area for downloading software updates.

Optical Data Systems, Inc. (ODS)

ODS sells a full range of intelligent switching hubs; high-speed
multi-protocol routers, bridges, switches and sophisticated network
management modules to large corporations that build very large and
advanced enterprise-wide information internetworks including LANs, MANs
and WANs. Its mainstay product, the ODS Infinity intelligent switching
hub, is the largest and only hub on the market that supports all four of
the industry standards--Ethernet, Token Ring, Fiber Distributed Data
Interface (FDDI) and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). The Infinity hub
provides superior local and remote SNMP-based management that supports all
groups of RMON for both Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI networks. ODS can be
reached at (214) 234-6400.

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