BAY NETWORKS DELIVERS INTEGRATED SUITE OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE ETHERNET
SOLUTIONS FOR DEPARTMENTAL, WORKGROUP AND BACKBONE LAN ENVIRONMENTS

-- Cost-effective Ethernet Solutions Provide Enhanced Network Performance
and Integrated Network-Wide Management Across the Enterprise --

BILLERICA, Mass., July 13, 1995 -- As part of its 100BASE-T strategy, Bay
Networks today announced the industry's most comprehensive and integrated
suite of high-performance Ethernet solutions for departmental, workgroup,
and enterprise users evolving today's Ethernet networks to
high-performance, switched internetworks.

Today's announcement includes the expanded LattisSwitch System 28000 Fast
Ethernet Switching Hub family, new 100BASE-T router interfaces, a new
100BASE-T Stackable Hub, and a new 10/100 Ethernet Workgroup Switch. The
combination of these new and enhanced products, with Intel's
industry-leading EtherExpress PRO/100 adapters now being sold by Bay
Networks, gives departmental, power workgroup and backbone LAN users
superior network performance and bandwidth utilization, while providing
integrated and centralized management of the entire network. Bay Networks'
high-performance Ethernet solutions are manageable by the company's
Optivity application, which allows users to manage and control the network
from a centrally located management console.

Bay Networks' high-performance Ethernet solutions support the data
transport services of the company's BaySIS architecture. BaySIS is an
architecture defining transport, policy and operations services that
define how data, video and voice move through a switched internetwork.

"This new set of products from Bay Networks meets the pent-up customer
demand for high-performance Ethernet," stated Michael Howard, president of
Infonetics Research. "Customers need flexible product options ranging from
10 Mbps switches to shared and switched 100 Mbps Ethernet, as well as
router connections. Customers are looking for Ethernet bandwidth today for
desktops and buildings while planning for ATM."

"As today's corporate networks continue to expand with additional users,
faster workstations and more bandwidth-intensive applications,
organizations require a comprehensive solution that addresses the entire
enterprise, from backbone and server connections to desktop segments,"
said Dominic Orr, senior vice president and general manager of Bay
Networks' hub product business unit. "By delivering flexible and scalable,
high-performance products, Bay Networks is the only vendor to offer users
a cost-effective and complete solution that provides the necessary
bandwidth when and where it is needed as well as a clear migration to
next-generation internetworks."

HIGH-PERFORMANCE BACKBONE SOLUTIONS

Building on the foundation for a smooth migration to high-performance
networking, the company has enhanced the LattisSwitch Fast Ethernet
Switching Hub family with the LattisSwitch 28104, a new 8-port fiber
configuration for collapsed backbone designs. This new configuration joins
the LattisSwitch 28115, shipping since January 1995, which provides 16
10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet connections to relieve server bottlenecks and
improve network traffic segmentation.

Bay Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNET) is a leading worldwide supplier of a full
range of highly available, multiprotocol routers, intelligent hubs,
high-speed switches, and sophisticated network management products for
organizations building enterprise-wide information internetworks. The
company was established in October 1994 with the merger of SynOptics
Communications and Wellfleet Communications, and now has combined revenues
in excess of $1 billion for its most recent year. With more than 1,000
resellers and over 1,200 direct sales and service personnel worldwide, Bay
Networks markets and supports its comprehensive product suite in 110
offices, providing 7x24 global support coverage.
 
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