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Manhasset, NY, April 25, 2000 -- CMP Media’s Network Computing is gearing up for its fifth consecutive Real-World Labs LIVE Demonstration of Voice over IP and Quality of Service in Las Vegas, May 9-11, 2000. At the Real-World Labs LIVE Event, Network Computing’s editors will be leading the discussion on technology and current issues, holding demonstrations, and testing several Voice over IP and QoS Technologies in the lobby of the Las Vegas Convention Center. "This is a highly educational event for attendees and has consistently attracted standing-room-only audiences" said Kathryn Dopman, Director of Sales and Marketing/East, she continued, "The promise we make to the our attendees is simply to deliver the right in-depth information that they can use to help them make buying decisions, and we successfully achieve this through purely editorially driven face-to-face events."

Based on the results of lab tests and workshops conducted over the past year, attendees of the event will learn:

• Where Voice over IP should be deployed
• What type of service they can expect
• Key questions to ask product vendors
• How to design networks that can reliably support Voice over IP and Quality of Service

ACT Networks, Enterasys Networks, Netcom Systems and N^x Networks are sponsoring Network Computing’s event. Each sponsor will be holding one-on-one demonstrations and distributing literature to attendees.

"Service Providers are searching for ways to deploy new services over their Packet-based networks, and voice really is the killer application" said Dave Weisman, Vice President of Marketing for ACT Networks. "Our equipment makes it easy to deploy integrated voice and data services over any mix of Frame Relay, PSTN, ISDN, and IP Networks and we are excited about showcasing our VoIP solutions at Network Computing’s Real-World Labs LIVE Demonstration."

"We are very excited to be a sponsor of Network Computing's Real-World Labs LIVE VoIP+QoS Demo," said Kevin Brown vice president of solutions marketing at Enterasys Networks. "It is an excellent opportunity to showcase our latest products, especially the Matrix E7 as well as our other SmartSwitch and SmartVoice Gateway products. This exhibition gives the attendees at N+I a chance to see a live solution demonstration solving the enterprise problems facing our customers each and everyday."

"Participating in the Voice over IP and QoS tests at Network Computing's Real-World Labs LIVE provides Netcom Systems an excellent venue to showcase two of our leading-edge performance analysis products," said Netcom Systems Mike Sanders, Director Market Development. "Our SmartVoIP QoS solution provides the voice quality index, and the performance impact on both VoIP and data traffic as they are transported through the same networking infrastructure."

Tony Morris, Vice President of Marketing for Herndon, VA-based N^x Networks, sees the Network Computing Real-World Labs LIVE event as an excellent opportunity to educate the market on the latest advances in VoIP technology. "This event allows us to showcase our award-winning 3000 series solution for secure voice and data and introduce our next generation products. Moreover, it lets us speak directly to potential customers about our complete suite of tools and applications for harnessing the full potential of VoIP gateways, SoftSwitch technology and Virtual Private Networking (VPN)."

Network Computing, published by CMP Media, Manhasset, N.Y., is the only networking publication providing in-depth, comprehensive, technology and service reviews from a real-world perspective to 220,000 IT Professionals–The Technology Experts–biweekly. In addition, the publication consistently has the largest average-issue audience among all networking publications, according to Simmons and IntelliQuest. Most recently, Network Computing was named a 1999 Neal Award Finalist.

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Enterasys Networks, a Cabletron systems company (NYSE: CS), is the only provider of total network solutions singularly focused on enterprise-class customers. By optimizing enterprise network solutions for e-business applications, and by providing global 24 x 7 service and support, Enterasys provides competitive advantage through IT infrastructure to enterprise customers.

Netcom Systems' SmartBits products are the industry’s only multi-port network performance analysis systems capable of generating and analyzing traffic, at full wire rate, over hundreds of ports for: 10/100/Gigabit, Gigabit Copper, Packet over Sonet, ATM, Frame Relay, WAN, XDSL, Cable Modem, Voice over IP, Multicast IP and TCP/IP.

SmartBits award winning hardware and software applications are used by more than 1,100 of the world’s leading network equipment manufacturers, network service providers, corporate enterprises and test laboratories to measure the performance and services of networks and network devices. Netcom Systems is a SPIRENT company. For more information on the company and its' products, visit the web site at www.netcomsystems.com