Press Release

Cisco Systems to support InJoy IPSec for OS/2 clients.

Holbaek, January 4, 2001 - Cisco Systems, Vertical Industry Technology (VIT) and F/X Communications have successfully completed the compatibility test between the InJoy IPSec client and the Cisco PIX/IOS Firewall products.

Using the InJoy Dialer, John Tat of VIT demonstrated the solution to a regional Cisco Security Engineer and Cisco approved the test as being successful. Following is the comment from the Cisco Security Engineer:

"This was to verify that the F/X OS/2 VPN Client is functionally compatible with Cisco IOS and PIX. IPSec features such as "mode config" and "X-Auth" were successfully tested with the InJoy VPN Client", said Watson Poon, Security Engineer, Cisco Systems.

Effective immediately, all Cisco International Sales Representatives will refer their clients to the InJoy solution for any interests in providing VPN connectivity for their OS/2 platform.

Both VIT and F/X Communications are extremely excited about this new development and with Cisco Systems representing more than 70 percent of the VPN market, we feel honoured to enter this partnership.

For those of our customers that seek to set up a working setup using InJoy and Cisco VPN products, the entire test setup has been documented in the IPSec interoperability guide.

About Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's networking solutions connect people, computing devices and computer networks, allowing people to access or transfer information without regard to differences in time, place or type of computer system.

In the worldwide Virtual Private Network (VPN) market Cisco leads with a 79 percent market share, according to a recent report by Infonetics Research, an international market research and consulting firm for the networking and telecommunications industries.

F/X Communications' VPN products

F/X Communications' VPN products offers a wide range of features for OS/2 VPN integration, including interoperability and authentication with other major vendors on the market.

For the SoHo to the largest businesses, the InJoy product line allows for deployment of VPN's over almost any network media and within almost any network topology. The InJoy products can serve as both VPN gateway or a VPN client.

The unique and recently added Nortel Contivity Extranet Switch (CES) and the Cisco PIX/IOS interoperability offers an opportunity for large businesses to easily include OS/2 clients in the corporate VPN.

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