10th March , 2004

US : Fiberlink Communications Corporation, a leading provider of secure remote access solutions for enterprises like General Electric, The Gillette Company and Computer Science Corp., today announced it is introducing the industry's first solution to integrate 3G connectivity along with Wi-Fi, broadband, dial-up and other transport methods to provide customers with a unified remote access experience.

“By integrating 3G support into our award-winning Extend360 solution, Fiberlink is now offering its customers the broadest connectivity options available in the market today from a single, secure client interface,” said Skip Taylor, vice president of marketing with Fiberlink Communications. “We believe this additional connectivity support helps meet the increased demand that mobile workers seek when they are traveling away from the office and outside the range of Wi-Fi hot spots.”

Fiberlink’s Extend360, the industry’s first intelligent access manager, is already being deployed to mobile workers at global enterprises like Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC). With patent-pending technology called Active Transport Notification™, Extend360 scans a user’s current environment, dynamically detects the access modes available and supported by the enterprise – such as 3G, Wi-Fi, broadband and dial-up – and presents these options to the user in one, easy-to-navigate interface. Users can easily see their options and connect with all available access methods.

“Our business success depends on the ability of our employees and customers to securely connect to corporate resources in a cost efficient manner,” said Larry Jones, director of global remote access for CSC. "We selected Fiberlink because of its forward vision and Extend360’s integrated capabilities that will offer our employees and customers more flexible methods to connect.”

"Companies supporting remote and mobile workers can benefit from an intelligent access manager that can take advantage of new wireless data technologies like CDMA or GSM/GPRS, while enforcing customized security policies and lowering the cost for workers to connect," said Bill Clark, research director at Gartner Research. "Traditional remote-access dialers, that simply bolt on access to emerging wireless access technologies result in a higher total cost of ownership and less effective communications for their workers.”

Pricing and Availability

Fiberlink is currently shipping Extend360 to customers that demand this customizable, consistent policy enforcement for all wired and wireless connections. Powered by the Dynamic Network Architecture™ remote access platform, Extend360 provides the most complete set of access, security and administrative tools available on the market. Exact pricing depends on the number of users, length of contract and service set.

About Fiberlink

Fiberlink is a leading provider of secure remote access solutions, unifying worldwide remote access, management and enforcement within existing IT policy. Fiberlink addresses the growing infrastructure complexities of enterprise access brought on by the demands of an expanding business ecosystem. From employees to partners, remote offices to extranets, dial-up to wireless to broadband, Fiberlink allows enterprises to capitalize on extended business opportunities. Multi-network redundancy, best-of-breed application services and support, low total cost-of-ownership and minimal impact on IT help make Fiberlink an important business partner.

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