From: "BusinessWire@Bizwire.com"To: Subject: CO-COMPATIBLE-SYSTEMS - BW0118 08111999 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 06:04:19 -0700 BW0118 Aug 11, 1999 06:03 PACIFIC 09:03 EASTERN ( BW)(CO-COMPATIBLE-SYSTEMS) Compatible Systems Founding Member of VPN Consortium; E-Commerce Enabling Technology's Rapid Growth Leads to Birth of New Trade Association Business Editors/High Tech Writers BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 11, 1999--Compatible Systems Corporation, the industry leader in hardware-based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), is proud to announce they are a founding member of The Virtual Private Network Consortium (VPNC), a newly formed industry trade association to promote VPNs. Compatible Systems is one of 10 founding partners that include Altiga Networks, Cisco Systems, Freegate, Hi/fn, Intel, Internet Devices, MCI Worldcom Advanced Networks, Network Alchemy, and SSH Communications Security. "We are quite pleased to have a leading VPN vendor such as Compatible Systems as one of our founding members," said Paul Hoffman, Director of VPNC. "Compatible has been in the core network business for much longer than most of our members, and they bring a great deal of experience to the VPN market." VPNs are a scaleable hardware and software solution that lowers the cost of secure data transfer, including e-commerce transactions. According to a recent study by Frost & Sullivan, the total U.S. VPN market will grow along with e-commerce, from $3.5 billion in 1998 to $18.7 billion in 2004. "As a founding member of VPNC, Compatible is at the forefront in shaping the rapidly expanding VPN market and helping deliver high quality products customers demand," said Matt McConnell, president and CEO of Compatible Systems. "Compatible Systems has a history of technical innovation and we look forward to sharing our insights with the industry and the ever-growing list of potential customers." About VPNC VPNC serves as a forum for VPN manufacturers throughout the world. As an international trade association for manufacturers in the VPN market, the primary purpose of VPNC is to educate potential customers as to the benefits of VPN technology in e-commerce, remote access and other applications. In addition, VPNC will increase interoperability between members, and provide publicity and support for interoperability testing events. For more information visit the VPNC Web Site at http://www.vpnc.org. About Compatible Systems Compatible Systems Corporation is the industry leader in hardware-based VPN solutions for site-to-site and remote client connection networking. The company has more than 10 years of network product design experience and has worked with VPN technologies since 1991. Compatible Systems has strong customer, reseller and ISP relationships and has installed equipment in thousands of networks worldwide. For more information, contact Compatible Systems Corporation at P.O. Box 17220, Boulder, Colorado 80308 or by phone at 800/356-0283 or 303/444-9532. The company's World Wide Web server is http://www.compatible.com. Compatible Systems VPN Access Servers have been selected for use by Adobe Systems, Amazon.com, Apple Computers, ENTEX Information Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, the Mayo Foundation, Pacific Stock Exchange, PSINet, the U.S. Department of Health and the Yankee Group. Among the industry veterans who have begun development of VPN products are Ascend Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASND), Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO), Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU), and Nortel Networks (NYSE:NTL). Compatible Systems VPN client software runs native with operating systems and development environments from Apple Computer (Nasdaq:AAPL), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW). --30--kmw/se* CONTACT: Compatible Systems Corporation Tom Ferrell, 800/356-0283 or 303/444-9532 (Fax) 303/444-9595 tferrell@compatible.com or Shandwick Public Relations John Jordan, 650/596-5850 X4274 (Fax) 650/610-6909 jjordan@shandwick.com KEYWORD: COLORADO INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET PRODUC REPEATS: New York 212-752-9600 or 800-221-2462; Boston 617-236-4266 or 800-225-2030; SF 415-986-4422 or 800-227-0845; LA 310-820-9473 Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: http://www.businesswire.com (537)