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Arel/W2COM Wins Contract to Provide Interactive Distance Learning Services to Texas State Technical College

Business Wire - August 28, 2000

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DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 28, 2000

Arel Communications & Software Ltd. (NASDAQ:ARLC), the world's leading providers of end-to-end interactive distance learning systems, today announced that Arel/W2COM has been awarded a contract to provide interactive distance learning products and services to the Abilene, Texas campus of the Texas State Technical College (TSTC). The installation, is expected to be completed in September.

TSTC is a state-supported technical college system offering associate degrees and certificates in more than 40 emerging technology fields. In addition to the Abilene site, the College also has campuses in Waco, Sweetwater, Harlingen, Marshall, Brownwood and Breckinridge. Arel/W2COM will provide all of the design, installation, maintenance and training necessary to implement a distance learning environment for the TSTC's Abilene campus.

"For the past five years, we have been steadily adding to our distance learning capabilities, with videoconferencing being our primary means of educating from a distance," said Ken Woods, Director of Distance Learning for TSTC. "The new capabilities of the Abilene campus, provided by Arel/W2COM, will allow delivery of coursework to students that would otherwise be unavailable to them. These capabilities will allow the Abilene campus to provide concurrent enrollment and general technical education opportunities to local high school students."

"We share Texas State Technical College's commitment to increasing the availability of learning opportunities via distance learning," said Mitchell E. Jones, CEO at Arel/W2COM. "We offer a value-added, consultative approach which goes far beyond the services offered by the typical distance learning technology provider. Our mission is to provide clients such as the Texas State Technical College with comprehensive learning solutions--not just equipment."

About W2COM

W2COM is an applications-driven communications provider of interactive video, data & network integration services, and distance learning services. W2COM provides comprehensive sole-source communications solutions to education, business-to-business and healthcare companies worldwide. The company is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio and has locations in Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland, OH; Grand Rapids and Detroit, MI; Indianapolis, IN; Chicago, IL; St. Louis, MO; Minneapolis, MN; Dallas, TX; and Oklahoma City, OK. For more information, please call W2COM at 877-4W2COM4 or visit the company's web site at www.w2com.com.

About Arel Communications and Software Ltd.

Arel Communications and Software, Ltd., Yavne, Israel (NASDAQ:ARLC) and its Atlanta-based U.S. subsidiary, Arel Communications and Software, Inc. (www.arel.net), market the IDEAL family of interactive distance learning and e-training products, including the innovative PC-based Spotlight application. IDEAL is a fully integrated, enterprise-wide, scalable e-training solution that delivers live, interactive training and corporate communication. Arel Spotlight is a browser-based application that offers both online (synchronous) and offline (asynchronous) learning on a single platform. Powered by Arel's IDEAL engine, the Spotlight is the ultimate end-to-end e-learning system, integrating authoring and management tools, interactive delivery, evaluation, analysis, tracking and reporting.

Arel IDEAL(TM) and Arel Spotlight(TM) are trademarks of Arel Communications and Software. All other trade names are the properties of their respective owners.

Certain statements made herein that are not historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "estimate," "project," "intend," "expect," "believe," "hopeful," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known unknown risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, inability to maintain market acceptance to the Company's products, inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications, rapid changes in the market for the Company's product, loss of market share and pressure on prices resulting from competition, introduction of competing products by other companies, inability to manage growth and expansion, loss of key partners, inability to attract and retain qualified personnel, inability to protect the Company's proprietary technology and risks associated with the Company's international operations and its location in Israel. For additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, reference is made to the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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