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Enterasys Networks Prepares Leading Chinese University for Distance Learning Capabilities

Business Wire - March 1, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

ROCHESTER, N.H. & NANJING, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2000

NanJing Normal University Selects Enterasys High Performance

Gigabit Ethernet Switching Solution

Enterasys Networks, a Cabletron Systems (NYSE:CS) company, today announced that NanJing Normal University, one of China's oldest and most respected teaching institutions, has chosen its high performance SmartSwitch Router (SSR) technology to facilitate powerful distance learning capabilities, including interactive videoconferencing and Video-on-Demand (VoD) based teaching services. The selected technology is integral to Enterasys Networks' Inherent Internetworking(TM) (see Cabletron Unveils Inherent Internetworking, dated 02/24/00), a strategy for migrating to standards-based, high performance converged networks.

"Through the use of Enterasys Networks' SSR solution, students can seamlessly access the Internet and send email to professors and faculty from any station within the campus, thereby communicating more effectively than at any time in the past," commented Mr. Jun Kong, Information Center technical manager, NanJing Normal University.

Doctor ChuanShi Liu, director of Information Center continued, "Additionally, and most importantly, we have prepared ourselves for the introduction of distance learning applications such as videoconferencing and video-on-demand classrooms, ensuring our University stays competitive within the Chinese education marketplace."

NanJing Normal University has around 100 years of teaching history, and has steadily gained a reputation for providing the highest quality education throughout the region. The university's networking communications has grown to support more than 4,000 stations and future expansion plans include providing services to over 10,000.

Mr. Tao Huang, vice president of NanJing Normal University explained, "Our university campus has three locations; the farthest distance between two is approximately 18 miles. Our network communications support a growing number of users -- set to reach over 10,000 shortly. The SSR solution from Enterasys Networks has allowed us to deliver high performance networking to thousands of users, and its unique Layer 3/4 services have prepared the campus for future high-demand, Quality-of -Service (QoS) sensitive applications."

NanJing Normal University utilizes inherent functionality within the Enterasys Networks family of Layer 3/4 SSRs to create the optimum environment for supporting both video and data traffic within a network. QoS, traffic prioritization, bandwidth provisioning and rate limiting are all capabilities integral to Enterasys' SSR and SmartSwitch technology, and form the basis of Inherent Internetworking. The solution, which includes SSR8600s and SmartSTACK Ethernet switches, also provides wire speed routing, high scalability and enhanced security across NanJing's long distance network.

Enterasys Networks Senior Director, Voice and Convergence Solutions, Ray Wright concluded, "Enterasys Networks' SSR technology is widely deployed around the globe to support time-critical, bandwidth-demanding applications such as distance learning. When the network becomes the critical point in service delivery, QoS and bandwidth control technology within the SSR bring endless opportunities to advance communications."

About NanJing Normal University

Nanjing Normal University is situated in Jinling, the capital of six ancient dynasties. It was originally known as Sanjiang Normal Academy, founded in 1902 by Zhang Zhidong. The Normal Academy gradually evolved into the Nanjing Advanced Normal School-one of the two advanced normal schools in China at the time, and had a prominent position in the history of the country normal education. After a nation-wide university, college and academic department reorganization in 1952, it became known as Nanjing Normal Collage, and has since then occupied the former campus of Jinling Women College of Arts and Sciences. In January 1984, the school achieved university status.

Nanjing Normal University's web site can be reached on the Internet at http://www.njnu.edu.cn.

About Cabletron Systems

Cabletron Systems is a holding company for four of the most innovative, customer-focused organizations in the telecommunications and networking industry:

Enterasys Networks 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 x7 service and support, Enterasys provides competitive advantage through IT infrastructure to enterprise customers.

Riverstone Networks is focused on emerging content and infrastructure service provider markets. Starting from the customer premise, ranging across the metro network, into the hosting center and across WAN backbones, Riverstone networking equipment e-nables an end-to-end service-rich infrastructure. Its solutions enable service providers to provide enhanced services to their customers. Focused exclusively on service provider markets- particularly the data center needs of co-location, content hosting and ASPs, as well as the infrastructure needs of ISPs, MSOs and metro network providers.

GlobalNetwork Technology Services (GNTS) is one of the largest independent network-consulting firms in the world. With consultants in more than 66 locations spanning the globe, GNTS provides network infrastructure solutions that optimize application availability and performance to enterprise and service provider clients.

Aprisma Management Technologies is the leading provider of intuitive multi-vendor management solutions that meet the service level requirements of enterprise and service provider customers. Aprisma pioneered the field of intelligent network management in 1990, with the introduction of its flagship SPECTRUM software suite. With support for a rapidly growing list of over 500 products from the industry's leading network and telecommunications vendors, Aprisma is at the forefront in integrated network and service level management.

Listed on the New York Stock Exchange for more than a decade under the symbol CS, Cabletron is an S&P 500 index company. Cabletron's web site can be reached on the Internet at http://www.cabletron.com.

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