OmniBox, Inc. Lucent Technologies_ Technology Today_Sept. 1997 4:39

FOR RELEASE MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1997

Murray Hill, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies' Inferno( Network Software business today announced Inferno Release 1.0 -- a real-time network operating system (OS) that provides a software infrastructure for businesses to create distributed network applications.

Inferno 1.0 provides end-to-end connectivity over the public telephone network, the Internet, corporate networks, cable television and satellite broadcast. With Inferno, networking and security protocols are built in the OS, and applications run unchanged across any communications network or device.

The product has a very small memory footprint, allowing it to act as a stand-alone OS on information appliances and run as an application on network elements -- such as servers, routers and switches -- using UNIX or Microsoft NT platforms.

"Inferno is a full-featured operating system for customers developing heavy-weight network applications for all types of information and communication devices," said Mike Skarzynski, vice president and general manager for Inferno Network Software Solutions. "In today's complex mix of networks, customers can use Inferno to capitalize on new business opportunities while leveraging existing hardware and software investments."

OmniBox, a provider and developer of interactive services and programming for the home electronic commerce market, is an Inferno 1.0 customer. Thomas A. Bush, president of OmniBox, said, "Our goal with the OmniBox Network is to help communications distributors in all channels reach many businesses, households, universities and hospitals. We chose to build our services architecture on Inferno because it provides the flexibility, openness and robustness that such a sophisticated electronic commerce system requires."

OmniBox Interactive Broadcasting Network
Thomas A. Bush, CEO 1997

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