SEATTLE LAB DELIVERS MULTI-USER TELNET SERVER FOR MICROSOFT'S WINDOWS NT; "Everyone supporting remote users on WindowsNT should have SLnet installed"

Business Wire, May 24, 1995

BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 1995--SLnet, a Telnet server for Windows NT, allows remote users complete access to the command shell or to character-based applications, thus making NT a multi-user system.

SLnet allows up to 256 users to log in to a single NT system simultaneously. These users can run any Win32, OS/2, or DOS character application or use NT's Common Command Shell.

People with multi-user character-based applications are using SLnet to bring their applications to NT. Gary Binowski, of Southern Micro Systems in Marietta, GA, says, "SLnet allows hand-held RF based terminals, used in our warehousing and logistics management applications, to communicate to the NT system via a terminal controller. SLnet is essential to our application and permits utilization of ANSI terminal emulation instead of proprietary protocols."

SLnet also solves a performance problem for users of Wide-Area Networks (WANs) or Remote Access Services (RAS). Remote users can now run tasks on the system where the data resides rather than having to transfer large files over slow links.

Merit Distributing, of Bothell, WA runs its business on a DOS-based network application. When Merit opened a remote office in Portland, remote users took 20 minutes to complete some jobs because they had to retrieve data over the remote link. Local users were running the same jobs in 10 seconds. SLnet solved the problem for them. "SLnet lets users run jobs on the NT server where the data is, without having to pull all the data over the wire," says Dennis O'Loane of Merit. Now Merit's remote users also run the job in 10 seconds, using SLnet on the host machine. "Everyone supporting remote users on Windows NT should have SLnet installed," O'Loane says.

SLnet is a NT service that exports a Telnet login prompt over TCP/IP, allowing any Telnet client full access to NT from the network or over the Internet. NT security and privileges are completely enforced, and system administrators can use a friendly graphical interface to tailor user rights and access on a user-by-user basis. The price for SLnet is $139(US) per concurrent user.

"Windows NT is the best multitasking OS," says James Whelan, Seattle Lab's President. "Now that SLnet adds a multi-user capability to NT, there is no need to consider any other operating system."

SLnet may be used with SeriaLink, Seattle Lab's serial device server for NT, to extend this multi-user functionality to terminals and other asynchronous devices, such as cash registers, scanners, bar-code readers, etc. SLat, a $99 task scheduler for NT is also available from Seattle Lab.

These products support x86, Alpha AXP, MIPS and PowerPC processors. Evaluation versions are available on Seattle Lab's World Wide Web site (www.seattlelab.com), FTP site (ftp.seattlelab.com) and Bulletin Board at 206/402-6388. For more information, please call 206/402-6003.

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Note to Editors: Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. SLnet and SeriaLink are trademarks of Seattle Lab, Inc. All rights reserved.

CONTACT: Seattle Lab, Inc.

Donald Meek or Larry Heberlein, 206/402-6003