DSLcon Spring, SAN West and VPNcon Spring Exhibitor Profiles

Business Wire, May 13, 2002

Business/Technology Writers

DSLcon Spring 2002

SAN West 2002

VPNcon Spring 2002

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2002

DSLcon Spring, SAN West and VPNcon Spring start this week, May 13-15, at the San Jose Convention Center. For more information about the events, go to www.networkingtheenterprise.com.

Listed below are profiles from DSLcon Spring, SAN West and VPNcon Spring exhibitors. Exhibitor news releases and advisories are available at www.tradeshownews.com.

Business Wire is the official news service for the 2002 DSLcon, SAN and VPNcon events.

                        DSLCON Spring profiles:

Show: DSLcon Spring 2002
Company: KTL
Booth: 414
Media Contact:  Steve Kingdom
Phone:  44 1482 801801
E-mail: skingdom@ktl.com
Company URL:  www.ktl.com

   KTL is a UK based independent test laboratory, specialising in
Telecoms, Safety, EMC, Radio and Environmental test services for
worldwide markets. During the last 4 years, KTL has established
leading DSL test services, covering a wide range of country specific,
ETSI, ANSI and ITU-T standards, for both a regulatory and voluntary
requirements. With the industry emphasis on interoperability between
multi-vendor systems and products, KTL have been developing a DSL
interoperability test facility, which will be recognised by the DSL
Forum. The facility already boasts a large range of DSLAM's (ATU-C)
and CPE (ATU-R) modems against which manufacturers can test.

                        SAN West 2002 profiles:

Show:  SAN West 2002
Company:  APCON, Inc.
Booth: 119
Media Contact: Tim Justice
Phone 503-639-6700
E-mail timj@apcon.com
Company URL www.apcon.com

   Product Description: APCON IntellaPatch Physical Layer Switches
eliminate manual cable pulls and simplify interoperability test lab
device configuration. Other applications include analyzer insertion
and network monitoring. Users can automate remote patching of
point-to-point and FC-AL connections from any workstation on their
Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, or Fast Ethernet network.

   Company Description: APCON, Inc. develops network hardware to
improve the flexibility of enterprise-wide networks and
interoperability labs, providing customers cost effective alternatives
to high-priced hardware. APCON products include physical layer
switches (supporting up to 2 Gb/s), network monitoring software,
failover solutions, SCSI switches and boosters (supporting up to
Ultra160), and SCSI extenders.

Show:  SAN West 2002
Company: Hitachi America, Ltd
Booth: 307
Media Contact: Kerstin Barr
Phone: 650-532-4033
E-mail: kbarr@webershandwick.com
Company URL: www.hitachi.com/storage/

   Product Description: Hitachi's new DK23EA family of 2.5-inch
drives offer up to 60GB of storage capacity and feature exceptionally
quiet and shock-resistant operation. The 40GB unit is also available
in a 5,400 RPM model. The 10,025 RPM DK32EJ 3.5-inch family offers a
maximum storage capacity of 147.8GB.

   Company Description: Hitachi America, Ltd. Computer Division
manufactures multiple hard disk drive families to provide
high-capacity storage solutions for both mobile and notebook as well
as enterprise storage needs. The division currently supplies its full
line of 2.5- and 3.5-inch drives to leading computer OEMs, value-added
resellers and distributors.

Show:  SAN West 2002
Company: ncot Corporation
Booth: 115
Media Contact: Craig Magnuson
Phone: 650-322-5322
E-mail:  craig@ancot.com
Company URL: www.ancot.com

   ncot was founded in 1987 by Jan Dedek. Our headquarters are
located in Menlo Park, CA.

   ncot offers a complete line of high performance Fibre Channel and
SCSI bus test and development tools including protocol analyzers,
traffic generators and converter solutions that assist developers and
system integrators who develop Fibre Channel and SCSI peripheral and
network products.

   Our customers include all major computer companies, storage
peripheral manufacturers, VAR's, network equipment suppliers and end
users. We offer a wide variety of well-designed solutions backed by
strong engineering support and complete upgrade strategies for
existing customers.

                           VPNcon profiles:

Company: CipherOptics Inc.
Booth: 621
Media Contact: Barbara Capone
Phone: 919-865-7327
E-mail: barbarac@cipheroptics.com
Company URL: www.cipheroptics.com

   Product description: The new CipherOptics Security Gateway
provides 3DES encryption at full Gigabit Ethernet wire-speed
transmission and is priced at a fraction of the cost of comparable
hardware offerings. The Security Gateway combines high-speed data
encryption for both IPSec processing and SSL offload into a unified
purpose-built technology platform to maximize existing network
resource efficiency. Fully compatible with existing IP networks, the
CipherOptics Security Gateway can be seamlessly deployed into Gigabit
Ethernet environments, including IP site-to-site VPNs and storage over
IP networks.

   Company description: CipherOptics designs, develops and
manufactures data encryption products for high-speed networks. Most
recently, the company introduced its new Security Gateway which
performs secure 3DES encryption at true Gigabit rates. The corporate
vision is to architect and deliver best-of-breed, true Gigabit-speed
network security offerings that shatter security performance barriers
and maximize network resource efficiency.