March 20 2000
Newsletter No. 03

- Tele-medicine at the Korydallos prison facility
- Restructuring of Cabletron Systems

Since our second Newsletter, sent to you early February, there have been news of our Group, and of our agencies.

We shall only give you two news items in this letter. One, our own, and the other, from CABLETRON Systems. In our opinion, these are more interesting. Our own, because it pertains to a pioneering IT project in Greece. That of CABLETRON, announced Feb. 10, because it signals a new development in that company's success story - a development which was apparently duly appreciated by Wall Street investors, since its share value improved by 30.51% in the period 4 to 10 of this month, second only to that of TCBY, according to the KERDOS financial newspaper of Feb. 13.

1. TELEMEDICINE AT THE KORYDALLOS PRISON FACILITY

At the end of February we handed over to the prime contractor, Messrs Themis Construction Co., the comple telemedicine project connecting the Korydallos Prison facilities with the Nikea General Hospital in fully operational condition.

Planet Four Networking SA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Computerbank Networking Group specialising in advanced telecommunication systems, implemented the installation within the time limits foreseen.

Three buildings of the men's complex were interconnected (campus) with Molex Premise Networks optical fibres and connected through wireless link with the LAN of the women's facility. Internal structured cabling in all buildings was UTP cat5 of the same manufacturer. A similar network, with the same type of material, was installed in three buildings of Nikea Hospital. The active networking equipment was made by CISCO. The WAN link of the prison network to that of the Hospital is carried out through the ISDN network of OTE (the Greek Telecommunications Organisation), while one PRI 2Mbit line is also used.

In addition to the network installation, Planet Four Networking SA also supplied and installed the Personal Computers, the necessary servers, the wireless links between the men's and women's facilities, and generally, all the necessary equipment. This pioneering installation supports voice/data/video convergence and serves the prison's telemedicine needs in real-time.

2. CABLETRON SYSTEMS RESTRUCTURING

Cabletron Systems announced that it plans to fundamentally transform its business through the formation of four independent operating companies. These companies

- Riverstone Networks, Enterasys Networks, Global Network Technology Services, and Aprisma Management Technologies- will focus on the key high growth areas of the communications marketplace -service provider, enterprise e-business, professional services and infrastructure management.
- Riverstone Networks will focus exclusively on the service provider market, including content hosting, Application Service Providers, POPs, CLECs, ISPs, MSOs and alternate carriers with the goal of delivering high performance, application enabled infrastructures.
- Enterasys Networks will focus exclusively on Global 2000 enterprise customers. Its solutions will enable customers to drive competitive advantage through their e-business infrastructures.
- Global Network Technology Services (GNTS) is a network consulting company that will focus exclusively on professional services, including the design, performance, management and security of complex networks for large enterprise and service provider customers.
- Aprisma Management Technologies will focus exclusively on delivering infrastructure management software for service provider and enterprise markets.
More details can be found at http://www.cabletron.com/ournews/2000/feb/2-10a.html

Naturally, COMPUTERBANK NETWORKING is the Value Added Distributor of both CABLETRON Systems and its four new companies.

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