From: AMY.SMALL@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Amy Small")
Subject: WANG NETWORKING PRODUCTS ENHANCE VS CONNECTIVITY
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Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:22:28 GMT

    Lowell, Mass. (October 27, 1992)--In keeping with its stated
commitment to observe industry and open standards in new product
development, Wang Laboratories, Inc., today announced nine new or
enhanced VS products that follow industry or open systems
communications standards, enabling users to better connect their VS
systems to multivendor enterprise networks.  Customers can leverage
their VS investment with these products, which are all available now,
to gain improved connectivity, enhanced response times, lower
communication costs, or faster distribution of information to systems.
    "These products are nine of the 37 new and enhanced VS products
that Wang promised to our users this year," said Donald Casey, Wang's
chief development officer.  "We are on schedule with our VS product
plan.  The VS is a key component of our OFFICE 2000 strategy of
helping our customers improve their productivity, quality, and
service.  Many want to integrate their VS systems in industry standard
and open environments.  These products give our customers the
connectivity they need between Wang and other vendors' systems.  We
are committed to meeting our customers' needs and protecting their VS
investment."
    Wang users appreciate the flexibility of the VS system in
multivendor communication environments.  "If open system means being
able to communicate with everybody and being able to run all kinds of
software, then I think Wang is as open as you can get," said Chuck
Thor, Director of Systems and Computer Operations for CMS USI, a
division of CMS Energy in Jackson, Michigan.
    "The VS communicates with everything in virtually every protocol
you can think of, from 300 baud async up to V.32 up to SNA," continued
Chuck.  "Other systems, even UNIX-based platforms, don't touch the VS
for communications."  OSI Products
    The new VS File Transfer, Access, and Management (FTAM) Release
1.0 enables VS users to transfer and manage files between
heterogeneous systems in an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
environment.  Prices range from $3,000 to $19,500.
    Wang's VS OSI Services (WOSIS) CORE Release 2.10 significantly
reduces system resources necessary for OSI communications and enables
users to customize their WOSIS installations to the requirements of
their applications communicating in an open systems environment.
Prices range from $2,000 to $26,000.  SNA Products
    VS Access/APPC LEN (Application Program-to-Program Communication
Low Entry Networking) is a new product that meets IBM's PU2.1
peer-to-peer communication standard, giving VS users additional
networking flexibility.  Their VS applications can communicate with
LU6.2-compliant applications operating in a PU2.1 environment on other
platforms, eliminating the need for host system routing. Customers can
share data and processing power on a network-wide basis.  Prices range
from $1,500 to $19,500 for VS Access/APPC LEN Services.  The
application programming interface (API) tools are priced at $12,000.
    Wang's new VS SNA Channel Attach Standard Components Release
2.70.50 works with the VS and special IBM Channel Attach hardware,
allowing the VS to connect directly to an IBM host system bus via an
industry-standard IEEE 802.3 local area network.  This connection
eliminates the need for IBM mainframe front-end processor ports,
enabling customers to increase throughput, simplify connectivity, and
control costs.  Prices range from $400 to $5,200.  OSN/WSN Products
    Wang has unbundled its VS Wang Systems Networking (WSN) NETCORE
product into two communication software packages to reduce the cost of
this software for customers using open networking options.  VS Open
Systems Networking (OSN) NETCORE Release 9.0 now provides the network
installation, logging, and configuration services common to most Wang
industry-standard and open communications products.  Prices range from
$200 to $2,600.
    The now separate, VS WSN CNS (Communications Network Services)
Release 9.0 contains the network protocol software that supports
industry-standard Wang WSN networking applications.  Prices range from
$400 to $5,200.
    The newest release of VS OSN X.25 Data Link Service software
provides for improved communications interoperability and performance
(dynamic packet size negotiation and sliding transmission window)
between a VS system and other Wang or non-Wang systems over a
CCITT-compliant (Consultative Committee for International Telephone
and Telegraph) X.25 Packet Switched Data Network (PSDN).  The product
is priced at $1500.
    VS Terminal Emulation (VSTE) Release 7.18 provides new nested
remote logon services for VS systems on WSN networks, where users can
run VSTE to log on to a remote VS, and then run VSTE again to log on
to a third VS.  VSTE Release 7.18 now includes the in-bound remote
logon server formerly packaged with WSN NETCORE.  Prices range from
$440 to $5,720.
    VS WSN Resource Sharing Facility (RSF) Data Link Release 1.0 is a
new WSN product that allows Wang CNS-based applications such as Wang
OFFICE, File Transfer Manager (FTM), and VS Terminal Emulation to run
over an RSF fiber optic data link, connecting VS clustered systems.
The product is priced at
$1500.
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