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AIAG and Bellcore Announce ANX(R) Certification of AT&T Network

24 February 1999

AIAG and Bellcore Announce ANX(R) Certification of AT&T Network

    SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Feb. 23 -- The Automotive Industry Action
Group (AIAG) and Bellcore today announced that the Internet Protocol (IP)
network of AT&T has achieved Automotive Network eXchange(R) (ANX(R))
certification, and that AT&T may now operate as an ANX Certified Service
Provider (CSP).
    "We are pleased that AT&T has joined Ameritech, Bell Canada and EDS in
becoming an ANX Certified Service Provider.  This helps to drive competition,
improve services and offer ANX trading partners more choice," said Raymond J.
Mitzel, AIAG executive director.  "Through ANX CSPs like AT&T, the ANX service
is providing the auto industry with a leading-edge vehicle for safe and
efficient business communication over a secure virtual private IP network."
    "The development of the ANX service is a major step in the evolution of
supply chain management, and becoming ANX certified opens up tremendous
opportunities for AT&T," said Kathleen B. Early, vice president, AT&T Internet
Services.  "Internetworking is redefining the rules of marketing and
distribution, offering companies the ability to perform real-time electronic
commerce."
    "The ANX service has been designed to meet automotive trading partner
business requirements for electronic commerce," said Bryan Whittle, general
manager of the ANX Overseer business at Bellcore.  "The ANX Certification
Program has helped to identify the ANX CSPs that can deliver consistent, high-
quality business internetworking services for automotive trading partners."
    To achieve ANX certification, ANX CSPs (who connect trading partners) and
ANX certified exchange point operators or CEPOs (who interconnect ANX CSPs)
are required by the ANX Overseer -- Bellcore -- to meet a rigorous set of
published service quality metrics.
    Service providers interested in ANX Certification can obtain more
information at Bellcore's ANX Overseer website at http://www.anxo.com.
    The ANX network is a secure, business-quality data communications network
that links automotive suppliers and vehicle manufacturers electronically over
one multi-provider Virtual Private Network (VPN).  The ANX service is designed
to meet the security, reliability and performance needs for mission-critical
data, with ANX connections replacing the complex and limiting communications
infrastructure currently used among automotive trading partners.
    Among the companies that helped drive the development of the ANX network
are: Caterpillar, Chrysler Corp., Dana Corp., Dofasco Inc., Ford Motor Co.,
General Motors Corp., PACCAR, Robert Bosch Corp., TRW Inc. and UT Automotive,
Inc.
    Bellcore, a SAIC Company, provides software, engineering, consulting and
training services to optimize the performance of communication networks
worldwide.  Bellcore was created in 1984, employs 5,700 professionals, and has
revenues of more than $1 billion.  Bellcore (http://www.bellcore.com) is
headquartered in Morristown, NJ, with offices throughout the United States,
Europe, Central and South America and Asia Pacific.
    Founded in 1982, the AIAG is a not-for-profit trade association of over
1,500 automotive and truck manufacturers and their suppliers.  AIAG's purpose
is to provide an open forum where members cooperate in developing and
promoting solutions that enhance the prosperity of the automotive industry.
Its focus is to continuously improve business processes and practices
involving trading partners throughout the supply chain.
    More information about the AIAG and the ANX network can be found at
http://www.aiag.org.
    For more information about AT&T Automotive Network Services, go to:
http://www.att.com/ipservices.