Intel Introduces InBusiness™ Email Station

Reduces Costs, Enhances and Simplifies Electronic Mail for Small Businesses

HILLSBORO, Ore., Nov. 2, 1998 - Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® InBusiness™ eMail Station, a device that provides small businesses with professional e-mail capabilities at a price they can afford.

About the size of a paperback novel and designed for businesses with fewer than 50 employees, the Intel InBusiness eMail Station provides local area network (LAN) and Internet e-mail capabilities, including automated send and retrieval of messages, remote dial-in e-mail, and other benefits. It can be installed in about 20 minutes.

"Today, of the three million U.S. small businesses that have Internet access, about 80 percent of them pay for individual e-mail accounts**," said Mark Christensen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Network Products Division. "With the eMail Station, companies use one primary Internet service provider (ISP) account to support multiple users, saving considerable dollars and portraying a more professional image along the way."

Intel estimates that an employee can spend 50 hours each year downloading e-mail.*** The eMail Station saves small businesses time and money by eliminating manual e-mail downloads and the need for multiple phonelines and ISP accounts for each employee. Intel estimates that the product will pay for itself in approximately five months, and that companies with five employees could save up to 45 percent in one year on e-mail related costs.****

"We were spending about $250 each month on individual e-mail accounts," said Nicole Golladay-Pierce, vice president and chief financial officer of Peter Jacobsen Productions, a 30-person sports marketing agency in Portland, Ore. "Now, with the eMail Station, we spend about $40 each month and can provide better, faster and more professional customer service to our clients, especially in sharing large, graphical attachments. Over one year the eMail Station will save us more than $2,000."

The eMail Station supports Intel's network appliance strategy announced in September. A network appliance performs a single function and is designed to help small businesses acquire new technologies and add professional capabilities such as e-mail while overcoming the challenges of limited budget, resources, personnel and technical expertise.

Advanced E-mail Features
The eMail Station can help small businesses portray a more professional image and improve communication. For example:

• Automated send and retrieval of messages helps eliminate the time and costs wasted on manual e-mail downloads. Now, e-mail will appear in the employees' mailboxes without them having to initiate a connection with the ISP.
• With their own domain name (johnd@mycompany.com), small businesses can look more professional and help e-mail recipients quickly recognize an e-mail's author. The eMail Station handles basic domain administration such as adding, changing and deleting individual e-mail accounts.
• Additional e-mail capabilities allow the eMail Station to reply to messages to inform senders that the employee is out of the office or on vacation. In the addressee's absence, the eMail Station can automatically forward these incoming messages to another employee for faster response times with customers and suppliers.
• The product provides mailing lists that can be used by anyone on the network. With mailing lists, companies can send a price promotion message to all its customers simultaneously or send an internal message such as welcoming a new employee.
• Employees can transfer files to each other much faster using LAN e-mail instead of through their dial-in accounts.
• The product features remote dial-in e-mail access so employees can retrieve e-mail when out of the office. This feature will also help support the growing number of telecommuters employed by small businesses.

The eMail Station can be connected to an ISP through either an external analog modem or through a router such as the Intel InBusiness Internet Station. The eMail Station connects to a 10- or 10/100-megabit-per-second (Mbps) hub or switch, such as those offered in the Intel InBusiness family. The eMail Station works with any Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) mail client such as Microsoft* Outlook Express* or Netscape* Mail* and snaps easily into the design of the other Intel InBusiness products.

Pricing and Availability
The Intel InBusiness eMail Station will be available Nov. 25 for an estimated street price of $699. The U.S. suggested list price is $875.

All Intel networking products are available worldwide through a network of distributors and value-added resellers. Additional product information is available at (800) 538-3373 for U.S. and Canadian customers; at (44) 1-793-431-155 for European customers; or at (503) 264-7354 for other international customers. Information about the Intel InBusiness family of connectivity and network appliance products is available at www.intel.com/network/products/inbusiness.htm.

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