NETSCAPE TO USE LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES' INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY IN NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR AND NETSCAPE MEDIA SERVER

MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, and Mountain View, Calif. (October 22, 1996) -- Lucent Technologies' elemedia new business venture and Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced an agreement to incorporate elemedia's Media Plus multimedia communications technology in future generations of Netscape's family of products, including Netscape Communicator and Netscape Media Server. Based on Bell Laboratories research, Media Plus components will enable Netscape customers to experience a higher quality of voice, music and video over networks than what is available in Netscape products today. "Audio and video are natural extensions to the World Wide Web's media rich environment, and we are leading the way in meeting our customers' expectations of high-quality music, video and speech over Intranets and the Internet," said Michael Po, director of LiveMedia at Netscape. "Bell Labs' expertise in communications is world renowned, and the Media Plus technology will add powerful multimedia capabilities to our Netscape ONE platform."

"High-quality audio promises to be one of the next killer applications for multimedia communications over the Internet," said Joe Mele, president of elemedia. "Our agreement with a leader such as Netscape will help voice, music and video over the Internet be as inherent and enjoyable for consumers to use as telephones and home theaters."

"Consumers have very high expectations for audio and video delivered to their desktop. The alliance between Netscape and elemedia will drive the standard for audio and video quality delivered over the Net to new levels," commented Jeff Pulver, Internet analyst at Pulver.com, Inc.

The Media Plus products from elemedia include voice software, which enables 'telephone quality' conversations over the Internet; speakerphone software, which grants true two-way speech capabilities to PCs and Internet phone devices; and FM stereo/CD-quality audio software, which supports services such as music-on-demand and real-time radio broadcasting.

By the end of this year, elemedia also expects to provide video software that will enable videoconferencing over intranets and the Internet for both business and home use.

Media Plus components are standards-based and designed so software vendors, Internet service providers and other companies can integrate them easily into products and services they provide to customers. Technical information and sound samples of the various Media Plus voice and audio products are available via the World Wide Web at http://www.lucent.com/elemedia/.

The elemedia group is the second business venture created within Lucent Technologies to market Bell Labs software innovations. The first was the Inferno business venture, created in May, which markets the company's distributed network operating system software.

Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. Lucent Technologies was formed as a result of AT&T's restructuring and became a fully independent company -- separate from AT&T -- on September 30, 1996.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a premier provider of open software for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools and commercial applications to create a complete platform for next-generation, live on-line applications. Traded on NASDAQ under the symbol "NSCP," Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California.

Additional information on Netscape Communications Corporation is available on the Internet at http://home.netscape.com, by sending email to info@netscape.com, or by calling 415/937-2555 (corporate customers) or 415/937-3777 (individuals).

Netscape, Netscape Communicator, Netscape ONE and Netscape Media Server are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation.