September 20, 1999
Golden, Colorado, USA

IEC Announces Peak Components™ Version 1.0 is Now Available!

IEC Intelligent Technologies is proud to announce the release of their much-anticipated Peak Components API which implements the network management and data acquisition functionality of Echelon® Corporation's LonTalk® protocol. This release follows a very successful Beta Program whose participants included Developers and OEMs around the world.

"Our partners in the Beta Program have been highly impressed with the performance, reliability and pricing of Peak Components," said Don DesBiens, President of IEC. "All of the feedback that we've received indicates that Peak Components is the technology that OEMs and developers have been looking for."

Peak Components are a platform independent, embeddable or Win32, Client/Server architecture, network management and data acquisition API offering higher performance at a low cost. This release continues to expand Peak Components' LONMARK® capabilities and adds more of the user-requested features to our high performance, low cost, Win32 and embeddable network management alternative. For more information about IEC and Peak Components, please see our web site at http://www.ieclon.com/, or contact Maureen Shoe at 303.277.1503.

The Version 1.0 Release Includes:

• LONMARK® Node and NV self-documentation string support
• LONMARK SCPT support
• Node installation and binding on multiple domains
• Network discovery at rates exceeding 5 nodes/second
• Client/Server communications
• Server discovery functionality
• Import and export database capability

"These features show our continued commitment to meeting our users requests for LONMARK functionality, increased performance, and low cost, while providing a 3-tier client/server architecture," says Stewart Goldenberg, IEC's Chief Technical Officer.

IEC is offering Version 1.0 at a discount for companies purchasing our Peak Components Developer Kit within 30 days of this press release. For more information on IEC and Peak Components, please see our web site at http://www.ieclon.com/, or contact IEC at 303.277.1503 or info@ieclon.com.