Santa Barbara, California-based Rockwell Network Systems has unveiled the RoadHopper, claimed as the industry’s only remote node offering providing mobile computer users and telecommuters with access to their company’s remote Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol and NetWare network resources. The company also unveiled a multiport remote access server, the NetHopper NH-5, and a software update that adds user-to-local area network capabilities to the existing network-to-network features of its NetHopper series of remote access products. According to the company, RoadHopper provides a maximum of 100 remote users with full network access capabilities such as remote management, sharing of corporate resources, electronic mail and file transfer. It is available as a customised package which includes software for machines running MS-DOS or Windows, Personal Computer Memory Card International Association or AT bus modems, and five-port remote access server. RoadHopper is also available as a software only product. A point and click phonebook stores configuration data for logging onto remote office servers. Nomadic users must initiate a dial-in sequence, but RoadHopper is said to support a callback feature for remote users whose telephone access numbers remain constant. According to the company, an integrated, Novell Inc-certified, remote NetWare client means no additional NetWare client software is needed. RoadHopper is said to connect to any asynchronous device supporting the Point-to-Point Protocol and either the Challenge Handshake Protocol or Password Authentication Protocol. It is also said to support remote node dial-in from TCP/IP packages, such as File Transfer Protocol Software’s Personal Computer Transmission Control Protocol, NetManage’s Chameleon, Frontier’s Super TCP, and National Communications Standards Association’s Telnet. The RoadHopper is manageable via Simple Network Management Protocol and supports Internet Protocol and Internet Package Exchange – IPX- routing including Rockwell’s SmartRoute Software, says the company. RoadHopper is scheduled for shipment by next month. The five-port server and software bundle is priced at $4,500. Remote node software packages can be added for $70 without modems; for $400 with a PCMCIA modem or for $300 with an AT bus modem.