INGRAM MICRO AND NEWBRIDGE NETWORKS SIGN COMPREHENSIVE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
Newbridge Industry-Leading Telecom And Data Communications Products To Strengthen Ingram Micro's Telecom Integration Division

SANTA ANA, Calif., and HERNDON, Va., Sept. 3, 1997
Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with Newbridge Networks, a global leader in communications networking solutions. The agreement is a strategic move for both companies, bolstering the portfolio of Ingram Micro's Telecom Integration Division, while greatly strengthening the Newbridge channel. Under the terms of the agreement, Ingram Micro now carries the full line of Newbridge high-performance, wide-area and local-area (WAN and LAN) internetworking products, enhancing its product offering of end-to-end networking solutions for the converging WAN and LAN markets.

The Newbridge "MainStreet" products feature a multiservice WAN architecture that supports the integration of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), frame relay, X.25 and time division multiplexing (TDM) technologies. A suite of network management products provides seamless management of integrated voice, data, video and multimedia applications. Additionally, the Newbridge suite of products includes the VIVID system, the only MPOA-based layer 3 switching solution available today for more scaleable, manageable enterprise networks.

"The addition of the Newbridge suite of networking products is very important to Ingram Micro, especially as we expand our Telecom Integration Division," said Laura Skinner, vice president and general manager of Ingram Micro's Telecom Integration Division. "We are excited to provide Newbridge products to our reseller customers, who in turn will be able to offer network managers scaleable solutions to expand and upgrade current networks."

"Ingram Micro has a very strong presence in the reseller market," said Mike Pascoe, president, Newbridge Networks Inc. "With the formation of the Telecom Integration Division, Ingram Micro is strengthening its influence in the WAN market. We are very pleased to be working with Ingram Micro as it grows this area of business and we expect it to be an extremely important channel for the entire Newbridge product line moving forward."

About Newbridge Networks
Newbridge Networks designs, manufactures, markets and services a comprehensive family of networking products and systems that delivers the power of multimedia communications solutions to organizations in more than 100 countries throughout the world. Newbridge products are the choice of an expanding range of customers, which include the world's 200 largest telecommunications service providers, as well as more than 10,000 corporations and government organizations. The company has facilities throughout Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Newbridge Networks Corporation is a public company whose common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NN) in the United States, and the Toronto Stock Exchange (NNC) in Canada.

About Ingram Micro Inc.
Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., is the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services, with 1996 sales of more than $12 billion. The company operates in 19 countries and distributes more than 36,000 products to over 100,000 resellers in 120 countries.