Vendor Alliances

ICS maintains alliances with the best hardware and software vendors in the industry. These alliances reflect the ongoing commitment we at ICS have on providing the best solutions to our customers.

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco products include routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers and network management software. These products, integrated by the Cisco IOS software, link geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM networks. Cisco Systems news and product/service information are available on the World Wide Web site at http://www.cisco.com. Cisco Systems is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.

Nortel Networks delivers the combined expertise and proven leadership in telephony and IP-based data, wireline and wireless networking to bring all your communications together over a single network. As the first and only company of its kind in the world, our experience is unmatched by anyone else in building and supporting Unified Networks - global, scalable, high-capacity public and private networks built on the innovation, IP technology, and application-focus driving the Internet.

Retail Technologies International, Inc. is the software company that develops and distributes Retail Pro for the management of specialty stores and chains. Established in Sacramento, California in 1986, RTI software sales have increased every subsequent year without exception under its original founding management. RTI also coordinates the international network of Retail Pro service centers, a group of about 50 RTI business partners who are the certified providers of Retail Pro systems. These companies, many of whom are dedicated exclusively to Retail Pro, employ over 350 people servicing over 12,500 store sites on Retail Pro. In 1996, worldwide Retail Pro system sales surpassed $30 million.

Vicon Industries, Inc., listed on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol "VII," designs, manufactures, assembles and markets a wide range of closed-circuit television systems and system components used for surveillance, security, safety, and control purposes by a broad group of end-users.The Company sells its systems and products to installing dealers, system integrators, government entities and distributors worldwide principally under Vicon trademarks. The Company's products are typically used by end users as a crime deterrent, for visual documentation, observing inaccessible or hazardous areas, increasing safety, managing control systems and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of personnel.

HIE is a provider of enterprise application integration (EAI) software and services that allow disparate systems to share information with one another. HIE application integration solutions include message-oriented middleware, such as message brokers, and an enterprise master person index (EMPI). Message oriented middleware is one of the fastest growing areas in the EAI market space. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), message-oriented middleware is expected to grow 47.2% annually during 1997 to 2002.

BICSI, an international not-for-profit telecommunications association, was founded in 1974 to serve and support telephone company building industry consultants (BICs) responsible for the design and distribution of telecommunications wiring in commercial and multi-family buildings. BICSI has grown dramatically since those early days and by the end of 1999 will serve nearly 17,000 members from every state in the US and from over 75 countries around the world. BICSI's programs and interests cover the broad spectrum of voice, data, and video technologies.

BellSouth is a $24 billion international communications company, headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., providing telecommunications, wireless communications, cable and digital TV, directory advertising and publishing, and Internet and data services to nearly 35 million customers in 19 countries worldwide.