DSC Communications Corp’s Weybridge based European subsidiary DSC Nestar this week launched its Nexos family of local area network software and hardware products to run under Novell Netware: the range comprises the Nex/Os operating system, an 80386 file server, a variety of networking communication gateways, interface cards, and 80286 workstations; the company claims that Nexos matches the security and fault tolerance features of its competitors and is 43% cheaper than the equivalent version of Novell Netware currently available in the UK; list prices for the Nex/Os, Nex/Server, Nex/Link interface card and Nex/TCP gateway available now – are from UKP1,095, UKP10,500, UKP195 and UKP350 respectively, with SNA, X25 gateways and an OS/2 system for later this year.