ELON is everywhere. I pulled this off of Raytheons home page. Raytheon should not be overlooked either as a play. A very interesting company. jmho, MarkC
Raytheon Control-By-Light has developed an innovative, field-proven technology that lets a single fiber optic cable communicate in both directions.
Used wherever there is a need to collect and translate information or to automate and control critical functions, Raytheon's fiber optic solutions deliver superior performance and the highest degree of flexibility, reliability, and immunity to electromagnetic effects.
Raytheon's complete range of off-the-shelf hardware and software products use the LonWorks and SAE AS-5370 open standards, and are all that's needed to build ultra-reliable, fault-tolerant, tamper-proof, fiber-based control networks.
You probably know Raytheon for our defense products. What you may not know is that with solutions to complex problems that cover air, land and sea, our core businesses span defense and commercial electronics, aviation and special mission aircraft, as well as engineering and construction. In fact, Raytheon is one of the world's leading diversified technology providers, a Fortune 50 company with more than 100,000 employees worldwide and 1998 sales over $20 billion.
Raytheon Control-By-Light is a business unit within Raytheon's Commercial Electronics Division. We deliver today's most technologically advanced, most reliable - and most affordable - distributed sensing and control automation solutions for commercial businesses. |