Some news that never made it to the wire today because it was released under icomf:
Friday December 12, 9:02 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Intelect's SONETLYNX Fiber-Optic Multiplexer Provides Backbone for
Highway Management System in Northeast China
RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 1997--In northeastern China, the backbone of the region's first
fiber-optic intelligent highway management system is the SONETLYNX digital multiplexer from Intelect Network.
The Ha-Da Expressway system, the first of its kind in the Heilongjiang Province northeast of Beijing, consists of seven nodes
spread over 130 km (82 miles). Some individual nodes on the network are separated by more than 50 km (31 miles).
Running from Harbin to Daqing, the OC-1 (51 Megabits per second) fiber-optic network was installed as the Ha-Da
Expressway was being built earlier this year. The fiber network supports video, local-area network data and voice traffic for
the Traffic Police. Both E1 (2.048Mb/s) and RS-232 signals are carried over the network.
The highway management network system performs a crucial integration function for a wide range of communications
equipment, including five Ericsson PBXs with a total of 550 telephones, eight network hubs, six network servers, 51 network
PCs and 36 JVC video monitors.
The network also includes 16 stationary and eight PTZ (Pan, Tilt, Zoom) cameras as well as six Panasonic monitor splitters,
five video splitters and a projection screen.
Intelect's SONETLYNX multiplexer controls the network's communications and operations. The multiplexer links previously
discrete voice, video and data signals into a unified signal, which is then transmitted over an industry-standard SONET or
SDH fiber-optic network.
SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) and SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) are globally accepted, non-proprietary
standards for broadband transmission through fiber-optic cables.
''This application typifies the tremendous response to SONETLYNX that we have seen in China, South Korea and other
countries in the Asia-Pacific region,'' said Willard F. Barnett, Intelect's senior vice president of sales and marketing. He
reiterated that fiber communication backbone projects such as the Heilongjiang network are infrastructure improvements, and
thus are not impacted by the current trouble in some of the region's financial markets.
''China has a huge, untapped demand for fiber networks. The country, in fact, is deploying them faster than any other nation
in the world,'' said Jason Zhang, vice president of Bocom Corp., Intelect's distributor in China and Hong Kong. Bocom is a
leading systems integrator and distributor of intelligent surveillance and security systems in China.
In video surveillance and related applications, SONETLYNX's design consumes significantly less bandwidth -- network
resources -- than competing multiplexers. Traditional video networks assign bandwidth to the input or incoming signal. The
typical video network has many more surveillance cameras -- inputting devices -- than monitors, which are the outputting
devices. In a traditional network, each camera might reserve 1.5 Mbps of bandwidth to transmit images from the camera to a
video monitor.
In comparison, SONETLYNX assigns bandwidth to the output signal, rather than the input signal. Because there are fewer
output devices than input devices, this design reduces the bandwidth the video network requires. The multiplexer's design thus
frees bandwidth for other uses, such as the multimedia communication applications that are in high demand from users.
Intelect Network Technologies is a wholly owned company of Intelect Communication Systems Limited, known as
INTELECT (NASDAQ:ICOMF - news). The parent corporation is an international communications technology company that
develops, manufactures and markets multimedia transport and switching systems for telecommunications and networking
applications.
INTELECT's other business units are DNA Enterprises, also based in Richardson; Intelect Visual Communications Corp. of
New York City; and Intelect Visual Communications of London.
Information about the companies can be accessed at these World Wide Web sites: INTELECT -- icomf.com
Intelect Network Technologies -- intelectinc.com DNA Enterprises -- dnaent.com Intelect Visual
Communications Corp. -- videoconferencing.com
Contact:
Intelect Network Technologies
Ly'nne Grignon, 972/367-2100
e-mail: infocenter@intelectinc.com
Web site: www.intelectinc.com
or
Garnett Communications
Margaret Garnett, 972/234-4482 |
