RICHARDSON, Texas, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelect Communications, Inc.
(Nasdaq: ICOM) ("INTELECT") announced today that its Intelect Network
Technologies business unit has completed an OEM agreement with the Odetics ITS
division of Odetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ODETA and ODETB). The private label
teaming agreement covers Intelect's SONETLYNX(TM) and LANscape(TM) product
lines. Odetics ITS designs and installs Advanced Traffic Management Systems
(ATMS) and Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) projects in the US and
China. Odetics ITS also manufactures vision sensor products for roadway and
automotive applications.
"Odetics examined many products in its search for a communication-enabling
platform. Intelect Network Technologies' SONETLYNX provides leading-edge
technology that gives Odetics' customers the advantages of integration for
multimedia communications," stated Don Sinnar, vice-president of sales and
marketing, Odetics ITS. "LANscape will provide state-of-the-art, multi-window
videoconferencing over the same fiber optic network," he added.
"Because of integration advantages that SONETLYNX provides for mission
critical, multimedia communication networks, Intelligent Transportation
Systems are a primary market for Intelect," states Willard (Bill) Barnett,
senior vice president, sales and marketing, Intelect Network Technologies.
"We are pleased to be partnering with Odetics ITS in this market. Their
company strength and fine reputation reflect our goals to provide innovative
solutions in this market place," he added.
Odetics ITS, an Odetics business unit, is one of the nations premier firms
in the intelligent transportation system arena. The company has combined
systems and software engineering excellence with broadened experience in
transportation and ITS disciplines to offer customers superior solutions to
today's transportation problems. Odetics ITS core capabilities include system
and software design, development and integration, and video traffic detection.
Odetics, Inc. is a leading supplier of digital-mass-management products
and communications equipment for the television broadcast, video security and
telecommunications markets. Odetics' headquarters are located in Anaheim,
California, with additional operations in Europe and Asia.
SONETLYNX integrates previously discrete voice, video, data and LAN
traffic into a single signal. The unified signal is then transmitted over
SONET (Synchronous Optical Network). Since its introduction two years ago,
SONETLYNX has been installed in banking, intelligent transportation (ITS),
communications and other networking applications.
LANscape offers sharp, vivid picture quality, a simple user interface, and
bandwidth economy that corporate network managers demand for large-scale
enterprise implementation of desktop visual communications. LANscape's
digital video compression technology is suitable for telemedicine, distance
learning, video-on-demand, one-to-many broadcasts, and other multimedia
applications. In addition, LANscape offers multiple windows and IP Multicast
to support collaborative operations with multiple users and multiple inputs.
Intelect Communications, Inc. is a communications technology company
providing innovative and cost-effective products, services and solutions to
integrate voice, data, and video networks. Applications for the Company's
products and services range from the network infrastructure to the desktop.
The Company's products are designed to anticipate and meet the demands for
increasing speed, capacity, and complexity of electronic and photonic
communications. Principal markets for the Company's products are: fiber
optic network transmission, digital signal processing (DSP), and video
communications. The Company also provides high-value engineering services to
the communications industry. The Company currently has under development an
intelligent programmable telecommunications switching platform. Intelect's
principal business units are Intelect Network Technologies Co. and DNA
Enterprises, Inc. based in Richardson and Intelect Visual Communications Corp.
of New York City.
Further information about the Intelect family of multimedia products and
services can be accessed at these World Wide Web locations: Intelect,
intelectcom.com; Intelect Network Technologies,
intelectinc.com; Intelect Visual Communications,
videoconferencing.com and; DNA Enterprises, dnaent.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the statements in
this announcement are forward looking statements which involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed in, or implied by, the forward looking statements. Factors that
might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, those relating
to: general economic conditions in the markets in which the Company operates;
success in the development and market acceptance of new and existing products
(particularly SONETLYNX(TM) LANscape(TM), and CS4); dependence on suppliers,
third party manufacturers and channels of distribution; customer and product
concentration; fluctuations in customer demand, maintaining access to external
sources of capital; ability to execute management's margin improvement and
cost control plans; overall management of the Company's expansion; and other
risk factors detailed from time in the Company's filings with the Securities
Exchange Commission.
SOURCE Intelect Communications, Inc.
/CONTACT: Troy Ussery or Jacki Trevino, both of INTELECT, 972-367-2114;
or Herb Sjolund, HES Consultants, 212-213-3388, for INTELECT/
/Web site: videoconferencing.com
/Web site: intelectinc.com
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