I believe that the most successful TELECOM beyond Y2K will be the one who offers a wide range of Architectures right on from POTS to CATV,Cellular,PCS,MMDS,LMDS,DBS,LEO|MEO .
Which means more mergers within the industry.
The price competition in Germany has to be good for the growth of the Internet. One of the big drawbacks has been the cost of going online. Leviathans like DT have to cut the fat and lower their fees. It appears they're a bit surprised by how fast the competition has eaten into their numbers.
When you speak of parallel processing expertise is this the same as what's used in 3L's DSPs?
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The end users of 3L tools are usually development engineers implementing advanced parallel-processing solutions in areas such as telecoms, defence, image and signal processing. These are often real-time applications, like the automatic vehicle guidance system described on our applications sampler page. Customers range from individual consultants to large corporations like AT&T, Rolls-Royce and Siemens. Some of them are in our who's who of 3L users; you can also read their comments about 3L.
Products
We don't compete with Microsoft, Borland and Sun to sell mainstream tools for general-purpose computers. Instead, 3L targets special-purpose hardware that is optimised for multi-processor Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications: radar, sonar, telecommunications, image and other signal processing. Diamond, our main product, is a multi-processor Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), that targets DSP boards based on:
•Analog Devices SHARC
•Texas Instruments TMS320C4x
•Texas Instruments TMS320C6x
In 1997, 95% of revenue came from C4x products (5% from older Alpha and transputer lines). SHARC software was announced in September '97 and started shipping in April '98. In May, revenue from SHARC exceeded C4x. TMS320C6x software was announced in March '98 and is scheduled to ship in Q3.
Channels
Most 3L software is sold to end users via vendors of the multi-processor hardware on which the software runs. When an engineer specifies the purchase of a Texas Instruments C4x-based DSP card from companies like Hunt Engineering, Loughborough Sound Images, Pentek, Spectrum Signal Processing or Traquair Data Systems, our aim is that they should purchase Diamond as well. We estimate that more than 50% of end users who want C4x run-time support buy Diamond.
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