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To: Sector Investor who wrote (20362)	4/17/2000 2:14:00 AM
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Nbase-Xyplex (Chatsworth, CA) was chosen to provide the SCADA system as part of a contract involving the control, management, and security of the Caspian pipeline system. Using the SCADA system, one person, sitting at a remote location, can see the whole pipeline process and perform functional changes like stopping and starting. In fact, one person can control the entire operation, although the plan is to use two-one to handle the marine terminal's ship-loading operations and a second to monitor the entire pipeline. "What makes this pipeline uni que from others through out the world is in using an office LAN [local-area network] technology, coupled with fiber- optic technology, to extend the distance to 1,500 km and still get tremendous speeds of 100 Mbits/sec at a very reasonable price," says Koseoglu. "What's critical in the design of this telecommunications system is that, under normal circumstances, if you lose the link in your communications system, it's more of an inconvenience. In this case, it's a real big deal. If the pipeline operations people lose sight of the pipeline because of a communications failure, they'll have to shut it down. One day's loss of operations equates to millions of dollars in lost revenue." lw.pennwellnet.com According to the U.S. State Department, the Caspian Sea oil reserves, nearly 180 billion barrels, are critical to the world's oil supply for the next half-century.