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.
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