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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (29)	4/21/1998 10:09:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82

This news is two weeks old, but I think it is the most exciting area in which LU is involved. Digital video is a monumental advancement in human communication. The information/entertainment/comunication device of the future will be as different from what we have today as your computer is different from a simple calculator. Company Press Release Lucent Technologies Installs World's First Optical MPEG-2 Digital Television System in China's Zhejiang Province NAB Booth No. RS5238 - Sands Expo & Convention Center LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1998-- Lucent Technologies today announced that it has successfully installed the world's first optical MPEG-2 (Motion Picture Expert Group) digital television system in China's Zhejiang province. Twelve cities in the province will be connected through a central network using Lucent's Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) fiber technology and its MPEG-2 Digital Video System. The use of Lucent's SDH and MPEG-2 system allows for a single network to carry video, voice, and data and provides remote locations with video through the centralized network. Lucent also announced it has signed agreements to provide China's Hainan province with the same MPEG-2/SDH infrastructure. ''The emergence of China's digital television networks is a tremendous opportunity for showcasing what high-quality digital video transmission over fiber-optic networks can do. It is the wave of the future,'' said Rau Chang, Lucent's vice president of transmission sales for China. ''The Zhejiang system is part of our continuing work in supplying China's evolving digital communications network.'' The Zhejiang fiber-optic digital video installation will allow broadcasters to add and drop programming for each city in a flexible manner. The central control for the Zhejiang network will reside in Hangzhou, the provincial city. The Zhejiang network is part of the China digital television infrastructure build-out. Each of China's 31 provinces is expected to use MPEG-2/SDH as the standard platform for transmitting digital television. The Zhejiang network, which includes 14 Lucent MPEG-2 Digital Video System units and more than 20 SDH multiplexing units, is an industry first in the use of MPEG-2 over fiber in a large network. ''Although MPEG-2 applications for broadcast, cable, and satellite are familiar to the communications industry, we believe that MPEG-2 over fiber will become a large-scale opportunity for regional networks worldwide,'' said Andreas Papanicolaou, president of Lucent Digital Video. ''The Lucent MPEG-2 Digital Video System was constructed for exactly the kind of network that is up and running today in Zhejiang.'' Lucent's SDH architecture is used throughout China today in the national, provincial, city junction, and rural networks. The Zhejiang system will use STM-16 links running at 2.5 gigabits per second over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). For more information on the Lucent MPEG-2 Digital Video System, visit the Lucent Digital Video Web site at www.lucent.com/ldv. For more information on Lucent's SDH products, visit www.lucent.com/netsys/opticaln et/sdh/index.html Lucent won an Engineering Emmy Award in 1997 for its pioneering work in DTV as a member of the HDTV Grand Alliance. The company, which contributed to the original MPEG-2 specification also built the world's first MPEG-2 and HDTV encoders. In addition, Lucent's Microelectronics group announced the industry's only end-to-end receiver-to-display DTV chip set for both HDTV (high definition television) and SDTV (standard definition television) applications earlier this month. Lucent Digital Video is one of several new entrepreneurial business groups formed by Lucent to bring to market the best of Bell Labs technologies. Leveraging decades of Bell Labs, research and development, the group was formed to manufacture and market digital video products, including encoders. In addition to its alliance with Harris, Lucent Digital Video markets its product line for cable, wireless cable, fiber optic and satellite back-hauling, DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) and other applications worldwide. In January, 1998, Lucent Digital Video announced a strategic alliance with Harris Corp. [NYSE:HRS - news] to market DTV equipment for the North American broadcast market. Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the company's web site at www.lucent.com.