24 hours faster than Federal Express; A/E/C Express' new same-day satellite document delivery service for architectural and engineering blueprints takes direct aim at overnight courier business.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1997--Every year, more than 15 million blueprints from architects, engineers and contractors are rushed to their destinations via overnight delivery services like Federal Express.

Now A/E/C Express is unveiling a new satellite-based distribution system for architectural and engineering drawings that wiloviding guaranteed same-day delivery at next-dsion to other markets planned, it could make an even more significant dent in the bottom lines of Federal Express and its next-day competitors. It also represents another step in the ongoing transition from the traditional print-and-distribute model of document dissemination to the more efficient distribute-and-print strategy made possible by the digital age.

"We are building an infrastructure that will make it possible to serve a variety of niche markets with a need to exchange unusually formatted and time-critical documents," said Stephen Hata, A/E/C Express Vice President and General Manager. "For motion picture labs involved in shooting commercials, for example, we could transmit the dailies to the client's offices while the shcould enable a remote hospital to move X-rays could both transmit and receive. Those dishee in place by the end of 1997. As many as 400x network of its kind in the U.S. and give A/E/Cpresented a particular challeng e because of the la rge scale and unique distribution demands of the system.

Typically, VSAT satellite dishes are used for either for low bandwidth, bidirectional applications such as telephone translution that could handle extremely large data dishes all over the country that send and receivey Nut Cheerios, Hata jo ined Dietzgen Corp.

in 1995 to help get A/E/C Express off the ground. The satellite se revenues will flow to network me mbers, Hata contend s, because the construction and design community will cept jobs to be sent to other A/E/C Express neor faxing documents sequentially.

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