ADC Showcases a New Era of Integrated Digital Television at NAB 2000.Business Editors & Technology Writers NAB2000 Booth L543 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 ADC (1) See A/D converter. (2) (Apple Display Connector) A peripheral connector from Apple that combines digital video display, USB and power in one cable. Unveils a Host of New Products to Ensure Reliable Implementation of New and Emerging Broadcast Technologies At the NAB 2000 Convention, which opens here today, ADC (Nasdaq: ADCT ADCT Adaptive Discrete Cosine Transform ; www.adc.com) is showcasing its integrated, end-to-end product solutions for high-quality broadcast transmissions and connectivity. ADC also will highlight a host of new products designed to support broadcasters and video companies in the new era of digital television broadcasting. ADC broadcast products include industry-leading television transmitters, digital routers, fiber optic transport, signal management equipment and wideband connectivity products. The company is providing a series of practical demonstrations of the connectivity offered by its patching and connectivity, transmitters, transport systems, ATM transports and routing and processing systems. "In all of these product areas ADC is able to demonstrate a unique grasp of the challenges that have faced system engineers to date and provide them with real, deliverable solutions," said Nigel Spratling, director of marketing for ADC's broadcast products. "ADC is one of the only manufacturers on the Las Vegas show floor that can demonstrate such a broad range of interconnected equipment. From signal origination through compression and decompression devices, over fiber links, through High Definition up and down converters and finally via digital transmitter to the home receiver. Over the past few years, ADC has built a powerful line up of broadcasting products, which are tested, backed and supported in a way that is indicative of a true market leader." New products on display at the NAB 2000 Convention include: ENVOY 7256 Digital Audio Router, a new AES digital audio router based on a novel TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. (Time Division Multiplexed) architecture to complement the ENVOY Super Wideband(TM) digital routers. ENVOY 6904 4 x 1 Digital Video Secondary Switch, a 512 x 128 digital video expansion frame for the ENVOY router series that accepts inputs from each of four 256 x 128 ENVOY digital video routers for a total of 1024 inputs, supporting data rates from 3.072 Mb/s to 1.5 Gb/s. NV500 Series Distribution Amplifier, a new, inexpensive distribution amplifier for SDI (1) (Serial Digital Interface) A physical interface widely used for transmitting digital video in various formats. For electrical transmission, it uses a high grade of coaxial cable and a single BNC connector with Teflon insulation. , HD-SDI and AES digital audio that comprises a 2-RU frame design with all front-insertion modules. ENVY Control System Enhancements to the operator interface, allowing scroll through source and destination mnemonics mnemonics /mne·mon·ics/ (ne-mon´iks) improvement of memory by special methods or techniques.mnemon´ic mne·mon·ics n. A system to develop or improve the memory. , the building and execution of salvos at the control surface, a System Manager application to simplify ENVY support functions, and external control support for Artel, Horizon and ProBel routing equipment. NV 4000 Series DA4055 Four-Channel Digital Audio Mixer with two synchronous AES audio I/Os, four independent layers of 4 x 1 AES audio mixing, and synchronous 4 x 4 AES3 sub-frame routing for glitch-free mixing. NV 4000 Series DA4060 AES/EBU (Audio Engineering Society/European Broadcasting Union) A professional serial interface for transferring digital audio from CD and DVD players to amplifiers and TVs. AES/EBU is typically used to transmit PCM and Dolby Digital 5. Delay Compensator with two synchronous AES audio I/Os, more than 2.5S maximum delay, and easy front-panel selection of delay amount in video frames or fields, or AES frames. NV 4000 Series DA4061 Time Code Delay Module that provides variable delay of one time code input with 12.5% controlled signal rise times from 1/30- to 100-times play speed and more than 2.5S maximum delay. AccessPoint IMA (Interactive Multimedia Association, Annapolis, MD) An earlier trade association founded in 1988 originally as the Interactive Video Industry Association. It provided an open process for adopting existing technologies and was involved in subjects such as networked services, scripting Module for Inverse Multiplexing that can be used as a stand-alone data and voice access system, or used in conjunction with other AccessPoint video modules to provide inverse multiplexing for multimedia and DTV applications. AccessPoint DVB/ASI Module for DTV that provides networking of DTV signals, and is DVB-DVT compliant for use in conjunction with other AccessPoint video modules, including Encoder & Decoder and IMA for inverse multiplexing. Innovator(TM) Series Solid State Television Transmitters with parallel broadband, LDMOS LDMOS Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor LDMOS Lateral DMOS LDMOS Lightly-Doped Drain Metal-Oxide Semiconductor LDMOS Lateral Diffusion Mosfet amplifier modules, efficient and reliable air-cooling, flexible formats (easily converted from analog to digital, and from ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) An international digital television (DTV) standard adopted by the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina. to COFDM (Coded Orthogonal FDM) See OFDM. ) and available in scalable power levels to 120 kW analog and 60 kW DTV. DT2B ATSC/NTSC Television Exciter ex·cit·er n. 1. One that excites: an exciter of animosity. 2. An auxiliary generator used to provide field current for a larger generator or alternator. 3. with output selectable between ATSC and NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. , plus software-driven operation based on 100% DSP technology and Adaptive Digital Equalization (ADE) that provides both linear and non-linear adaptive pre-correction for DTV operation. DTVision(TM) DTV Signal Analysis System is ADC's exclusive digital signal analysis and testing system. The system samples the transmitter output and measures critical transmitter performance parameters, including digital SNR, error vector magnitude The error vector magnitude or EVM is a measure used to quantify the performance of a digital radio transmitter or receiver. A signal sent by an ideal transmitter or received by a receiver would have all constellation points precisely at the ideal locations, however various (EVM), eye pattern, constellation diagram, and more. UniPatch(TM) RS-422 Patching System that provides reliable patching of RS-422 data signals with 10-pin switching to ensure full SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, White Plains, NY, www.smpte.org) A professional society for motion picture and TV engineers with more than 9,000 members worldwide. It prepares standards and documentation for TV production. 207M compliance with RS-422 patching standards and a modular design that allows engineers to build a patching system as circuits are needed, and replace individual circuits without taking the entire bay out of service. UniPatch(TM) Digital Audio Impedance Transformer that converts digital audio signals between twisted-pair (balanced AES) at 110-ohms and unbalanced 75-ohm coax cables, to eliminate external baluns and provide reduced costs with increased reliability and simplified wiring installation; up to 48 circuits can fit into a UniPatch universal chassis with in ICON panel versions featuring 12, 24, 32 and 48 BNC to QCP, EDAC EDAC - error detection and correction 3, 38, 56, 90-pin to BNC, or AMP connectorized configurations. 6400 MultiChannel Fiber Optic Transport and Switching System available in two scalable versions (6408 and 6444) that operate standalone or connects to existing DV6000 networks and is fully redundant. DVB/SDI Interface Modules that offer full DVB payload support and are switchable between SDI/SDTI and DVB-ASI DVB-ASI Digital Video Broadcasting - Asynchronous Serial Interface inputs -- compatible with DV6000 and DV6400 families. High Performance IF Interface Modules that are optimized for 64/256 QAM and 8VSB IF transport, with additional support of analog IF transport -- compatible with DV6000 and DV6400 families. Further details of all of these new broadcast products can be found on the ADC Internet web site www.adc.com. The DT2B ATSC/NTSC Television Exciter and DTVision(TM) DTV Signal Analysis System are products of Continental Electronics Corporation (CEC (Central Electronic Complex) The set of hardware that defines a mainframe, which includes the CPU(s), memory, channels, controllers and power supplies included in the box. Some CECs, such as IBM's Multiprise 2000 and 3000, include data storage devices as well. ). ADC and CEC have signed an agreement whereby ADC will acquire CEC's television transmitter operations. The proposed acquisition is scheduled to close in ADC's second fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2000. About ADC ADC Telecommunications, Inc. is a leading global supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks that deliver data, video and voice communications over telephone, cable television, Internet, broadcast, wireless and enterprise networks. ADC's broadband, multiservice network solutions enable local access, high-speed transmission and software management of communications services from service providers to consumers and businesses over fiber-optic, copper, coaxial and wireless media. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ADC has approximately 14,400 employees around the world and annual sales of $2.1 billion. ADC's stock is included in the Standard and Poor's Noun 1. Standard and Poor's - a broadly based stock market index Standard and Poor's Index 500 Index and the Nasdaq-100 Index. For additional information, visit our Web site at www.adc.com. 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