AT&T AWARDS $252 MILLION CONTRACT TO SAUDI MANUFACTURER.RIYAHD, Saudi Arabia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December 27, 1994--AT&T awarded a $252 million contract to Advanced Electronics Company, Ltd. (AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission ), a Riyahd-based economic offset company, for the local manufacture of state-of-the-art printed circuit boards. These circuit boards will be used in AT&T's sophisticated switching and transmission equipment in support of the Saudi Ministry of PTT (1) (Postal, Telegraph & Telephone) The governmental agency responsible for combined postal, telegraph and telephone services in many European countries. (2) See push-to-talk. PTT - Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration sixth Telephone Expansion Project (TEP-6). Manufacturing is scheduled to begin in late 1995 and continue through 2001. "We are extremely proud of our association with AT&T," said Abdulaziz Sugair, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AEC, "and we appreciate AT&T's recognition of our manufacturing competence and the quality of our work force. This contract represents a tremendous opportunity for AEC. It moves the company into high volume manufacturing and diversifies our business base, while providing challenging technical assignments for our Saudi employees." AEC will integrate the circuit boards into AT&T's 5ESS (1) (Electronic Switching System) A large-scale computer from Lucent used to route telephone calls in a telephone company office. The 5ESS is a Class 5 central office switch, and the 4ESS is a Class 4 tandem office switch. (R)-2000 Switches, its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. for digital telecommunications networks A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. , and high-speed transmission equipment that will be deployed throughout Saudi. "AT&T is delighted to work with Advanced Electronics Company," said Mick Brown
Mick Brown, a.k.a. Wild Mick Brown (born ca. September 8, 1956) is a drummer who has played in the bands Dokken, Lynch Mob, and Xciter. , president of AT&T International -Saudi Arabia. "AEC is the only company in the Kingdom that has the advanced surface mount manufacturing technology and quality control systems required for the production of printed circuit boards for use in the 5ESS-2000 Switch. "This contract is another example of our commitment to develop and expand Saudi Arabia's telecommunications industry," said Brown. In August AT&T signed an Economic Offset Investment Commitment Agreement to help the Kingdom develop a telecommunications industry with world-class capabilities. Under the agreement, AT&T would seek to establish local engineering and manufacturing partnerships in the Kingdom, consistent with the conditions of the TEP-6 project. Today's contract marks another step of that agreement. Saudi's sixth telephone expansion project is valued at more than $4 billion. Signed last summer, it is the largest contract in communications history outside the U.S. Under the terms of the contract, AT&T will provide a fully digital communications Transmitting text, voice and video in binary form. See communications. network including 1.5 million additional lines of 5ESS switching and thousands of associated network components such as transmission, fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber , and network management products. CONTACT: Advanced Electronics Company
Michael Kelly, 011-966-1-220-1350 (office)
011-966-1-220-1355 (facsimile)
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AT&T Network Systems International
Tom van Koppen, 011-31-35-87-2709 (office)
011-31-30-32-8223 (home)
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AT&T Network Systems
Barbara Burgess, 201/606-2656 (office)
201/267-6588 (home office)
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