ATML Technology Delivers Multi-Media to Reuters Network.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 1996--Global news and information provider Reuters has chosen asynchronous transfer mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM) technology from Advanced Telecommunications Modules Ltd (ATML ATML Automatic Test Markup Language ATML Automated Test Markup Language ) based in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. to create a multi-media communications system In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. . Paul Hobbs, technical project manager at Reuters, said: "We needed a system that would deliver a mixture of pictures and captions as soon as it has been created by our journalists and photographers. ATML's technology is allowing our offices around the world to be very close to what happens, as it happens." A combination of ATML's advanced network interface cards (NICs) and switches is being used to create an ATM-based system delivering pictures with text from sites in London, Washington DC and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. across Reuters high speed network. With ATM hardware costs falling, the ATM 25.6 Mbps transmission standard has become the de-facto high speed replacement for Ethernet technologies. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Tom Bleier ATML's director of marketing: "Reuters selected ATML because it displayed and proved a high level of expertise in picture capture, voice and video integration." Reuters Multi-Media Editing Desk (MED) ATML's Virata Switch and Virata Link PC NICs form a key part of the system, the Multi-Media Editing Desk, delivering high quality pictures with text across the company's high speed network. Reuters is planning to add video capture in the next phase of the project after the Olympics. The system is based on Microsoft's NT network operating system An operating system that is designed for network use. Normally, it is a complete operating system with file, task and job management; however, with some earlier products, it was a separate component that ran under the OS; for example, LAN Server required OS/2, and LANtastic required DOS. and SQL Server and runs on TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. . Applications such as Photoshop are used to edit the picture service. About ATML Advanced Telecommunications Modules, Ltd. is the technology innovator in providing ATM quality switching solutions for the corporate intranet that integrate with existing LANs and enable collaborative business communications. Founded in 1993, ATML was spun off from Olivetti Research Labs with the exclusive rights to commercialize its ATM technology. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Cambridge, England and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, call 1-800-930-4ATM or contact ATML through the worldwide web at http://www.atminc.com About Reuters Reuters Holdings PLC (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on symbol: RTRSY) supplies the global business community and news media with a wide range of products including real-time financial data, transaction systems, access to numerical and textual historical databases, news, graphics, still photos and news video. Reuters Group companies design and install trading room systems. Information is obtained from around 270 exchanges and over-the-counter markets, from 4,700 subscribers who contribute data directly to Reuters, and from a network of about 1,940 journalists, photographers and camera men. Some 340,000 clients access Reuters information, some using their own terminals to do so. CONTACT: Stirling & Cohan Inc. Cynthia Sterling, 415/513-0972 |
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