AYDIN TELEMETRY to Provide S2000 Telemetry System Upgrade.

NEWTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 1998--AYDIN TELEMETRY, a Division of AYDIN CORPORATION (NYSE:AYD) Monday announced the award of a Series 2000 Telemetry System Upgrade contract.

The flight test facility at Aermacchi S.p.A. in Venegano Superiore, Italy has contracted with AYDIN TELEMETRY to provide an upgrade to its existing S2000 Telemetry Pre-Processor System that has been in full operation since 1995.

This upgrade provides Aermacchi the option of future expansion of their ground system with lower-cost, VMEbus-based S6200 modules, while maintaining full use of the capabilities of the S2000 system.

This upgrade provides a link between the S2000 and state of the art S6200 systems, allowing direct VME access to the S2000 system. Not only does this upgrade allow the user to take advantage of the state of the art S6200 products, but it also provides the capability to interface to the large number of third party VME modules available.

The system includes a new version of the AYDIN TELEMETRY Software (ATS) package for user-friendly setup, control, and display. This version combines the existing ATS2000 and ATS6200 packages into a single unified application that is able to control any combination of S2000 and S6200 systems.

A new benefit for the older S2000 customer will be significantly enhanced systems diagnostics for diagnosing problems at the board and system level.

The system features a high performance PCI based UNIX workstation that is connected via a high speed SCRAMNet reflective memory interface. Up to 256 workstations can be networked via the Systran SCRAMNet interface.

Each workstation is used as a network server allowing up to 25 personal computers per workstation access to the real-time telemetered data via ethernet or fiber-optic network interface. A high capacity, high-speed Ultra SCSI RAID device is used for data archival.

The AYDIN Series 2000 product line was introduced in the mid-1980's. This was the first ground telemetry system in the industry to use the "data driven architecture". It has been installed successfully in many telemetry ranges throughout the world, and is still one of the top performers in the industry.

The AYDIN Series 6200 is a VMEbus-based, flexible, high-performance telemetry data acquisition and processing system engineered to meet the demands of modern high-rate, real-time applications; recovering, processing, displaying, analyzing and distributing data from multiple sources to multiple users.

The use of a dual bus architecture (the VME bus for system setup and control, the High-Speed Broadcast bus (HSBbus) for data flow) enhances the performance of the S6200 system by providing a path for raw and processed real-time data. This frees the VME bus to support other tasks such as data acquisition and system status monitoring, as well as supporting other third party VME modules.

AYDIN TELEMETRY is recognized throughout the world as a leader in the telemetry area for over 30 years. Aydin offers a complete line of analog and digital data acquisition, synchronization, decommutation, modulation, data processing and display products for signal recovery, processing and control. Microwave Digital and Analog Radios and Air Traffic and Air Defense Radios also are manufactured and sold by AYDIN TELEMETRY.

AYDIN is a world-class provider of products and systems for the acquisition and distribution of information over electronic communications media. The Company designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, distributes and installs technologically advanced communications products and systems, from basic components to turnkey systems for military, space, government and commercial organizations around the world.

For further information on the Series 2000 System Upgrade, contact AYDIN TELEMETRY, 47 Friends Lane, Newtown, PA, 18940-0328. Tel. [phone]. FAX [phone]. Internet: www.aydin.com

    CONTACT:  AYDIN TELEMETRY
               John Carlson
               Vice President, Ground Telemetry

               215/860-3157 x201, Fax:  [phone]
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                  or
               Paul D'Amore
               Sr. Director, Business Development
               215/860-3157 x202, Fax: [phone]
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