Advanced Visual Systems awarded an EC ESPRIT project led by British aerospace.COPENHAGEN, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997--The European Headquarters of Advanced Visual Systems is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an EC research project named INDEX for "Intelligent Data Extraction." A total effort of 13 man years at a cost of 1.8MECU MECU Motorola Employees Credit Union MECU Mayo Employees Credit Union MECU Municipal Employees Credit Union, Inc. MECU Mahggls Employees Credit Union MECU Medical Education Clinic Unit will be spent over the next two years on the project. The project is led by British Aerospace (UK) and involves European partners Advanced Visual Systems A/S (Denmark), Daimler-Benz (Germany), University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a university located in Manchester, England. With over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, more than 10,000 staff and an annual income of nearly £600 million it is the largest single-site University in the United Kingdom and receives (UK), Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale (OGS-Italy), and University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart (German Universität Stuttgart) is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties. (Germany). The project is funded by the CEC's ESPRIT Initiative (European Strategic Programme of Research and Development in Information Technology) and the industries involved. "We are extremely happy to receive this award from this prestigious industrial research program in cooperation with the leading-edge industrial and university partners," said Stig Jensen, Vice President of European Operations for AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard) A video compression technique developed by Chinese companies and supported by the Chinese government. Expected to provide better compression than MPEG-2, AVS was created to avoid paying royalties to the MPEG licensors, which are outside . Jensen added that, "AVS is a leader in engineering application visualizations and is well positioned to capitalize on the increased emphasis on visualization capabilities in the engineering marketplace. The result of the EC project will further strengthen this position". The goal of the INDEX project is to make possible the interactive analysis of the results of engineering simulations performed on High Performance Computing (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) platforms. The very success of HPC methods in reducing engineering design times and costs has led to a substantial increase in data set size and number, and the difficulty and cost of analyzing and interpreting this data is addressed by the project. The solution proposed is to implement techniques that selectively reduce the proportion of the data returned for analysis by an intelligent and automatic pre-selection, automatically and transparently exercise data compression methods, and present compact alternative representations of features in vector and scalar fields. AVS will develop filters to generate VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. descriptions of suitable aspects of the scientific datasets, and also demonstrate the use of INDEX data reduction methods in a collaborative visualization environment within the consortium. The AVS/Express visualization software was selected to implement and verify the result of the INDEX methods because of its modular design, flexible data structure, and already proven techniques for visualizing very large data sets. The INDEX project will produce the INDEX Toolset, which will be a portable modular software library providing an integrated software solution to the problem of increased data set size from engineering simulation. The software will be exercised by the industrial partners British Aerospace, Daimler-Benz, and OGS OGS Office of General Services (New York State) OGS Office of Graduate Studies OGS Ontario Genealogical Society OGS Ontario Graduate Scholarship OGS Ohio Genealogical Society within their existing design processes, and exploited by the partners through commercial sales of the Toolset. The Toolset will be marketed by Advanced Visual Systems as components for direct integration in applications software. Advanced Visual Systems Inc. is the leading supplier of "visual intelligence" development tools and end-user software that transform large amounts of complex data into 2D and 3D visual information. The company's products deliver insight and competitive advantage to customers in the technical, scientific, and commercial "data mining" markets, including medical imaging, engineering, geospatial application development, oil and gas, aerospace, government research, telecommunicatiorters in Denmark, Advanced Visual Systems offices are also located in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. World headquarters are located in Waltham, Mass channels for the company's products in the Pacific Rim. -0- AVS/Express is a registered trademark andw Marketing Communications rope: Dr. Mikael Jern AVS INDEX Project Manager Advanced Visual System A/S tel: +45 45 99 95 99 EmailORD: NEW YORK MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRY KEYWOR5; LA 310-820-9473 Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com oduct Solutions Business Editors/Computer Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997-- Breakthrough QuickDial(TM) technology enables pervasive deployment of ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line services NetSpeed(TM), founded by former NetWorth executives John McHale and Paul Zito, has announced end-to-end Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (communications, protocol) Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - (ADSL, or Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop) A form of Digital Subscriber Line in which the bandwidth available for downstream connection is significantly larger then for upstream. (ADSL) products, including a breakthrough technology known as QuickDial "On-Demand" ADSL. According to industry analyst Kieran Taylor of Telechoice, "NetSpeed's QuickDial On-Demand ADSL is going to make the ADSL market happen." NetSpeed has announced a suite of products for service providers, corporations and consumers. The LoopRunner(TM) Advanced Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) allows telephone lines to make faster connections to the Internet. It is a network device, located near the customer's location, that connects multiple customer Digital Subscriber Lines (DSLs) to a high-speed Internet (ADSLAM ADSLAM Advanced Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (Cisco) (TM), SpeedRunner(TM) 100/200 Ethernet to ADSL routers, SpeedRunner 300 Ethernet to ADSL roadband telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. and high quality teleconferencing. "NetSpeed's mission is to knock down all the barriers so that pervasive ADSL broadband deployment can begin immediately," said John McHale, NetSpeed 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. . "We are providing all of the pieces to the DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary puzzle -- advanced multiplexers, routers, PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). adapters and broadband remote access servers so that complete DSL broadband networks can be built," said McHale. QuickDial ADSL Bandwidth On-Demand The NetSpeed product line includes w to deliver end-to-end solutions which meet our cost requirements. NetSpeed's cost-effective product solutions based on Digital Off- Hook and modem pooling promise fault tolerance, lower power requirements, and higher density for my's dial-up V.34 modems, only much quicker. QuickDial is compatible with most ADSL premise solutions from other vendors. However, with NetSpeed's innovation, ADSL train times are reduced from the current 15 to 20 second intervals le the physical connection is dropped, allowing for optimization of the network connection and central office equipment. When the user reinitiates a network request, the physical connection is re-established transparently. Broacess costs for corporations and consumers. Inverse multiplexing is accomplished with NetSpeed's BroadBond high-speed bonding protocol so that ADSL lines can be aggregated for very high-bandwidth applications. BroadBond inverse multiplexing provides "rubber bandwidth" -- thus ADSL lines can be "QuickDialed" and aggregated whenever more bandwidth is needed. "Our on-demand strategy is very simple," said Kent Savage, NetSpeed vice president of Sales and Marketing. "Consumers and corporations get ADSL bandwidth exactly when they need it and only when they need it. It's a win-win. Service providers pay less to deploy ADSL and corporate/consumer users pay less for the service." NetSpeed Product Overview LoopRunner -- Advanced Digital Subscriber Loop Digital Subscriber Loop - Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer The NetSpeed LoopRunner is an Advanced Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (ADSLAM). LoopRunner is a fully scaleable system, supporting from 16 to 4,992 users on a single DS1, DS3, or OC3c ATM or a Frame Relay DSI (Dynamic Systems Initiative) An umbrella term for a suite of Microsoft products that help manage the Windows environment in large enterprises. DSI was introduced in 2003. WAN connection. LoopRunner features NetSpeed QuickDial On-Demand ADSL for modem pooling and bandwidth on-demand applications. LoopRunner can also facilitate subscriber line concentration up to 6 subscribers per central office modem, dramatically lowering cost, heat dissipation, power usage and real estate requirements. LoopRunner automatically detects the ADSL signaling type -- CAP (Carrierless Amplitude and Phase Modulation) or DMT See DSL. (Discrete Multi-tone) -- and connects the user to the appropriate modem in the LoopRunner modem pool. Both CAP and DMT modems can be mixed and matched in a single LoopRunner ADSLAM. Up to 12 LoopRunner ADSLAMs can be subtended from a master LoopRunner. LoopRunner is environmentally hardened for all outside plant facilities (SLCs, RTs, CEVs) and both copper-fed and fiber-fed outside plant facilities can be subtended. Copper fed outside plant locations can be linked to a centrally located LoopRunner with up to 4 inverse multiplexed DS1 lines. Legacy Support The NetSpeed LoopRunner Advanced DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexor) A central office (CO) device for ADSL service that intermixes voice traffic and DSL traffic onto a customer's DSL line. It also separates incoming phone and data signals and directs them onto the appropriate carrier's network. See DSL. also supports V.34 and ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. traffic and users can mix and match ADSL, V.34 and ISDN modems in the same system. With legacy data support, LoopRunner allows telephone companies to take all data off the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ) thus eliminating the voice switch congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. problem seen by many phone companies. Qualities of service can be offered with dynamic assignment of modems to subscribers as dedicated or QuickDial service levels. Redundancy is provided at two levels - common equipment and modem assignment. With modem pooling if a Central Office (CO) modem is out of service, a subscriber gets reassigned to a spare modem while the out-of-service modem is replaced. LoopRunner Key Feature/Benefit Summary -- QuickDial On-Demand ADSL -- Low Power - 1 watt per user -- Scaleable - 16 users to 4,992 users in a single system -- Small Footprint - Up to 384 subscribers terminated in a 29U space (50.75" vertical height in 23" rack) -- CAP Rate Adaptive DSL (RADSL See DSL. ) modems which can deliver up to 8 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. downstream, 1 megabits per second upstream -- ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. T1.413-1995 standard DMT modems which also delivers up to 8 megabits per second downstream, 1 megabits per second upstream -- ATM OC3c, ATM DS3, and ATM DS1 WAN Interfaces -- Frame Relay DS1 network interface option -- Up to four (4) DS1 connections can be inverse multiplexed for copper-fed outside plan -- Complete Fault Tolerance - Redundant common equipment and redundant ADSL modems -- Legacy Support - up to 256 V.34, V.56 or ISDN digital modems -- Subtend sub·tend tr.v. sub·tend·ed, sub·tend·ing, sub·tends 1. Mathematics To be opposite to and delimit: The side of a triangle subtends the opposite angle. 2. up to 12 LoopRunners from a single LoopRunner -- Up to 4,992 subscribers can be aggregated into a single ATM OC3c WAN connection -- NEBS compliant -- ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. compliant -- Outside plant environmental hardening -- VDSL See DSL. VDSL - Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line ready -- SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. management with ViewRunner for HP OpenView Network Management software -- Laptop craft management application SpeedRunner 100, SpeedRunner 200 and SpeedRunner 300 ADSL Routers The SpeedRunner family is a set of scaleable ADSL routers capable of connecting a single PC, a remote office, or an entire LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. to the Internet or other Wide Area Network. All SpeedRunner products support NetSpeed QuickDial capabilities. SpeedRunner 100 is a low cost Ethernet-to-ADSL router with one Ethernet port and one ADSL port. The ADSL port is rate adaptive and delivers up to 2 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream. Symmetrical service, or SDSL See DSL. SDSL - Single-line Digital Subscriber Line mode, is configurable at rates up to 960Kbps. A 10Base-T interface is provided for connection to a LAN backbone and an onboard communications processor supports transparent IP and IPX (Internetwork Packet EXchange) The network layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the IP layer in TCP/IP, it contains a network address and allows messages to be routed to a different network or subnet. routing and spanning-tree bridging. The SpeedRunner 100 product is offered as either premise equipment (ATU-R See ATU. ) or service provider equipment (ATU-C See ATU. ) for paired modem applications. SpeedRunner 200 is a high-performance Ethernet-to-ADSL router with one Ethernet port and one ADSL port. The ADSL port is rate adaptive and delivers up to 8 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream. Symmetrical service, or SDSL mode, is configurable at rates up to 960Kbps. A 10Base-T interface is provided for connection to a LAN backbone. An onboard communications processor supports the spanning-tree bridging protocol and transparent IP and IPX routing. The SpeedRunner 200 product can be configured as either premise equipment (ATU-R) or service provider equipment (ATU-C) for paired modem applications. The First 24 Mbps ADSL Product SpeedRunner 300 is the fastest ADSL product in the industry and utilizes NetSpeed BroadBond technology to aggregate up to three ADSL ports to provide 24 Mbps performance. The SpeedRunner 300 is a high-performance multi-port ADSL inverse multiplexer with one Ethernet port and up to 3 ADSL ports. SpeedRunner 300 is designed for remote office connectivity, Internet gateway, or fiber extension applications. The ADSL ports are rate adaptive and deliver up to 8 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream each. Symmetrical service is configurable on each ADSL port at rates up to 960 Kbps. A 10Base- T interface is provided for connection to a LAN backbone. An onboard communications processor supports transparent IP and IPX routing and spanning-tree bridging. PCIRunner - ADSL PCI Adapter For Personal Computers PCIRunner is a plugand-play, high-performance ADSL adapter card that plugs directly into PCI buscomputers. PCIRunner is rate adaptive with peak rates up to 8 megabits per seconddownstream to the premise and 1 megabits per second upstream. PCIRunner cansupport either CAP or DMT and is fully PCI compliant (Rev. 2.1). Driver support includes Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1, and NetWare. FireRunner Broadband Remote Access Server FireRunner is the first of its kind in a new product category -- Broadband Remote Access Servers. With the advent of ADSL, legacy remote access servers will not have the capacity or bandwidth to route, authenticate, and secure ADSL initiated traffic. FireRunner solves this problem and is a high performance communications platform that has one 10/100 Ethernet port and can support up to 3 broadband WAN ports, including ATM OC3c, DS3, and DS1 network interfaces. FireRunner terminates multiple PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) The most popular method for transporting IP packets over a serial link between the user and the ISP. Developed in 1994 by the IETF and superseding the SLIP protocol, PPP establishes the session between the user's computer and the ISP using sessions and allows authentication through traditional PAP, CHAP, RADIUS and Secure ID methodologies. FireRunner also provides robust Firewall capabilities to prevent unauthorized network access. Protocol support includes IP, IPX, MLPP MLPP Michigan Literacy Progress Profile (education certification) MLPP Marxist-Leninist Party of the Philippines MLPP Moss Landing Power Plant MLPP Multi-Level Precedence & Preemption MLPP Maximum Loose Packed Position and L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) A protocol from the IETF that allows a PPP session to travel over multiple links and networks. L2TP is used to allow remote users access to the corporate network. . ViewRunner - SNMP Application For HP OpenView ViewRunner is a graphical plug-in element manager for HP OpenView management consoles. ViewRunner provides end-to-end management of all NetSpeed products. Features include hierarchical management and configuration support for multiple central offices data center networks. ViewRunner also has comprehensive accounting capabilities providing call detail, metering, and usage capping. Partnerships NetSpeed is currently in partnerships with the leading providers of ADSL transceiver technology; GlobeSpan Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. GlobeSpan Technologies, located in Red Bank, New Jersey, is the dominant supplier of CAP (Carrierless Amplitude and Phase) modulation chipsets. Motorola Semiconductor's Wireline IC Division is located in Austin, Texas, and is a leading supplier of ANSI standard DMT (Discrete Multitone) ADSL transceiver technology. NetSpeed firmly believes that partnering with the preeminent suppliers of ADSL transceivers ensures that customers receive the most reliable and advanced technology available. -0-
Product Pricing and Availability
Product List Price Availability
LoopRunner xDSL Multiplexer $200-$500 per 1st half 1997
port based on
configuration
SpeedRunner 100 ADSL Router (2 Mbps) $1,295 January 1997
SpeedRunner 200 ADSL Router (8 Mbps) $1,695 January 1997
SpeedRunner 300 Inverse Mux/Router $8,995 1st half 1997
PCIRunner ADSL Adapter $595 1st half 1997
FireRunner Remote Access Server $19,995 1st half 1997
ViewRunner HP OpenView SNMP Element Mngr. $15,995 1st half 1997
-0- NetSpeed Inc., located in Austin, Texas, is a leader in end-to-end broadband access product solutions for service providers, corporations and consumers. NetSpeed's QuickDial technology and products are designed to provide bandwidth on-demand, allow deployment of pervasive low-cost xDSL services, and enable high speed Internet and Intranet access, video conferencing, telecommuting, and video on-demand. For further information, visit NetSpeed's World Wide Web site at http://www.netspeed.com or call 1-800-550-ADSL or 1-512-249-8055. NetSpeed, QuickDial, LoopRunner, ADSLAM, SpeedRunner, PCIRunner, FireRunner, ViewRunner, Digital Off-Hook, and BroadBond are trademarks of NetSpeed Inc. OpenView is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company. Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.1 are trademarks of Microsoft Corp. NetWare is a trademark of Novell Inc. CONTACT: NetSpeed Inc., Austin Charlene Rogers, 512/249-3101 or 800/550-ADSL or Network Associates Inc., Provo, Utah Sherri Walkenhorst, 801/373-7888 sherri@netassoc.com |
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