Agilent Technologies' Communications Services Solutions Business Unit Hosts Industry Advisory Council Meeting.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000 Open Forum Gives Global Communications Firms a Voice in Unit's Planning Process Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : A) today announced that its Communications Services Solutions (CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. ) business unit will hold an Industry Advisory Council meeting August 22-24, 2000, in Pinehurst, N.C. A distinguished group of 31 executives from major global communications companies will meet to review and help guide a leading Agilent business's efforts to develop new millennium network support tools, applications and services. "Industry input at this event will contribute significantly to the business strategy of the newly formed CSS," said Michael Clark Michael (or Mike) Clark can refer to the following people:
The Industry Advisory Council includes representatives from AT&T, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Alcatel, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Lucent Technologies, Sprint, Worldcom and several others. The meeting will provide an open forum for world-class firms to help shape CSS' plans for addressing the communications industry's most important support, installation and maintenance issues. The executives will actively participate in three days of discussion with various Agilent CSS representatives, express their collective views of the industry's needs and present their own corporations' specific requirements. The discussions will emphasize each company's current networking technology focus, future networking and support requirements, and the type of networking support tools and applications necessary to ensure current and future success. More Information on Agilent's communication network test tools can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com/comms/onenetworks. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. itself into two fully independent companies. With approximately 43,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. In fiscal year 1999, the businesses comprising Agilent, then a subsidiary of HP, had net revenue of more than $8.3 billion. Information about Agilent Technologies can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com. |
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