American Access Technologies Responds to Holocom's Call: Pentagon Places Emergency Order for Communications Enclosures.Business Editors/Technology Writers LAKE MARY Lake Mary may refer to:
Responding to an emergency delivery request by the Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering to Holocom Networks, Inc., American Access Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:AATK AATK Always At the Keyboard ) today announced that it has manufactured and shipped a key component for Holocom's Secured Desktop Gateway communications enclosures to be installed as part of the Pentagon's heightened security effort. The Pentagon contacted Holocom on Sunday, September 16th, with an emergency need for 1,000 of its proprietary communications enclosures to be installed at workstations connected to the country's high security networks, Holocom President G. Bradford Saunders Saun´ders n. 1. See Sandress. said. "American Access was incredibly responsive to our request to manufacture and ship this product within days. We depended on them for quality and timeliness, and they delivered," observed Saunders. The emergency renovation program is being conducted in conjunction with the National Intelligence Security Agency, in an effort to safeguard the country and its government. Saunders said he expects Holocom products to factor into the ongoing Pentagon project that became more urgent by the September 11th tragedy. "In consideration of the current situation, Holocom offered a significant reduction in the company's GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. pricing during the emergency renovation program. In the same spirit, American Access shared in this price reduction," Saunders noted. "We were honored to have been chosen to help with the rebuilding after such an atrocious tragedy," American Access President John Presley said. American Access manufactures patented zone cabling units that mount in ceilings, raised floors, and in custom furniture, routing traditional cabling and 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 to the office desktop. The Company's concept of "zone cabling" reduces costs for installation and moves, adds, and changes by as much as 70% while providing plug and play, up-gradable networks, fiber optics and wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area . Holocom Networks, a private company, provides a wide variety of solutions for in-building communications infrastructure, including "zone cabling," that service Fortune 2000 companies and government agencies. Holocom Networks takes networking equipment, active and passive, which once was kept exclusively in the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. closet, and brings it closer to end-users in open-office environments, substantially reducing installation and maintenance costs. News and product/service information are available at http://www.aatk.com. Note: This press release for American Access Technologies, Inc. may contain forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, regarding events, conditions and financial trends that may affect the Company's operating results and financial position. Prospective investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual events or results may differ from the Company's expectations, which are subject to various risks and uncertainties listed in the Company's SEC filings. |
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