Andrew Coverage and Capacity Systems in Barcelona Ready to Support 3GSM Visitors.WESTCHESTER, Ill. -- The global wireless industry converges on Barcelona in mid-February with tens of thousands of mobile device-wielding, bandwidth-hungry visitors filling the Spanish city for 3GSM World Congress 2007 to promote business, close deals, gain knowledge, and renew acquaintances. Helping delegates stay connected during the non-stop business and pleasure that week, Andrew Corporation's coverage and capacity systems are working behind the scenes in many of Barcelona's top transportation, business, and hospitality locations to ensure reliable wireless connections--essential to all attendees but of ongoing benefit to residents of the city. Andrew's Intelligent Optical Network series (ION[TM]-M and ION[TM]-B) systems are installed by Andrew's operator customers in numerous places that will be frequented by Barcelona visitors, including the city's metro, high-speed train lines, several high-rise buildings high-rise building Multistory building taller than the maximum height people are willing to walk up, thus requiring vertical mechanical transportation. The introduction of safe passenger elevators made practical the erection of buildings more than four or five stories tall. , and shopping centers shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . In addition, Andrew's terrestrial trunked radio TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) (formerly known as Trans European Trunked RAdio) is a specialist Professional Mobile Radio and two-way transceiver (colloquially known as a walkie talkie), designed for use by government agencies, and specifically emergency (TETRA tetra: see characin. tetra Any of numerous attractively coloured freshwater South American and African fishes (family Characidae), often kept in home aquariums. Tetras are small, lively, hardy, and unaggressive. ) systems provide reliable and seamless coverage for emergency response teams in the city's metro. "Like in most other major cities in the world, Andrew's ION systems are part of everyday life in Barcelona, providing coverage and capacity solutions in hotels, office buildings, train tunnels, and underground systems that help operators provide service to customers in hard-to-reach places," said Andrea Casini, vice president of Europe, Middle East, Africa sales, Andrew Corporation Andrew Corporation is an American multinational producer of communications devices. Andrew is a global designer, manufacturer, and supplier of communications equipment, services, and systems. . "Ensuring wireless customers get coverage in signal-challenged venues is one of the things Andrew does best." Andrew's coverage and capacity offerings, including newly launched remote units for ION-B, will be part of the company's ConnectOptimizeGrow solutions on exhibit February 12-15 at 3GSM World Congress (Stand C47, Hall 2). Andrew's ConnectOptimizeGrow solutions help wireless operators connect users at the lowest capital expense, optimize efficiency and increase control of their networks, and grow usage and value. Andrew's ION series is the industry-leading optical distribution system for carrying radio signals loss-free over 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 , at all power levels, at distances ranging from 100 meters to 20 kilometers. Andrew offers a complete line of robust and field-proven distributed 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. solutions for difficult coverage areas, tunnels, metros, and buildings, and has more than 15 years of experience in designing, installing, and managing large and complex radio frequency distribution systems for metropolitan railways, building owners, and public mobile radio and telephone operators throughout the world. Major projects include the 2006 World Cup stadiums, 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. metro, Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport, Sydney Olympics, Montreal metro The Montreal Metro is the main form of public transportation within the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Metro, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), was inaugurated on October 14, 1966, during the tenure of Mayor Jean Drapeau. , Turin metro, and Germany's Inter-City Express high speed rail. About Andrew Corporation Andrew Corporation (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 : ANDW) designs, manufactures, and delivers innovative and essential equipment and solutions for the global communications infrastructure market. The company serves operators and equipment manufacturers from facilities in 35 countries. Andrew (www.andrew.com), headquartered in Westchester, IL, is an S&P MidCap 400 company founded in 1937. ION is a trademark of Andrew Corporation. 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. Some of the statements in this news release are forward-looking statements and we caution our stockholders and others that these statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. Factors that may cause actual results to differ from expected results include fluctuations in commodity costs, the company's ability to integrate acquisitions and to realize the anticipated synergies and cost savings, the effects of competitive products and pricing, economic and political conditions that may impact customers' ability to fund purchases of our products and services, the company's ability to achieve the cost savings anticipated from cost reduction programs, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, the timing of cash payments and receipts, end use demands for wireless communication services, the loss of one or more significant customers, and other business factors. Investors should also review other risks and uncertainties discussed in company documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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