Arthur Andersen taps DigitalXpress for satellite video services.ST. PAUL St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 1996-- DigitalXpress(TM) has announced that Arthur Andersen For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see . Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing , a multidisciplinary professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm, has contracted to use their XpressVideo(TM) satellite communications service to transmit video business information to their employees in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Arthur Andersen will replace their existing analog television Analog television (or analogue television) encodes television and transports the picture and sound information as an analog signal, that is, by varying the amplitude and/or frequencies of the broadcast signal. network with XpressVideo's digital service for broadcasting training and corporate communications to sites in the U.S. and Canada. "Our XpressVideo satellite communications service is a unique approach to the problem of distributing timely, high-quality video to large numbers of graphically dispersed locations," said Wayne St.Clair, vice president of DigitalXpress. XpressVideo allows any organization to afford their own private television network and transmit high-quality, full-motion video to any number of uniquely addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be remote locations. After installing small satellite receiving antennas at each remote location, customers send their video information to the DigitalXpress uplink center where it is broadcast to designated locations. Customers pay only for the time they use, making it ideal for distance learning, corporate news and information channels, sales training and many other applications. In addition to XpressVideo, DigitalXpress offers XpressData(TM) for the broadcast of high-speed digital data and XpressPlus(TM) for multimedia - each providing the efficiency, reliability and security that businesses, government agencies and other organizations demand. Arthur Andersen is a business unit of Andersen Worldwide, the world's largest professional services provider. DigitalXpress specializes in low-cost satellite-to-desktop digital video and data information distribution systems and was established through the joint efforts of Boeing Commercial Space Company, Conus conus /co·nus/ (ko´nus) pl. co´ni [L.] 1. a cone or cone-shaped structure. 2. posterior staphyloma of the myopic eye. Communications and Computing Devices International. Initial service offerings are focused on U.S. corporate requirements. Offices are located at 2550 University Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55114, telephone 612-647-5211. CONTACT: DigitalXpress Wayne St.Clair, 612/647-5211 FAX: 612/647-5287 wstclair@carrier.digxpr.com or Media Tech Bill Schlosser, 205/852-8111 FAX: 205/852-6050 bschloss@traveller.com |
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