Australia's largest telecom company selects Motorola's CyberSURFR cable modem for high-speed online services; Telstra Corporation plans first commercial cable modem deployment in Asia-Pacific; rollout set for Q1 1997.ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Arlington Heights, village (1990 pop. 75,460), Cook county, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; founded 1836, inc. 1887. Its manufactures include machinery, drugs and medical equipment, and metal fabrication. Arlington Park racetrack is there. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 1996--Motorola Inc. - Multimedia Group today announced that it has been selected by Australian telecommunications operator Telstra Corporation to provide cable modems for Telstra's rollout of high-speed online access over its broadband network. The launch represents the first commercial deployment of high-speed data services in the Asia-Pacific region. Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company See telecom company. , has agreed in principle to an initial order of Motorola CyberSURFR(TM) cable modems as the first step in a wider deployment, as the company establishes high-speed online services for customers in Sydney and Melbourne. "Telstra is proud to be the first telecommunications company to offer commercial high-speed data services to Australians," said Gerry Moriarty, chief executive officer of Telstra Multimedia. "By using the high capacity hybrid fiber-coax infrastructure, Telstra will be able to deliver much richer content -- including interactive multimedia services, World Wide Web access and video streaming See streaming video and video stream. -- than would be possible using existing telephone lines." "As Telstra moves into the future of telecommunications, we are honored to be part of the first commercial broadband services deployment of its kind in this region," said James M. Phillips James M. Phillips is an American businessman who is the current president, chairman, and CEO of Luminetx Corporation, a bioscience technology company.[1] He also serves as CEO of Snowflake Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Luminetx. , corporate vice president, Motorola Inc. "This marks the start of a whole new multimedia experience for Australians. The launch of Telstra's services is a fulfillment of the promises of the Interactive Age." Phillips added, "This project reaffirms Motorola's corporate commitment to bringing high-tech development to Australia. Our CyberSURFR modem deployment will leverage Motorola's corporate research and development facility in Sydney and Motorola's software center in Adelaide to bring cutting-edge communications to Australians." Telstra's selection of Motorola's CyberSURFR modems follows several cable modem deployments by the Motorola Multimedia Group, including the recently announced launch by Time Warner Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), formerly known as AOL Time Warner, is the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in New York City, with major operations in film, television, publishing, Internet service and telecommunications. in Akron, Ohio Akron is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County.GR6 The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland to the north and Canton to the south, approximately 60 miles (96 km) west of . The CyberSURFR cable modem is part of Motorola's CableComm family of products. The modem connects subscriber personal computers to the high-capacity cable television infrastructure, and is specifically designed for high-speed communications for online services, Internet access See how to access the Internet. , 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 other emerging services for home and business PC users. Because coaxial cable has more capacity for data than the traditional telephones lines most frequently used for Internet access, consumers can gather information from the Internet at speeds many times faster than presently possible. The CyberSURFR cable modem offers users speeds of up to 30 Mbps in the downstream path and up to 768 Kbps in the upstream path (where interactive commands, requests, etc. are routed from the user back to the Internet provider Internet provider - Internet Service Provider ). Telstra Corporation Limited provides, maintains and operates Australia's only full-service telecommunications network A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. . In addition, Telstra draws on its financial, technical and marketing expertise to provide networks and services in other countries, with a strategic focus on China, the Indian subcontinent Indian subcontinent, region, S central Asia, comprising the countries of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh and the Himalayan states of Nepal, and Bhutan. Sri Lanka, an island off the southeastern tip of the Indian peninsula, is often considered a part of the subcontinent. , Indochina (particularly Vietnam) and Indonesia. It is one of Australia's largest businesses and is that nation's largest Government Business Enterprise. Telstra Corporation's revenues for 1995-96 were $AUS AUS abbr. Army of the United States 15.24 billion. Motorola's Multimedia Group, a unit of the Messaging, Information & Media Sector, develops, manufactures, and markets systems for the convergence of voice, video and data communications over advanced multimedia platforms. Motorola is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications and electronic equipment, systems, components and services for worldwide markets. Products include two-way radios, pagers, personal communications systems, cellular telephones and systems, semiconductors, defense and aerospace electronics, automotive and industrial electronics, computers, data communications and information processing and handling equipment. Sales in 1995 were $27 billion. -0- CyberSURFR(TM) is a trademark of Motorola, Inc. For further CableComm product information and Motorola Inc. - Multimedia Group announcements, please visit our World Wide Web site at http://www.mot.com/multimedia. CONTACT: Motorola Inc. - Multimedia Group Douglas M. Roberston, 847/632-6634 or Telstra Multimedia Phillip Sykes, 011-613-963-45806 or Edelman Worldwide George-Ann Rosenberg, 202/371-0200 |
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