CLI Awarded $4.7 million Contract from Gansu Province of the People's Republic of China.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 1996--Compression Labs Inc. (CLI (1) (Call Level Interface) A database programming interface from the SQL Access Group (SAG), an SQL membership organization. SAG's CLI is an attempt to standardize the SQL language for database access. ) (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 :CLIX) announced today it has received contracts for orders for videoconferencing products totaling $4.7 million from the Posts and Telecommunications Administration (PTA PTA or parent-teacher association: see parent education. ) of the Province of Gansu in the People's Republic of China. This will bring the total number of CLI videoconferencing sites in China to more than 470 including sites in the National Backbone Videoconferencing network connecting all the provinces to the national Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT MPT Maryland Public Television MPT Modern Portfolio Theory (investing) MPT Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications MPT Message-Passing Toolkit MPT Master of Physical Therapy MPT Mitochondrial Permeability Transition ), as well as in 10 additional provincial networks. The Gansu PTA has ordered 85 Radiance videoconferencing systems and 13 multipoint control units to connect 14 counties and 70 cities and districts. The network will be built in three phases. The first phase will be finished and put into use by the end of the year. It covers 14 cities and districts and will be connected to the MPT National Backbone Videoconferencing network. The second and third phases will be completed in May and August 1997. "We are extremely pleased that we meet the rigorous video quality requirements and the service standards set by the Chinese government," said Ted Augustine, CLI vice president of sales. Radiance high-performance group videoconferencing systems provide high-quality video at up to 30 frames per second and 480 lines of resolution The number of horizontal lines on a TV or computer screen. The term typically refers to TV sets; for example, wide screen digital TVs have 720 or 1,080 lines of resolution, while analog TV uses 525 lines. VHS tapes can render from 240 to 260 lines. . In addition to communicating with other CLI systems, the easy-to-use Radiance system can communicate with the growing number of codecs that meet ITU-TSS ITU-TSS International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications Standards Sector H.320 standards. Multipoint Control Units enable multiple sites to participate simultaneously in the same conference and in China serve as critical video hubs to link numerous sites connected via dedicated transmission lines. Compression Labs Inc., based in San Jose, is the leading provider of high-quality, high-performance videoconferencing systems for business, government, education and healthcare organizations. CONTACT: CLI Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Mia Bradway, 408/428-6735 Joyce Strand, 408/922-4610 |
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