CLI Awarded Contracts for a Total of $5 Million from People's Republic of China; Ministry of Railroads to Build Backbone Network Zhejiang Electric & Power Adds 25 Sites.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 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 orders for videoconferencing products totaling $5 million from the Ministry of Railroads and Zhejiang Electric & Power in the People's Republic of China. The Ministry of Railroads, the largest Ministry in China, is building a backbone videoconferencing network as part of a loan from the World Bank to develop a telecommunications infrastructure. The initial order for Phase 1 totaled $3.7 million for CLI's Radiance videoconferencing systems and multipoint units and was received under International Competitive Bidding Competitive bidding A securities offering process in which securities firms submit competing bids to the issuer for the securities the issuer wishes to sell. competitive bidding 1. of the General Procurement Notice of the UN Development Forum Business Edition. In addition, CLI received a contract valued at $1.3 million from Zhejiang Electric & Power for 25 eclipse gold systems and three multipoint units. Zhejiang is the first Chinese customer in the energy sector to use CLI videoconferencing. The Ministry of Railroads will be connecting 12 major regional hubs and their multiple groups of railway stations with Radiance videoconferencing systems. They will build a backbone network to conduct general meetings, railway management, news announcements, technical training, and crisis management. "CLI is very pleased to have won these bids. The Ministry of Railroads, in particular, shows that CLI can win in a highly competitive environment with the best companies in the world and come out ahead. We believe this was the largest open bid for videoconferencing in the world. This network could grow to become the largest single Asian network in 1997," said Ted Augustine, vice president of sales and marketing for CLI. The total number of CLI videoconferencing sites in China is now more than 515 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 11 provincial networks. The Province of Gansu alone has 85 sites connected. 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 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. In addition, CLI recently introduced a T.120 multimedia gateway option for Radiance systems to match the T.120 capabilities already found on the mid-range eclipse gold systems and the multipoint units. The eclipse gold mid-range videoconferencing room systems provide superior video quality at 30 frames per second at transmission speeds up to 768 kilobits per second (unit) kilobits per second - (kbps, kb/s) A unit of data rate where 1 kb/s = 1000 bits per second. This contrasts with units of storage where 1 Kb = 1024 bits (note upper case K). (kbps) and are fully compliant with the TTU TTU Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX, USA) TTU Tennessee Technological University TTU Tallinn Technical University (Estonia) TTU Tennessee Temple University (Chattanooga, TN) H.320 and high-resolution Full Common Intermediate Format (FCIF See CIF. ) standards. The easy-to-use eclipse gold product line also provides a foundation for collaborative computing in room videoconferencing with a T.120 gateway. T.120 is a series of growing multimedia standards aimed at facilitating "audio-graphic conferencing." Through the benefits of T.120, group and desktop videoconferencing users at multiple locations will be able to write on white boards, collaborate on and share data, and display applications as if they are all meeting in one big conference room. CLI offers T.120 capabilities across its product line. 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 Rebecca Whitehead, 408/428-6791 or CLI Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Patrizia Owen, 408/922-4745 |
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