CVS Selects Symbol's Wireless Network System, Hand-Held Computers.HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1998--Symbol Technologies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SBL SBL Society of Biblical Literature SBL Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE symbol) SBL Spamhaus Block List SBL Space-Based Laser SBL Securities Borrowing and Lending SBL Supreme Beings of Leisure (band) ) today announced that it is providing CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. Corporation (NYSE:CVS), the nation's largest retail drug store chain, with its wireless local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) infrastructure and hand-held scanning computers to enhance worker productivity, inventory management and customer service. By installing the Symbol Spectrum24 high-performance wireless network, which supports the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11 standard, CVS will become one of the world's largest retail operations to go wireless. There are 4,100 CVS stores, including stores from the recently acquired Arbor Drug and Revco Corporations. CVS recently announced that it is opening 320 new stores in 1998. CVS store workers will use the Symbol PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT 6840, a hand-held mobile computer with integrated bar The process of organizing the attorneys of a state into an association, membership in which is a condition precedent to the right to practice law. Integration is usually attained by enactment of a statute that grants authority to the highest court of the state to integrate code laser scanner and Spectrum24 radio for everyday store operations, including inventory, merchandise receiving, item ordering and price check. As an example, a store worker can check an item's inventory and ordering history simply by scanning it; a query to the store's host computer is transmitted over the Spectrum24 network and the computer instantly responds back to the worker with detailed item information and history. "We invested in a wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area technology that not only gives us benefits today, but is flexible enough with its scaleable design and voice-over-IP capabilities, to move us to the future," said Vincent Minchillo, vice president MIS, CVS Corporation. "Symbol's the wireless technology leader. Their vision, long-term commitment to standards and on-going support is what makes them a partner to CVS." "Spectrum 24 facilitates the business world's drive to become increasingly mobile," said David Yeh, vice president and general manager Wireless Systems Division, Symbol Technologies. "We're pleased to partner with CVS on this broad-scale project." About the Symbol Spectrum24 Network Spectrum24, Symbol's open-architecture wireless network, provides reliable high-performance data and voice-over-IP communications with excellent immunity to interference through its frequency hopping A wireless modulation method that rapidly changes the center frequency of a transmission. See spread spectrum and 802.11. technology. Spectrum24 is designed to support the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard. Operating in the 2.4 Ghz band using spread-spectrum modulation, Spectrum24 allows fast, seamless roaming with load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them among cells. Its capacity and range are expandable through the use of multiple access points. Symbol Technologies Inc. is a global leader in mobile computing and communications systems with innovative customer solutions based on wireless local area networking, application-specific mobile computing and bar code data capture. Symbol's wireless LAN solutions are installed at more than 30,000 customer locations worldwide and support more than six million Symbol scanners and hand-held computers. Symbol provides point-of-activity computing solutions for retailing, transportation and distribution logistics, parcel and postal delivery, healthcare, manufacturing and other industries. -0- Customer information is available from Symbol at 1-800-SCAN-234 and at http://www.symbol.com.
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