Calian's Systems Engineering Division Wins $10 Million Inmarsat Network Coordination Station--NCS--Contract.KANATA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 1999-- (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :CTY CTY - /sit'ee/ or /C-T-Y/ [MIT] The terminal physically associated with a computer's system console. The term is a contraction of "Console tty", that is, "Console TeleTYpe". .) Calian Technology Ltd. (TSE:CTY) is pleased to announce that its Systems Engineering Division, SED Systems Inc. (SED (1) (Stream EDitor) A Unix text editor that processes an entire file. It is the stream-oriented version of ed, an earlier text editor. Sed executes ed commands, but instead of editing one line at a time, sed applies the commands to the whole file. ) has been awarded a contract to provide Network Co-ordination Stations (NCS (Network Call Signaling) CableLabs version of MGCP. See MGCP/MEGACO. NCS - Network Computing System: Apollo's RPC system used by DEC and Hewlett-Packard.The protocol has been adopted by OSF. ) for Inmarsat's original communications service, Inmarsat-A. Under the terms of the $10M CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. contract, SED will provide NCSs for the Inmarsat-A system to cover the four satellite regions, and a Central Control facility at Inmarsat's Network Operations Centre in London. The new stations will be fully commissioned by early 2001. SED's NCSs will be used to provide call set-up interworking (standard) interworking - Systems or components, possibly from different origins, working together to perform some task. Interworking depends crucially on standards to define the interfaces between the components. between the mobile earth stations and the Land Earth Stations (LES). In addition, they will provide Inmarsat with mobility management capability for Inmarsat-A, which will facilitate the introduction of Single Network Access Code operation. Inmarsat is headquartered in London, England, and operates the world's only global mobile satellite communications system, providing commercial and distress and safety communications services to more than 170,000 users at sea, on land, and in the air. In operation since 1982, Inmarsat is constantly evolving the services offered to the mobile community. SED is the systems engineering division of Calian Technology Ltd. Its mission is to provide the satellite industry with the rapid delivery of dependable, flexible systems and services that fully satisfy customers' needs in testing, operating and managing their satellite systems. SED's product lines include In-orbit Test, Satellite Spectrum Monitoring, and Telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. , Tracking and Command Systems, as well as Satellite Gateways, Network Control Systems and Up-link Stations. Customers include major satellite manufacturers, operators and service provider's worldwide. Calian Technology Ltd. sells e-business and Information Technology (IT) professional services, including management consulting, IT consulting, Telecommunications systems engineering, outsourcing and IT staffing. |
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