Dauphin Introduces Smart Set-Top Box.Business Editors/High Tech Writers COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Fall 2000 PALATINE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2000 Dauphin Dauphin, town, Canada Dauphin (dô`fĭn), town (1991 pop. 8,453), SW Man., Canada, on the Vermilion River. It is the retail and distribution center for an agricultural, lumbering, and fishing area. Technology Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). .BB: DNTK) today announced that it will unveil their advanced SmartBox STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box at this year's Comdex/Fall 2000, in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nevada in November. The SmartBox STB prototype, based on the ORASIS ORASIS Optical Real-Time Adaptive Signature Identification System ORASIS Object Oriented Approaches in Software Development (TM) Technology, represents Dauphin's emergence into a rapidly growing sector of broadband communications. The capabilities of the SmartBox range from web surfing Refers to jumping from page to page on the Web. Just as in "TV channel surfing," where one clicks the remote to go from channel to channel, the hyperlink on Web pages makes it easy to jump from one page to another. to video on demand, as well as remote access to the SmartBox STB from around the world. Dauphin plans to market two Set-Top Boxes, including a standard model designed to meet the specifications of the EU client and a second, higher end Coordinates: For other places with the same name, see Billinge. Higher End or Billinge Higher End is a district of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. model, which will be introduced at the Comdex Show. The high-end model currently supports xDSL, fiber and cable interfaces. Other capabilities include Internet access, telephony, email, voice over IP, video conferencing and Video on Demand (VoD) using a high speed MPEG-2 decoder. It will also be capable of controlling office and home environments including heating/cooling, lighting and control of smart appliances. Both STBs can be deployed as a single user Internet access box or a multiple user residential/commercial telecommunications gateway. The Company recently demonstrated the high-end SmartBox to their EU client. After seeing the capabilities of the high-end model, the EU client elected to include it in their current project. Quantities and pricing for the high-end model are currently under negotiation. The client also expressed its interest to market both models to its other potential customers in Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union. Dauphin will also market the products on its own, per the agreement with their client. "Our client's overwhelming excitement and enthusiasm for the prototype only further validates our ability to develop new technology," commented Kostas Arhos, Chief Technology Officer. "Dauphin is once again creating technology and innovation for global use," he continued. Dauphin Technology, Inc., a Palatine, Illinois based company with its manufacturing facility in McHenry, Illinois, develops broadband communication products and hand-held computers, including its flagship product, the Orasis(TM). Certain matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements involving certain risks and uncertainties including, without limitations, changes in product demand, the availability of products, change in competition, economic conditions, various risks due to changes in market conditions and other risks detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports. |
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