FCC Gives Approval to CTP Systems' Wireless PBX Technology; CTPhone, Offering High Capacity and Coverage Advantages, Now Complies with all FCC Requirements for 1.9 GHz Unlicensed PCS Services.CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 1996--CTP Systems Inc., a subsidiary of DSP Communications (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 :DSPC DSPC distearoylphosphatidylcholine DSPC Direct Shell Production Casting DSPC Direct Strip Production Complex DSPC Director Strategic Planning Coordination DSPC Digital Studio Picture Control ) announced today that its CTPhone 1900 wireless PBX system has received Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. (FCC) approval. The FCC grant means that the CTPhone system meets all applicable FCC rules established for operation of unlicensed systems set forth in Part 15, subpart D of the FCC's rules. This approval includes compliance with the certification procedures of UTAM UTAM University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation UTAM Unlicensed Transition and Management UTAM User to Application Mapping Inc., a non-profit consortium of leading telecommunications and data equipment manufacturers, named by the FCC as a frequency coordinator for the unlicensed PCS spectrum. CTPhone, already commercially available, is only the second wireless PBX system in the United States to receive this type of official FCC approval. "We are extremely pleased with the FCC's determination and believe it will have a positive affect on market growth in the wireless PBX industry," said Rony Greenberg, vice president of marketing. "Companies are moving quickly toward implementing wireless communications in the workplace. This announcement today means our partners can start selling CTPhone tomorrow knowing it works properly and is approved for sale in the U.S. market." The company's CTPhone 1900 is a wireless PBX system that can be easily integrated into most commercial PBX products on the market today to provide mobile capability to a conventional wired telephone system. When integrated into an organization's PBX, CTPhone allows employees to use a portable handset as a fully-featured wireless extension to their desktop telephone. This provides employees with the freedom and convenience of a mobile phone around the workplace, while allowing them to keep the same extension number and features of their desktop handsets. The CTPhone system, which includes handsets, base stations and a control interface that communicates with any analog or digital PBX on the market today, offers significant capacity and coverage advantages over other wireless PBX options on the market. The system can support up to 256 simultaneous calls. Each base station supports over 150,000 square feet of coverage area in a typical office, which is twice the coverage available with comparable systems. In addition, CTPhone can be deployed as an analog add-on or fully integrated with the PBX to provide direct digital connections and advanced features. Full integration is achieved by using the control interface card in the PBX to manage switching functions. CTP CTP (cytidine triphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Computer-To-Plate) The production of printing plates directly from the computer without requiring film as an intermediate step. Systems has developed this card in cooperation with PBX vendors. Some of these PBX vendors already are shipping systems incorporating this CTPhone interface to their end users. CTP Systems CTP Systems, based in Cupertino, develops and markets to customers worldwide wireless PBX (private branch exchange) systems for the office environment and other low-mobility and wireless local-loop applications. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of DSP Communications Inc., a leading developer of chipsets and products for the wireless personal communications services See PCS. (PCS) market. Headquartered in Cupertino, DSPC develops, markets, licenses, and supports application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS ASICS Anima Sana in Corpore Sano (Japanese shoe manufacturer; Latin: a sound mind in a sound body) ) and software based on digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (DSP) technology for a variety of cellular and PCS applications. These applications are supported by well-established standards such as Personal Digital Cellular (PDC); Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). ); and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. ). The company's customers include Kenwood, Kyocera, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Sanyo, and Sharp. -0- Note to Editors: CTPhone 1900 is a registered trademark of DSP Communications Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: CTP Systems Rony Greenberg, 408/777-2700 Ronyg@dspc.com or Patrick Corman, 415/326-9648 corman@cerfnet.com |
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