Force Stresses Breadth of Embedded Portfolio in Worldwide Integrated Communications Campaign.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2001 New `One Company, 4 Solutions' Messages Capture Force's Value-Added Proposition of Leveraging Open Standards, Custom Designs to Provide Complete OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Outsourcing Force Computers, a Solectron company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SLR (1) (Scalable Linear Recording) A line of magnetic tape drives from Tandberg Data that evolved from the QIC Data Cartridge format. See QIC. (2) (Single Lens Reflex) A camera that uses the same lens for viewing and shooting. ) and a leader in embedded computing, today announced its new "One Company, 4 Solutions" integrated communications campaign running worldwide in current issues of leading embedded computing trade publications, on the Internet and through requested interactive marketing. In a rotation of four strategically placed messages, the company emphasizes how its broad selection of board- and system-level computing platforms provides a comprehensive outsource solution for OEMs. From High Availability architectures to off-the-shelf systems to single board computers (SBCs) to customized design and development, no other embedded computing provider matches Force's OEM-friendly solution portfolio. "Now in its 20th year leading embedded computing, Force Computers makes the case anew for its preeminent industry position with these simple, direct `One Company, 4 Solutions' messages," said Diana Loredo, Force director of corporate communications. "While others take aim at their competitors or talk about meaningless slogans, Force just lays out the facts: system platforms for 99.999-percent availability, small form-factor rack-mounts, SBCs based on cPCI, cPSB, PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. and VME open standards -- with choice of the three most popular microprocessors -- and Tailor Made board- and system-level solutions designed and manufactured to exact customer specifications." High Availability, PCI/ISA, boards and time-to-market After a series of successful product demonstrations at the recent Voice on the Net (VON) trade show on which to build, Force showcases its line of High Availability systems for Central Office applications in one message. These "five nines" servers are based on CompactPCI (cPCI) and the recently adopted PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. 2.16 Compact Packet-Switching Backplane (cPSB) standard. Other message highlights include: -- Hot swappability and NEBS Level 3-tested designs in 9U, 12U and 15U footprints -- 1U, 2U and 4U systems with cost-effective PICMG PCI/ISA standard passive backplane technology for high-density rack-mounting -- Broadest selection of board-level platforms based on cPCI, cPSB, PCI mezzanine card (PMC), VMEbus, Pentium(R) III, PowerPC(TM) and/or SPARC(R) technologies -- Time-to-market enhancing Tailor Made solutions for fast delivery of embedded computing products designed and developed to exacting OEM specifications And the Tailor Made offering allows customers to focus on their business-critical value-added hardware/software components while leaving the general platform development to Force's team of experienced embedded engineers. Combined with its seasoned, quick-ramp capability for volume production, OEMs can leverage Force's design and development expertise for maximum manufacturing effectiveness. Get the full picture -- see the messages Force's "One Company, 4 Solutions" messages can be seen online at http://www.forcecomputers.com/4solutions. Interested parties can also request additional information -- such as product demonstration collateral -- through the same Internet address or by e-mailing info@fci.com. About Force Computers Force Computers (www.forcecomputers.com) was founded in 1981 and is a leading designer and worldwide supplier of standard and custom systems and board-level computer platforms and services for the embedded market. The processor-independent company helps its customers develop embedded applications based on Alpha, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , Pentium(R), PowerPC(TM), PowerQUICC(TM), SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (R), StrongARM and 68K(TM) technologies for embedded UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R), Linux(TM), Windows NT(R) and real-time applications. Force supports VME, CompactPCI(R), PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , PCI/ISA and PMC bus architectures as well as custom form factors. An ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certified company, Force Computers practices Total Quality Management principles in all phases of the company's global operations. The company, along with its parent company, Solectron Corporation, is the 1997 winner of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee chaired by Jack Grayson, it was established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality for manufacturing. Force's corporate headquarters and Asia Pacific headquarters is located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Force's European headquarters is located in Munich, Germany. Note: All brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Specifications subject to change without notice. Contact Force for current information. |
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