Fujitsu Selects Symbol Technologies' Spectrum24 2 MB Radio for Product Integration.HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1999-- Industry-Leading Solutions Backed by Global 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 Organization Symbol Technologies, Inc. (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) ), announced today that Fujitsu Limited of Japan, one of the world's largest suppliers of computers and information systems solutions as well as telecommunications and semiconductor products, has selected Symbol's industry-leading 2 MB Spectrum24(R) radio for integration into products for its Retail Systems Division. Symbol's 2 MB radio, shipping since June, offers peak performance and effectiveness for wireless data communication. "Fujitsu has been successfully integrating technology from Symbol into their products since 1995," said David Yeh, senior vice president and general manager, 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 Systems, Symbol Technologies. "We're pleased that Fujitsu continues to rely on our technology to contribute to their innovative product solutions." About Symbol's OEM Organization Symbol is a leading supplier to Fujitsu and other original equipment manufacturers, providing a broad range of solutions for integration into OEM designs: radio frequency wireless systems, miniaturized scan engines, peripheral products and application tools. Symbol's technology is used in retailing, transportation and distribution logistics, parcel and postal delivery, healthcare, manufacturing and other industries. Symbol has dedicated specialists working exclusively with OEM customers such as Fujitsu. This world-wide group provides pre- and post-sale service and support such as engineering, integration education, and design and manufacturing support to assist customers in bringing successful, industry-standard products to market. About Spectrum24 Spectrum24, Symbol's open-architecture wireless network, provides high-performance data and voice-over-IP communications with excellent immunity to interference. Its frequency hopping A wireless modulation method that rapidly changes the center frequency of a transmission. See spread spectrum and 802.11. technology ensures robust and reliable data throughput. Spectrum24 also features selectable power management for application optimization, as well as encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. capabilities to ensure data security. Spectrum24 is designed to support 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 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 data management systems and services with innovative customer solutions based on wireless local area networking for voice and data, application-specific mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings and bar code data capture. Symbol's wireless LAN solutions are installed at more than 40,000 customer locations world-wide and support more than seven million Symbol scanners and application-specific mobile scanner-integrated computer systems. Symbol and its global network of business partners provide point-of-activity computing solutions for retailing, transportation and distribution logistics, parcel and postal delivery, healthcare, education, manufacturing and other industries. Information is available from Symbol at 1-800-722-6234 and at http://www.symbol.com. |
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