HT Acquires Network Multiplexer Business.Business Editors SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2000 HT Communications Inc. today announced that the company has acquired the entire family of data multiplexer products from Data Race Inc. The acquisition includes newly developed and not yet released products. The products include remote and central site voice/fax and data multiplexers capable of servicing up to 64 communication channels in a single package with routing and Frame Relay features. In making the announcement, HT President Roger Free stated: "These newly acquired data communications products are among the most versatile and reliable units on the market and will be a significant addition to HT's family of DSUs, T1 Channel Banks and Multiplexers. The Frame Relay and router capabilities will enhance our existing FRAD (Frame Relay Access Device or Frame Relay Assembler Disassembler) A communications device that formats outgoing data into the format required by a frame relay network. It strips the data back out at the other end. business. "The products will also expand our market presence in the 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). world and bring more than $1 million in new revenue to HT within the first year. HT intends to capitalize on the international distribution network that presently handles these products." HT was an early supplier of modem components and DSU 1. (communications) DSU - Data Service Unit. 2. DSU - Disk Subsystem Unit (Artecon). 3. (humour) DSU - Dwarf Storage Unit. technology to OEMs and also has its own line of DSU/CSU (Digital (or Data) Service Unit/Channel Service Unit) A pair of communications devices that connect an inhouse line to an external digital circuit (T1, DDS, etc.). , StatMux and T1 Channel Bank products that are sold through distribution. |
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