Irvine's Racal Recorders provides voice recorders for 9-1-1 emergency dispatch at Summer Olympics '96.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1996--Once again, Racal Recorders Inc., based in Irvine, has made it to the Olympics. The company announced that it is providing the 1996 Olympic Summer Games This article is about the Epyx video game series. For the international multi-sport event, see Summer Olympic Games. Summer Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games. currently taking place in Atlanta with Racal Wordnet digital recording systems for recording emergency telephone communications. Racal has placed its 16-channel Wordnet recorders at two locations: the Rockdale County 9-1-1 emergency dispatch center in Conyers, Ga., site of the equestrian venue; and the Hall County 9-1-1 emergency dispatch center in Gainesville, Ga., site of the aquatic (rowing) venue on Lake Lanier Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a manmade lake in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee River. . At these centers, operators work phone lines and microwave links A microwave link is a transmission device which allows video / audio / data to be sent using radio waves between two locations from just a few feet to several miles apart. It is commonly used by television broadcasters to transmit a programme across the country. , handling incoming calls from private citizens and then dispatching police, fire and emergency medical services An Emergency medical service (abbreviated to initialism "EMS" in many countries) is a service providing out-of-hospital acute care and transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient believes constitutes a medical emergency. where needed. The Wordnet recorders provide "instant" message access, fast database search, and quality replay. They allow more than one operator to simultaneously record and replay messages without interrupting the recording process. Wordnet digitizes all incoming messages and records them for the short term on hard disk. It archives all messages onto secure, tamper-proof removable tape media. "These 9-1-1 centers need the ability to instantly play back phone and radio traffic, and then keep a reliable record of the call, all of which Wordnet allows them to do," said John R. Cummings, Racal Recorders' vice president and general manager. "We at Racal are pleased to once again contribute to Olympics security and safety." In 1994, at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
The International Olympic Committee (French: Comité International Olympique) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23 (IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= ) hotels and Lillehammer's city police headquarters. In Atlanta, Racal has also provided the Coca-Cola Company with a 32-channel Racal Wordsafe Maxima voice communications recorder for contingency use by Coca-Cola's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Call Center for Consumer Affairs. Calls to the center cover a range of questions about the company (such matters as the current price of Coca-Cola stock, or the taste of the soft drink and perceived changes in its formula), as well as Olympics-related issues. During the two-week period of the Olympics, the backup Wordsafe Maxima recorder will be located in Coca-Cola's redundant call center set up 15 miles from Atlanta in Marietta, Ga. The company established the center as a backup should the Atlanta call center cease to operate at any time during the games. Racal Recorders, the professional recorder company, is a subsidiary of The Racal Corp., based in Sunrise, Fla. For more than 45 years, Racal Recorders has produced advanced, large-capacity voice and data recording systems. Applications for the company's product line include instrumentation, data acquisition and communications. For further information, call 800/847-1226. CONTACT: Racal Recorders Inc., Irvine C.J. Elias-West, 714/727-3444 or Madden mad·den v. mad·dened, mad·den·ing, mad·dens v.tr. 1. To make angry; irritate. 2. To drive insane. v.intr. To become infuriated. Communications Ned Madden, 714/863-0404 |
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