Microtest's CertiFiber Wins Fiberoptic Product News Technology Award.PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1999--Microtest Inc. (NASDAQ/NMS:MTST MTST Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (Social movement of Brazil) MTST Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter MTST Maneuvering Target Statistical Tracker MTST Minimal Task Spanning Tree ), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of network cable management, troubleshooting and network application server products, announced that its CertiFiber(TM) cable certification tool has won Fiberoptic Product News magazine's 1998 Technology Award. The awards were based on reader ballots submitted to the publication. Fiber Optic Product News reviewed hundreds of new fiber optic products throughout 1998 and published twenty nominees in its December, 1998 issue. The nominees spanned the categories of cable, test equipment passive components, active components/systems, and Lasers/light sources. Microtest's CertiFiber received its award for the test equipment category, and, along with nine other winners, was honored at the Optical Fiber Communications conference held in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. in February. CertiFiber, the world's first handheld fiber optic certification tool, remains the only tool designed to certify fiber links against published industry standards, such as TIA (1) (Telecommunications Industry Association, Arlington, VA, www.tiaonline.org) A membership organization founded in 1988 that sets telecommunications standards worldwide. It was originally an EIA working group that was spun off and merged with the U.S. 568A and 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. 11801, and provide Pass/Fail analyses based upon those standards. It features a one-button Autotest that measures propagation delay The time it takes to transmit a signal from one place to another. Propagation delay is dependent solely on distance and two thirds the speed of light. Signals going through a wire or fiber generally travel at two thirds the speed of light. Contrast with nodal processing delay. , length, and dual fiber loss measurements for 850 and 1300 nm, providing tests results in seconds. Results can be downloaded to a PC using free ScanLink(TM) software and can be saved for use with MT Crimp, Microtest's physical infrastructure documentation system. CertiFiber lists for U.S. $3,995. The CertiFiber home page is located at http://www.microtest.com/CertiFiber/ Founded in 1984, Microtest is a leading worldwide manufacturer of diagnostic, certification and CD-connectivity products for local area networks (LANs) and enterprise networks. Microtest's mission is to be on every network. The company has pioneered several networking products, such as PentaScanner, CertiFiber and DiscPort. Microtest is headquartered at 4747 North 22nd Street, Phoenix, AZ. Microtest's European Centers of Excellence are located at Am Soeldnermoos 17, D-85399 Munich-Hallbergmoos, Germany and 2A Kingfisher House, Northwood Park Northwood Park is a soccer stadium in the England. It is home to Southern Premier League semi-professional football club, Northwood F.C. The ground has a capacity of 3,075 available places with 930 covered terrace and 308 seated places. The ground can be found at Chestnut Avenue. , Gatwick Road, Crawley, UK. Microtest's stock is traded on the 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 National Market under the symbol MTST. |
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