Microtest, Inc. Wins Award for First Residential Cable Tester; MICROSCANNER Pro Wins HANA Award for Coolest Networking Product 2000.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2000 Microtest(R), Inc. (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 : 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 ), the technology leader in network test equipment, won the "Coolest Networking Product 2000" award for the MICROSCANNER(TM) Pro. The Home Automation and Networking Association (HANA HANA High-Definition Audio Video Network Alliance HANA Highway Africa News Agency HANA Hawaii Association of Nurse Anesthetists HANA Houston Association of Network Administrators ) presented the HANA Wavelength award at the Electronic House Expo Fall 2000. Electronic House attendees voted the MICROSCANNER Pro as the "Coolest Networking Product" after reviewing the newest concepts, prototypes and products at the networking show. Tim Shriver shrive v. shrove or shrived, shriv·en or shrived, shriv·ing, shrives v.tr. 1. To hear the confession of and give absolution to (a penitent). 2. , Chairman, HANA Wavelength Committee said, "The first annual HANA Wavelength contest has shown that the home automation and networking industry has no shortage of cutting-edge companies such as Microtest." The MICROSCANNER Pro, the first product in the MicroTools(TM) line, is the all-in-one cable tester A cable tester is an electronic device used to verify the electrical connections in a cable or other wired assembly. Generally a cable tester consists of:
adj. Having or mounted on a common axis. coaxial Adjective 1. Electronics (of a cable) transmitting by means of two concentric conductors separated by an insulator and twisted pair A thin-diameter wire (22 to 26 gauge) commonly used for telephone and network cabling. The wires are twisted around each other to minimize interference from other twisted pairs in the cable (Alexander Graham Bell invented this and was awarded a patent for it in 1881). cable testing as well as trouble shooting for speaker wire, security networks and telephone cabling. It verifies continuity and wiremap; finds opens, shorts, crossed or split pairs and miswires; and measures length and distance to fault, using the most accurate means of measurement available today. "Microtest is pleased to see that MICROSCANNER Pro is receiving wide acceptance immediately after its launch into the residential networking marketplace," said Laura Klassen, Director of Marketing, Microtest. "The product is the first in a line of products tailored to the industry for home automation. The trend for new homes to be equipped with the lasted technology makes our tool, the MICROSCANNER Pro, the one to have." About Microtest Microtest's purpose is to bring people and information together with innovative technology that simplifies evolving networks. Microtest is a leader in network test and measurement products such as OMNIScanner(TM)2, PentaScanner(R), CertiFiber(R), and OMNIFiber(TM) and network appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything and storage products such as FileZerver(TM), DiscZerver(TM), and LinuxZerver(TM). Headquartered in Phoenix, Microtest has international offices in Munich, Germany; Crawley, United Kingdom; Beijing, China and Singapore. Visit Microtest at www.microtest.com or call Microtest at 1-602-952-6400. About Home Automation and Networking Association Home Automation and Networking Association (HANA) is the trade association of the home control industry, which was founded in 1988. HANA developed to cater to the ever-increasing population of professionals dedicated to building technology for homes that enhance customer's lives. It currently has over 450 company members including manufacturers, distributors, dealers, installers and service providers of home automation products. |
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