Motorola announces contract with Essar Commvision Ltd. for installation of 2,000 cable telephony lines.ARLINGTON HEIGHTS Arlington Heights, village (1990 pop. 75,460), Cook county, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; founded 1836, inc. 1887. Its manufactures include machinery, drugs and medical equipment, and metal fabrication. Arlington Park racetrack is there. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 1997-- Motorola To Provide Complete Turn-Key CableComm System Solution for India Customer Motorola Inc., Multimedia Group today announced a contract with Essar Commvision Ltd. for installation of up to 2,000 cable telephony See cable telephone. lines. Initially, the project will also pass 3,000 homes with hybrid-fiber coaxial cable (HFC 1. (networking) HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. (hardware) HFC - hydrofluorocarbon. ). Essar, operating in the Punjab state in India, is one of the largest telecommunications companies in India and the first to deploy cable telephony. Motorola will be taking on the role of systems integrator to provide a turn-key solution to support Essar's expansion from cellular operator to full multimedia service provider. In addition to providing the 2,000 telephone lines, Motorola will install a complete infrastructure for future cable television and Internet access See how to access the Internet. services. The HFC network (Hybrid Fiber-Coax network) A communications network (typically a cable TV network) that uses a combination of optical fibers and coaxial cable. The fiber provides the high-speed backbone, and the coax is used to connect end users to the backbone. project will utilize a significant portion of Indian suppliers and labor. "The government, businesses and people of India demand flexible and advanced communication services. The CableComm system provides just that," said Dick Day, corporate vice president and general manager, Motorola Inc. "Teaming with Essar in the forward-looking state of Punjab is a very exciting prospect for us." The contract signifies a major step for the telecommunications and cable industries. Countries like India offer the industry vast potential to update communications infrastructures and to implement state-of-the-art networks. Consumers will gain much- needed basic telephone service, with future options for cable television and high-speed Internet See broadband. access. Essar plans to ultimately enable a full suite of applications, including home shopping Home Shopping commonly refers to the electronic retailing / home shopping channels industry, which includes such billion dollar companies as HSN, QVC, eBay, ShopNBC, Buy.com, and Amazon.com. , distance learning and other multimedia services. "We view this contract with Motorola as a mutually synergistic combination to reach out to the integrated multimedia communication services of the future," said Mr. Pramod Saxena, Chief Executive Officer of Essar's Telecommunications Group, which spans the entire range of telecom businesses from basic telephony to cellular services. The CableComm product supports basic telephone and other multimedia services over HFC networks. Located at the subscribers' premises, the Cable Access Unit provides the interface between the cable network and existing home wiring. These same networks can support the CyberSURFR cable modem cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. , another element of Motorola's CableComm family of products. Providing speed of up to 10 Mbps, the CyberSURFR cable modem enables high speed Internet access for both home and business users. Both products permit crystal clear television reception over the same cable network. The Essar Group The Essar Group is an India-based diversified corporation with interests in telecommunications, shipping, steel, construction, power and oil. The group has an estimated market value of US$ 15 billion and has an annual revenue of US$ 2.2 billion. is India's private sector pioneer in infrastructure, with a leadership position in a range of core sector industries, from steel and power to telecommunications, shipping and oil exploration. With an asset base of US $ 4 billion and an annual turnover of 1143 million US $, Essar's Telecom businesses provide for seamless coverage of northern India, the most prosperous part of the country. Motorola's Multimedia Group, a unit of the Messaging, Information & Media Sector, develops, manufactures and markets systems for the convergence of voice, data and video communications services over advanced broadband multimedia platforms. Motorola is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , semiconductors, and advanced electronic systems and services. Major equipment businesses include cellular telephone, two-way radio A voice network that provides an always-on connection enabling the user to just "push the button and talk." Also called "dispatch radio," two-way radio has traditionally been used by police, fire, taxi and other mobile fleets. , paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics and computers. Motorola semiconductors power communication devices, computers and millions of other products. Motorola's 1996 sales were $28 billion. -0- Note to Editors: CyberSURFR(TM) is a trademark of Motorola, Inc. For further information about the Motorola Multimedia Group and Motorola Inc., please visit the company's Web site at http://www.mot.com/multimedia . CONTACT: Motorola Multimedia Group Doug Robertson, 847/632-6634 or Essar Group S.H. Venkatramani, 91-11-6842563 or Edelman PR Worldwide Blair Ciecko/Heather Lindemann, 312/240-2698 |
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