Norsat Announces New Manufacturing Agreements and a Growing Installed Base for its Cable Television Decoder Technology.BURNABY, B.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 1999-- Norsat International Inc. (TSE-NII; Nasdaq-NSATF), today announced the signing of separate agreements with manufacturers in Taiwan and India for the production of cable television set-top decoders incorporating Norsat's N-Code II scrambling technology. The Company also announced commitments to N-Code II by 10 additional cable system operators in China and the first deployments of N-Code II in Uruguay. GemTek Technology Co., Ltd. of Taiwan in August signed an agreement with Norsat for the purchase of up to 50,000 chipsets to be delivered over an 18-month period. The purchase price, in aggregate, is approximately US$750,000. GemTek will integrate the chipsets into its decoder A hardware device or software that converts coded data back into its original form. See decode and MPEG decoder. boxes for use in cable television systems in Taiwan and other global markets. The initial shipment of chipsets is scheduled for this month. Norsat's agreement with Bharat Electronics Limited This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (BEL), India's leading integrated electronics manufacturer with sales of US$500 million, will allow Bharat to produce set-top boxes The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. with N-Code II chipsets for the Indian market. Scrambling systems and individually addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be set-top boxes enable cable television operators to provide premium and pay-per-view programming by making the signals secure. The new commitments by cable system operators in China bring to 20 the number of municipalities that have opted for N-Code II. The sale to Uruguay, initially for deployment in 4 cable systems, will be the first use of scrambling technology in that country. "These agreements and commitments broaden our access to global markets both within and beyond China, where N-Code II has been approved by the national authority for adoption by municipal cable operators," said Robert H. Bucher, Norsat's President and Chief Executive Officer. "While Norsat's primary strategic focus remains on satellite ground station equipment and distribution of satellite related products and services, N-Code II provides us with an attractive opportunity to apply proven Norsat technology to enhance our earnings and cash flow without a significant incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. investment." GemTek is a manufacturer of advanced wireless data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. and computer peripheral products based in Hsinchu Industrial Park, Taiwan. Bharat Electronics Limited is India's leading integrated electronics manufacturer, operating nine ISO- iso- or is- pref. 1. Equal; uniform: isobar. 2. Isomeric: isopropyl. 3. 9001/9002 certified factories and producing a range of telecommunications products for the defense, commercial and consumer markets. Norsat International Inc. designs, engineers and distributes premium products for use in the satellite 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. and cable television industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary Norsat America Inc. operates a network of 14 branch offices across the U.S. and is a distributor of DIRECTV and DirecPC products and services. |
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