Scientific-Atlanta Selects IONA's E-business Infrastructure as Development Platform for PowerVu Digital Compression.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 5, 2000 Leading Digital Transmission Systems Supplier to Embed Orbix with Digital Video Compression Systems IONA(R), the Enterprise Portal Company(TM), (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 :IONA) today announced that Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SFA See sales force automation. SFA - Sales Force Automation ), a leading supplier of transmission networks and digital interactive systems, will embed IONA's Orbix(R) technology into its PowerVu Plus(TM) products. Engineered to CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global (R) standards, Orbix provides an open, distributed platform for the integration of disparate component infrastructures within Scientific-Atlanta's PowerVu Plus and PowerVu(R) products. The PowerVu Plus digital video compression system enables Scientific-Atlanta to offer digital and broadband media providers access to a catalog of programming for the design of entertainment packages. Currently, more than 350 Scientific-Atlanta digital video compression systems are transmitting over 1750 channels of digital programming into more than 170 countries. "We chose Orbix because of IONA's leadership in the enterprise infrastructure market," said Brian Morris, VP of Operations for Media Networks at Scientific-Atlanta. "Because we service customers globally, it was important for us to go with a open, standards-based platform that can inter-operate with all of our customers' systems. Orbix enables our developers to design our digital video products in a familiar environment without compatibility concerns and shortens our development cycle, while increasing our cost savings and competitive advantage." Orbix technology serves as the e-business infrastructure for IONA's iPortal Suite(TM). Consisting of 5 components, the iPortal Suite represents a comprehensive set of tools and services designed to help companies build enterprise portals, which are unified points of access that connect the web to the corporate business by integrating all of an organization's applications and back-end systems. "As a leading supplier of digital interactive systems, Scientific-Atlanta's decision demonstrates the value of an open, distributed development platform in today's Internet-enabled global marketplace," said Ed Gaudet, VP of Worldwide Marketing, IONA. "Utilizing Orbix, Scientific-Atlanta has addressed interoperability issues for their customers and provided themselves an immediate advantage over their competitors." About IONA IONA, the Enterprise Portal Company, is a leading provider of e-business infrastructure that helps organizations build and deploy enterprise portals, Internet commerce sites, and other large-scale distributed applications. IONA supports a full diversity of languages, including Java and C++, and distributed computing technologies, including SOAP, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. , J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. , CORBA, Microsoft's Windows DNA 2000 and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) OS/390, CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. . Founded in 1991, IONA Technologies is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with US headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $105 million in 1999 and employs more than 650 people in 25 offices worldwide. For more information, please see www.iona.com IONA and Orbix are registered trademarks, and the Enterprise Portal Company and iPortal Suite are trademarks of IONA Technologies. PowerVu is a registered trademark of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc..The names of companies and products mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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