Sunrise Telecom to Acquire the ADSL Tester from Integrated Telecom Express, Inc.Business Editors SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2002 PC Solution Reduces Test Equipment Costs 70% for ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Installation and Synch Testing Sunrise Telecom Incorporated (Nasdaq:SRTI), a leading provider of service verification equipment for telecommunications, Cable TV, and Internet networks, announces the acquisition of the ADSL Tester from Integrated Telecom Express (ITeX). The acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter of 2002. Financial terms were not disclosed. "We are pleased to transition the ADSL Tester to Sunrise" said Jim Regel, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President of ITeX, "because it is important for us to see our customers continuing to be served and to see this exciting product continuing to make a contribution in the marketplace." "This development group introduced the world's only ADSL Tester in a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. format for the technician's portable laptop," stated Paul Marshall, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. and Vice President of Marketing for Sunrise Telecom. "The ADSL Tester fully complements Sunrise Telecom's Sunset xDSL product line and will provide new levels of cost-effectiveness in the qualification and deployment of xDSL services." The ADSL Tester is an ultra-lightweight portable ADSL line tester card that fits into the PCMCIA slot available on the technician's laptop computer. The card supports all major WAN IP protocols used in ADSL, allows user-selectable or auto-detection of the ADSL line encoding schemes, provides selectable PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride. PVC in full polyvinyl chloride Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide. and framing settings, and allows the user to store results directly onto the laptop. Generated line performance data includes line rates achievable, noise margins, CO to CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment distance estimates, bit loading graphs and FEC See forward error correction. FEC - Forward Error Correction , CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. , and HECs error statistics. The ADSL Tester allows the user to perform line synchronization, router mapping and can even be optioned to support limited internet surfing through the laptop to demonstrate successful ADSL internet service provisioning. The product is currently extensively deployed by a major US regional bell operating company The Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC) are the result of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit against American Telephone & Telegraph. History (RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Company) The Bell telephone companies that were spun off of AT&T by court order in 1984 (the Divestiture). Also known as the "Baby Bells," the initial seven RBOCs were Nynex, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, Southwestern Bell, US West, ) and has been sold to several telecom companies in Asia. The product currently runs on Windows NT and is sampling on Windows 98 and 2000. Pricing is approximately half that of previously available Sunrise Telecom ADSL modems, with the added benefit of no test chassis to purchase if the technician already has a laptop, for approximate total cost savings of 70%. For information regarding the ADSL Tester, please contact: John Gudmundson, Director of Product Marketing, PC Solutions 408-360-1267 jgudmundson@sunrisetelecom.com About Sunrise Telecom Incorporated Sunrise Telecom manufactures and markets service verification equipment to pre-qualify, verify, and diagnose telecommunications, cable TV, and Internet networks. Sunrise Telecom's products offer broad functionality, leading-edge technology, and compact size to test the variety of new broadband services; these include wireline access, including DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ; fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber ; cable TV; cable modem; and signaling networks. The products are designed to maximize technicians' effectiveness in the field and to provide realistic network simulations for equipment manufacturers to test their products. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Sunrise Telecom distributes its products through a network of sales representatives, distributors and a direct sales force throughout six continents. NOTE: Sunrise Telecom and SunSet and are registered trademarks of Sunrise Telecom Incorporated. All other trade, product, or service names referenced in this release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. For more information, visit the company's website at www.sunrisetelecom.com. Except for specific historical information, the matters discussed in this press release may contain forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, earnings and sales projections that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Such factors include: our dependence on DSL; a sustained downturn in demand for our products; a sustained slowdown in the growth of the telecommunications industry; the mix of products our customers order; quarterly fluctuations in our operating results; our dependence on a limited number of major customers; delays in product development and delivery schedules; deferred or lost sales resulting from our lengthy sales cycle; our ability to manage growth and slowdowns; our ability to integrate acquisitions; increased competitive pressures; the loss of key personnel; our ability to enter into strategic relationships; rapid technological change within the telecommunications industry; our dependence on limited source suppliers; special risks associated with international operations; control by our founding shareholders; as well as the risk factors listed from time to time in our SEC reports, including but not limited to our Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 2001, Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2002, and other SEC filings, copies of which are available from our Investor Relations Department. We assume no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release. |
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