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bitcentral.com And Cross Technologies Sign Sales Agreement for Satellite Communications and Broadcast Product Line.


Business Editors and High-Tech Writers

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000

bitcentral.com, the leading online total solution provider of wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1  technologies, Monday announced that it has entered into a sales agreement with Cross Technologies Inc. of Alpharetta, Ga., to offer the privately held company's line of satellite communications and broadcast products on the www.bitcentral.com Internet site.

Cross Technologies' product offerings are designed for the satellite communications, broadcast, CATV (Community Antenna TV) The original name for cable TV. It used a single antenna at the highest location in the community in order to deliver a quality signal to homes in areas with hilly terrain or other interference. , microwave and general telecommunications industries. The firm's area of expertise includes audio, video, data, digital and analog modulation The altering of a carrier by an analog signal. See modulation and carrier. , alarm and control, and radio frequency converters and switches to 3.0 GHz.

Heinz Wegener, owner and founder of Cross Technologies, commented: "We are excited to be one of bitcentral.com's prestigious line of equipment suppliers. Cross Technologies exists to provide products that complement the great variety of existing standard products manufactured by these and other major equipment suppliers, and we specialize in RF products up to 3.0 GHz.

"With bitcentral.com's unique Web-based approach to selling communications equipment, we look forward to serving a greater number of customers with our existing products as well as providing fast turnaround of cost-effective, application-specific products for the satellite, microwave, broadcast and CATV markets."

"This agreement further validates our business model," said Tim Anderson Tim Anderson may be:
  • Tim Anderson (Zork), game programmer
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, president and co-founder of bitcentral.com. "Cross Technologies' highly regarded product line will help us maintain our position as the industry's leading online provider of end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved.

Compare: turn-key solution.
 for buyers and sellers of digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital data rather than analogue waveforms to carry broadcasts over television channels or assigned radio frequency bands. It is becoming increasingly popular for television usage (especially satellite television) but is having a  and satellite communications equipment, bandwidth and services.

"We are excited that Cross Technologies can help our customers benefit from the convenience, efficiency and security of an enjoyable and cost-effective online experience."

bitcentral is the only complete online solution for buyers and sellers of digital broadcasting and satellite communications equipment, wireless bandwidth and technical services. To unify such a highly fragmented marketplace, bitcentral offers a time-based competitive business model that enables them to sell across a wide array of technologies.

The company's targeted customer base includes teleports, ISPs, edge networks, new media, broadcasters, corporations, education, government and the military.

These customers utilize the equipment, bandwidth and services offered on the bitcentral Web site for applications in vertical markets such as distance learning, programming distribution, multicasting, Internet by satellite, MPEG-2 encoding/decoding, enhanced or interactive television and streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. .

bitcentral's participating supplier partners include most of the industry's leading manufacturers, including Motorola, BroadLogic, Scientific Atlanta, Tadiran Scopus and Andrew Corp. Customers already benefiting from the company's Web-based solution include CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast.  Newspath, Cisco, U.S. Army Space Command, PBS PBS
 in full Public Broadcasting Service

Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural,
 and Warner Brothers Warner Brothers (b. Eichelbaums) movie executives; Harry (Morris) (1881–1958), born in Krasnashiltz, Poland; Albert (1884–1967), born in Baltimore, Md.; Samuel (1887–1927), born in Baltimore, Md. .

Founded in May 1994, Cross Technologies is a private company owned and founded by Wegener, former founder, chairman and executive vice president of Wegener Communications. The company designs and manufactures products for the satellite communications, broadcast, cable television (CATV) and general communications industries communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. .

Cross' employees have many years of proven skills in engineering, manufacturing and business in the satellite communications product area. A fast response team is geared to provide customer tailored products.

For further information contact Cross Technologies, 6170 Shiloh Road, Alpharetta, Ga. 30005-8349, telephone: 770/886-8005, fax: 770/886-7964, e-mail at info@crosstechnologies.com or visit their Web site at www.crosstechnologies.com.

Contact bitcentral at www.bitcentral.com/, by phone at 949/253-9003, by fax at 949/253-9004 or via e-mail at info@bitcentral.com. The company is located at 18872 Bardeen Ave., Irvine, Calif. 92612.

bitcentral.com Inc. was founded in April 1999 as a leading e-commerce company for broadband technologies broadband technology

Telecommunications devices, lines, or technologies that allow communication over a wide band of frequencies, and especially over a range of frequencies divided into multiple independent channels for the simultaneous transmission of different signals.
. The company's Web site offers new and pre-owned equipment sales, as well as a wide range of complementary services including technical support, training, engineering, consulting and system configuration assistance.

In addition, the bitcentral community includes a host of industry-specific information, news, employment opportunities and interactive discussion forums.
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