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1.5 Gbps Link Transmits Digital HD/SD Video, Audio, and Control Signals Without Delay Via Free Space Optics at Up to One Kilometer for Sports and Other Productions
Built on LignUp Communications Solution
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 15, 2007 The dramatic growth in HDTV sports and entertainment production, as well as the need for permanent HD and SD video links at broadcast facilities, has provided the impetus for a new and versatile uncompressed, high-bandwidth (HD-SDI and SD-SDI) digital-transmission solution. This solution is known as the DT-150 HD Canobeam transceiver and is designed for situations where fiber-optic cables or microwave are impractical and/or the simplicity of Free Space Optics is preferred.
The DT-150 HD Canobeam is the newest member of Canon’s acclaimed series of point-to-point optical beam transceivers that use infrared light to bridge gaps in high-bandwidth transmission situations. The DT-150 HD Canobeam provides bi-directional, uncompressed 1.5 Gbps transmission of embedded digital video, audio, and camera control signals on a single HD-SDI or SD-SDI stream with no delay. The DT-150 HD Canobeam can also relay embedded HD-SDI and SD-SDI video from multiple cameras or other HD/SD video sources, along with embedded return video and audio to the camera operator, camera control signals, and robotic camera-control data. The DT-150 HD Canobeam has a range of up to one kilometer and -- like all Canobeam DT-100 series products -- features Canon’s exclusive Auto Tracking feature to maintain beam alignment despite vibration due to wind, rain, or unsteady camera platforms. The DT-150 HD Canobeam has an estimated selling price of $40,000* per pair.
“This is a great leap forward for Canobeam, in terms of performance and price,” says Gordon Tubbs, director of Canon U.S.A.’s Broadcast and Communications division. “HD is such a common factor in everybody’s lives now, especially at most broadcast facilities. By seamlessly providing users with affordable, wireless, point-to-point uncompressed digital transmissions, the DT-150 HD Canobeam is playing a major role in revolutionizing the broadcast industry as the transition to HDTV accelerates.”
The DT-150 HD Canobeam also features an important advance in the Canobeam DT-100 series with the addition of a Small Form Pluggable (SFP) module system. Use of an SFP HD module allows the DT-150 HD Canobeam to interface via single-mode fiber LC connectors. Users who are already using single-mode fiber connections can simply plug it into the DT-150 HD Canobeam and instantly transmit embedded video, audio, and camera controls via the FSO connection. Users who do not have an existing single-mode fiber connection will be able to use third-party media converters to convert HD-SDI signals or SD-SDI signals from either coaxial or SMPTE hybrid fiber cable into single-mode fiber for transmission. As with any SDI stream, audio and/or multiple video signals will be embedded into the stream via a multiplexer.
As with all of Canon’s Canobeam products, the DT-150 HD uses Free Space Optics, which requires no FCC licensing or frequency coordination. Free Space Optics provides a highly secure and reliable video/audio link that is free from RF interference and signal interception. Canon’s other DT-100 series Canobeam systems are proven high-bandwidth data-networking solutions used by corporate and university campuses, government and military facilities, and other situations where existing bandwidth is insufficient, fiber is cost-prohibitive or logistically impossible, or a redundant disaster/recovery system is essential.
The DT-150 HD Canobeam offers multiple applications, from permanent installations (including such uses as STL), to live HD and SD television events. These events may include golf matches where ponds and fairways can’t be bridged by fiber cables, major outdoor concerts where remote camera platforms make fiber links impractical, or sports where images from manned and robotic cameras may need to be relayed to a central point from inaccessible locations. With the combination of Canon’s exclusive Auto Tracking feature and the ability to embed camera control and robotic control signals into the bi-directional HD-SDI or SD-SDI stream, the Canobeam DT-150 HD Canobeam is the perfect solution for the television broadcast and mobile production industry’s dramatic increase in HDTV sports and entertainment telecasts.
For more information about the Canobeam product line, please call Canon Broadcast and Communications Division at 1-800-321-4388.
About Canon U.S.A., Inc.Canon U.S.A., Inc. delivers consumer, business-to-business, and industrial imaging solutions. The company is listed as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies in America and is on the BusinessWeek list of "Top 100 Brands.” Its parent company Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ) is a top patent holder of technology, ranking third overall in the U.S. in 2006†, with global revenues of $34.9 billion. For more information, visit www.usa.canon.com.
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Hutton to Provide Enterprises and Service Providers with Wireless VoIP Applications
Built on LignUp Communications Solution
DALLAS, Texas and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – July 00, 2005. Hutton Communications, a leading provider of solutions for wireless communications, and LignUp Corporation, a provider of Web services based converged communications solutions, today announced that Hutton Communications will distribute the LignUp Communications Solution to provide specialized wireless Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions in North America , Central America and South America . With a wide-ranging network of more than 15,000 resellers, Hutton is one of the largest distributors of wireless solutions in the region.
The LignUp Communications Solution is a VoIP communications platform deployed with IP-PBX, IP-Centrex, Voice Mail, Unified Messaging and IVR Web applications. LignUp enables enterprises to voice accelerate business processes, and quickly add new interactive wireless VoIP applications. LignUp enables existing and emerging service providers to create new and recurring revenue streams by rapidly developing enhanced wireless VoIP services for their customer bases or communities. Hutton’s resellers can leverage LignUp’s solution to build specialized, customized products that meet their communications needs now and emerging VoIP applications that will be in demand tomorrow.
“LignUp allows us to provide our resellers and their customers with a common infrastructure for deploying voice with specialized wireless solutions,” <<Hutton Executive>>. “Companies building these wireless infrastructures within enterprises, at college and corporate campuses, in government and at service provider facilities now have a platform that delivers access to dynamic voice solutions that are customized to unique customer business needs. Our resellers and can differentiate their offerings with unique voice applications accessible through a variety of Web enabled devices across a variety of diverse work environments.”
Because the LignUp architecture is 100 percent software and standards based, LignUp components can be deployed on a single server or distributed servers, enabling the system to scale up and down as needed by customers, from enterprises to service providers. Each component in the LignUp platform can be clustered for fault tolerance demands and scaled separately as needed.
“Hutton is a top distributor of wireless technology with a strong ability to penetrate the enterprise and service provider marketplaces with packaged solution offerings and superior service,” said Kevin Nethercott, president and COO at LignUp Corporation. “We are impressed by Hutton’s ability to effectively take products to market through their extensive value add reseller channel, and we look forward to working with Hutton to deliver the bundled solutions that enterprises and service providers need to meet their wireless VoIP communications needs.”
About Hutton Communications
Hutton Communications, established in 1967, is a national distributor of wireless communications and power systems products. Headquarters for Hutton is in Dallas , Texas with sales and warehouse facilities located throughout North America . Hutton can be contacted by calling, toll-free, 877-648-8866 or by email to sales@huttoncom.com. Visit Hutton's website at www.huttononline.com/solacam.
About LignUp Corporation
LignUp Corporation delivers a powerful web services based VoIP communications platform deployed with IP-PBX, IP-Centrex, Voice Mail, Unified Messaging, and IVR web applications. The proven LignUp Communications Platfrom is powered by VoiceXML, LignUp Media Control XML (MCTRL) and LignUp Call Control XML (CCTRL), and enables the fast and easy creation of unique, high margin VoIP solutions and services. The 100% software, SIP-based, future-ready LignUp Communications Solution enables enterprises to cost-effectively voice accelerate business processes and quickly adopt new interactive processes as business needs evolve. LignUp also enables existing and emerging service providers to create recurring revenue streams by quickly developing enhanced services for their customer base or community. A privately held company, LignUp is based in Silicon Valley , CA and has offices in Salt Lake City , Shanghai and Tokyo . More information on LignUp can be found at www.LignUp.com.
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CANOBEAM DT-50 PROVIDES WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION
SOLUTION FOR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, PWBA
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Efficiently moving data and the huge volume of electronic paperwork is a must at the U.S. Department of Labor, Pension Welfare Benefit Administration, which addresses pension oversight cases nationwide. When it came time to make a quick, economical addition to their network that would work within the zoning constraints of the highly regulated Washington, D.C. area, the office selected the Canobeam DT-50 Optical Beam Transceiver from Canon U.S.A., Inc.
With no FCC frequency allocation required for operation, the Canobeam DT-50 was the perfect solution for connecting two buildings on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. “The city has imposed lots of restrictions on digging up the streets,” says Darryl Aus, Sr Network Engineer for PWBA DOL. “This particular division is a high-end database user group. Instead of leasing a data circuit for multiple years for a short shoot across a city street, we put out for a one-time cost with the Canobeam, and it’s serving us very well.”
Designed with Canon’s industry-leading optics and capable of transmitting up to 2 km (1.25 miles), the bi-directional Canobeam has proved invaluable in providing a link where microwaves and cable connections are unworkable. With a data transmission rate up to 622Mbps, 3R technology for strong signal, Autotracking, and constant footprint function, Canobeam offers an unmatched combination of security, reliability and transmissible distance. Also available in the Canobeam line are the Canobeam DT-55 for Gigabit Ethernet performance, and the economical Canobeam DT-30.
“We’ve had some very intense storms and fog, but we haven’t had a single interruption of service since we started using Canobeam,” Aus says. “We’ve gotten tremendous service and support from Canon, and not having another data circuit to manage or ISP to call in case of an outage is extremely convenient.”
Choosing the Canobeam DT-50 has been instrumental in allowing the DOL, PWBA to carry out its critical public services at top speed. “This division is more or less a pension help desk, so when the public calls, it’s important that we be able to respond without delays in the network,” Daryl Aus concludes. “The effect of the Canobeam has been very positive towards eliminating bottlenecks.”
For more information, please call Canon Broadcast and Communications Division at 1-800-321-4388.
Canon U.S.A., Inc. delivers consumer, business-to-business, and industrial imaging solutions. In 2001, the Company was listed as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies in America, and was ranked #41 on the BusinessWeek list of "Top 100 Brands." Its parent company Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ) is a top patent-holder of technology, ranking third overall in the U.S. in 2001, with global revenues of $26 billion. Canon U.S.A. employs approximately 11,000 people at over 30 locations. For more information, visit www.usa.canon.com.
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Homeland security communications research at Stevens gets a boost from Canobeam
Free space optical system from Canon yields valuable data for homeland security, military and public safety communications.
One of the cornerstones of heightened homeland security and the fight against terrorism is secure communications technology, and a Canobeam optical beam transceiver from Canon USA, Inc. a subsidiary of Canon, Inc., is proving to be a big help in the effort. Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology are doing groundbreaking work as they assess security risks and solutions of different networking systems, and valuable data on free space optics (FSO) networks is being discovered daily thanks to the presence of a Canobeam optical beam transmission system.
The Canobeam, which has long supplied secure, low-cost, high speed wireless networks in corporate, enterprise and broadcast applications worldwide, is a key to helping the Stevens researchers understand the full potential of FSO in support of national, state and local emergency response to acts of terrorism. The Canon unit is set up at Stevens’ Wireless Network Security Center (WiNSeC), which is assessing the usefulness of many communications systems, including wired, wireless and satellite as well as FSO in the battlefield and on the home front.
“What we’re doing at WiNSeC is balancing out all the aspects of communications technology to provide research on connectivity,” says Paul Kolodzy, Director of WiNSeC. “We examine how Canobeam and the other systems augment military and homeland communications systems, and how these networks deal with transitioning from one to another.”
For Kolodzy and WiNSeC Network Engineer Jason Evans, FSO devices like Canobeam offer homeland security and military command an intriguing method of networking. “FSO is very interesting in this application,” Evans says. “In looking at new technologies for the battlefield, one way to get security is to prevent your adversaries from listening in on you. The tighter the light beam, the harder it is for them to know you’re there – the ultimate in the tightness of beams is FSO. There are pros and cons of going up to higher and higher frequencies, and that’s what we use the Canobeam to examine.”
The field-proven Canobeam DT-50’s secure light beam is capable of transmitting data at speeds up to 622 Mbps at a distance of up to 2 km, providing a highly cost-efficient connection that can be set up in a matter of minutes. The user-friendly Canobeam DT-50 has established itself as a versatile and solid performer, optimizing transmission even from the tops of buildings that are prone to sway and vibration. Using Canon’s Auto-Tracking System and 3R repeater technology for highly reliable links and constant footprint, the DT-50 can accommodate Fast Ethernet, 156 megabits per second (OC-3) and 622 megabits per second (OC-12).
To research FSO in real-world conditions, WiNSeC set up a Canobeam transceiver on a 13-story tall campus tower about .5 KM from the opposite Canobeam on top of the Physics Building . Pan/tilt/zoom cameras on the tower takes pictures of “perpetrators” – actually pedestrians walking by – and the Canobeam link facilitates the transmission of the images back to the WiNSeC command center. In the process, WiNSeC engineers note the effect of tower sway, fog, smog and other environmental conditions on the resilience of FSO.
By providing a Canobeam system for research, Canon has become a welcome partner for WiNSeC in the fight against terrorism. “Canon has been very helpful in our efforts,” Kolodzy says. “They have a thorough knowledge of laser communications, and they were interested in understanding along with us the potential uses for FSO. We’re always looking at mixed mode communications to see what kind of role they’re going to play in the future for homeland security and the military, as well as commercial uses, and Canon is a very good match for us.”
Established in 1870, Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science, management and technology management, as well as a baccalaureate in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university, located directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan , has a total enrollment of about 1,740 undergraduates and 2,600 graduate students. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at http://www.stevens-tech.edu/.
For the latest news about Stevens, visit its new online news publication, StevensViews, at http://www.stevensnewsservice.com/.
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