RE: Just a note of interestInternational Datacasting Corp -
Int'l Datacasting's Superflex selected for Internet
International Datacasting Corp IDC
Shares issued 31,689,728 1999-12-14 close $0.7
Wednesday Dec 15 1999
Mr. Michael Rack reports
International Datacasting Corporation has received an order in excess of $750,000 from World Wide Wireless Web Corporation (W4) of San Diego, Calif., to supply a SuperFlex datacasting system for satellite-based Internet and multimedia services.
W4 provides high-quality international broadband satellite Internet access, coupled with local wireless bypass connectivity technology. Customers include ISP (Internet service providers), universities, and corporate clients who want to leapfrog the world's inadequate Internet infrastructure, specifically in Latin America and the Pacific Rim regions. W4 offers high-speed Internet access services, local caching, local wireless connectivity, as well as content aggregation programs to W4 affiliate ISPs who provide W4's enhanced services to their subscribers.
W4's service interfaces a high-speed Internet backbone in the United States (from a high-capacity fibre optic Internet node in Southern California) to deliver high-speed Internet service to in-country ISP. Service is provided over either one-way or two-way satellite links. ISPs work with W4 to provide local access to this additional bandwidth and value-added services for their subscribers using either their existing dial-up modems or with new wireless dial-up access technology. The IDC SuperFlex system will be used on W4's SatMex five coverage of Mexico and the Americas from Canada to Patagonia. In addition, W4 will use the IDC system on its NahuelSat coverage of Argentina and Mercosur.
Walter Johnson, chairman of W4, said: "We were looking for a best-of-breed solution that would allow us to realize both our short- and long-term satellite Internet and multimedia delivery goals. IDC's SuperFlex system provides us with unparalleled network control, speed, expandability and overall functionality."
"SuperFlex is an award-winning, digital satellite networking system designed to distribute Internet services, multimedia data, audio and video by satellite in point-to-multipoint applications. The system incorporates advanced technology using digital video broadcasting (DVB), Internet protocol and MPEG international standards," said Dr. Raymond C. Rask, W4 chief technology officer.
Ron Clifton, president and chief executive officer of IDC, stated: "It is a privilege to be able to provide solutions to dynamic customers like W4. We are pleased to count them among the rapidly growing portfolio of leading Internet-via-satellite service providers who are adopting SuperFlex as a next-generation platform for multimedia distribution."
SuperFlex has already enabled such notable clients as Loral CyberStar, Kingston TLI, Telefonica, GTE, the Virtual University of ITESM and Interlink to establish high-speed, highly flexible broadband satellite IP networks.
SuperFlex was recently voted the Most Innovative Data Solution of 1999 in the annual readers' poll conducted by Satellite Communications magazine.
About W4 Corporation
World Wide Wireless Web Corporation, (W4) was formed in January, 1997, to pursue the development and deployment of innovative satellite Internet services delivering high-speed Internet backbone access and value-added multimedia content to progressive ISP, corporations, and universities in North, Central and South America, and the Asia-Pacific regions. W4 Corporation operates two satellite uplink facilities and Internet operations in San Diego, Calif.
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