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New Zealand Engineering 1998 November New Zealand Engineering Marketplace Cabac
has released a new series of test instruments which use the latest microprocessor
technology to provide comprehensive measuring ranges and features in a
hand held instrument. They are ideal for use in workshop and field
applications. The Digital Multimeter has a manual range selection,
3½ digit LCD display, AC/DC voltage measurement up to 500V; the
Voltage Tester has LED display, automatic polarity indication and AC/DC
voltage measurement up to 660 V. Phone 0800 442 182.
Increasing numbers of companies are reducing their costs and improving their business customer service by utilising Telecom's new AirData service. AirData is Telecom's wireless IP service operating over cellular digital packet data (CDPD). It provides clients with continuous connection which is available for transmitting short bursts of data without the need for physical connections. The expertise in CDPD, circuit switched cellular, trunked mobile radio, and application integration is currently being employed by companies for sales force management, service despatch systems, freight despatch and control. Holliday Group Ltd is New Zealand's first Telecom approved AirData specialist.E-mail: davefw@holliday.co.nz. Allied Telesyn has a new 32-bit CardBus LAN adapter. The AT-2800TX
is an Ethernet LAN adapter card for laptops, compatible with 10BaseT and
100BaseTX networks, which auto-senses and operates with either network.
This LAN PC card for laptops meets the new 32-bit high performance PC card
standard known as CardBus which provides a 100 Mb network interface and
eliminates the interface bottleneck that older 16-bit PC cards experience.
The adapter is backed with a lifetime warranty, advance replacement and
free technical support.
The Ministry of Commerce has announced that Discussion Paper DP13, Digital Terrestrial Television: Spectrum Allocation Options, has now been published. Hard copies are available from the Ministry (PO Box 2847, Wellington) and the paper can also be viewed on their web page: http://www.moc.govt.nz/rsm under Publications. CLEAR has upgraded its ATM backbone from 34 to 155 Mbit to meet soaring demand for frame relay and ATM network services. The $600,000 upgrade included the installation of a new BPX switch in Hamilton and new port cards in existing switches in CLEAR's Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch nodes. CLEAR currently has 900 frame relays and expects to double that number in the next 12 months. ATM is now being implemented for a number of major corporates and government departments.
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