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Motorola and Hybricon Collaborate to Develop Proof-of-Concept for Conduction-Cooled MicroTCA Platform
Will Demonstrate Ruggedized MicroTCA Platform for Military, Telecom, Medical and Industrial Applications at MicroTCA Summit
TEMPE, Ariz. – 08 May 2007 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced a joint effort with Hybricon Corporation to develop a proof-of-concept of a MicroTCA™ conduction-cooled platform. The collaboration further demonstrates the MicroTCA standard’s viability across a number of industries with demanding environments including military, telecom, medical and industrial.
Motorola and Hybricon’s proof-of-concept will be demonstrated at the first annual MicroTCA Summit being held May 30 – June 1 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The MicroTCA proof-of-concept will be based on Motorola’s off-the-shelf MicroTCA product offerings. Hybricon, a leading backplane designs provider, will add rugged aspects such as enclosure and testing.
“Teaming with Motorola, the leading MicroTCA provider, creates the ideal alliance to address the dynamic and challenging rugged environments that are critical for a number of edge applications in the military, telecommunications and medical industries, to name a few,” said Paul Freve, president of Hybricon. “Due to the architecture’s flexibility, extended capabilities, scaling and high-performance, MicroTCA is not only suitable for multiple applications, it has become the industry’s focused architecture of choice.
“We believe that this proof-of-concept will help dispel the uncertainty in the marketplace that MicroTCA can be ruggedized and shows that MicroTCA is a viable COTS alternative and platform choice for rugged platforms,” said Freve.
“Our collaboration with a leading supplier such as Hybricon opens MicroTCA to a much broader and diverse customer base including similar network centric initiatives in the military, telecommunications and medical industries,” said Paul Virgo, director of MicroTCA marketing, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola. “We’re breaking the barriers and truly extending the MicroTCA architecture to industries where rugged and extended environmental issues have previously been obstacles. MicroTCA has provided the solution.”
About Hybricon Corporation
Located in Ayer, Massachusetts is a world class solutions company providing integrated system solutions, electronic enclosures, and backplanes for military/aerospace, industrial, communications, and medical applications. As an ISO 9001 registered company, Hybricon is dedicated to ensuring the highest level of quality- a necessity for products that must be able to function anywhere, anytime. For more information, please visit us at www.hybricon.com
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of seamless mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you connect simply and seamlessly to the people, information and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $42.9 billion in 2006. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit http://www.Motorola.com.
For more information please contact:
Lee Ann Kuster
Embedded Communications Computing
+1 602 438 3623
leeannkuster@motorola.com
Shreek Raivadera
Embedded Communications Computing
+44 (0) 116 267 7396
shreek@motorola.com
Courtney Burden
Hybricon Corporation
Tel: 1 978 772 5422
cburden@hybricon.com
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