America's Emergency Network Teams With Hughes
Posted on: Thursday, 17 July 2008, 09:00 CDT
MIAMI and GERMANTOWN, Md., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- America's Emergency Network, Inc. (AEN), a wholly owned subsidiary of Brampton Crest International, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: BRCI) , today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Hughes Network Systems, LLC, wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications, Inc. , under which Hughes will provide the broadband satellite backbone of AEN's pioneering satellite- video-Internet emergency communications network using HughesNet service, powered by the new SPACEWAY(TM) 3 satellite system.
Combining AEN's expertise with Hughes' state-of-the-art Ka-band satellite system will enable AEN to transmit up to three simultaneous video streams originating from any location in the United States, southern Canada, Puerto Rico, and several major Latin American cities.
These side-by-side-by-side video streams will provide high-resolution video suitable for television outlets; video that can be fed directly to publicly available web pages; and in the future, video that will be sent directly to cell phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.
This will enable emergency managers and other officials to instantly transmit to the public -- and each other -- vital, real-time emergency information through a wide variety of means.
"We are extremely pleased with the performance of Hughes' first-of-its- kind SPACEWAY 3 satellite, which enabled our system to win high praise from emergency managers during Florida's recent annual hurricane exercise," said Bryan Norcross, AEN's president and Chief Executive Officer.
In that exercise, AEN was the first Hughes customer to use SPACEWAY 3 in a real-world emergency preparedness situation.
AEN and Florida's Division of Emergency Management, widely recognized as a national leader in the field, signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will allow news briefings held at the state emergency operations center to be distributed through AEN's new emergency communications system.
Mike Cook, senior vice president at Hughes, said, "SPACEWAY 3 is the ideal platform to carry the AEN service. Its bandwidth-on-demand capability is the perfect solution for sending information that by its nature can't be scheduled and will come in bursts. AEN will only pay for the extra bandwidth when its needed."
About SPACEWAY 3
SPACEWAY 3 is the world's first commercial satellite system with on-board switching and routing, and combined with many other technology advances enables bandwidth-on-demand services and high-speed data networking, which ideally fit AEN's emergency-communications requirements. Operating in the globally-assigned Ka-band spectrum, SPACEWAY 3 employs high-performance, onboard digital processing, packet switching, and spot-beam technology to offer direct site-to-site video streaming connectivity at throughputs never before available. SPACEWAY 3 combines the traditional advantages of satellite, namely ubiquitous reach and efficient broadcast/multicast, with high data rates and mesh connectivity-to deliver customers a fast, efficient, flexible, and cost-effective communications solution.
About Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in providing broadband satellite networks and services for large enterprises, governments, small businesses, and consumers. HughesNet(R) encompasses all broadband solutions and managed services from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite and terrestrial technologies. Its broadband satellite products are based on global standards approved by the TIA, ETSI and ITU standards organizations, including IPoS/DVB-S2, RSM-A and GMR-1. To date, Hughes has shipped more than 1.5 million systems to customers in over 100 countries.
Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes maintains sales and support offices worldwide. Hughes is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications, Inc. . For additional information, please visit http://www.hughes.com/.
About AEN
America's Emergency Network was designed by Bryan Norcross, formerly the CBS network hurricane analyst, and Max Mayfield, the former Director of the National Hurricane Center. AEN's goal is to be sure that every emergency manager, whether from a large county or a small town, has an outlet to reach the public, the media, and other government officials. The satellite-based AEN system is designed to continue to work after a disaster when the power lines, phone lines, cell phone towers, and terrestrial internet systems are knocked out.
About Brampton Crest
Brampton Crest International, Inc. is a publicly traded company which recently acquired America's Emergency Network, LLC (http://emergency.info/). Brampton also owns and operates a wholly owned finance subsidiary.
Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate,""believe,""expect,""future,""may,""will,""would,""should,""plan,""projected,""intend," and similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Brampton Crest
International, Inc. (the Company) to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company's future operating results are dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to the Company's ability to: (i) obtain sufficient capital or a strategic business arrangement to fund its expansion plans; (ii) build the management and human resources and infrastructure necessary to support the growth of its business; (iii) competitive factors and developments beyond the Company's control; and (iv) other risk factors discussed in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at http://www.sec.gov/ under "Search for Company Filings."
Hughes, HughesNet, and SPACEWAY are trademarks of Hughes Network Systems, LLC.
Hughes Network Systems
CONTACT: Bryan Norcross, President & CEO of America's EmergencyNetwork, +1-305-722-4800; or Judy Blake, Director, Public Relations of Hughes,+1-301-601-7330
Web site: http://www.hughes.com/http://emergency.info/
Source: PRNewswire
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