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Lucent Technologies Gets Contract With Chinese Shipbuilder

Lucent Technologies was chosen by New Tech

Shipbuilding and Management Limited to pro- vide a local area network for wireless data transmission in New Tech's 300-acre office and shipyard complex in Nansha, Panyu,

Guangdong province in southern China.

New Tech claims to be the first shipbuilder in

China to produce high-speed commercial cata- marans to meet the rising demand for passen- ger vessels that commute between Hong Kong and southern China.

Through Lucent Technologies' WaveLAN(R) wireless technology, New Tech's operations staff is able to access data when they are mobile, whether they are in the shipyard, office premis- es, or the remote offices within New Tech's cor- porate and shipbuilding complex. The system was installed in April.

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New Tech has two 1,000-ton slipways and a 1,000-ton floating dock, as well as an aluminum manufacturing division that enables multiple vessel construction and is located on the Pearl

River Delta. "We strongly believe that our corporate vision of meeting the growing demand for quick trans- portation between Hong Kong and China — along with adapting the technologies that are right for us — will spell success for New Tech," said Benjamin Fok, chairman of New Tech

Shipbuilding and Management Ltd. and direc- tor of Henry Fok Ying Tung Group.

To manage its inventory, budget and imple- mentation schedule, New Tech has six client

PCs, two Windows NT and Novell servers.

These are connected via a 10Mbps wired

Ethernet LAN.

This solution is a complete, integrated hard- ware and software system that can extend wire- less connectivity to an existing LAN.

Two WaveLAN systems were strategically deployed to cover both the shipyard and office area.

Two additional WavePOINT bridges were installed to act as repeating stations to forward signals from the remote office to the shipyard, which are separated by hilly terrain.

The project implementation, including site survey, software, hardware and antenna instal- lation and testing, was reportedly completed within one week.

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