Upgraded processor improves performance and functionality in the largest, most demanding control room applications.

San Leandro, CA (PRWEB) November 13, 2006 — Jupiter Systems (www.jupiter.com), the industry leader in display wall processors, today announced an upgrade to the Fusion 980 Display Wall Processor, the industry’s highest performing display wall processor.



The upgrade includes major enhancements in performance, memory and configuration. The Fusion 980’s motherboard has been augmented with an integrated SATA150 disk controller which can support RAID 1 configurations. The improved Fusion 980 offers dual XEN CPU speeds of 3.2GHz up from 2.8GHz.



The enhanced Fusion 980 also provides increased RAM speeds which go from PC2100 (266Mhz) to PC2700 (333Mhz), with an 8000MHz dual channel bus connecting memory to the dual XEON CPUs.



The Fusion 980 Display Wall Processor also offers new disk configurations: 1 or 2 80GB SATA150 drives,; 2 SATA drives configured in a RAID 1 array; 1, 2 or 3 36GB SCSI disks with the option of SCSI RAID 5.



Some Background

Jupiter processors are the only ones on the market today built expressly for command-and-control applications and the Jupiter Fusion 980 is designed for the industry’s largest, most demanding scenarios such as those in control rooms of civil and military surveillance, intelligent traffic management, financial management and control, and network operations centers. Recent installation of the high-performance processor include control rooms at Banco Azteca, Latin America’s largest specialty retailer and financial services company, the new Madrid airport, Boomtown Casino in New Orleans, New Mexico DOT, as well as numerous installations for American Electric Power, the largest generator and distributor of electricity in North America.



About Jupiter Systems

Jupiter Systems is the leading worldwide supplier of display wall processors for command and control applications. Its products, considered “best of breed,” are designed for continuous “24/7″ operation. They are used in network operation centers, electric power generation and distribution control rooms, boardroom and business presentation rooms, intelligent traffic control rooms, 911 dispatch centers, financial management control centers, surveillance and security centers, and fixed and mobile military operations control centers.


Jupiter has over 4,000 installations around the world. Examples include the transit authorities of Boston, Washington, DC, and Chicago; telecommunications companies such as AT&T, Sprint, Telia A.B. (Sweden), Deutsche Telekom; and other users such as Boeing, GE, Northrop Grumman, and NASA. Jupiter display wall processing is consistently chosen across all branches of US government: local, State and Federal. Jupiter processing is used in briefing centers and control rooms at the CIA, NSA, FBI, Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, as well as in the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs briefing room. Jupiter processors are also found in the new emergency response center in Barcelona, the Munich airport, the Warsaw stock exchange, the Polish legislature, Reuters news wire in Switzerland, the Finnish, Polish, and Swedish police agencies, and many other major companies and government agencies throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.jupiter.com



Contacts:

Robin D. Stavisky