SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 14, 2011 – LILEE Systems, the leading provider of advanced communication systems designed exclusively for the railroad industry, today announced its partnership with Wistron Corporation, one of the world's largest OEM/ODM manufacturers. The LILEE Systems TransAir PTC family of products is a robust end-to-end Positive Train Control (PTC) communications system designed to capture evolving interoperability standards and assist rail companies in achieving their compliance goals. Utilizing Wistron's extensive facilities and experience in Design-for-Manufacturing, LILEE Systems provides customers with highly reliable communications solutions that meet their connectivity, interoperability, and installation schedule requirements.
With manufacturing operations around the world, Wistron’s customer base includes industry- leading companies in the industrial computing and communications sector, including Rockwell, Siemens Automation, IBM Industrial, Hitachi Industrial, Acer, Fujitsu, and Dell. Wistron's specialization in industrial-hardened communication systems, along with PTC-manufacturing- related investments in heat chambers, thermal labs, radio frequency chambers, and vibration and shock-testing facilities, give LILEE Systems an advantage in meeting customers’ aggressive delivery schedules and quality requirements.
"LILEE Systems' advanced design and engineering expertise, coupled with Wistron's world-class manufacturing capabilities, enable us to deliver state-of-the-art PTC products in an economical and schedule-sensitive manner," said Jia-ru Li, CEO, LILEE Systems. "We look forward to working with Wistron exclusively to develop products that enable rail companies to significantly reduce the time and cost associated with implementing a traditional communications system, and successfully meet the 2015 PTC deadline."
As a result of the manufacturing partnership with Wistron Corporation, LILEE Systems customers will benefit from:
- Manufacturing schedule planning that ensures production runs meet installation schedule requirements;
- Design capabilities in the areas of radio, mechanical, digital, software and system design, antennas, and multiple radio components designed and manufactured to a variety of standards and licensing requirements;
- A highly reliable quality and process management program;
- Production agility to ramp up and down during the product cycle while providing trustworthy and transparent accountability;
- Production capacity to meet the requirements for complete project roll-outs, expert production scheduling, production planning and optimization, inventory control, and cost optimization.LILEE Systems TransAir PTC FamilyTransAir mobility products feature solutions that enable broadband communications from low mobility radios for subways to high mobility radios for high speed rail systems. As part of this product solution, the TransAir PTC family is designed based on an interoperable train control (ITC) architecture, enabling the wireless network transport to allow seamless roaming and persistent communication between office, wayside and locomotive networks.
About Wistron Corporation
Wistron Corporation is an engineering-based technical service provider delivering end-to-end product development services to leading companies worldwide. From initial product conceptualization to volume manufacturing and after-sales services, Wistron supports customers with the products and related services reaching international standards for innovation and quality levels. Its in-depth focus on information and communication technology (ICT) products provides distinct competitive advantages to customers. For more information, please visit www.wistron.com.
About LILEE Systems
Founded by a team of leaders in the wireless industry and headquartered in California's Silicon Valley, LILEE Systems is the leading communications vendor focused exclusively on delivering the most reliable communications products and solutions to the railroad industry. LILEE Systems’ founders have extensive backgrounds in routing and switching and are active participants in standards bodies defining next-generation networking and wireless architectures. LILEE Systems’ leaders have been voting members of both 802.11 Wi-Fi and 802.16 WiMAX for many years and have extensive experience in software-defined radio (SDR) technology. By leveraging its core competencies in radio frequency (RF) systems and networking, LILEE Systems has developed the TransAir PTC-3000 product family of 220 MHz radios, communications management units, and mobility controllers to offer a complete end-to-end interoperable radio communications network. For more information, please visit https://www.www.lileesystems.com.
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