Motorola, Inc. the renowned frontrunner in wireless and broadband communications today announced here that the Company's XLT-400 FastCopper Long-Reach Ethernet Switch was nominated as exceptional in the category of "ITS Network Component" in a survey recently. It was also stated, that the survey had been conducted among traffic engineers at public agencies by The Urban Transportation Monitor, a trusted name in the for transportation industry news sector for over 20 years.

Motorola is renowned throughout the world for its innovative techniques and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Being inspired by the vision of Seamless Mobility, the name of Motorola has become synonymous to get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment. The company excels in this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences, and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services.

It has come to the knowledge, that the Motorola XLT-400 system is thoroughly engaged in the creation of high-performance broadband networks from the ordinary signal interconnect cables used for low-speed control of traffic light controllers. In addition, the product permits the cities to arrange high-speed Ethernet networks for advanced traffic management applications at the earliest without the cost and hassle of having to pull expensive new fiber cables. On the other hand, the XLT-based networks back up the complete range of ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) applications such as advanced traffic control systems, video traffic detection, video surveillance, traffic message signs, and muni Wi-Fi backhaul over a common network. Moreover the fixed quality of service support makes each application capable in having its own precedence to meet its own bandwidth and latency requirements.

In the meanwhile it has been reported that the majority of the respondents among whom the survey took place named the XLT-400 as one of nine outstanding traffic-engineering products making its market presence in the last three years. While conversing with Cesar Romo, the Senior Traffic Engineer for the City of Santa Clarita, one of the oldest adopters of the XLT product, he said, "Today we use the network to bring video from key intersections back to our Traffic Operations Center, but with the performance that we are getting from the XLTs we now have enough bandwidth to support additional ITS applications in the future."

Mr. Greg Ioffe, General Manager, Private Broadband Networks, Motorola Home and Networks Mobility business while answering to several questions posed by this correspondent said, "We are very pleased to have our XLT-400 system nominated as an outstanding ITS component by public agency traffic engineers. As Santa Clarita has discovered, XLT can turn long-forgotten, existing copper infrastructure into a broadband IP network supporting numerous advanced applications for the benefit of both vehicular and pedestrian traffic."