ISID was founded in 1975 as a joint venture of Dentsu and General Electric Company. Tecnomatix, which is based in Herzliya, is a specialist in digital factory software. Herzliya company Onset Technologies has signed an agreement with US giant Intel to install its MetaFax software at Intel's server farm in California. Onset's software, which converts faxes to e-mail and then directs them to the requested mailbox, will be used by some 8,000 servers at the farm. The expected traffic of faxes from these customers will be the region of 100,000 pages a day within three months.
Onset develops and markets voice and text recognition technologies.
RAD Data Communications has won a contract worth some NIS 1 million to supply advanced telecommunications equipment to the Chinese Electricity Company. RAD, which specializes in data communications and telecommunications product solutions, is providing the Chinese concern with its MAXcess system to help it create an internal network in the region of the Shanxi province near Beijing for transmission of control signals and voice traffic. The new network connects remote sites to each other as well as to the central office. This is not the first time that the Chinese Electricity Company has used equipment developed by RAD Data Communications. In the past it has purchased a number of the company's Kilomux integrating multiplexers for voice and data compression.