Press Release
29 July 2010
BittWare Announces RedLinX as New Distribution Partner in South Africa
RedLinX based in Cape Town and Midrand South Africa is newest member of BittWare’s growing international sales and distribution team
CONCORD, NH & CAPE TOWN, RSA – July 29, 2010 – BittWare, a leading supplier of high-end COTS signal processing solutions, announced today that they have signed an agreement making RedLinX, a multifaceted specialist engineering technology company operating in South Africa, BittWare’s exclusive international distributor in South Africa and the African Sub-Sahara territory, furthering the hardware company's worldwide sales presence and providing local support to their South African customers.
“We see a tremendous amount of opportunity in South Africa for embedded signal processing COTS solutions”, stated Darren Taylor, Senior VP of Worldwide Sales & Marketing at BittWare. “RedLinX’s experience and reputation in serving the defense/aerospace, mining, industrial and telecommunications markets in this region is a welcome addition to BittWare’s team of international sales and distribution partners.”
“BittWare’s FPGA based COTS solutions and their expertise in signal processing fills a gap in the South African market,” says Sean van der Walt, Managing Director at RedLinX. “BittWare’s embedded signal processing hardware products along with their supporting IP and software is the perfect addition to our line card, enabling our defense/aerospace and communications customer to quickly deploy their products and in turn, reduce their time-to-revenue. BittWare in particular has arguably the best Altera FPGA and DSP based COTS solutions worldwide.”
Note: All Products are available at RedLinX Embedded Solutions.
About RedLinX™
RedLinX™ is a multifaceted specialist engineering technology company, offering leading edge technologies from embedded to high-performance computing and related products, open-systems and solutions. RedLinX™ operates in the ICT, Telecoms, Transport, Mining, Industrial, Security and Defence market segments throughout South Africa and Africa and is supported by their own locally based support, production and engineering facilities. RedLinX™ has four operating divisions, namely: Embedded Systems Division, Telecoms Systems Division, High Performance Systems Division and the Production & Engineering Systems Division. Operations are located in Cape Town and Midrand. RedLinX™ supports a wide range of blue-chip customers across multiple industries such as: Business Connexions, CSIR, Debeers, Dimension Data, FirstRand Bank, Reunert Group, SAAB Group SA, and Smile Communications.
Media Contact – Sean Van der Walt, +27 21 526 4160, sean@redlinx·co·za, http://www.redlinx.co.za
About BittWare, Inc.
For over two decades, BittWare, Inc. has been a leading designer and manufacturer of FPGA computing and hybrid (FPGA and DSP) board-level solutions based on Altera’s FPGAs and industry leading DSP technology. The company provides the essential building blocks required by OEMs for developing and deploying their innovative systems in defense, communications, instrumentation, and life sciences applications. BittWare’s product offering addresses OEM needs from prototype-to-production and span a variety of platforms, including VPX, VXS, AMC, CompactPCI, FMC (VITA 57) and XMC. For more information on BittWare and its innovative FPGA and DSP solutions, visit www.bittware.com.
