We have been designing digital networks since 1981; our first products, Multilink and Superlink, were used (indeed, are still in use) in a wide variety of applications including railway signalling, fire detection, and industrial control. They were also used in conjunction with our SimpleNet software for networking together computers with a wide variety of operating systems including CP/M, MSDOS, AmigaDOS, and the OS used on the Amstrad 128.
Before that we produced the operating software for equipment controlled by microprocessors (then a new type of component), and for personal computers including the Sinclair ZX range.
CoRoNet, our first resilient dual ring network, was launched in 1991.
In 1993 we produced the LanVision video-over-ATM card for PCs, followed by three more generations of video-over-ATM products.
In 1999 we were asked for AES3 audio over ATM, and implemented our Audiolink product. We play a leading part in AES Projects X92 (producing the AES47 standard for professional audio over ATM), X121 (synchronisation over wide areas), and X143 (ATM service over Ethernet physical layer).
At IFSEC at the NEC in Birmingham in May 2001 there were numerous video-over-IP products and two stands showing video over ATM. The video-over-IP products produced jerky pictures which would freeze for a second or two if anyone else transferred data across the same network. The video over ATM products were the only ones to produce high quality full-motion video; both were originally developed by Nine Tiles.
The name Nine Tiles, by the way, is a reference to the Calling Nine Tiles hand in Mah-jongg.
The Brunhilde ring network was originally designed for public address systems used for building evacuation. In Wagner's opera, when Brunhilde is engulfed by fire the ring survives.
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