International Procurement Office, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Marukinbancho Bldg. 6F, 6-28 Rokubancho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102 Japan

58 -- JAPAN: DIGITAL MICROWAVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR SHORT-DISTANCE TRANSMISSION SOL IPO.08-001 DUE 111896. POC NTT America, Inc., Head Office, 101 Park Avenue, 41st Floor, New York, NY 10178, 212/661-0810 also NTT America, Inc., Pacific and Western Division, 700 E. El Camino Real, Suite #200, Mountain View, CA 94040, 415/940-6565. Product outline: Digital Microwave Communication System for Short-Distance Transmission consists of a terminal station equipment, a radio-relay station equipment and a remote supervisory equipment. The terminal station equipment consists of an optical/electrical signal converter, a data handling unit to handle SOH data and so on, a modulator/demodulator and a transmitter/receiver. The radio-relay station equipment demodulates a radio frequency signal transmitted from a terminal station equipment, regenerates signal, and transmits a radio frequency signal after modulation. The remote supervisory equipment remotely monitors channels and equipments, etc. Two types of systems should be available to implement local transmission lines with different transmission capacity: (1) Large capacity type to offer 8 x 156 Mbit/s (using 4/5/6/6GHz band) or 16 x 156 Mbit/s (using 11GHz band) for main transmission lines (2) Small capacity type to offer 2 x 156 Mbit/s for branch transmission lines. The radio-relay station equipment of the small capacity type is installed on a steel tower while that of the large capacity type is installed inside the radio-relay station. The terminal station equipment has four different optical interfaces, 6Mbit/s, 32Mbit/s, 52Mbit/s and 156Mbit/s. Quantity: in 3 years (1) Radio equipment: Approximately 1,200 systems (156Mbit/s transmission/1system) (2) Remote supervisory equipment: Approximately 500 equipments (1 equipment/1 station) . The number of suppliers to be awarded: About one suppliers will be selected. Procurement procedure: Track III-A. Delivery date: Start of delivery: September, 1997 (This quantity is the current estimate; however, it may change during publication notification of procurement.) Delivery site(s): NTT will separately specify the place(s) in Japan as delivery site(s). NTT will hold a session to explain the details of the procurement related to this announcement from 2:00 p.m. on October 16, 1996 at the conference room on the 6th floor of the Marukinbancho Bldg (6-28, Rokuban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), People who would like to attend the session should submit in writing a list of up to three attendees by facsimile, mail, etc. to the contact point specified in Item 11.(2).a by 3:00 p.m. on October 7, 1996, NTT will promptly notify the applicants of the receipt, NTT cannot guarantee admittance to the session for applicants who do not receive NTT's notification. Please note that the quantities and procurement periods shown above indicate currently scheduled values, and may be subject to change due to circumstances within NTT. THIS NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. PROCUREMENT DOCUMENTATION IDENTIFIES THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE DETAILS ON THE PRODUCT AND QUALIFICATION FOR PROCUREMENT. PROCUREMENT DOCUMENTATION is available for $100 (Excluding sales tax) at NTT America, Inc. NTT only accepts proposals that follow the direction of PROCUREMENT DOCUMENTATION. the language used for application shall be Japanese or English. All responses should be received by NOVEMBER 18, 1996. (275)

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