Mitsubishi Digital Electronics and AVI-SPL's Control Room Group partner to provide integrated security solution

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA (September 21, 2009)— In a move to address the continuing technology and commercial convergence of low voltage disciplines - specifically the overlap of security systems integration and commercial audio, video, IT and IP integration - Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America (MDEA) is partnering with AVI-SPL's Control Room Group (CRG), a leading Mission Critical Facility systems design and integration firm. The goal is to provide a line of category-leading Digital Video Recorders (DVR) as AVI-SPL broadens its scope of technology expertise to include security systems integration. The joint initiative will provide Mitsubishi with a dynamic, market-proven sales engine and enable AVI-SPL's Control Room Group to equip its customers with premium-quality, highly reliable DVRs backed by a highly comprehensive sales and support program.

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics will join the Control Room Group at the ASIS conference in Anaheim, CA September 21-23, 2009. They will provide demonstrations at booth #401. eptember 21-24. They will provide demonstrations at booth #401.

“This partnership is built on a mutual desire to grow our presence in the security market by providing end users with greater security and greater value,” Jeff Kiuchi, security market product specialist, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics, said today. “Mitsubishi's line of digital video recorders not only comes with comprehensive reliability and support, but we also go head-to-head on price. This fact underscores our ambition to provide real value to end users and to grow our business in North America. AVI-SPL has demonstrated a shared commitment to value and an ambition to grow, which is why I believe we'll make excellent partners. I look forward to launching this initiative at ASIS and to working with AVI-SPL'S Control Room Group in the months and years ahead.”

Mitsubishi already successfully partners with AVI-SPL's Control Room Group to market and support Mitsubishi's Data Wall product group. Today's agreement will see the extension of that sales and support relationship to Mitsubishi's DVR product family that includes the enterprise-class DX-TL5000U line, the mid-market DX-TL4700U family and the value-driven, DX-TL4U, DX-TL8U and DX-TL16U Series.

Commenting on the agreement, Michael Spiessbach, AVI-SPL sales engineer, noted, “Mitsubishi's line of DVRs is well organized and well positioned to succeed because they provide great features at competitive prices and also come with completely rounded support programs.”