Diamond Point enters distribution agreement with Inova

Inova Computers designs and manufactures a wide range of rugged, fault-tolerant, low power or high performance, 3U and 4U Compact PCI and Compact PCI Express embedded industrial solutions. Inova specializes in modular systems conforming to open standards which are ideally suited to applications where high performance is demanded in the most hostile environments. Diamond Point will provide sole sales and support for these products throughout the U.K.

"I am delighted that we have joined with Diamond Point via this distribution agreement," said Balazs Toth, sales manager for Inova Computers. "Diamond Point has a long history of providing innovative system solutions and leading-edge support to its customers. The company is well placed to provide the very best value-added services to our products and I anticipate that this partnership will expand our business significantly in the U.K in the important mobile, military, telecommunications and industrial automation markets," he added.

John Vaines, deputy managing director of Diamond Point International said, "I am very pleased that Inova Computers has agreed to partner with us. Inova has established an enviable reputation in the 3U Compact PCI market since its inception in 1997. These advanced products completely complement our existing portfolio and plug a gap in our otherwise comprehensive array of embedded computer boards."

This agreement with Inova marks an important step in the 24 year growth and development of Diamond Point. It comes at a time when the company is moving to a new 5,000 square feet facility at Medway City Estate, Rochester, Kent, which represents a two-fold expansion in size over the previous premises. An appreciable investment in design software will enable the new facility to provide significantly improved configuration facilities to support in-house baseboard design as well as custom chassis. This capability extends to the in-house design and manufacture of a completely new range of innovative, user-friendly and highly flexible embedded computer systems based on open standards.

Via its much enhanced facilities, Diamond Point's engineering teams will be able to fully integrate in-house a wide variety of own-brand and value-added distributed hardware products. Combined with a full software capability, the company will now be even better placed to offer total system solutions to its OEM and system integrator customers. The company's core-computing hardware technologies include ETX, PC/104, DIMM-PC, PCMCIA, PC/Industrial PC, VME and now Compact PCI. Its portfolio of core modules encompasses communication products based on a host of bus types, including PCI, ISA, PCMCIA, and USB as well as digital and analogue I/O. The company focuses on Windows, Linux, LynxOS and VX-Works software for critical real-time applications.