DTN will provide services to existing SSI weather forecasting customers, making available DTN's state-of-the-art weather and pavement forecasting systems, innovative satellite, online and mobile weather display systems and patented weather-monitoring alerting technology. SSI, a division Quixote Corporation, will retain the manufacturing, sale and maintenance of weather and pavement hardware sensor technology.

SSI customers will now have access to DTN's suite of MxVision WeatherSentry products which offer localized, real-time forecast information, lightning details, radar specifics, and weather alerting capabilities via PC, cell phones, and PDAs. In addition, DTN's staff of highly trained Meteorologists and customer service representatives will be accessible to customers by phone, web or e-mail 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

"DTN is pleased to begin offering improved weather forecasting and display capabilities to SSI customers in a format that allows both companies to continue to focus on their core strengths," said Robert Gordon, chief executive officer, DTN. "The combination of state-of-the-art weather forecasting, clear display technology and leading-edge pavement hardware sensors is a powerful force and one we will leverage with customers."

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