STS

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.supremeind.com
Employees: 1,500
Employee growth: (28.6%)

Supreme Industries displays supreme confidence when creating vehicle bodies. The company uses chassis from automotive OEMs to build a diverse mix of bodies, from armored trucks to cargo vans, service vans, shuttle buses, trailers, and luxury motor coaches. Customized options include cargo-handling devices, liftgates, refrigeration equipment, and specialized doors and bumpers. Among the company's brands are Kold King, Iner-City, Spartan, and StarTrans. In addition to its specialty vehicle operations, which garner most of the company's sales, Supreme makes fiberglass wind deflectors under the Fuel Shark nameplate. Supreme's products are marketed to truck equipment distributors, dealers, and end users.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $268.7M
One year growth: (14.2%)
Net income: ($3.1)M

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Herbert M. (Herb) Gardner
President and COO; CEO, Supreme Corporation: Robert W. Wilson
VP, CFO, Treasurer, and Assistant Secretary: Jeff Mowery

Competitors:
Collins Industries
Oshkosh Truck
Thor Industries

(Synchronous Transport Signal) The electrical equivalent of the SONET optical signal. In SDH, the European counterpart of SONET, STS is known as STM (Synchronous Transport Module). The signal begins in electrical format and is converted to optical for transmission over the SONET fiber facilities. An STS-1 frame is transmitted in 125ms, yielding raw bandwidth of 51.84 Mbps. The STS frame includes five elements: Synchronous Payload Envelope, Section Overhead, Line Overhead, Path Overhead, and Payload.

The STS-1 frame is the basic building block for SONET, much like the DS1 frame in a T-carrier environment. See OC and SONET.

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STS is a three-letter abbreviation which may refer to:

Contents 1 Science, medicine, meteorology and technology 2 Computing 3 Communications 4 Culture 5 Societies, organisations and companies 6 Other uses

Science, medicine, meteorology and technology

• Science and technology studies
• Socio-technical systems
• Severe tropical storm (STS)
• Scanning tunneling spectroscopy, a spectroscopy technique based on Scanning Tunneling Microscope
• Sequence-tagged site, a gene-reference in genomics
• Space Transportation System, the official name of NASA's Space Shuttle program
• Semipalatinsk Test Site, the primary test site for Soviet nuclear weapons
• Intel Science Talent Search, a research-based science competition
• Space Tourism Society, a society focused on space tourism
• Ship-to-ship transfer, an operation where cargo is transferred between seagoing ships
• Ship-to-shore crane, another term for a Container crane
• Steroid Sulfatase, an enzyme
• Staurosporine, an antibiotic
• Serologic Tests for Syphilis, an umbrella term for diagnostic blood tests for syphilis

Computing

• State transition system, an abstract machine used in the study of computation
• Station-to-Station protocol, a cryptographic key agreement scheme that provides mutual authentication
• Synergy Teleconferencing System, a computer bulletin board operating system
• SharePoint, originally known as SharePoint Team Services
• Microsoft Live Labs Security Token Service, a gateway to handle claims within Microsoft's Identity Metasystem
• Strict Transport Security (STS)

Communications

• Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale, the Romanian Special Telecommunication Service
• STS Relay, the speech to speech relay service available via 711 in the United States
• STS (TV channel), a Russian TV channel
• STS, a Synchronous Transport Signal, part of the Synchronous optical networking communications system

Culture

• Satanas, a Filipino-American gang
• Stepover Toehold Sleeper, a submission hold used in professional wrestling
• Sing the Sorrow, an album by AFI
• Swallow the Sun, a Finnish death metal band

Societies, organisations and companies

• Sheboygan Transit System, a public bus system run by the city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Siemens Transportation Systems, the transportation business unit of Siemens AG
• Scottish Tartans Society, a defunct Scottish society devoted to tartan
• Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae - STS), Lutheran ministerium

Other uses

• Cadillac STS, a luxury car sold by Cadillac
• Saints, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul
• STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport
• Susquehannock Trail System, in northcentral Pennsylvania
• Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, a private school in Alberta
• Satellite Transit System, the underground people mover in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

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