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June 9, 2003 - Wave7 Optics Granted “Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Acceptance”
Status by U.S. Government
Rural Service Providers Can Now Leverage Government Funds to
Purchase Last Mile LinkŪ Fiber-to-the-Home System for the Industry’s Most
Advanced Optical Broadband Services
ALPHARETTA, GA -- June 9, 2003 -- Wave7 Optics today announced that their Last
Mile LinkŪ (LML) fiber-to-the-home network system has gained "Acceptance" from
the Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the United States Department of
Agriculture. All network elements of the LML product family now appear on the
RUS List of Materials Acceptable for Use on Telecommunications Systems of RUS
Borrowers under “Access equipment.”
RUS Access Equipment
Products accepted by RUS must demonstrate compliance to federal regulatory
requirements as well as industry standards, such as ISO 9001-2000 quality
assurance and reliability criteria. Rural telecommunications services providers
(including Internet service providers) and utility companies may use RUS loan
funds to purchase network equipment appearing on this List.
"We are very pleased to achieve another key milestone for the LML," said Michael
Wearsch, VP of Sales, Wave7 Optics. "We look forward to working with other rural
telephone and utility companies who now have further incentive to consider our
unique solution when they are going out to bid for residential and business
broadband networks.”
RUS provides rural utility companies with low-interest financing for the
purchase of telecommunications equipment from the RUS List of Acceptable
Materials. The dedicated borrowers of the RUS have been providing solutions to
problems associated with serving rural America for more than 50 years. Rural
carriers are providing more broadband access and a higher deployment rate of
access and advanced services every day.
For instance, rural network operators in Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts,
Missouri, and other states are already installing the LML. The LML is an IP
(Internet protocol) and Ethernet standards-based optical access system that
provides all traditional “carrier-grade” telephone services (including fax),
high-speed data (e.g., Internet service) and both analog and digital video
(including IP streaming video). Featuring industry-leading privacy and security
encryption techniques and industry-leading “quality of service” mechanisms
designed for business applications, the LML overcomes the high-fiber counts,
limited distance range and high central office equipment costs that have stymied
the growth of FTTx systems.
About Wave7 Optics
Wave7 Optics, Inc. is a market leader in the fiber-to-the-home and business (FTTX)
optical access market. The company's Last Mile LinkŪ "active PON" optical access
system effectively overcomes the cost and implementation barriers that have to
date stymied the deployment of FTTX systems.
Wave7 Optics has pioneered the first intelligent PON (passive optical network)
system, which is effectively a generation ahead of comparable PON technologies
in both cost and capability. The IP- (Internet Protocol) and Ethernet-standards
based Last Mile Link product suite provides a "triple play" of voice, video and
very high-speed data services to residential, business and multi-tenant or
multi-dwelling building customers. The Last Mile Link offers service providers a
particular advantage with regards to video in that it is the only platform that
supports upstream and downstream RF broadcast signals and readily accommodates
HDTV.
For more information please contact emmanuel.vella@w7optics.com.
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