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Press
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March 20, 2006 - New $12M / DKK 75M Fiber-to-the-Home
Broadband Network in Denmark Will Deliver "Triple Play" Services to More than
30,000 Subscribers. Sydfyns Elforsyning, Eltel Networks and Wave7 Optics
Team to Build Largest "Open Access" Single Fiber FTTP Network in Northern Europe
to Date for Voice, Digital Video and Ultra High Speed Data
Svendborg / Atlanta - March 20, 2006 - Wave7 Optics
Inc., a leading supplier of fiber-to-the-home or -premises (FTTH/FTTP) equipment
for residential and business services, and Sydfyns Elforsyning (SEF), a major
utility company based in Svendborg, Denmark, today announced a major FTTP PON
network that is currently the largest such system installed in northern Europe.
The two companies announced further that 1200 residential customers have been
connected to the network and are now enjoying a full suite of "triple play"
voice, RF video and data services. SEF expects to have more than 5000 customers
"on net" by the end of this year. Eltel Networks is managing the project as the
equipment installer and integrator.
Sydfyns Elforsyning is in the process of connecting all
of their 30,000 electrical customers in the Svendborg area to this new "single
fiber" optical broadband network. Single-fiber Ethernet based PON (passive
optical networks) such as Wave7's "Last Mile Link" equipment are less expensive
to deploy, maintain and operate than dual-fiber systems, which transmit RF video
traffic on a discrete fiber segregated from the data and voice traffic.
Furthermore, the Wave7 PON network will make it more efficient for SEF to
operate this network as an open access system that will accommodate multiple
third-party Internet, telephone and video (RF or IPTV) service providers.
The initial service package includes 28 channels of RF
television (the system is also "HDTV ready"), up to four traditional (also known
as "POTS") telephone lines (IP phone capable-VoIP), and symmetrical high-speed
data bandwidth rates ranging from 512 kbps to 200 Mbps per customer. Other
service providers can access the network to offer similar services, with all RF
or IP video, voice and data services efficiently and economically managed via
one network interface and one management system developed by Wave7 Optics.
"We are very impressed with Wave7's expertise in the
area of utility-owned and operated FTTP networks and have full confidence that
our customers will greatly appreciate this new network," said Aksel Pedersen,
CEO, of Sydfyns Elforsyning. "This project will fill a gap in the information
infrastructure in this region, as, in many instances, this will be the first
broadband service available to these customers."
"Sydfyns Elforsyning joins a growing number of
progressive utility companies who are both meeting customer demand and
diversifying their business operations and revenue sources with economical and
feature-rich PON based FTTP networks," said Tom Tighe, CEO of Wave7 Optics.
"Having deployed networks serving hundreds of thousands of people around the
world, we have the experience to see this project through and to support Sydfyns
with their network expansion. It is good to see that Northern Europe is starting
to experience the same economies from the use of a scalable PON network just
like the millions of customers that are deployed on PON networks in Asia and the
USA."
Concurrent with this announcement, Wave7 also announced
the opening of their newest worldwide branch office, located in Denmark. The
office will expand Wave7's worldwide sales and support presence, which now spans
five continents and includes customers and projects on six continents.
Wave7 Optics is exhibiting March 21 and 22 the
industry's most diverse FTTP product line at stand 1063 of the Mandalay Bay
Convention Center in Las Vegas, site of the TelecomNEXT conference and
exhibition.
About Sydfyns Elforsyning
Founded in 1975, SEF (www.sydfynsel.dk) is a large
electric utility company serving more than 30,000 customers in the south region
of Fyn. SEF also provides voice, video and data communications services via an
advanced "fibre to the premises" network to a rapidly growing number of
customers.
About Eltel Networks
Eltel Networks (www.eltelnetworks.com) specializes in
infrastructure projects for electricity and telecommunications networks in
northern Europe. Eltel engineers, builds and maintains power transmission and
distribution networks and fixed, mobile and municipal telecommunications
networks. Eltel Networks is committed to ensuring the availability of these
networks by providing innovative solutions as strategic partners to their
clients.
About Wave7 Optics
Wave7 Optics has
established itself as an industry leader in optical broadband access systems
with an expanding FTTP product portfolio featuring a variety of architectural
options, based on IP and Ethernet or ATM standards, for "triple play" voice,
video and data services. The company's patented Last Mile Link and Trident7
systems are rapidly gaining market share around the world with service providers
in the IOC, CLEC, cable MSO, municipal, utility and real estate development
categories.
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