June 24, 2008 - GLDS to Provision FTTP with Enablence Technologies’ Trident 7 Universal Optical Access Platform at Tullahoma Broadband

Philadelphia, PA – SCTE CableTec Expo [June 24, 2008] Great Lakes Data Systems, Inc. (GLDS), the leader in PC-based subscriber management and billing systems, is pleased to announce it has successfully completed integration between its WinCable® subscriber management and billing system and Enablence’s Trident7™ Element Management System. The combined solution will be deployed at Tullahoma Utilities Board (TUB) and will provide complete service delivery control of voice, video and data services, directly from the billing system. Based in Tullahoma, TN, TUB offers advanced triple-play services to its customers via Enablence’s Trident7™ Universal Access Platform configured for an ITU G.984 GPON network.

The new billing system integration eliminates the need for multiple disparate systems, and allows operators to manage their Trident7 FTTP network without additional mediation or provisioning layers. Direct provisioning from the billing system will allow TUB to manage triple-play service delivery more efficiently, minimize revenue loss, and ensure a higher level of customer satisfaction.

“The ability to control the Trident7 platform with flow-through provisioning was a critical part of this project. We weren’t going to be able to launch without it,” according to Brian Skelton, General Manager at TUB. “WinCable offered us the tools we needed to manage customer service, provisioning, and billing – every aspect of the complete service delivery cycle.”

Trident7 is the industry's only FTTP platform capable of delivering standards-based ITU G.984 GPON, IEEE 802.3 GE-PON (EFM PON), and IEEE 802.3 Point-to-Point technologies from a common platform. TUB will deploy Trident7 "OLTs" (optical line terminals) in a single central office facility, with integration to phone switching equipment, Cisco routers, and middleware from Minerva.

“The flexibility of Enablence’s open northbound interface is a hallmark of our Trident7 platform because it enables our customers to use the OSS/BSS system of their choice,” said Emmanuel Vella, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for Enablence’s Wave7 FTTx Networks Division. “Integrating our Trident7 Element Management System with the GLDS WinCable OSS/BSS system provides a total provisioning solution that exactly meets Tullahoma’s requirements without compromise.”

With proven interfaces for over seventy partner companies across all service verticals, GLDS provides small to medium sized operators with tier-one functionality at much lower prices that its tier one competitors. Solutions from GLDS include billing and provisioning software for in-house use, software as a service (SaaS), and online provisioning-only applications.

“Given the migration to FTTX within traditional and new video markets, and the prominence of Enablence in both, we understood the strategic importance of completing this integration” said Garrick Russell, VP Operations at GLDS. “We have several customers already offering FTTX, and we expect many of them will see an immediate benefit from this relationship.”

About Enablence Technologies Inc.

Enablence Technologies Inc., (TSX-V: ENA) a publicly traded company, designs, manufactures and sells optical components, subsystems and systems to a global customer base. With corporate headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the company now owns Albis Optoelectronics, Wave7 Optics and ANDevices. The company, through its Wave7 FTTx Networks Division provides its TRIDENT7™ Universal Optical Line Terminals (OLTs), Optical Network Terminals (ONTs), and the TRIDENT7™ Element Management System. This division is the industry leader in optical broadband access systems, with an expanding Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) product portfolio featuring a variety of architectural options, based on IP and Ethernet standards, for triple-play voice, video and data services. The company's Trident7™ Universal Access Platform is rapidly gaining market share around the world with service providers in the PTT, IOC, CLEC, MSO, municipal, utility and real estate development categories.

Enablence’s Optical Components & Subsystems Division provides FTTx access products such as integrated Triplexers, Diplexers for BPON, GPON and GePON standards and splitters. AWG Chips/Modules, Optical Channel Monitors, VMUX, TODC, Channel Monitors and Photodetectors are offered for the metro and the long haul markets. Many of the company’s component products apply planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology to integrate 45+ components into a single optical chip to address the global rollout of Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH). Member of the FTTH Council.

About Tullahoma Utilities Board

The Tullahoma Utilities Board is a municipal public utility of the city of Tullahoma, Tennessee, and serves a community of 20,000 residents.

Tullahoma is a progressive, well-educated community located in the heart of southern middle Tennessee, located 65 miles from the metropolitan areas of Nashville, Chattanooga and Huntsville, Alabama. Arnold Engineering Development Center, the most advanced and largest complex of flight simulation test facilities in the world, and the University of Tennessee Space Institute, an internationally recognized institution for graduate study and research in engineering, physics, mathematics, and aviation systems, are both located near Tullahoma. In addition to a healthy economy, Tullahoma is home to an outstanding local educational system, growing medical and aerospace technology businesses, a variety of retail businesses, lively arts and cultural attractions and a number of recreational amenities. Tullahoma Utilities Board works with industry, business, community leaders and government agencies to promote the area and further advance the programs and initiatives that make Tullahoma such an attractive and exciting place to live and work.

About Great Lakes Data Systems Inc.

Great Lakes Data Systems, Inc. (GLDS) provides the cable industry’s leading Windows-based billing, subscriber management, and provisioning solutions. Privately held and profitable since 1980, GLDS in-house and ASP/Internet solutions feature Digital Authorization, PPV, DOCSIS-compliant Cable Modem Provisioning, VOD, VoIP, Credit Card/ACH processing and Web-Enabled Customer Self Care. GLDS has installed software for over 300 systems in 49 of the 50 U.S. States and 38 countries worldwide, offering “tier one” features at significantly lower prices. More information is available at (800) 882-7950 and online at www.cablebilling.com.

For further information contact:
Enablence Technologies Inc.
Arvind Chhatbar,
Chief Executive Officer
(613) 270-7859

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