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Alaska Railroad Corporation Chooses Actelis Networks MetaLIGHT Platform to provide Broadband Services between Corporate Facilities
Actelis Networks®, a leading supplier of solutions that enable carrier-grade broadband services over local-loop copper, today announced that Alaska Railroad Corporation has deployed its MetaLIGHT® Ethernet-over-Copper platform. This deployment allows the Alaska Railroad to provide high-bandwidth Ethernet services between corporate buildings connected only by copper. The Alaska Railroad is currently using the MetaLIGHT platform to deliver 65 Mbps of Ethernet service between multiple corporate buildings.
The Alaska Railroad Corporation is a self-sustaining, full-service railroad serving ports and communities from the Gulf of Alaska to Fairbanks. Within their headquarters facility in Anchorage, Alaska, they have multiple buildings that require a seamless communications infrastructure. Prior to deploying Actelis� MetaLIGHT platform, they connected all their facilities using mixture of fiber, wireless and T1 solutions. Although the mixture of these broadband technologies is suitable for many of their networked buildings, they also needed a solution which could bridge the gap between T1 and fiber, providing more bandwidth with higher reliability and a better quality of service than wireless solutions can deliver.
With Actelis� MetaLIGHT platforms, the Alaska Railroad is now delivering a high quality 65 Mbps Ethernet service between multiple buildings that are only connected by copper. The MetaLIGHT solution has allowed them to extend LAN connectivity to copper-serviced buildings, while reducing IT costs by simplifying administration and eliminating costly, separate LAN servers.
�The Actelis MetaLIGHT platform is ideal for business environments that own their own copper infrastructure and need to provide high-speed, high-quality broadband services to multiple buildings,� said David Kampsen, network systems specialist, Alaska Railroad Corporation. �Actelis� MetaLIGHT platform allowed us to economically eliminate all barriers associated with delivering high-bandwidth broadband services throughout our facility.�
�Since the MetaLIGHT platform could utilize Alaska Railroad�s existing copper plant to deliver high-bandwidth Ethernet services, they already had everything they needed to begin delivering services simply and cost-effectively,� said Bruce Hammergren, vice president of North America sales, Actelis Networks. �Because it has been designed for easy deployment, the MetaLIGHT platform allowed them to deliver high-bandwidth services to multiple buildings quickly and without any large infrastructure investments.�
Utilizing standards-based G.SHDSL.bis modems and designed to comply with the emerging copper bonding standards, Actelis� MetaLIGHT platforms can provide up to 67 Mbps of Ethernet services to customers and/or locations only served by copper. Additionally, the MetaLIGHT platforms are powered by Actelis� patented MetaLOOP® technology which provides far greater rate, reach and reliability, compared to other broadband over copper solution. The bandwidth capabilities and high reliability of the MetaLIGHT platforms make them ideal to support a wide range of broadband applications including transparent LAN services, LAN interconnection, voice and video over IP. They are also well suited to backhaul bandwidth to DSLAMs/NGDLCs, WiFi and cellular base stations.
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