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Pannaway Gets RUS Acceptance for 2.5 GPON, Active Point-to-Point Fiber
and High Density Copper Systems
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Pannaway Technologies, designers and developers of converged IP
broadband access platforms for telecommunications companies, recently
announced that it has received technical acceptance for embedded
components, fabric materials and line access modules by the Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) division of the United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA).
Acceptance on the RUS List of Materials allows qualified borrowers to
use RUS loan funds to purchase and deploy their choice of the
industry's highest performance copper and fiber-based solutions,
including 2.5 GPON and 100/1000MBPS Active Ethernet technologies. This
latest round of RUS acceptance enhances Pannaway's existing Service
Convergence Network (SCN) system for both copper and fiber broadband
deployments, which initially gained RUS acceptance in 2005.
The RUS provides technical guidance and financial support in the form
of loans and grants to qualified utilities with the goal of
establishing advanced broadband services in rural communities. Eligible
service providers, such as Independent Operating Carriers, receive
these loans at interest rates and terms that are more favorable than
those generally available from the private sector, provided that these
IOCs invest in RUS-approved products.
"Fiber is the future of broadband telecommunications, but many ILECs
are faced with the challenge of having limited means and flexibility as
they seek to upgrade," explained Tom Eveslage, CO Supervisor of Albany
Mutual Telephone, a Pannaway customer based in Minnesota. "Pannaway's
2.5 GPON and Active Point-to-Point Ethernet fiber system listings with
the RUS enable telcos to choose the technology that best fits their
business plan and long-term needs as they prepare to deliver
high-quality broadband services moving forward."
The recent addition of Pannaway's copper and fiber-based solutions to
the RUS List of Materials means that service providers will now have
the choice to roll out the technology that best fits their current
infrastructure, future goals and subscriber demands. Pannaway's
RUS-approved components, which are used in both the MAGNM-20
multi-service access platform and the Inteleflex broadband loop
carrier, cost-effectively scale to support a wide range of access
technologies, from legacy T1 and POTS to ultra-broadband, ADSL2+,
bonded ADSL2+, GPON, and Active Point-to-Point Ethernet subscriber
connections, all in one integrated and fully manageable, all-IP system.
"Pannaway takes a comprehensive business approach to providing IP
solutions to independent telcos small and large," said Mark Carpenter,
president of Pannaway Technologies. "RUS acceptance of our entire
product line is very important to our telco customers, and we are
pleased to be one of the first to achieve listing for 2.5 GPON along
with our new MAGNM-20 platform."
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