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February 25, 2009

Sunset Digital Uses EZ-Bend Optical Drop Cable for FTTH Deployments


Sunset Digital reportedly is using OFS’ EZ-Bend drop cable for their fiber-to-the-home deployments.



 
The alliance is expected to help Sunset Digital create a reliable, secure, high-speed network for their customers required for bandwidth hungry apps as HD IPTV (News - Alert), Telemedicine, and HD video downloads.
 
Sunset Digital is a regional ISP in Southwest Virginia that is bringing fiber-optic broadband connectivity to the businesses and homes of southwest Virginia. The company installs subscriber equipment indoors because of the cost savings with the CPE, according to Paul Elswick, president and CEO of Sunset Digital. This practice requires the company to take fiber inside a customer’s home and face all sorts of installation conditions.
 
This process is simplified by the EZ-Bend product from OFS (News - Alert), which has the bend radius and the robustness to support the application, while leaving a higher quality of fit and finish. The OFS product also terminates and splices like conventional fiber products, which eliminates the need of additional training for their field technicians.
 
William Kloss, executive vice president of marketing and sales in North America and CALA for OFS said Sunset Digital is an innovative company, which brings wideband fiber-to-the-premises connectivity to hospitals, businesses, and rural single-family homes.
 
The EZ-Bend cable technology conforms to the homes’ contours and can be stapled around sharp corners utilizing existing copper cable installation tools, he said.
 
“This is enabled by EZ-Bend Technologies’ bending loss improvement of up to 500-times that of conventional single-mode fibers type cables under the tight bends routinely encountered in residence installations,” Kloss said.
 
According to one Bethesda, Maryland-based market research firm, shipments of optical fiber-based network architecture systems increased 71 percent in 2008.
 
As TMCnet reported, officials at Dittberner Associates Inc. say that fourth-quarter fiber-to-the-home, or “FTTH” shipments didn’t rise as much as first projected, but still topped 3 million for the first time.
 
“Slower growth than projected for Europe and Korea is the main reason, offset by a higher than expected growth in China,” company officials say.
 
OFS is a designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, optical fiber cable, FTTX, optical connectivity and specialty photonics products. In November 2008, the company was picked by Hancock Telecom that is using its AllWave FLEX ZWP fiber in all of its cable and connectivity products. 
 
AllWave FLEX ZWP fiber is allowing Hancock to connect businesses and residences in Greenfield, Indiana and surrounding areas.
 

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha’s article, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Michael Dinan




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