Alaskan Telecom Service Provider Selects Enablence for FTTP Rollout
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Canada, Jan 11, 2010—Enablence Technologies Inc. ("Enablence" or the “Company"), a leading supplier of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) equipment for triple-play residential and business services and optical components and subsystems for access, metro and long-haul markets, has been selected by Ketchikan Public Utilities Telecommunications Division as its access partner for an FTTP rollout in the community of Ketchikan, Alaska.
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Ketchikan Public Utilities Telecommunications Division is owned by the City of Ketchikan, and serves a community of approximately 14,000 residents. KPU will deploy a network that facilitates the transition from DSL to fiber and provides a more compelling bundled service offering to business and residential customers that includes high-speed voice, data and digital HDTV. KPU turned to Enablence, building on a longstanding relationship in which Enablence was its systems supplier for its traditional ADSL and ADSL 2-based voice and data services over a copper-based network architecture.
Through a contract worth approximately $660,000 over the next three years, Enablence will provide KPU with its MAGNM-20 Chassis for an Active Fiber for the Home network and the indoor and outdoor versions of its E-1320 Optical Network Terminal (ONT). This deployment will provide KPU with a superior future-proof solution, supported by Enablence’s customer support and service.
“We believe Enablence has a technologically superior solution for our needs, and we have always been impressed by overall service and its outstanding customer support track record,” said Van Abbott, KPU Division Manager. “We enjoy a level of trust and openness with this relationship that distinguishes Enablence.”
Enablence’s MAGNM-20, purpose-built for Ethernet/IP, is the first fully distributed MSAP (multi-service access platform) with IP/Ethernet at its core that provides a near Terabit per second capacity that scales to meet current bandwidth requirements and future needs for bandwidth expansion.
“KPU’s reliance on Enablence as a trusted partner for its evolving needs is a strong endorsement of our commitment to serving the current and future requirements of our customers with solutions that work with their existing infrastructure,” said Arvind Chhatbar, Chief Executive Officer of Enablence.
About KPU Telecommunications
KPU Telecommunications is a locally owned and operated communications company serving the residents and businesses of Ketchikan, AK, the fifth-largest community in the state, with high-speed triple-play services that include voice, data and television including HDTV. As one of three divisions of Ketchikan Public Utilities, it is owned by the residents of Ketchikan and its operations are overseen by local government.
About Enablence Technologies Inc.
Enablence Technologies Inc., /quotes/comstock/11v!ena (CA:ENA 0.46, -0.01, -2.17%) a publicly traded company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, designs, manufactures and sells optical components, subsystems and systems to a global customer base.
Enablence’s Systems Division has an expanding fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) product portfolio featuring a variety of architectural options. It enables service providers to evolve their access networks from traditional copper-based networks to advanced optical communications access networks that are based on state of the art IP and Ethernet standards, for triple-play voice, video and data services including HDTV, IP Telephony and ultrafast internet access. The Division’s network equipment has been deployed with 420 service providers world-wide that serve over 4 million subscribers.
Enablence’s Optical Components and Subsystems Division is a global leader in applying Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) technology to integrate multiple components into a single optical chip to reduce footprint and costs. Network and equipment designers around the world turn to Enablence for a variety of components and subsystems for access, metro and long-haul, including transceivers, splitters, waveguides, optical channel monitors, multiplexers, ROADMs, switches, tunable dispersion compensators, and photodiodes. The Division serves over 120 system and subsystem developers and its products have been integrated in all major communications networks world-wide, serving tens of millions of subscribers.
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SOURCE: Enablence Technologies Inc.