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INDEPENDENT<br />
TELCOS<br />
All Our Customers Need Higher-Speed Accesss<br />
Wabash Mutual Telephone, a subscriber-owned<br />
telephone exchange in<br />
western central Ohio, chose Occam<br />
Networks’ BLC 6000 multiservice access<br />
platform (MSAP) to expand its<br />
broadband services. As part of a $4.3<br />
million broadband stimulus-funded fiber<br />
project, Wabash will provide digital<br />
television, high-speed Internet and voice<br />
services to Fort Recovery and the surrounding<br />
area. Work on the project has<br />
already begun, and the first services will<br />
be turned up before the end of the year.<br />
The project is expected to be completed<br />
in less than three years.<br />
“In addition to our residential customers,<br />
Fort Recovery is home to several<br />
major businesses, including a worldwide<br />
distributor of farming equipment, one<br />
of the top 10 egg production companies<br />
in the United States, an automotive<br />
parts manufacturer and a die cast facility,”<br />
says Mike Boley, CEO of Wabash<br />
Mutual Telephone. “What our customers<br />
all have in common is the need for<br />
higher-speed access.”<br />
A long-time Occam partner, Wabash<br />
Mutual began rolling out triple-play services<br />
in 2005 and has been working with<br />
Occam ever since to expand its service<br />
footprint and migrate to an all-IP network.<br />
For this deployment, Wabash will<br />
use Ethernet technologies, including<br />
GigE and 10GigE-capable Ethernet optical<br />
line terminals (OLTs) and the ON<br />
2342 optical network terminal (ONT).<br />
Slic Network Solutions, a subsidiary<br />
of Nicholville Telephone, also chose<br />
Occam’s MSAP to serve more than<br />
700 households and 39 businesses and<br />
anchor institutions in remote western<br />
Franklin County, N.Y. As part of a $5.2<br />
million broadband stimulus fiber project,<br />
Slic will offer triple-play services,<br />
including three tiers of high-speed Internet<br />
and IPTV.<br />
“The local communities are both excited<br />
and surprised that we are bringing<br />
broadband into an area that has never<br />
experienced the benefits of high-speed<br />
Internet,” says Phillip Wagschal, Slic’s<br />
CEO. “We are pleased to be part of a<br />
project that bridges the digital divide<br />
with communications services that promote<br />
growth and development in both<br />
the townships and the outlying areas.”<br />
Slic has a long-standing reputation<br />
for bringing advanced broadband services<br />
to the north country. Past deployments<br />
have included constructing lastmile<br />
fiber networks to serve neighboring<br />
communities, particularly to deliver<br />
high-speed access to anchor institutions<br />
that include hospitals, school districts<br />
and government offices. This deployment<br />
will include dedicated fiber optic<br />
connections between hospitals and rural<br />
clinics in Franklin County.<br />
Slic has already begun working on<br />
the Franklin County project and expects<br />
the deployment to be fully under way by<br />
fall. <strong>It</strong> will deploy 136 miles of fiber optic<br />
cable across five townships and the<br />
surrounding areas. Slic will use GPON<br />
technology, including the BLC 6322<br />
GPON OLT and the ON 2541 ONT.<br />
Big Bend Telephone Company in<br />
Alpine, Texas, has deployed Occam’s<br />
BLC 6000 MSAP to transition from<br />
copper to fiber broadband services. Big<br />
Bend Telephone covers a territory larger<br />
than the state of Rhode Island, serving<br />
its customers with a mix of access network<br />
technologies, including GigE and<br />
GPON for anchor institutions such as<br />
rural health clinics, a local university<br />
and regional Homeland Security offices.<br />
As part of a strategic shift to Ethernet<br />
and a fiber infrastructure, Big Bend<br />
will use the BLC 6000 MSAP to deliver<br />
voice, high-speed Internet and data<br />
backup services to residential and business<br />
customers. In less demanding areas,<br />
the BLC 6000’s DSL technology will<br />
provide broadband coverage.<br />
Central Scott Telephone, headquartered<br />
in Eldridge, Iowa, deployed Occam<br />
solutions in two significant upgrade<br />
projects: an upgrade of its existing DSL<br />
network and a competitive overbuild<br />
that will make advanced FTTH services<br />
available in the neighboring Quad Cities<br />
area. In the Quad Cities, which offer a<br />
high population density and more than<br />
300,000 broadband-hungry consumers,<br />
Central Scott deployed GPON in the<br />
BLC 6000 MSAP and began delivering<br />
high-bandwidth services, effectively positioning<br />
itself against local competitors.<br />
Central Scott also serves anchor institutions,<br />
such as schools and government,<br />
and it networks several medical<br />
facilities with connections as fast as 100<br />
Mbps. These new rings are connected to<br />
Iowa Network Services (INS), an organization<br />
of 127 independent telephone<br />
companies that operates a statewide fiber<br />
optic network.<br />
Reducing Cost<br />
and Complexity<br />
LaWard Telephone Exchange in southern<br />
Texas selected ADTRAN’s Total<br />
Access 5000 MSAP and its 300 Series<br />
ONTs for fiber-based GPON business<br />
and residential services. LaWard plans<br />
to extend fiber services to rural residents,<br />
reaching previously underserved<br />
areas and also bringing next-generation<br />
services to existing customers.<br />
Nick Strauss, plant manager for La-<br />
Ward Telephone, says, “ADTRAN’s<br />
unique technology allowed us to reach<br />
all our customers without adding equipment<br />
cabinets in the field, significantly<br />
reducing the cost and complexity of<br />
our fiber-to-the-home deployment.”<br />
ADTRAN’s GPON system has a reach<br />
of 30 km per PON with a full 32-way<br />
split.<br />
WNM Communications, formerly<br />
Western New Mexico Telephone Company,<br />
also selected ADTRAN’s Total<br />
Access 5000 for enhanced broadband<br />
deployment, Carrier Ethernet delivery<br />
and next-generation services migration.<br />
WNMC is an ILEC and CLEC service<br />
provider that serves a 15,000-squaremile<br />
area of southwestern New Mexico.<br />
The ADTRAN solution will be used for<br />
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