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BroadbandPropertieswww.bbpmag.com2008TO P100High-Speed Broadband ProvidersFrom among the thousands of great ISPs in NorthAmerica, these firms have shown particular vision inexpanding residential access to higher-speed broadband.Cable and telephone companies listed here areoffering 10 Mbps or higher (sometimes much higher)Internet downstream speeds in at least some markets.Satellite and wireless providers are bringing the benefitsof broadband to areas unserved by other broadbandproviders. BBP Top 100 companies are in bold.Does not include purely municipal systems.Company Nameweb AddressAT&Twww.att.comBroadweave Networks www.broadweave.comCablevisionwww.cablevision.comCharter Communications www.charter.comClearWirewww.clearwire.comComcastwww.comcast.comConnexion Technologies www.cnxntech.comCox Communicationswww.cox.comEMBARQwww.embarq.comFTTH Communications www.ftthcom.comGreenfieldCommunications www.egreenfield.comGVTCwww.gvtc.comHiawatha BroadbandCommunications www.hbci.comLTS Group/ComSpanUSA www.comspanusa.netMediacomwww.mediacomcc.comPaxiowww.paxio.comPrimeVisionCommunications www.myprimevision.netQwestwww.qwest.comRCNwww.rcn.comSuddenlinkCommunications www.suddenlink.comSureWestwww.surewest.comTime Warner Cable www.timewarnercable.comVerizonCommunications www.verizon.com/fiosWestel Fiberwww.westelfiber.comWildBluewww.wildblue.comWindstreamCommunications www.windstream.comXittelwww.xittel.com“The broadband industryholds the competitive futureof the US in its hands. The USis behind much of the rest ofthe world now, and its abilityto remain competitive globallywill hinge on the progress madein enhanced connectivity.”— Gary Evans, president and CEO,Hiawatha BroadbandAlliance Fiber Optic Products Inc. (AFOP)www.afop.com408-736-6900Key Products: High-performance fiber optic components,electronics, and integrated modulesSummary: Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc. (AFOP) designs,manufactures and markets high-performance fiber opticcomponents and integrated modules. These include passiveoptical components such as interconnect systems, couplers andsplitters; thin-film CWDM and DWDM components andmodules; fixed and variable optical attenuators; and integratedsubsystems. Based in Sunnyvale, California, the companyserves communications equipment manufacturers that deliveroptical networking systems to all three segments of the communicationsnetwork: long-haul, metropolitan and first-mileaccess. AFOP was founded in 1995, has 800 employees, andmaintains manufacturing and product development facilitiesin the US, Taiwan, and China. In 2007, AFOP generated salesof $33.8 million.Allopticwww.alloptic.com925-245-7600; 866-255-6784Key Products: RF Over Glass (RFOG) and Gigabit EthernetPassive Optical Network (GePON) solutionsSummary: A privately held company founded in 1999 andbased in Livermore, California, Alloptic bridges traditionaltelephone, Ethernet and RF video service onto a single, seamless,passive optical distribution platform. By bringing togetherthe technical worlds of passive optical networking and theemerging RF Over Glass (RFOG) standard that is alreadybeing deployed and tested by some cable companies, Allopticprovides a hybrid solution giving operators flexibility to offer44 | BROADBAND PROPERTIES | www.broadbandproperties.com | July 2008
the services they choose in the format they prefer. This hybridPON allows telcos to leverage today’s RF video technologywhile being transparent to Ethernet-friendly PON technology.Similarly, the hybrid PON allows cable TV providers to offercable modem service and business Ethernet services – all over asingle passive fiber optic infrastructure.Alpha Technologieswww.alpha.com360-647-2360Key Products: FTTH power supplies/UPS, broadband UPS,power system controllers and supervisory, AC and DC generators,solar inverters/UPSSummary: Founded in 1976, Alpha Technologies is a majorplayer in power systems to the broadband communicationsindustry worldwide. Alpha’s broad line of products providescritical power conditioning and emergency backup to cabletelevision, data and voice networks. Rapid growth in globalcommunications and the connection between system powerand overall network reliability have created a demand for Alpha’sproducts across a wide array of communications applications.Alpha’s customer base is in 50 countries and includesmajor cable television system operators, telecommunicationsservice providers and full-service communications providers.International sales include Europe, South America, Australiaand the Far East. Currently Alpha, with more than 1,000 employees,has sales and service centers in the US, Canada, Europe,the Middle East and Australia. Alpha Technologies is amember of The Alpha Group, a global alliance of independentcompanies that share a common philosophy: to create poweringsolutions for communication, commercial, industrial andrenewable energy markets.Antronixwww.antronix.net609-860-0160Key Products: Outside plant, inside plant, opto-electronicsSummary: In business since 1980, Antronix develops andmanufactures active and passive broadband devices includingline and drop passives, amplifiers, multitaps, splices andgrounding hardware. It sells its products through distributorsin the North American and Latin American markets. With itsstrong focus on engineering, Antronix has long counted thelargest cable companies among its customers. In 2007, thecompany introduced the Antronix Fiber Node (AFN) to helpservice providers bring fiber closer to the end user in order tosupport high-bandwidth services. The AFN allows providersto deliver video, data and telephony over fiber to an MDU,office building or campus – or even to an individual user –and then convert the signal to RF for distribution. An opticalreturn path supports interactive applications. The AFN’s smallsize and robust housing allows it to be placed in locations withlimited space, such as NID boxes. Headquartered in Cranbury,New Jersey, with manufacturing facilities in Taiwan and China,Antronix is privately held.ARRIS678-473-2000www.arrisi.comKey Products: Cable high-speed data and telephony equipment,cable modem termination systems, on-demand videoand interactive advertising platforms, Universal EdgeQAMvideo delivery, HFC access and transport systems, bandwidthmanagement devices, fixed-mobile convergence, OSS andnetwork management softwareSummary: ARRIS is a global communications technologycompany specializing in the design, engineering and supply oftechnology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband servicesfor residential and business customers around the world. Thecompany supplies broadband operators with tools and platformsto deliver reliable telephony, demand-driven video, nextgenerationadvertising and high-speed data services. ARRISproducts help grow network capacity with access and outsideplant construction equipment; deliver voice, video and dataservices; and assure optimal service delivery. Last December,ARRIS completed its acquisition of C-COR, enabling ARRIS“Although today’scommunication infrastructuresvary tremendously in termsof transport mediums andtechnology, fiber still remains thesolution of choice for deliveringreliable, always-on, high-speedbroadband service to businessand residential customersaround the world.”— Lisa Payne, president, TeraSpanJuly 2008 | www.broadbandproperties.com | BROADBAND PROPERTIES | 45
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