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BroadbandPropertieswww.bbpmag.com2008TO P100BECS control and provisioning system, Advanced ServicesRouters (ASRs), the SMT subscriber management tool, theHMT helpdesk management tool, and premise-placed multiserviceswitches (DRGs). PacketFront has over 75 commerciallydeployed networks worldwide, including some of the largestcity network deployments. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden,PacketFront recently moved its North American facilityto Denver, Colorado. PacketFront also operates branch officesin the Netherlands, Norway and China.Pannaway Networkswww.pannaway.com603-766-5100Key Products: Ethernet-based access products, optical lineterminals, optical network terminals, ADSL equipment, IPchassis (MSAP), broadband network management“We have taken advantage ofthe housing market downturnto improve efficiencies and cutcosts that will enable us to bea stronger company when themarket picks up.”— Mike Powers, president andCEO, Greenfield CommunicationsSummary: Founded in 2002 and located in Portsmouth, NewHampshire, Pannaway Networks delivers broadband accesssolutions that enable its 300-plus telecommunications serviceprovider customers to seamlessly evolve their legacy networksto Ethernet and IP. Pannaway’s Service Convergence Networkarchitecture is designed to help service providers compete moreeffectively and ensure a next-generation network that will supportemerging bandwidth-intensive services and applicationsfor decades to come. Pannaway’s family of Ethernet-based accessand network management products enable telcos to deployservices including DSL, FTTP (via Active Ethernet or GPON),VoIP, IPTV and Business Broadband. The company’s flagshipMulti-Service Access Platform (MSAP) is currently beingwidely deployed around the US. In 2007, Pannaway acquiredthe access division of TelStrat International, the first companyin North America to deploy 2.4 GPON-based FTTH froma full-service broadband loop carrier platform. Recent productannouncements include the Broadband Access Switch-150,which allows carriers to offer backhaul services to mobile operatorsover “pseudowires” and to transition T1-based servicesfrom legacy platforms.PMC-Sierrawww.pmc-sierra.com408-239-8000Key Products: Integrated circuits including FTTH/PONproducts, networking chips, wireless BSC/BTS solutions,system-on-chip digital home convergence solutions, FibreChannel and SAS/SATA storage chips, laser and multifunctionprinter chips, microprocessors, and SERDES devicesSummary: PMC-Sierra provides more than 250 differentsemiconductors for metro, access, FTTH, FTTN, wireless,storage, laser printers and fiber access gateway equipment. InMarch, PMC-Sierra announced availability of complete referencedesigns for 10 Gbps IEEE 802.3av EPON optical line terminalsand optical network units (central office and customerpremisesequipment, respectively). The company also integratesthird-party commercial transceivers, reducing OEMs’ time tomarket. As the only supplier with millions of GPON devicesin field deployment and a portfolio of home gateway devicesthat supports all major high-speed FTTx technologies, includingGPON and GePON, PMC-Sierra supports fiber access deploymentsin all geographic markets using any network topology.Customers include the leading equipment manufacturersworldwide that provide storage, fiber-to-the-home, wireline andwireless solutions for enterprises and communications networkproviders. The company offers worldwide technical and salessupport and has a network of offices throughout North America,Europe, Israel and Asia. PMC-Sierra is publicly traded andits corporate headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California.Its 2007 revenues were $449 million.Procera Networkswww.proceranetworks.com408-890-7100Key Products: DPI solutions for accurate traffic awareness,control and protection for complex networksSummary: Procera’s PacketLogic product suite is a deep-packetinspection (DPI) solution built around the company’s advancedtraffic identification and classification engine, DatastreamRecognition Definition Language (DRDL). The suite consistsof a hardware platform, software modules and a statisticsserver. The PacketLogic hardware platforms range from theentry-level 4 Mbps PL5600 through PL7600 and PL7620 upto the high-end 80 Gbps PL10000. Software modules includeLiveView, Filtering, Traffic Shaping, Statistics and Web Statistics.The PL1200 Statistics server aggregates traffic data for furtheranalysis. As fully integrated solutions, PacketLogic prod-72 | BROADBAND PROPERTIES | www.broadbandproperties.com | July 2008