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fers outside plant solutions for housing network equipment, aswell as structured cabling systems for the home or small office.Services include systems integration and custom product development.Telect is a privately held company headquartered inLiberty Lake, Washington. The company, which manufacturesmost of the products it sells, also has facilities in Plano, Texas(manufacturing and systems integration), Guadalajara, Mexico(manufacturing), Southampton, UK (sales and service), andWroclaw, Poland (manufacturing). Its 700 employees includesales representatives all over the world.Tellabswww.tellabs.com630-798-8800Key Products: Optical transport systems, optical networkterminals, multiservice access platforms, access and data networking,multiservice edge routers, managed access, digitalcross-connects, transport switching, network management,voice-quality enhancementSummary: Tellabs, based in Naperville, Illinois, enables serviceproviders to deliver high-quality voice, video and data servicesover wireline and wireless networks around the world. The companyserves 30 out of the world’s top 35 service providers. Tellabs’customers are wireline, wireless and cable/MSO service providers,system integrators and original equipment manufacturersworldwide, including T-Mobile Hungary, NTT Communications(Japan), Telekom Malaysia, TeliaSonera (Finland), Telstra(Australia) and Vodacom South Africa. Tellabs has been themarket leader in North American fiber access markets, thanksin large part to Verizon contracts; that arrangement is now ending.More than half of the world’s wireless calls are made onnetworks owned by Tellabs’ customers. The company has about3,550 employees and in 2007 generated sales of just over $1.9billion. Tellabs is part of the NASDAQ Global Select Market,Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index and the S&P 500. Tellabs productsaddress customers’ needs in mobile backhaul, consumerbroadband, enterprise data services and converged transport.TeraSpanwww.teraspan.com877-VI-FIBERKey Products: Fiber optic deployment solutionsSummary: Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, TeraSpanprovides a complete deployment solution that is scalable tomeet present and future network requirements. TeraSpan develops,manufactures and sells its products to customers thathave been trained and certified to deploy the technology. Thecompany serves markets including FTTH builders, telecomcarriers, cable operators, municipalities, public utilities, enterprises,health care providers and education. As the global leaderin vertical inlaid fiber solutions, TeraSpan sells and marketsproducts in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand,Central America and South Africa, either directly or throughpartners. In 2008, TeraSpan announced that it signed an agreementwith Alcatel-Lucent to distribute its vertical inlaid fiberproducts in Nordic and Baltic countries of Europe. The companyalso continues to research and develop passive outsideplant, inside plant and undersea applications. It also developsspecialized hybrid conduit systems to accommodate multiplecable types such as fiber/coaxial cable combinations.Fiber and Fiber CableThese firms supply optical fiber for fiber-to-the-homedeployments.Company Nameweb Address3M Companywww.3M.com/telecomADCwww.adc.comAFL Telecommunications www.afltele.comAlcatel-Lucentwww.alcatel-lucent.comBeldenwww.belden.comCommScopewww.commscope.comCorning, Corning CableSystemsDraka CommunicationsEmtelleEricssonFiberoptic SystemsGeneral CableMulticomNexansOFSwww.corning.com;www.corningcablesystems.comwww.drakaamericas.comwww.emtelle.comwww.ericsson.comwww.fiberopticsystems.comwww.generalcable.comwww.multicominc.comwww.nexans.com,www.nexansinterface.comwww.ofsoptics.comOptical Cable Corporation www.occfiber.comPrysmianwww.prysmian.comSumitomo ElectricLightwaveTimberconwww.sumitomoelectric.comwww.timbercon.comJuly 2008 | www.broadbandproperties.com | BROADBAND PROPERTIES | 77