Actelis Networks' New Broadband Accelerators Dramatically Alter Landscape of Residential Broadband Market
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New Product Line Will Help Close the Global Digital Divide
FREMONT, CA--(Marketwire - March 16, 2011) - Actelis Networks®, the leading
global supplier of Ethernet over copper solutions that is accelerating
everything for service providers, today announced the immediate availability of
a new product line of Broadband Accelerators (BBAs) that will greatly extend the
rate and reach of high-speed broadband services to residential subscribers who
have insufficient or no access to these services.
Actelis' family of BBAs solves a critical problem faced by service providers
around the world for years: how to deliver high-speed broadband services to
millions of subscribers who are out of reach because of their geographic
location from a central office, exchange terminal or remote DSLAM. Actelis'
family of BBAs provides an economical alternative to the high cost of deploying
new remote DSLAMs, which do not scale profitably for regions at the edge of the
customer serving area. Many large carriers also are challenged to bring fiber to
the home due to unwieldy costs, while current DSL technologies have bandwidth
restrictions at long distances, resulting in limited coverage. Consequently,
where there is no business case or infrastructure to accommodate delivery of
high-speed broadband services, Actelis' new line of BBAs can be immediately and
cost effectively installed by incumbent service providers to finally close the
global digital divide and deliver high-speed broadband services to unserved and
underserved subscribers.
Line powered by the existing POTS infrastructure, Actelis' ROHS6-compliant BBAs
have minimal power requirements and require no additional equipment, thereby
greatly reducing a carrier's operational expenses. The Actelis BBAs are the only
fully standards-based ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+ loop extenders available in the market
today designed to cost effectively enable the delivery of broadband services to
virtually every location throughout a carrier's footprint.
Actelis has been the longtime industry leader in developing innovative EFM over
copper solutions based on SHDSL technology for SMBs/SMEs and municipalities. The
company's new product line of ADSL-based BBAs complements its widely deployed
EFM portfolio of Ethernet aggregation switches, Ethernet access devices and
spectrally compliant repeaters. The Actelis BBA portfolio marks the company's
entrée into the residential marketplace, where Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, chief
technical officer at Actelis, believes the company's new product line will make
a significant impact, as evidenced by field trials conducted with domestic and
international service providers since 2009.
"Field trials have included delivering high-speed Internet and video services to
rural areas," said Kanellakopoulos. "These field trials clearly prove that, when
using an Actelis Broadband Accelerator, ADSL-based broadband coverage can be
increased by more than 50%, with rates boosted by as much as 100% on typical
loops, and more than 300% on very long loops. Moreover, thanks to the unique
expertise of Actelis in the areas of crosstalk management and spectral
compliance, these improvements are obtained without any noticeable impact on
neighboring ADSL lines."
To complement Actelis' ongoing efforts in developing best-in-class broadband
solutions, the company recently raised funding to acquire the intellectual
property and all related rights of Phylogy's Triplestream(TM) product portfolio.
Combining innovative products from both companies into Actelis' new BBA product
line provides a more cost-effective, easier to install and maintain solution.
The acquisition of Phylogy's intellectual property strengthens Actelis' ongoing
strategy to accelerate everything for service providers worldwide by providing
pragmatic, economical and "green" broadband solutions that will deliver wide-
scale broadband services to every business and residential subscriber regardless
of their location.
"The recent investment in further developing Actelis' broadband solutions for
the residential market is another step forward in the company's continued growth
strategy," said Vivek Ragavan, president and CEO of Actelis. "By further
expanding our portfolio to include ADSL-based solutions for residential
broadband services, we believe that Actelis is well positioned to be the clear
worldwide leader in enabling broadband services over copper plant."
The release of Actelis' new BBAs comes at a critical time for international
service providers and nearly 800 ILECs across the U.S. In fact, the country's
first National Broadband map, recently released by the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), illustrates that a
digital divide still exists in America, particularly in large areas across the
southern and western areas of the country. Actelis' new product line of BBAs is
the most effective solution to address these unserved and underserved
subscribers, and further strengthens the company's ongoing business strategy to
accelerate wide-scale broadband services to every business and residential
subscriber regardless of their location.
About Actelis Networks
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Actelis
Networks is the global market leader in developing and manufacturing EFM over
copper solutions for telecom service providers, enterprises and municipalities
worldwide. Built on our patented, standards-based EFMplus(TM) technology,
Actelis' Ethernet access systems and repeaters have been widely deployed by more
than 200 customers across 40 countries, accelerating the delivery of
unprecedented rate, reach and reliability over copper access networks. Actelis
Networks® and the Actelis Networks logo with XLR8 are registered trademarks, and
EFMplus(TM), MetaASSIST(TM) and The 3 Rs of EFM(TM) are trademarks of Actelis
Networks. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective
owners. Learn more atwww.actelis.com.
Actelis Media Contact
Chris Heinemann
T: +1 510.545.1051
E:cheinemann(at)actelis.com
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