(Source: Business Wire)
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation access solutions, announced today that leading independent communications holding company SureWest Communications (NASDAQ: SURW) has selected the ADTRAN Total Access 5000 Carrier Ethernet Access Platform and NetVanta 800 Series of intelligent Network Termination Units (NTUs) to deliver Ethernet services to business customers in its Sacramento, CA market. The ADTRAN solution will allow SureWest's operating subsidiaries to offer Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) compliant services such as Ethernet Private Line (E-Line) and Ethernet LAN (E-LAN) to their customers efficiently by leveraging the facilities and equipment that already exist at customer locations.
"SureWest selected ADTRAN's Ethernet access solution because of its ability to deliver Ethernet over TDM (EoTDM) services across our existing network infrastructure," said Scott Barber, SureWest's vice president and general manager of operations in California. "By placing the Total Access 5000 in appropriate points of presence within our network, we can offer advanced Ethernet services ubiquitously across our existing network infrastructure. When you consider the fact that the platform also supports Ethernet over copper and Ethernet over fiber, along with other business and residential access applications, we expect the Total Access 5000 will provide us with the right migration strategy towards extending our Ethernet infrastructure."
The ADTRAN Total Access 5000 combines with the NetVanta 800 NTUs to provide a highly scalable end-to-end Ethernet solution. By bonding together traditional TDM DS1 and DS3 circuits per the ITU-T G.998.2 standard, ADTRAN provides a cost effective, low overhead, fault tolerant Ethernet over TDM alternative to MLPPP technologies. This MEF-certified solution provides carriers with a powerful set of traffic management, quality of service and measurement capabilities that allow carriers to offer flexible SLA-based services to their end customers. Inherent in the solution are the necessary resiliency and redundancy features that enable a service provider to offer and support high-availability business services.
"We are pleased to be the Carrier Ethernet vendor for SureWest," said P. Steven Locke, vice president of sales, service providers, ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division. "The flexibility of the ADTRAN Carrier Ethernet Access Platform fulfills an immediate need for EoTDM service delivery while providing a clear path to supporting future next-generation services."
About SureWest Communications
SureWest Communications (www.surewest.com) is one of the nation's leading integrated communications providers and is the bandwidth leader in the markets it serves. Headquartered in Northern California for 95 years, the company expanded into the Kansas City region in February 2008 with the acquisition of Everest Broadband, Inc. and offers bundled residential and commercial services that include IP-based digital and high-definition television, high-speed Internet, Voice over IP, and local and long distance telephone. SureWest was the nation's first provider to launch residential HDTV over an IP network and offers one of the nation's fastest symmetrical Internet services with speeds of up to 50 Mbps in each direction on its fiber-to-the-home network.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment, with a portfolio of more than 1,700 solutions for use in the last mile of today's telecommunications networks. Widely deployed by carriers and enterprises alike, ADTRAN solutions enable voice, data, video, and Internet communications across copper, fiber, and wireless network infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by every major U.S. service provider and many global ones, as well as by thousands of public, private and governmental organizations worldwide.
For more information, contact the company at 800 9ADTRAN (800 923-8726) or via email at info@adtran.com. On the Web, visit www.adtran.com
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