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Entrisphere Announces Optical Network Terminals for Businesses and Small MDUs

Posted on: Monday, 20 March 2006, 06:00 CST

Entrisphere, the company that is changing the access business for major incumbent carriers and service providers, today announced the BLM T151(TM) and BLM T300(TM) Optical Network Terminals (ONTs), the latest additions to its T-Series family of ONTs and Optical Network Units (ONUs). The T151 enables fast and cost-effective delivery of voice, data and video services to small and medium-sized businesses or branch offices. The T300 is a fixed configuration ONT that delivers voice, data and video to small MDUs (up to four homes).

"Our business customers have been asking about faster data services, and the T151 facilitates our fiber-to-the-business rollout by making it easy for us to deliver high-speed Ethernet along with legacy DS1 services on a pay-as-you-go basis," said Jim Baase, vice president of engineering at Fibertech. "Entrisphere has been a responsive partner in helping us to quickly and cost-effectively deploy fiber-based services for these customers."

Designed to support carrier migration to fiber-fed services for smaller commercial customers, the T151 supports both legacy and future services. Featuring 2 DS1 ports, four POTS ports, one 10/100 Ethernet port, and a video port, the T151 allows carriers to maintain existing T1 and circuit-switched voice services while migrating their customers to Ethernet data services. The Ethernet port supports provisionable speeds up to 100 Mbps for tiered business data services, and the video port enables carriers to roll out revenue-enhancing services such as video conferencing or HDTV in a restaurant or other business with a need to show video. The T151 includes features that ease installation, including a removable cartridge design and up to 100 foot power drops using 48 VDC power.

The T300 ONT enables carriers to deploy fiber to small apartment buildings and other multi-dwelling units. It provides eight POTS lines, four Ethernet ports and four addressable RF taps. The T300 allows carriers to bring fiber to the existing demarcation point and then extend high bandwidth services over short lengths of in-building wiring. The addressable video taps make it easy for carriers offering analog video service and to remotely turn the service on and off as customers move into and out of the apartments.

With today's announcements of the T151, T300, and T500 series ONUs (see Entrisphere Introduces New Line Of Fiber-Fed, Multi-Service Remotes, also released today), Entrisphere now offers a complete line of ONT/ONU products that includes SFU (T100), SMB (T151), small MDU (T300), large MDU/MTU, fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) (T500). All of these products can be easily upgraded to deliver GPON service as required (see Entrisphere Delivers GPON, also released today). As a result, carriers can fulfill any service requirement using Entrisphere's BLM 1500 and ONT/ONU products.

"With the addition of the T151 and T300, Entrisphere now offers solutions for any triple play service application," said Don McCullough, director of product marketing at Entrisphere. "When combined with our BLM 1500 multi-service access platform, the EntriView management system, and our flexible line of enclosures, Entrisphere offers the ultimate in value, service flexibility, and operational simplicity across its entire product line."

About Entrisphere

Entrisphere is leading the business of access network evolution by simplifying network architectures, enabling multi-service delivery, and eliminating barriers to deployment flexibility and profits. Entrisphere's comprehensive access solutions, including the BLM 1500 system and T-Series family of PON ONTs, ONUs and fiber-fed remotes, ease migration for incumbent carriers by delivering advanced communications and entertainment services over circuit or packet networks based on PON or copper transport. With decades of experience supplying the global carrier market, the Entrisphere team uniquely understands the operational challenges of delivering advanced services while preserving competitive leadership. For more information, please visit www.entrisphere.com.

Source: Business Wire

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