Telecom Lead America: Hancock Telephone, an independently
owned telephone company servicing New York and Pennsylvania, has tapped ADTRAN
for next-generation Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and Carrier Ethernet over fiber
(EoF) solutions.
The deployment of these fiber-based solutions will enable
customers of Hancock to access high-speed broadband content anywhere in the
network from any connected device.
Hancock selected ADTRAN’s NetVanta 8044M Ethernet
Access Gateway and Total Access 5000 FTTH solutions. These solutions are
supporting Hancock’s broadband service offering and addressing the demand for
its LTE backhaul business with Tier 1 mobile operators.
We were looking for an Ethernet and fiber-based solution
that not only met our needs for a scalable, lower-cost operational model, but
also provided us with the stringent quality-of-service and SLA management that
is required by our Tier 1 mobile operator customers,” said Robert Wrighter,
Jr., vice president at Hancock Telephone.
The company said that ADTRAN’s solutions helped them to
remain competitive in the market, and also enabled them to offer better and more
advanced services.
On the other hand, ADTRAN said that Hancock was seeking
new ways to increase the variety and quality of services for its customer base.
ADTRAN claims that its solutions are designed to help providers increase
revenue, decrease costs and improve network efficiency.
Hancock Telephone faces challenges common to many
independent service providers how to cost-effectively generate new revenue
streams while supporting existing services,” said Mitch Fleming, regional vice
president, sales, ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division.
ADTRAN claims that it offers scalable optical Ethernet
solutions with the Total Access 5000 and NetVanta 8044M platforms.
ADTRAN launches cloud-based mobile data offload solution for
carriers
Recently, ADTRAN launched cloud-based mobile data offload
solution for carriers.The new solution is based on the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Hotspot
2.0 standard.
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