South Arkansas Telephone Co. Inaugurates Optical Network Based on Ekinops Equipment
December 10 2015 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Company Lights Up 300-Mile Network Spanning
Southern Arkansas
South Arkansas Telephone Company (SATCO) is now offering
high-bandwidth services to its business and consumer customers
using equipment from Ekinops, a leading supplier of next-generation
optical network equipment.
SATCO has deployed the Ekinops 360 optical transport platform
and is leveraging it to offer services at up to 10 gigabits per
second that include Internet access, cable TV, and voice over IP
phone service.
SATCO, a century-old local telephone company based in Hampton,
chose Ekinops to enable the 300-mile fiber-optic network it has
installed, a network that stretches from Hope to Monticello across
the southern tier of Arkansas.
The company was looking for a flexible solution that would allow
it to offer 10G services now, with an easy upgrade path to 100G
offerings as its needs grow. The ability to simply plug in 100G
modules to equipment that is already deployed and carrying 10G
services will help speed the rollout of 100G when the time comes
and was key to SATCO’s selection of the Ekinops 360.
"We have been planning this network for years and see it as a
key to economic development across the region," said Mark Lundy,
Director of South Arkansas Telephone Company. "The cost-effective
equipment that Ekinops provided to enable us to go live on this
network was the final step toward making our optical dream a
reality."
"SATCO is a perfect example of how service providers are making
the leap into full digital communications solutions companies for
their business and individual customers," said Kevin Antill, Vice
President of Sales of Ekinops. "Its ability to serve those
customers has been significantly enhanced by installing the Ekinops
360 and making it the foundation of all their service
offerings."
About Ekinops
Ekinops is a leading supplier of next generation optical
transport equipment for telecommunications service providers. The
Ekinops 360 addresses Metro, Regional, and Long-Haul applications
with a single, highly-integrated platform. Ekinops is a
market-leading innovator in 100G transport with a coherent line of
products that truly optimizes optical networks and comes in 1RU,
2RU or 7RU chassis. The Ekinops 360 relies on the
highly-programmable Ekinops T-Chip® (Transport-on-a-Chip)
architecture that enables fast, flexible and cost-effective
delivery of new services for high-speed, high-capacity transport.
Using the Ekinops 360 carrier-grade system, operators can simply
increase capacity of their networks – CWDM, DWDM, Ethernet, ESCON,
Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, and uncompressed video (HD-SDI, SD-SDI,
ASI). Ekinops is headquartered in Lannion, France, and Ekinops
Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary, is incorporated in the USA. For
more information, visit www.ekinops.net.
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