3 Rivers Communications Upgrades Access Network with Pannaway's Service Convergence Network (SCN(TM)) Solution; Leading Montana Telephone Cooperative Migrates to IP Ethernet and SIP for the Delivery of High-bandwidth Broadband Services.PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Pannaway Technologies, Inc., designers and developers of next-generation, converged IP broadband systems to telecommunications companies, today announced that one of Montana's largest telephone cooperatives, 3 Rivers Communications, has selected its multi award-winning broadband access system for the delivery of new next-generation services to its rural subscribers. 3 Rivers Communications is a 53 year-old telephone cooperative located in Fairfield, MT and has 20,000 access lines across 29 exchanges. "Our goal is to deploy an IP Ethernet network that is extremely fast, highly efficient and capable of scaling to support the emerging services that our subscribers will demand", said Darren D. Moser, General Manager at 3 Rivers Communications. "Pannaway's flexible ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line 2+ and Active Ethernet FTTH (Fiber To The Home) See FTTP. solution will help us to deliver a robust set of Triple Play features along with the necessary bandwidth capacity to ensure our future success and competitive standing." 3 Rivers Communications will use Pannaway's copper and fiber-based access solution to deliver SIP-enabled Triple Play services including Primary Line VoIP(SM) for guaranteed Lifeline calling and E 911. Broadband Aggregation Routers (BAR(TM)) will be deployed in its central office (CO) for scaleable 1 to 10 Gigabit Ethernet transport and Broadband Access Switches (BAS BAS abbr. 1. Bachelor of Agricultural Science 2. Bachelor of Applied Science (TM)) will reside in remote terminals (RT) for high-performance last mile voice, video and data delivery. The ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) A traditional local telephone company such as one of the Regional Bell companies (RBOCs). Contrast with CLEC. See ELEC and TELRIC. will also use Pannaway's Broadband Access Manager (BAM Bam (bäm), town (1996 pop. 70,100), Kerman prov., SE Iran, on the intermittent Bam River. Located on the western edge of the Dasht-e Lut, Bam is a trade center in a henna-growing region. Dates and other fruits are also grown; camels are raised. (TM)) to simplify the deployment and provisioning of its new copper and fiber-based broadband equipment and services. The MT-based cooperative underwent a three-month evaluation process and selected Pannaway over numerous other leading manufacturers. Moser added, "We plan to offer digital IP TV and one of our primary reasons for selecting the Pannaway solution was its patent-pending Primary Line VoIP technology which is proven to eliminate video corruption, commonly caused by Ring Trip in a converged ADSL2+ voice, data and IP TV environment." "Our use of IP-Ethernet and SIP allows us to deliver superior video quality along with significantly enhanced rate/reach benefits to our telco partners", said Kevin Brown, Vice President of Marketing for Pannaway. "This high level of network performance coupled with 10Gbps transport scalability ensures telcos like 3 Rivers Communications that the network they're building today will have the performance and capacity to support bandwidth-intensive services as they emerge." About 3 Rivers Communications 3 Rivers Communications, with corporate headquarters in Fairfield, MT, is a fifty-two year-old telecommunications company originally founded as a rural telephone cooperative. Still a cooperative at its core, 3 Rivers has grown and diversified over the years and now offers long distance, local dial-up Internet, DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary broadband Internet, combined wireless broadband and local phone, satellite TV, satellite broadband Internet, and competitive local telephone service in addition to traditional local telephone service. About Pannaway Technologies Pannaway delivers customer-proven, broadband access solutions that enable telephone companies to offer new advanced services to their rural subscribers. Based on industry-standard Internet Protocol (IP), Ethernet and session initiation protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP) technologies, Pannaway's Service Convergence Network (SCN SCN Scan SCN Sustainable Communities Network SCN System Change Number (Oracle) SCN Scientology SCN Suprachiasmatic Nucleus SCN Switched Circuit Network SCN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UN) (TM)) architecture allows telecommunications service providers to increase revenue through the delivery converged Primary Line VoIP(SM), high-speed data and IP TV services. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Portsmouth, New Hampshire is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the United States of America. It is the fourth-largest community in the county[1], with a population of 20,784 as of the 2000 census. , and has been building innovative broadband access solutions and service/support programs to fit the specific needs of rural telecom providers since 2002. For more information, please visit www.pannaway.com. |
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