AFC's UMC 1000 product receives REA listing.PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1994--Advanced Fibre Communications announced Tuesday that the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Electrification Administration Rural Electrification Administration (REA), former agency of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture charged with administering loan programs for electrification and telephone service in rural areas. has listed the UMC UMC United Methodist Church UMC United Microelectronics Corporation UMC University Medical Center UMC United Microelectronics Corp (Republic of China) UMC University of Missouri-Columbia 1000, a next generation digital loop carrier In telephone communications, a technology that increases the number of channels in the local loop by converting analog signals to digital and multiplexing them back to the end office. , as acceptable for use on its List of Materials. "Many of our customers had expressed their strong desire to use REA REA Rural Electrification Administration REA Rural Electric Association REA Railway Express Agency REA Repertorio Economico Amministrativo REA Rapid Environmental Assessment REA Resident Evil: Apocalypse (movie) funding on projects using the UMC 1000," said Michael Hatfield, AFC's vice president of marketing. "We are excited to offer that option." AFC has a significant deployment of UMC 1000 systems within REA qualified telephone companies across the country. To date these companies have used internal funds to purchase the UMC 1000 because of its advantages in network flexibility and transport technology options. The REA listing will provide these companies as well as others greater access to this technology. Advanced Fibre Communications, based in Petaluma, is the developer, marketer, and manufacturer of the UMC 1000, a next-generation digital loop carrier. The UMC 1000 allows phone companies around the world with moderate concentrations of subscribers to provide advanced telecommunications capabilities at a lower cost than previous technology allowed. Its advanced architecture improves economics by supporting multiple transmission media including copper, fiber optics, and radio. The UMC 1000 also greatly increases network flexibility through drop and insert In a multichannel transmission system, a drop and insert is a process that diverts (drops) a portion of the multiplexed aggregate signal at an intermediate point, and introduces (inserts) a different signal for subsequent transmission in the same position, e.g. , star, and ring configurations. It strikes down the conventional wisdom that advanced loop telecommunications technology is affordable only for high-density applications. Versions of the system include an ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. standards version for North America and a CEPT/ETSI version for other parts of the world. CONTACT: Advanced Fibre Communications, Petaluma Michael Hatfield, 707/794-7707 |
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