Bowling Green Municipal Utility Selects Alloptic GEPON Solution for FTTB Deployment.

LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Alloptic, Inc., a global leader in the development of Passive Optical Network (PON) technology, announced that Bowling Green Municipal Utility (BGMU) located in Bowling Green, Kentucky has selected Alloptic's Gigabit Ethernet PON solution as their access technology for their Fiber-to-the-Business network. BGMU operates an "all fiber" network in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky and offers businesses access to an advanced broadband network for data services.

"Alloptic's GEPON solution is an ideal fit for out fiber network," said Mark Iverson, BGMU General Manager. "Using a PON system allows us to expand our network faster and with less expense which allows us to more aggressively pursue small and medium sized business. Because a PON can be passively split, an existing fiber can now be used to pick up 32 subscribers where a point-to-point network would have required that we dedicate two fibers to a single subscriber. For small and medium sized businesses, the economics are attractive to BGMU and the performance/price benefit for the customers is excellent. Also, Alloptic's wide selection of business ONTs allows us to better match service delivery with the customer's intended usage. And, the design of the Alloptic system allows us to continue to support today's range of services from legacy T1 to full gigabit Ethernet service."

Alloptic provides the industry's broadest portfolio of optical access network products. From headend/central office equipment to field passives, optical network terminals (ONTs) and a variety of enclosures and power options, Alloptic products leverage industry standard technology and protocols with the benefit of years of field-hardened experience.

"We are pleased to be working with Bowling Green Municipal Utilities," said Shane Eleniak, VP of Marketing and Business Development for Alloptic. "BGMU's business focus is exactly the market that brought Alloptic into existence serving fiber-to-the-business more than eight years ago. It is a vertical market that we understand very well and have a broad portfolio of products to serve. As BGMU expands into new verticals, they will benefit from our extensive line of business, backhaul, residential, and MDU ONTs providing voice (IP and TDM), Video (IP and two-way RF) and Data (residential and business-grade). Our customers can rest assured that the Alloptic solution is ready for today and tomorrow's applications, services, and customers."

About Alloptic, Inc.

Alloptic is a global leader in the development of Passive Optical Network (PON) technology. Alloptic provides the full suite of emerging and legacy services for the complete range of voice, data, and video applications. Service providers worldwide rely on Alloptic to deliver all their communications, entertainment, building automation, and security services to all their customers.