Grande Communications Selects Corning Tip-to-Tip FTTH Solution.CORNING, N.Y. & SAN MARCOS, Texas San Marcos is a city in Texas, USA. The population was 34,733 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hays County.GR6 Texas State University-San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State University) is located in the city. -- Corning Cable Systems' Evolant(TM) Solutions for Access Networks with Corning(R) NexCor(TM) Optical Fiber to be deployed in Austin and San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated NYSE: GLW is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known until 1989 as Corning Glass Works. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GLW GLW Glasgow Airport (UK) GLW Gross Laden Weight GLW Good Lady Wife (Australia) ) and Grande Communications About Grande Communications is a United States telecommunications firm, based out of San Marcos, Texas, that uses a deep-fiber optic network for broadband services. In 1999, the company was established when the largest single round of venture capital funding in Texas was raised, announced today that Grande will deploy Corning's advanced tip-to-tip solution in its first fiber-to-the-home (FTTH (Fiber To The Home) See FTTP. ) deployment. More than 20,000 kilometers of Corning(R) NexCor(TM) fiber will be deployed this year as part of the Evolant(TM) Solutions for Access Networks. Grande, a locally owned communications provider serving southwestern Texas, is deploying a passive optical network (PON (Passive Optical Network) An optical point-to-multipoint access network. There are no optical repeaters or other active devices in a PON, hence the name "passive. ) FTTH network in Austin and San Antonio, with a plan to pass 23,000 homes this year. Corning, the world leader in fiber-optic solutions, will supply Grande with its tip-to-tip Evolant Solution for Access Networks, including FTTH-optimized NexCor fiber, OptiSheath(TM) Advantage terminals, OptiTect(TM) Advantage cabinets and SST-Drop(TM) cables. Corning Cable Systems' Evolant Advantage products are designed to increase the ease of installation and speed of adding subscribers from the local convergence point to the customer premises. "NexCor fiber gives us the ability to design a cost-effective network while giving us the flexibility to adapt our network to future needs," said Joe Ross Joe Ross may refer to one of the following:
Corning has engineered NexCor fiber, an SMF-28e(R) innovation and the only single-mode fiber specified for all PON transmission wavelengths, to provide optimized FTTH performance while maintaining complete backward compatibility with Corning's SMF-28e fiber, the world's most widely deployed brand of fiber. The result is the only fully ITU-T See ITU. ITU-T - International Telecommunications Union G.652.D-compliant fiber that enables twice the optical launch power compared with other fibers in its class, and that has superior bending attributes for handleability in the field. Corning Cable Systems' OptiSheath Advantage cabinets and OptiTect Advantage terminals feature craft-friendly and field-proven designs that dramatically reduce the time and complexity of FTTH installation. Through its Evolant(TM) Solutions for Access Networks, Corning Cable Systems offers specialized portfolios of innovative products and services that enable customers to cost-effectively deploy fiber in the last mile. "Grande is demonstrating true leadership in bringing fiber to the home to its customers, and we are delighted to support them in that," said Billy Pyatt, vice president of public networks sales and marketing -- Americas, Corning Cable Systems. "Corning has always been committed to innovation that provides real, tangible value to our customers. We are very pleased that the Evolant Solutions portfolio and NexCor fiber can offer this advantage to Grande." About Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is a diversified technology company that concentrates its efforts on high-impact growth opportunities. Corning combines its expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of the properties of light, with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the telecommunications, flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time , environmental, semiconductor, and life sciences industries. For more about Corning's innovative FTTH solutions, visit www.corning.com/broadband. About Grande Communications (www.grandecom.com) Headquartered in San Marcos, Grande Communications is building a deep-fiber broadband network to homes and businesses from the ground up. Grande's 850 employees deliver high-speed Internet, local and long-distance telephone, digital cable television and wireless home security services over its own advanced broadband network to communities in Texas. Grande's bundled service area includes portions of Austin, Corpus Christi, suburban northwest Dallas, Midland, Odessa, San Antonio, San Marcos and Waco. Additional Corning Contacts: Corning Cable Systems Dana McEntire, 828-901-6910 dana.mcentire@corning.com Corporate Communications M. Elizabeth Dann, 607-974-4989 dannme@corning.com Corning Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. : Ken C. Sofio, 607-974-7705 sofiokc@corning.com |
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