Isle of Wight Cable & Telephone Deploys Broadband Network Based On Equipment From Teleste and RiverDelta Networks.Business/Technology Editors TEWKSBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001 Teleste and RiverDelta Networks Form an International Partnership World Class Broadband Access See broadband and wireless broadband. Technology Enables New Services over Broadband Network Teleste Corporation, the leading provider of European cable networks, and RiverDelta Networks, Inc., a leading provider of carrier-class broadband routing, switching, and service management solutions, today announced the completion of a multi-service digital broadband network for the Isle of Wight Noun 1. Isle of Wight - an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel Wight county - (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government; "the county has a population of 12,345 people" Cable & Telephone Company Limited. Isle of Wight Cable & Telephone has turned up multi-service delivery over the new broadband IP network. In October 2000 Isle of Wight Cable & Telephone selected Teleste as the technical integrator for providing a complete broadband cable network solution. The value of the project was $2.7 million or 2,9 million euros. The delivery included Teleste's digital headend, fibre nodes and amplifiers all with network management software. The delivery also included third party equipment like satellite receivers, set top boxes and conditional access system A conditional access system (CAS) is a system by which electronic transmission of digital media, especially satellite television signals through cable, is limited to subscribed clients. This is called conditional access. . RiverDelta Networks Broadband Service See broadband and broadband service provider. Router (BSR BSR Business for Social Responsibility BSR Baltic Sea Region BSR British Society for Rheumatology BSR Bootstrap Router (networking) BSR Bonsoir (French) BSR Bottom-Simulating Reflector 64000 and BSR1000) was now integrated into the network by Teleste in order to provide High-Speed Internet See broadband. Services. Teleste will take the total responsibility of the whole technical solution. Isle of Wight Cable & Telephone now has one of the most modern telecommunication and media distribution systems in the world and is using the BSR64000 equipment from RiverDelta Networks for aggregating traffic from cable modems and routing it across the network. The voice, video, data and information services See Information Systems. system will serve in excess of 44,000 homes and 5,500 businesses. The new digital broadband services being introduced across the Isle of Wight, include: -- Digital Cable Television -- Advanced CATV Services such as Pay-Per-View -- Radio and Digital Music Service -- Residential and Business Telecom Services -- Leased Circuits -- Managed Bandwidth Service Connecting Local and Wide Area Networks -- Broadband Internet See broadband. Services -- CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television Services -- Prepaid Phone Cards "Teleste and RiverDelta Networks working together have provided us with a seamless turnkey solution, saving us valuable time to market. IP capability is key to the future growth of our customer base and the solutions provided by the partnership of Teleste and RiverDelta Networks have allowed us to explore key business and residential applications," said Richard Woollam, Managing Director for Isle of Wight Cable & Telephone Company. The Partnership between Teleste and RiverDelta Networks Teleste and RiverDelta Networks have formed an international partnership where Teleste will be a key systems integrator for the RiverDelta Networks Broadband Services RouterTM (BSR) family of products. It enables Teleste to provide complete solutions for cable operators wanting to build or upgrade their networks to carry digital IP-based services. The RiverDelta Networks BSR products are DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) A cable modem standard from the CableLabs research consortium (www.cablelabs.com), which provides equipment certification for interoperability. and EURODOCSIS compliant to ensure broad interconnectivity and manageability. Together with Digital Video Broadband-compliant network solutions offered by Teleste Access Systems, Cable Operators will now be able to provide revenue-generating services like Broadband Internet, IP video and Voice over IP. The agreement covers the world, excluding the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, , Canada, and South Korea. "Teleste is an excellent partner. The speed at which we were able to bring together and install an integrated, multi-service solution to Isle of Wight Cable & Telephone is a tribute to the first-rate talent that has been brought together by this partnership," said Sarah Hackforth, Managing Director for RiverDelta Europe. "Teleste's excellent reputation is certainly well-deserved and we look forward to a long and mutually prosperous relationship." Delivering Multiple Services from Multiple Providers RiverDelta Networks SmartFlowTM Quality of Service (QoS) technology runs on the BSR64000 platform to give broadband carriers the unprecedented ability to manage hundreds-of-thousands of unique IP service flows at multiple levels, including on a per-application, subscriber, and system and service provider basis. With SmartFlow, broadband carriers can dynamically allocate network bandwidth, create multi-tiered service offerings, and isolate mission critical traffic such as Voice over IP, Video-on-Demand, and Virtual Private Networks from non-critical traffic. "By offering the RiverDelta Broadband Services Routers, Teleste Access Systems is able to provide an end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for our customers in the field of IP connectivity in cable networks. We are pleased to sign this agreement with one of the most advanced broadband networking vendors in the world," said Timo Salokoski, Vice President for Teleste, responsible for Access Systems Division. About Isle of Wight Cable & Telephone Company Limited Isle of Wight Cable & Telephone Company launched officially in September 2000 as a cable operator providing the Isle of Wight with cable television, telephony services and high speed Internet services. They began construction in November 2000 and aim to have completed a build of 44,000 homes in a fourteen-month rollout of the system. Additional company information can be found at http://www.iowctc.co.uk About Teleste Corporation Teleste is an international technology group founded in 1954, which is specialized in broadband data communication solutions and software based multimedia environments for language learning. In 2000 the group's continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the increased the net sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight 61 % to 91,7 million euros and the net profit increased 54 % to 10,7 million euros. The return on equity and the return on capital employed Return on capital employed (ROCE) Indicator of profitability of the firm's capital investments. Determined by dividing Earnings Before Interest and Taxes by (capital employed plus short-term loans minus intangible assets). were both over 30 percent. The Group employed 562 persons at the end of 2000. The company is listed on the main list of Helsinki Exchanges Helsinki Exchanges (HEX) The Helsinki Exchanges (HEX Ltd., Helsinki Securities and Derivatives Exchange and Clearing House) was formed at the beginning of 1998 following the merger of the Helsinki Stock Exchange Ltd. and SOM Ltd. . Additional company information can be found at http://www.teleste.com About RiverDelta Networks RiverDelta Networks, based in Tewksbury, MA, designs, develops, and markets solutions for next-generation broadband service providers building carrier-class networks to deliver emerging voice, data, and entertainment services for consumers and businesses. RiverDelta Networks received Cable Labs(R) DOCSIS 1.0 qualification in record time and has built upon and extended the DOCSIS 1.1 Quality of Service specifications with its SmartFlow per-flow processing. RiverDelta Networks has received $46 million in funding from Pequot Capital Management, Battery Ventures, and Charles River Charles River River, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. The longest river wholly in the state, it flows into Boston Bay after a course of about 80 mi (130 km). Navigable for about 7 mi (11 km), its estuary separates the cities of Boston and Cambridge. Ventures. Additional company information can be found at http://www.riverdelta.com |
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