Warwick Valley Telephone Company Moves to Pannaway's IP Ethernet Service Convergence Network (SCN(TM)) Solution for Triple Play Delivery.PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Broadband Communications Company Poised to Become Leading IP Video Provider to Over 20,000 Residential and Municipal Subscribers Pannaway Technologies, Inc., designers and developers of next-generation, converged IP broadband systems to telecommunications companies, today announced that Warwick Valley Telephone Company (WVTC WVTC West Virginia Trails Coalition ), one of New York's most established communications providers has selected and deployed its multi award-winning 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)) IP access platform for the delivery of next-generation Triple Play services to residential and municipal broadband subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. WVTC, a 104-year old Independent Local Exchange Carrier (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. ) and Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) ), is currently delivering high-bandwidth Triple Play broadband services over a combination of Pannaway's Active Ethernet fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP (Fiber To The Premises) The installation of optical fiber from the carrier directly into the home or office. Also called "fiber to the home" (FTTH). See PON and FTTC. See also FTP. ) and ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line 2+ technologies to their CLEC territory. In the company's second phase of deployment, Triple Play services which include traditional telephony, voice over IP (VoIP), high-speed data and HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates will be made available to approximately 20,000 additional subscribers in surrounding areas. WVTC is one of a growing number of IOC (Independent Operating Company) and CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) service providers that have chosen to deploy Pannaway's SCN access solution at the core if its broadband network. Other SCN users include Cross Telephone of Oklahoma, Allendale Communications of Michigan, Empire Telephone of New York, Bruce Municipal of Ottawa Canada and KPU of Ketchikan Alaska. "The competitive landscape for broadband services, especially digital television is fierce in our region", said Keith Scarzafava, Director of Network Technology at Warwick Valley Telephone Company. "The flexibility and scalability of Pannaway's SCN platform allows us to deliver unrivaled communications and entertainment services ensuring our future success and competitive standing." WVTC's new next-generation network consists of Pannaway's Broadband Aggregation Routers (BAR(TM)) which deliver Gigabit Ethernet-based transport with the capacity to scale to 10Gbps, ADSL2+ and Active Ethernet fiber Broadband Access Switches (BAS(TM)) and Residential Gateway NIDs (RGN(TM)). Pannaway's SCN platform delivers full Triple Play service capability in one tightly integrated solution that leverages the simplest and most scalable access technologies available - IP and Ethernet. Scarzafava adds, "The one thing that impressed us the most about Pannaway's highly manageable IP system was how quickly and easily it deployed." Pannaway's highly acclaimed 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)) is also being used by WVTC to simplify the deployment, provisioning and ongoing management of its new copper and fiber-based broadband equipment and services. "Pannaway's goal has been to provide our telco customers with an affordable, single platform that deploys quickly and delivers a full range of high-bandwidth services", said Kevin Brown, Vice President of Marketing for Pannaway. "We're extremely pleased that our efforts are helping service providers like WVTC to compete more effectively while improving their bottom line." 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(TM)) architecture allows telecommunications service providers to increase revenue through the delivery of 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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