I just got a link to a interesting press release from Paradyne that shows that it is a good idea to use RADSL if you have problems with the quality of a phone line. I had read the press release before but lost it and did not remember from which company the release was.
Andreas
Harvard Net Selects Paradyne's
HotwireTM Products For High-speed,
Low-cost DSL Deployment in New
England
Paradyne's Hotwire Rate Adaptive DSL (RADSL)
products are selected to deliver tiered services
at speeds 10 times faster than ISDN.
Largo, Florida -- October 29, 1997 -- Paradyne, a
pioneer and leader in digital network access,
announced today that Harvard Net has selected
Paradyne's Hotwire Rate Adaptive DSL (RADSL)
products as its preferred high-speed access solution.
Harvard Net, a Massachusetts-based provider of
Internet and Intranet services to businesses, is
offering a range of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
access speeds exclusively to commercial customers
with high bandwidth requirements. Harvard Net plans
to roll out Hotwire RADSL-based services in
mid-December to Massachusetts, closely followed by
deployment in Rhode Island, Maine and New
Hampshire.
Following its recent acquisition of Internet Northeast,
Harvard Net is quickly becoming the dominant
regional provider of access services - including DSL -
in New England. Harvard Net's business offerings
include Internet access, web hosting, and e-mail
outsourcing.
"In New England, we have old and sometimes poorly
documented copper loops," said Bill Southworth,
chairman of Harvard Net. "We tested Paradyne's
Hotwire RADSL products on 20 of our worst copper
circuits--circuits that we couldn't bring up with SDSL,
and 19 of the 20 came up on the first try. Our
business customers are interested in a symmetrical
solution at fractional T1 speeds. We shied away from
ADSL in the past because we felt that an SDSL or
S-HDSL solution would provide us with a more
reliable approach with minimal impact on the network.
We've found that Paradyne's RADSL products provide
us the performance and reliability we've been seeking,
while reducing provisioning time by an order of
magnitude."
A major factor in Harvard Net's decision was the
flexibility afforded by Paradyne's unique, scaleable,
multiservices architecture. In addition, Paradyne's
knowledge and experience of network access
technology, network management, the copper
infrastructure and spectral density issues further
reinforced Harvard Net's selection of Paradyne. The
success of Paradyne's Hotwire Partners Program
assured them that Paradyne was willing and able to
partner with Harvard Net to explore and leverage the
market opportunities which exist in an ISP, CLEC or
Campus business model.
For deployment, Harvard Net chose the Hotwire 8600
DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexer), because it
provides a multiservices, scaleable architecture,
which allows them to provision multiple service types
on a single architecture -- incrementally as their
market develops. This safeguards their original
investment, which is considerably less than that
required for competitive products. The Hotwire 8600
DSLAM currently lists for less than $6,000 --
one-fourth the cost of competitive DSLAMs.
Harvard Net selected a variety of Hotwire Remote
Termination Units (RTUs), including the Hotwire 5446,
5246 and 5216 series of endpoint products. These
RTUs support asymmetrical and symmetrical
applications, software upgrades, optional POTS (plain
old telephone service), and SNMP. All Hotwire RTUs
interoperate with the Hotwire DSLAM. The Hotwire
5446 Release 2 with the new 7 Mbps firmware
upgrade, supports multiple users - ideal bandwidth for
remote office/branch office applications. The SOHO
environment may be served by the new Hotwire 5246
which offers 2.56 Mbps RADSL service and supports
up to 32 users.
Designed to support high-speed network access for
the residential user or teleworker, the 5216 is one of
the lowest priced DSL endpoints available on the
market today. Priced at only $495, the Hotwire 5216
is capable of 1 Mbps symmetric transmission
speeds. All products are now available.
Wrapped around the entire Hotwire DSL family is
Paradyne's preeminent network management suite of
products - DCE manager and Performance WizardTM.
Together they facilitate the end-to-end management -
configuration, monitoring, diagnosis and analysis - of
the entire Hotwire family of products. Paradyne's
comprehensive management tool minimizes, and
frequently prevents, costly and disruptive down time.
(DCE manager also manages Paradyne's traditional
TDM and FrameSaverTM frame relay access
products.)
Hotwire systems and other Paradyne products are
marketed through a worldwide network of distributors
and value-added resellers (VARs). Hotwire products
are also marketed directly to Network Service
Providers. For more information on Hotwire systems
or other Paradyne products, call 800-PARADYNE or
813-530-2000, or visit Paradyne's Power Pages at
paradyne.com.
Headquartered in Largo, Florida, Paradyne is a
leading developer and provider of products and
technologies that facilitate high-speed access to
networks worldwide for communications, computing
and information. Recognized as the market leader in
T1 DSU/CSUs*, Paradyne is one of the largest,
privately held manufacturers of network access
products. Paradyne markets its award-winning analog
products, digital access products and an extensive
array of frame relay solutions and access
multiplexers to commercial end-users, Internet
Service Providers, Frame Relay Service Providers and
Network Service Providers.
Harvard Net is New England's leading regional
provider of Internet and Intranet access, web hosting
services and electronic commerce solutions. The
company was founded in 1993 with the purpose of
applying technology to solve business
communication problems. Harvard Net has grown
rapidly by providing innovation with the best
performance, service quality and responsiveness in
the industry. The company was the first New England
Internet Service Provider to file as a Competitive Local
Exchange Carrier (CLEC) under the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, the first to offer
ADSL access, and the first to offer geographic load
sharing of web sites for disaster recovery. Harvard Net
provides Internet services for over 3500 domains. Its
reputation for high performance web hosting and
access has attracted a customer list consisting of
Fortune 100 companies and many of the Internet's
most active web sites.
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* IDC "Trends in the Digital Access Equipment Arena Report,"
April 1996.
Editors Note: For more information, product slides, technical
specifications or to schedule an interview with Paradyne, contact
Debra Eisenberg, media relations manager, at 813-530-8207.
Internet address: deisenberg@paradyne.com. Product availability
and pricing subject to change without notification. Hotwire,
Performance Wizard, FrameSaver and Paradyne are trademarks of
Paradyne Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners. Subsequent to its sale on August 1, 1996
by Lucent Technologies Inc., Paradyne is an independently
owned company, unaffiliated with either AT&T Corp. or Lucent
Technologies.
PRESS CONTACTS:
Paradyne Press Contact:
Debra Eisenberg
Media Relations
813-530-8207
deisenberg@paradyne.com
Paradyne Agency Press Contact:
Marianne Radwan
Radcom Strategic Marketing
561-988-5300
E-mail: mradwan@gate.net
Harvard Net Contact:
Bill Southworth - Chairman
617-262-4200, ext. 100
whs@harvard.net |
