Siemens Collaborates With UAWG at Supercomm; Showcase to Demonstrate That ADSL is ''Ready For Prime Time'' Deployment
BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1999--Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. is working with other industry leaders to ensure the interoperability of access technologies and facilitate the mass deployment of high-speed data and Internet access services.
As a member of the Universal ADSL Working Group (UAWG), Siemens is one of several companies participating in a showcase at Supercomm this week in Atlanta, Ga. The goal of the showcase is to help service providers meet their customers' increasing demands for high-speed data and Internet access by demonstrating that ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) technology is ready for widespread deployment in today's multi-vendor public and private networks.
Siemens also is a member of the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). The lab enables engineers from different organizations to work together to examine and solve interoperability issues. In preparation for Supercomm, Siemens and participating member companies sent engineers and equipment to New Hampshire for interoperability testing. A similar meeting and evaluation was held earlier in the year in Antwerp, Belgium.
Siemens offers a portfolio of access network products, which support a variety of interfaces that allow virtually any service to be offered on a fiber optic and/or copper network. The products can be combined to provide unbundled local loop solutions for new service providers, and efficient growth and evolution paths for existing network service providers.
At its Supercomm booth (No. 4707), Siemens will feature an interactive end-user application for ATM-based ADSL and UDSL technology. Siemens' XpressLink(R) broadband access digital subscriber line system allows service providers to rapidly deploy cost-effective broadband services over existing twisted-copper pairs. The platform is deployable in either a central office or remote environment.
Siemens' FastLink(tm) system provides a range of narrowband and wideband services from the public switched telephone network (PSTN) in digital loop carrier (DLC), next generation digital loop carrier (NGDLC), and fiber to the curb (FTTC) configurations. It can be deployed either standalone or with the XpressLink solution for combined narrowband and broadband services. FastLink (FTTC) can be equipped for CATV and Ethernet data to provide a network platform capable of delivering a complete suite of narrowband, wideband and broadband services.
Siemens also provides a family of synchronized optical network (SONET) add/drop multiplexers, which are optimized for use in the access network segment.
The Universal ADSL Working Group (UAWG), composed of leading PC industry, networking and telecommunications companies, has developed a set of contributions building on T1.413 ANSI standards intended to create a quick deployment and adoption of Universal ADSL (G.Lite). In addition, the group aims to maximize the economy, speed, and efficiency of both full-rate and G.Lite deployments through ongoing interoperability testing. The group foresees G.Lite modems being a preferred PC modem technology in North America by the end of year 2000, and internationally soon thereafter. |
