TXP Enables Successful IPTV Rollout at Star Telephone by Eliminating Overheating in Existing Outside Plant Cabinet Network
Tuesday January 8, 7:30 am ET
RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Outside plant cabinet equipment from TXP Corporation (OTCBB:TXPO - News) has helped Star Telephone of North Carolina solve one equipment overheating problem and prevent many more.
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TXP, an Original Design Manufacturer of engineered OSP cabinet retrofit solutions for the telecommunications industry, has provided Star Telephone with the equipment needed to refurbish more than 50 cabinets and keep them operating efficiently as the service provider installs additional equipment to provide advanced services to customers.
The Star Telephone-TXP relationship began in the summer of 2007 when newly installed equipment for providing IPTV services began malfunctioning. Not realizing the extent of the overheating in one particular cabinet, Star Telephone replaced the equipment, only to have it continue to malfunction. Once technicians realized that the problem wasn’t the equipment – it worked fine when the cabinet’s doors were open and the heat was dissipated – they recognized the real problem.
“We were seeing temperatures in that cabinet of 170 to 190 degrees,” said Tim Butler, Broadband Engineer for Star Telephone. Clark Honeycutt, Star Telephone’s Distribution Engineer, added that “we had never seen that kind of a heat issue before. It was a combination of the type of cabinet, an AFC 360, and the equipment we were putting into it.”
Star Telephone contacted TXP, which had already designed a Retrofit Heat Exchanger to fit a variety of cabinets, and provided it to Star to fix the problem. “That immediately dropped the temperature in the cabinet 40 to 60 degrees,” Butler said. The normal working temperature for the cabinet is up to 165 degrees.
Star Telephone then outfitted all of its AFC cabinets, including models 360, 240, and 672 with TXP RHX retrofit kits, to assure that the cabinets would accommodate the IPTV equipment that Star was rolling out for a major introduction of IPTV service late in 2007. The 51 cabinets represent about half of all the cabinets in Star Telephone’s network.
“The RHX kit is particularly well suited to cabinet retrofitting,” explained Paul Forzisi, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at TXP. “For its capacity, at 1000 watts, it is very compact, making it a perfect fit for cabinets with small doors.”
Star Telephone Membership Corporation provides a broad range of telecommunications services to customers in 1,458 square miles of southeastern North Carolina.
TXP’s retrofit solutions cover cabinets of all makes and sizes, providing power, cooling, mounting, and cabling solutions. Its retrofit kits are fully engineered to telco standards, with complete documentation, from feasibility through installation. TXP addresses the increasing need among service providers to migrate the equipment in their outside plant cabinets from traditional voice service to today’s high-speed data communications gear. Retrofitting the cabinets represents a huge savings over cabinet replacement.
With more than 500 cabinets upgraded, TXP counts among its retrofit customers two of the top seven U.S. telecom carriers and three of the industry’s top access system providers. |
