1/27/98 Newsbytes (Pg. Unavail. Online)
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Tuesday, January 27, 1998
PairGain DSL Technology Rolled Out In Russia
Sylvia Dennis, Newsbytes
BADEN, SWITZERLAND, 1998 JAN 27 (NB). PairGain Technologies, the
Tustin, California-based digital subscriber line (DSL) technology
company, has started rolling out its technology into Eastern Europe,
notably into Russia, where the DSL systems have been optimized for the
Russian telecoms marketplace.
This is the first time that DSL technologies have been actively
promoted into Eastern Europe, a region not exactly noted for its superb
telecoms infrastructure, Newsbytes notes.
The past few years, however, have seen massive investment in new
telecoms infrastructure in the region, meaning that, at long last,
speeds beyond 64,000 bits per second (bps) in many city areas across
standard copper pairs, and telcos can use the technology on their own
lines to squeeze maximum bandwidth out of their circuits.
Peter Schmid, PairGain's vice president for the EMEA region, said that
delivery of increased bandwidth is a major issue for telcos and private
network operators in the Eastern European marketplace.
"Homologation of the PairGain product range enables us to offer a
cost-effective system that provides high speed communications over the
existing network of unconditioned copper telephone lines in Russia," he
said.
PairGain's main claim to fame in the US to date, Newsbytes notes, has
been with US West, which has just selected PairGain's EtherPhone
products to deliver a new package of integrated data services that will
allow the telco's business and residential customers get fast and
reliable access to the Internet over a standard telephone line.
The key to the PairGain DSL technology is that it lets customers
always stay connected to the Internet or other data networks over a
dedicated section of bandwidth on their existing phone line, with no
dial-in required.
The company's EtherPhone product line consists of several central
office and subscriber end devices that run at up to 704,000 bits per
second in both directions, alongside a standard analog voice call.
Reported by Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com .
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COMPANY (TICKER): Pairgain Technologies Inc. (PAIR)
KEY WORDS: TELECOM
NEWS CATEGORY: NEWS
INDUSTRY: Telephone Systems; Telecommunications, All; Communications Technology (TLS TEL CMT)
Word Count: 314
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