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Advanced Fibre Communications' UMC
1000 Gains Approval for Deployment To
Federal Agencies
PR Newswire - December 07, 1998 08:16
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PETALUMA, Calif., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Fibre
Communications(R), Inc. (AFC) (Nasdaq: AFCI), a leading
manufacturer of telecommunications access equipment for the local
loop, announced today a five year contract with the General Services
Administration (GSA).
Under the terms of the contract, the UMC 1000(R) will be added as a
listed product in the GSA's purchasing catalogue, enabling Federal
Government Agencies in the executive, legislative and judicial
branches to purchase commercial UMC 1000 products and services,
under the terms and conditions previously negotiated between AFC and
the GSA.
This contract broadens deployment opportunities for AFC's UMC 1000
by providing a designated purchasing path for Government agencies,
Government contractors, mixed ownership Government corporations
and all other organizations authorized to utilize the GSA catalogue as a
supply source.
"We look forward to expanding our relationship with various Federal
agencies," comments Richard Stanfield, vice president of North
American sales at AFC. "Because the UMC 1000 is fully scaleable it is
a great fit for any purchasing cycle; our customers can buy what they
need today and expand the system as service demands grow."
AFC is a leading manufacturer of telecommunications systems for the
"local loop" between telephone service users and public telephone
networks worldwide. AFC has pioneered a single platform that
supports any network, any transport, and any service. AFC's flagship
product, the UMC 1000(R) 3rd Generation Digital Loop Carrier(TM),
provides any service from POTS to xDSL over copper, fiber, and
wireless transport media. Additional information on AFC can be found
on the web at fibre.com.
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