PAIR news-Puerto Rico Telephone Selects PairGain Solution for World's First HDSL2
(Business Wire 10/26 12:33:16)
Deployment; Incumbent Carrier to Equip Public School System with HiGain
Solitaire for Fast Internet Access
Business Editors and High-Tech Writers
TUSTIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1999--PairGain(R)
Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PAIR), a leader in DSL access systems,
today announced the sale of its HiGain Solitaire(TM) HDSL2 solution
to Puerto Rico Telephone (PRT), the only full service
telecommunications provider in Puerto Rico.
PRT is the first incumbent carrier to undertake a major
deployment of next generation HDSL2 technology and plans to use HiGain
Solitaire throughout the island's public school system to give
students and teachers high-speed Internet access.
By project's completion next year, approximately 1,500 schools in
the Puerto Rico public school system will have high-speed access to
the Internet, as well as voice, video and data connectivity. Thousands
of elementary and high school students will benefit from the HiGain
Solitaire implementation. The first phase of the PRT school project is
scheduled for completion by the end of the year.
PRT also plans additional HDSL2 deployment using HiGain Solitaire
for business customers around the island of Puerto Rico.
"We are honored that PRT chose PairGain's HDSL2 solution, and
we're especially pleased that their application will provide advanced
educational opportunities for the students of Puerto Rico," said Mike
Pascoe, president and CEO of PairGain. "This is our first of many
expected wins for PairGain in the HDSL2 arena."
Educational institutions across the world are eager to provide
students with fast, yet affordable, access to the Internet, a
contemporary learning tool. Often, fiber optic, coax and ISDN
connections are either impractical or too expensive, while analog
modems are extremely slow.
The HiGain Solitaire HDSL2 solution overcomes these obstacles by
providing up to 24 high-speed access points for each single
twisted-pair copper connection.
"Our objective was to satisfy our customers' demands for
simultaneous multiuser Internet connectivity, efficiently and
cost-effectively," said Joaquin Rivera, vice president of network
engineering and technical planning for Puerto Rico Telephone.
"HiGain Solitaire satisfies all our requirements by enabling us
to meet the needs of the public school system, while getting maximum
performance from our copper infrastructure. It's a very cost-effective
solution for commercial business, the school system and for PRT."
PairGain has been supplying transmission equipment to PRT for
many years. Through the efforts of JAS Corporation, a local, San
Juan-based reseller and systems integrator, PairGain maintains a
premier presence in the PRT territory.
"Our delivery of HiGain Solitaire to Puerto Rico Telephone marks
the industry's first shipment of production HDSL2 products," said
Dennis Young, PairGain's executive vice president, GM Telco Systems.
"The combination of our established leadership in HDSL2
technology, expertise in optimized cost design and state-of-the-art
manufacturing will guarantee PairGain's position as the industry's
number one provider of HDSL2 solutions."
HiGain Solitaire & HDSL2
HiGain Solitaire is the industry's first practical implementation
of HDSL2, delivering the same performance, reach and reliability of
two-pair HDSL using just a single copper pair. In addition to
providing full T1 capability over one pair, HiGain Solitaire
guarantees interoperability with other vendors' standards-compliant
HDSL2 products.
HiGain Solitaire is available in all central office and CPE form
factors and is currently being deployed in more than 18 field trials.
HDSL2 is a standards-based transmission technology that provides
full T1 rates of 1.544Mbps throughput over a single pair of copper
telephone wires. It is the first such standardized technology for
carriers, offering multivendor product interoperability for T1 and
other high-speed service delivery.
Puerto Rico Telephone
Puerto Rico Telephone is the only full service telecommunications
provider in Puerto Rico with more than 1.3 million clients. Services
range from regular residential and business telephones to specialized
data and video services, Internet, cellular, paging, prepaid offers,
pay phones and enhanced services.
PairGain Technologies, Inc.
PairGain is the leader in the design, manufacture, marketing and
sale of DSL networking systems. Service providers and private network
operators worldwide use PairGain's products to deploy DSL-based
services such as high-speed Internet, remote LAN access and enterprise
LAN extension.
For more than 10 years, PairGain has been recognized as a
technology leader and industry innovator of telecommunications
equipment. The company offers the widest range of DSL-based systems
available.
Product lines include HiGain Solitaire(TM) HDSL2 solutions,
HiGain(R) T1/E1 access systems, PG-FlexPlus(TM), PG-Flex(R) and
PG-Plus(R) subscriber carrier systems, the Avidia(R) System, Megabit
Modems(R) and Campus-HRS(TM) megabit access products. Well over 1.5
million PairGain DSL nodes are installed in over 70 countries.
Additional information about the company is available on the
Internet at www.pairgain.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the
matters discussed in this announcement are forward-looking statements
which involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to
economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors
affecting the company's operations, markets, products, services and
prices and other factors discussed in the company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. All trademarks within are the
property of their respective manufacturers.
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CONTACT: PairGain Technologies Inc., Tustin
Stephen Moore, 714/730-2336
e-mail: stephen_moore@pairgain.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INTERNATIONAL LATIN AMERICA
INDUSTRYR KEYWORD: EDUCATION INTERNET TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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