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More G.Lite news:xdsl.com Copper Mountain G.lite Solution Selected by Northpoint Communications as Part of Nationwide Rollout of DSL to Consumer Market Copper Mountain offers a high density G.lite solution, a 24-port line card, which makes it more cost-effective for NorthPoint to deploy services to the high-volume consumer market . The G.lite card, designed for the company's family of CopperEdge(R) DSL concentrators, also supports Copper Mountain's IP IQ(TM), or high Internet Protocol intelligence which guarantees Quality of Service (QoS) for mission critical applications such as voice, multimedia, and entertainment applications in very large-scale Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks. NorthPoint plans to use Copper Mountain's G.lite solution to support a wide variety of services for the consumer market, including high-speed, always on Internet access, voice, and consumer content such as special events, portals, MP3 music, and video.NorthPoint is moving aggressively to take advantage of recent regulatory advancements allowing line sharing, and it initially tested Copper Mountain's G.lite technology with residential customers in Dallas, Chicago, San Jose, and New York. The line sharing order by the FCC in October of 1999, enables Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) such as NorthPoint to offer DSL service on the same physical line, or copper loop, that the Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) is using to deliver lifeline Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS). Prior to the line sharing order, ILECs had a clear advantage over CLECs in providing DSL services to the consumer marketplace. The FCC's line sharing order makes it practical and affordable for CLECs such as NorthPoint to provide DSL services to the consumer marketplace. Copper Mountain's high-density, application-aware G.lite solution supports NorthPoint's strategy of high-volume, low-cost deployment and the ability to support a rich portfolio of value-added services for the consumer marketplace over existing telephone lines. Copper Mountain's IP IQ advanced IP networking feature set will support NorthPoint's recently announced "Blast" initiative, designed to improve the way consumers and businesses experience streaming media and other content and applications over the Internet."We're very pleased with the results of our trials of Copper Mountain's G.lite solution and look forward to expanding our presence in the consumer market with a partner that has been so critical to our success in serving small and midsize businesses," said Liz Fetter, president and CEO of NorthPoint. "This is not only a corporate milestone for NorthPoint, but a true milestone for DSL services and the delivery of exciting, groundbreaking Internet-based services to the consumer marketplace. Our technology partnership with Copper Mountain is a key aspect of NorthPoint's consumer initiative."Use of the G.lite standard enables Copper Mountain solutions to support concurrent data and analog voice over the local copper loop at downstream speeds ranging from 64 kbps to 1.536 Mbps in 32 kbps steps (or up to 3.0 Mbps with Copper Mountain's turbo-charged G.lite line card) and upstream speeds ranging from 32 kbps to 512 kbps, also in 32 kbps steps. G.lite extends to a maximum distance of 19,000 feet over 26-gauge wire and 26,200 feet over 24-gauge wire. In compliance with the G.lite standard, Copper Mountain's DSL concentrators enable end-to-end ATM on the DSL line from the subscriber's premise to the provider's Point-of-Presence (PoP) or enterprise headquarters.
