Some info on AccessLan, an LPGLY holding.
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AccessLan was founded in January 1997 by a team of network industry veterans
who came from companies including Bay Networks, Hughes Network Systems and
Broadband Technologies. Since its founding, the company has raised $20 million
from leading venture capital firms and strategic partners, including Sequoia Capital,
Accel Partners, Berkeley International Capital and Intel. The company's platform was
production-ready in October 1998, and is currently in field trials with major service
providers,including RBOCs, CLECs and STS (Shared Tenant Service) Providers.
AccessLan Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of carrier-class concentration
and Local Loop access equipment that enables carriers and service providers to
streamline access for the next generation Local Loop. AccessLan equipment breaks
through the access bottleneck, providing an efficient, cost-effective platform that
enables a variety of packet-based services, including Internet/Intranet, Frame Relay,
VPN and voice over the Local Loop — at speeds ranging from 56 Kbps to T1, and up
to 9 Mbps in the near future. The company provides carriers with a complete
end-to-end solution, including customer premise equipment (CPE), central office
(CO) access concentrators and systems management. The company's products
are designed to improve the capacity of the Local Loop, lower access costs and
improve operational efficiencies for carriers such as telco's/PTTs, CLECs, NSPs,
and ISPs.
A generation beyond ATM/cell-based and TDM-based Local Loop, AccessLan's
PacketLoop brings to the Local Loop a revolution similar to the Packet-over-SONET
(POS) revolution occurring in the public network core. PacketLoop offers the best
price/performance of any packet, cell or TDM-based Local Loop/DSL solution in the
market today. It delivers the highest density, capacity, throughput, performance and
one of the highest reliabilities at a price that is competitive with other platforms. The
PacketLoop platform offers an end-to-end packet-based Local Loop solution,
connecting subscribers' networks to the carrier backbone, replacing the existing
TDM-based Local Loop. It provides symmetric, variable-rate network access and
connectivity at speeds ranging from 56Kbps to 1.5Mbps, with speeds up to 9Mbps
anticipated in the near future. It is designed to deliver carrier-class Frame Relay and
Internet/Intranet services, and provide a foundation for delivery of a new generation of
packet-switched voice and VPN services.
The Key Importance of DSL
In recent months, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) has emerged as the leading Local
Loop technology for delivery of broadband services to business, and is a key aspect
of AccessLan's solution. DSL increases the capacity of the copper Local Loop by a
factor of 25 and lowers access costs by as much as 70 percent. It is widely
considered to be the next wave in the evolution of access technologies, and is ideal
for Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) wishing to establish and maintain
a competitive position in the telecommunications market.
AccessLan's PacketLoop platform for business services delivers symmetric
packet-based carrier access specifically designed and optimized for next generation
service providers. With AccessLan DSL solutions, carriers can provide differentiated
broadband services to their customers that are easily managed, highly scaleable,
and highly reliable. International Data Corporation estimates that revenues from the
broadband Local Loop market at $1.13 billion in 1998. Within this market symmetric
DSL (SDSL) is estimated to achieve a compounded annual growth rate of over 140
percent-plus from 1996 to 2002, as it replaces the existing TDM infrastructure.
AccessLan Products
AccessLan PacketLoop products bypass the existing TDM-based Local Loop that
was designed for circuit-switched traffic, thus increasing the efficiency of the network
and lowering the overall cost of providing broadband access over copper loops. The
company introduces a new transmission technology into the Local Loop and flattens
the network architecture required to backhaul data traffic. In this new network
architecture, AccessLan's service aggregation system connects customers directly
into the IP, ATM or Frame Relay backbones, eliminating the need for digital
cross-connects and other intermediate network elements. As terabit routers and
Super-POPs become the foundation for the new carrier IP/VPN backbone,
AccessLan's PacketLoop solution will provide intelligent traffic aggregation at the
edge, playing a key role in access distribution for business IP.
The AccessLan product line features a complete end-to-end solution, including
customer premise equipment (CPE), central office (CO) access concentrators and
systems management. AccessLan's PacketLoop products include the PL-5000
Broadband Service Multiplexer; the PL-2000 DSL Service Concentrator; the PL-1200
T1 Service Concentrator; the PL-200 SDSL Router; and the PL-100 DSL DSU, all
managed by PL-Network Management System (NMS), which provides a
comprehensive service, network and element management solution.
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