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Tales from the Fiber Frontier TalesTales FromFrom thethe FiberFiber FrontierFrontier Schools and businesses, online gamers and television viewers, small towns and big cities all have reasons to welcome fiber optic access. By Masha Zager ■ Broadband Properties ome months, one story says it all. This time it was needs an instantaneous response. Now. If the message takes the private school outside Salisbury, N.C., that peti- too long to arrive, the trade doesn’t go through and profits Stioned the city to annex its property. Why? Salisbury evaporate. How can a company guarantee an instantaneous is building a municipal fiber-to-the-premises network that response every time? Sign up with a business fiber provider the school didn’t wanted to miss out on. School adminis- – in this case, Optimum Lightpath. trators are developing a technology-enhanced learning pro- There’s also the regional provider whose network is keep- gram for their students, and they knew a fiber connection ing remote towns in South Dakota viable. And the Florida would make the program even better. The city’s response: condo communities that are being upgraded with world- Come on board – we’re delighted to have you. class broadband. And the new services Verizon is introduc- Running a close second is the story of the financial com- ing for FiOS subscribers. And … well, you’ll have to read pany in New York that operates a foreign-exchange trading the rest. I’m not going to give it all away. platform. It turns out that trading currencies is a lot like playing video games: When a trader hits the Enter key, he – MZ INDEPENDENT TELCOS ‘Internet Traffic Is Increasingly Two-Way’ Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone downstream bandwidth is important using FTTH solutions from Occam in Green City, Mo., is upgrading the sec- too – it enables the IPTV service that Networks. The diversity of the Farmers ond largest of its 14 exchanges from aer- Northeast Missouri has been offering service area, which includes both remote ial copper to buried fiber, using Occam for most of the last year. rural areas and highly populated areas, Networks’ BLC 6000 multiservice access In another customer win for Occam, presented deployment challenges; the platform and ON 2300 series optical Stayton Cooperative Telephone in Ore- company selected Occam’s BLC 6000 network terminals. “Our first initiative gon has purchased the BLC 6000 FTTH multiservice access platform because was to get the wires buried,” says David solution to upgrade its entire 8,500-line it supports access technology options Riddle, Northeast Missouri’s plant su- network from an all-copper to all-fiber suited to a variety of geographic areas. perintendent. “And if we were going to packet architecture. To stay ahead of Over its 3,000-square-mile coverage bury them, it made sense to upgrade to competitive cable companies’ offerings, area, Farmers has used DSL, bonded fiber.” The company will upgrade addi- Stayton needed a platform that could ex- DSL, Gigabit Ethernet FTTP and tional service areas in the future. pand bandwidth, reach rural consumers GPON FTTP. Bonded DSL, Gigabit Northeast Missouri chose a giga- and deliver superior performance. “Our Ethernet and GPON technologies reach bit Ethernet solution largely for its up- goal is to aggressively deploy a new, all- the deepest and most sparsely populated stream capability. Riddle says, “We have fiber network, enabling us to augment rural areas in the Farmers footprint. To an increasing number of subscribers the services we provide subscribers and reach densely populated areas, the com- playing online games and sharing files. capture new revenue streams,” says Don pany uses DSL and Gigabit Ethernet. Upstream bandwidth has become as Lawrence, Stayton’s president. Farmers uses Microsoft Mediaroom important as downstream. Internet traf- Farmers Telephone Cooperative, to deliver IPTV and chose the Triad fic is increasingly two-way.” Of course, a large ILEC in South Carolina, is also Service Delivery Platform (SDP) from 14 | BROADBAND PROPERTIES | www.broadbandproperties.com | SEPTEMBER 2009 ETI Software Solutions to integrate FieldSmart Platform of Fiber Manage- tion. According to Fay Jandreau, the Mediaroom with its customer care and ment for its three-year FTTH deploy- Midstate plant manager, “Our custom- billing infrastructure. Triad, which is al- ment. Headquartered in Kimball, S.D., ers want more bandwidth and higher ready in full production at Farmers, will Midstate provides telecommunications Internet speed. With this deployment, also provide inventory control for IP set- technology and services to about 5,000 we will bring customers faster Internet top boxes, mediate pay-per-view billing access lines in 11 exchanges. The FTTH speed – with each service being custom- and automate the provisioning of IPTV deployment is part of a brownfield over- ized to each customer’s needs. We will services. With Triad SDP, Farmers can build in and around Platte, S.D., with also bring a full host of video services also support Caller ID, remote DVR approximately 250 miles of construc- that we previously did not provide.” scheduling and prepaid IPTV services over Mediaroom. Pembroke Telephone Company in Georgia selected a GPON solution from ADTRAN – the Total Access 5000 fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) platform Prepare your community for tomorrow and Total Access 300 Series ONTs – with Connexion Technologies… to deliver voice, high-speed data and IPTV services to its 4,000 subscrib- ers. A primary reason for choosing the ADTRAN solution, the company says, was its interoperability with the IPTV equipment already installed and with the MetaSwitch Softswitch. Pembroke, which has been family- owned since 1946, will overbuild its entire service area with FTTH over the next three years, making it one of the few communications providers in Georgia with an all-fiber network. Grand River Mutual Telephone Corp., an independent telephone com- pany providing broadband services across 48 exchanges in Missouri and Iowa, standardized on ADC equipment to overbuild its copper network with FTTH. The equipment selected includes ADC’s OMX splice cabinet and Next Generation Frame (NGF), which were chosen because of their high density, You can provide for the ever-changing technological needs superior cable management and reduced of residents without touching your budget. By partnering with floor space requirements. ADC also pro- Connexion Technologies to install a cutting-edge Fiber to the Home network in your community, your residents can enjoy the vided local installation support. best entertainment and communications services delivered over Completion of the first pha se of Gra nd a fiber-optic network. This network will also be ready to handle River’s network upgrade, which began in almost any new service that comes to market. April, is expected by summer 2010, and the rollout will continue in subsequent phases. Jim Clark, the company’s direc- Find out more at www.connexiontechnologies.net tor of network operations, says, “Grand or contact us at 919.535.7329. River Mutual is committed to provid- ing advanced services for our residential customers and an advanced network for our business customers to ensure the eco- nomic viability of the areas we serve.” In South Dakota, Midstate Com- munications has selected Clearfield’s SEPTEMBER 2009 | www.broadbandproperties.com | BROADBAND PROPERTIES | 15 Midstate, which is deploying an very clean routing avenues for jumpers sional approach to our fiber manage- active Ethernet solution from Occam on the front side and an easy-to-read la- ment has a direct effect on our network’s Networks, used Clearfield’s complete beling system. And the pigtails exit the performance by avoiding downtime FieldSmart solution, including frames, rear of the patch panel in a very orderly through lost optical connectivity.” interbay management and the FieldS- fashion.” Midstate ordered all its patch mart FDS 144-Port Fiber Patch Panels. SUREWEST EXPAnds FIBER And In addition, Midstate has purchased panels with preterminated pigtails, IPTV COVERAGE Clearfield’s Network Interface Device which provided the desired appearance SureWest Communications, a telecom Outside Plant bend-insensitive fiber pig- and protected the secure fiber connec- provider in the greater Sacramento and tails. Jandreau says, “Clearfield provides tions. Jandreau adds, “This very profes- greater Kansas City, Mo., areas, reported SDN COMMUNICATIOns KEEPS RURAL TOWns ALIVE WITH FIBER At a time when many companies are scaling back, SDN Communications is growing its territory and offering new services. That’s because it is a lifeline for many of the small communities within its expanding footprint. Based in Sioux Falls, S.D., SDN is a regional transport provider owned by a group of independent telcos that collec- tively serve more than three-quarters of South Dakota’s geographic area. In addition to providing a fiber optic backbone for its member telcos, SDN sells Carrier Ethernet services to large enterprises. “A variety of organizations can move bits and bytes, but we’re the best in the Upper Midwest at providing high-security, high-availability, high-band- width services,” says CEO Mark Shlanta. Hospitals, banks, insurance companies, government agencies and data centers all rely on SDN for connec- tivity. Fiber optic connectivity enabled a town in SDN’s SDN Communications footprint with fewer than 100 residents to become home network engineer Billy to a bank that serves customers all over the world. A fiber Volek installs and tests the ECI Ethernet routers connection between a rural hospital and a metropolitan that will bring fiber hospital recently allowed doctors to deliver a premature connectivity to small baby during a blizzard and to stabilize the mother and towns in South Dakota. infant until weather conditions permitted their removal to Sioux Falls. bone. This year, it The core institutions – major hospitals, bank head- finished building quarters and so forth – generally require bandwidth of out a network 1 Gbps; rural hospitals, clinics and branch banks need to support com- anywhere between 5 Mbps and 50 Mbps to upgrade the mercial applica- traditional DS1 services they are growing out of.
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