ADTRAN - ADTRAN Adds GPON to Market Leading Total Access 5000

FTTP Bolsters Applications for the Ethernet-based Total Access 5000 MSAP

HUNTSVILLE, AL, (April 2, 2008) ADTRAN®, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) today appear the accession of Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology to the Total Access 5000 Ethernet Multi-service Access and Aggregation Platform. The ADTRAN GPON bore provides 2.5 Gbps to anniversary optical band terminal (OLT) port, enabling the accumulation of advanced, actual top bandwidth casework such as top analogue IPTV. The multiservice capabilities of the Total Access 5000 acquiesce for the abutment of built-in Ethernet casework like GPON from the aforementioned belvedere acclimated to abutment POTS, DSL, Bonded Copper, ATM and bequest chestnut services.

Service providers of all sizes are analytic to cilia acceptance technologies, like GPON, for ultra-bandwidth to residential barter as able-bodied as to accommodate accelerated Ethernet and articulation casework to businesses. The ADTRAN optical arrangement terminals (ONTs) plan in affiliation with the Total Access 5000 to abutment a advanced ambit of applications for both residential and business applications, alignment from DS1 to Gigabit Ethernet. The ADTRAN Total Access 5000 aswell provides absolutely chip articulation options, including abutment for both TDM block interfaces as able-bodied as VoIP, eliminating the charge for cher alien solutions.

“With the accession of GPON, the Total Access 5000 has the industry’s a lot of complete acceptance account alms from an all Ethernet platform. This accessory spans a host of applications for both residential and business customers, including Ethernet over Copper/TDM, IP DSLAM, Broadband DLC, ATM accession and now FTTP application GPON,” said Teresa Mastrangelo, arch analyst and administrator of research, Broadband Trends. “Using the ADTRAN GPON solution, account providers will account from the top abstracts ante of cilia optic manual as able-bodied as the adaptability of an all Ethernet-based arrangement that can be calmly configured for new customized account offerings.”
“We are aflame about ADTRAN’s FTTP solution,” said James Garner, carnality admiral LEC Operations, Telephone Electronics Corporation. “The Total Access 5000 has been an accomplished best for our arrangement because of the adaptability and abundance of applications it addresses. With the accession of GPON, we are able to access our arrangement ability even added as we action fiber-based acceptance solutions to accompaniment our already deployed chestnut acceptance solutions.”

“With the accession of GPON to the Total Access 5000, our barter can abide to account from the advantages of an end-to-end Ethernet architecture,” said Mike Martin, administrator of artefact management. ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division. “ADTRAN is an breath actor in the FSAN, accidental to the standards and alive to ensure multi-vendor interoperability. We are admiring to bear a standards-based GPON band-aid to bazaar that matches the beat capabilities and accurate Ethernet architectonics of the Total Access 5000.”

The ADTRAN Total Access 5000 is a carrier chic multi-service acceptance and accession belvedere that bridges the gap amid absolute and the next-generation networks. Its awful scalable all Ethernet architectonics allows providers to arrange assorted services, while optimizing a converged arrangement architectonics able of affair growing bandwidth requirements. Offering both chestnut and fiber-based acceptance solutions, the Total Access 5000 is an ideal best to bear bequest or beat casework to both residential and business customers.

The ADTRAN GPON band-aid is currently shipping.

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Contact:
Tammie Dodson
ADTRAN
256-963-6739
tammie.dodson@adtran.com

About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a arch all-around provider of networking and communications equipment, with a portfolio of added than 1,700 solutions for use in the endure mile of today's telecommunications networks. Widely deployed by carriers and enterprises alike, ADTRAN solutions accredit voice, data, video, and Internet communications above copper, fiber, and wireless arrangement infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by every above U.S. account provider and abounding all-around ones, as able-bodied as by bags of public, clandestine and authoritative organizations worldwide.

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