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Our new listing includes municipal and research network providers for the first time – along with plenty of private-sector innovators.

A BBP Staff Report

This year’s Top 100 includes many familiar names – vendors that were “present at the creation” of

fiber to the home, like Corning Cable Systems; service providers with large FTTH deployments, such as Verizon and SureWest; as well as dozens of others that have been consistently innovative in developing new products, new methods and new ways to provide customers with advanced broadband services.

As always, space opens up on the list when our top 100 companies merge with one another (such as Enablence and Pan-naway), refocus their offerings (such as Nokia Siemens Networks), or – this year especially – succumb to difficult market conditions. So we’ve had an opportunity to add some new entries. This year, for the first time, we’ve expanded the list be-yond private companies to include other types of organizations.

We have added three municipal FTTH providers, each of which has been a leader in some way: UTOPIA, a consortium of 16 Utah cities – the only one of its kind in the United States – has succeeded at running an open access FTTH network, making a remarkable turnaround after overcoming financial and operating difficulties. Bristol Vir-ginia Utilities has been so successful at providing both business and residen-tial services that it launched a consult-ing arm to help other municipalities do the same thing. And Lafayette Utilities

System in Louisiana, which began of-fering FTTH services just this year, has made extraordinary efforts to involve citizens in the development and plan-ning of its network, and to use the net-work to improve the quality of life in its community.

We’ve also included two consortia that operate academic research net-works: Internet2 in the United States and its Canadian equivalent, CANA-RIE. Internet2 is developing the in-frastructure and applications that will make tomorrow’s broadband networks possible – and in the here and now, it is enabling university research and K-12 education. CANARIE, too, supports university research, and in addition it sponsors innovations in “green comput-ing” and demonstration projects in such fields as customer-owned fiber.

Other new additions to the list in-clude private companies with innovative products that enable fiber deployments – such as TraceSpan and ADVA Optical, whose GPON testing and WDM-PON technologies (respectively) were fea-tured in last month’s “Game-Changing FTTH Technology” section – as well

as service providers such as Smithville, which recently launched an ambitious fiber-to-the-home project.

CRITERIAIn selecting the Top 100, the editors look for organizations that are advanc-ing the cause of fiber to the premises in one of several ways:

• Deploying fiber networks. We look for large deployments, or for innova-tive business plans and technology configurations.

• Helping others deploy networks by supplying key hardware, software, design services, construction services and so forth.

• Introducing innovative technolo-gies, even if the technologies have not been commercially deployed at the time the list is compiled. We’re al-ways on the lookout for technologies that change the rules – by reducing early deployment costs, for instance, or making builds significantly cheaper overall.

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About the AuthorOur Top 100 list was researched by Marianne Cotter, Rachel Ellner and Kassandra Kania, overseen by Editor Masha Zager, with recommendations and advice from Corporate Editor Steve Ross. Suggestions for next year? E-mail masha@ broadbandproperties.com.

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be based anywhere in the world, but must do at least some business in North America. A few companies on last year’s list didn’t reappear this year because they no longer seemed to be doing busi-ness on this continent.

Corporate form and overall size are not important. As we mentioned, several municipal fiber network operators and two nonprofit research network opera-tors are on this year’s list. Though indi-viduals are not eligible, companies with as few as three full-time employees have been selected in the past; others on the list are giant multinational companies. Some companies on the list are entirely focused on fiber to the premises, but most deliver or support a mix of broad-band technologies. For some, such as Tetra Tech, broadband represents only a small part of their overall business – but the issue for us isn’t how important broadband is to them, but how impor-tant they are to advancing broadband.

Because more than 600 organiza-tions are deploying FTTH now, deploy-ers must either be rolling out a great deal of fiber or showing business innovation on the fiber front to make the cut. For example, Connexion Technologies has

successfully responded to the downturn in new housing construction by devel-oping an expertise in retrofitting multi-family properties with fiber.

We publish a separate listing for distributors later in the year. But sev-eral distributors such as AMT, KGP Logistics, Graybar, Pace International, Multicom and Toner Cable Equipment make the Top 100 as well, by offering VAR services and particularly compel-ling product lines – or even by develop-ing their own products.

MAKING A DIFFERENCEFor us, the key tiebreaker question, as always, was this: Will this company make a difference in the fiber broadband industry in the coming year? To put it another way: Would the industry suffer if this company did not exist?

Judge for yourself. And let us know about organizations – large and small – that you think might make a difference a year from now. Your nominations have led us to a number of companies we might not otherwise have known about. BBP

TOP 100 AT A GLANCEHigh-Speed Broadband Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 42Private Cable Operators and Fiber Optic Amenity Providers . . . . . . . . | 46Network Testing, Monitoring and Management Services . . . . . . . . . . . | 50Video Programming Aggregators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 54Network Planning, Design, Engineering, Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 56Fiber-to-the-Home Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 58Customer Premises Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 66Fiber Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 68Fiber and Fiber Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 70Network Management Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 72Test and Measurement Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 74

3M Company/Communication www.3M.com/telecom 800-426-8688 Interconnection, fiber management and Markets Division facilities protection products for broad-

band networks

A-D Technologies www.adtechnologies.com 800-847-7661 Materials and equipment for installa-tion and protection of telecom and other cables

Actiontec Electronics www.actiontec.com 408-752-7700 Broadband customer-premises equipment

ADC www.adc.com 952-938-8080; Fiber and copper connectivity products, 800-366-3889 structured cabling solutions, wireless

equipment, professional services

Adesta www.adestagroup.com 402-233-7700 Design, construction and maintenance of communications networks

ADTRAN www.adtran.com 256-963-8000 Solutions for broadband access, outside plant, carrier Ethernet, optical access, mobile backhaul and network manage-ment

ADVA Optical www.advaoptical.com Optical+Ethernet systems for long-haul, metro core, backhaul and access net-working, including WDM-PON

Company Web Address Phone Description


Advanced Media Technologies www.amt.com 954-427-5711; Distributor of fiber optic transmission 888-293-5856 equipment, headend, IP & QAM

set-tops, cable modems

AFL Telecommunications www.afltele.com 864-433-0333; System integration including FTTx 800-235-3423 electronics, outside plant, fiber optic

cable, video solutions, wireless, network management platforms, fusion splicers and test equipment, training

Alcatel-Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.com 908-582-3000 Fiber and copper access equipment, IPTV solutions, network management tools, fiber cable, connecting hardware and accessories

Alliance Fiber Optic Products www.afop.com 408-736-6900 Fiber optic components and integrated modules

Allied Telesis www.alliedtelesis.com 408-519-8700 Broadband access equipment including GePON, active Ethernet, wireless

Alloptic www.alloptic.com 925-245-7600; Fiber access equipment including RF 866-255-6784 Over Glass (RFOG) and GePON

Alpha Technologies www.alpha.com 360-647-2360 Fiber-to-the-home powering options for single-family, multiple-dwelling and small office-home office (SOHO) prem-ises

Astec Underground www.astecunderground.com 865-408-2100; Trenchers, vibratory plows and 800-527-6020 directional drilling equipment

AT&T, AT&T Connected www.att.com/communities 888-899-9048 Voice, video, data and wireless services Communities for residential and business customers

Atlantic Engineering Group www.atlantic- 706-654-2298 Fiber optic design, engineering, engineering.com construction, technical services and

construction management

Aurora Networks www.aurora.com 408-235-7000 Products supporting cable providers’ migration to advanced HFC, fiber deep and FTTH networks

Blonder Tongue Laboratories www.blondertongue.com 732-679-4000; Headend equipment, encoders, 800-523-6049 systems design and engineering

Bristol Virginia Utilities www.bvu-optinet.com 276-669-4112 Broadband services over an FTTP net-work; broadband consulting

Calient Networks www.calient.net 408-232-6400 Automated fiber optic cross-connect systems

Calix www.calix.com 877-766-3500; Multiservice access platforms and 707-766-3000 software; FTTP and Ethernet equip-

ment; enclosures

CANARIE www.canarie.ca 613-943-5454 Operation of an advanced research net-work; research and development related to high-performance networking

Canon Broadcast and www.canobeam.com 201-807-3300; Free space optics Communications 800-321-4388



Charles Industries www.charlesindustries.com 847-806-6300 Fiber optic distribution pedestals and enclosures

Cisco Systems www.cisco.com 770-236-5000 Fiber access equipment, set-top boxes, cable modems, headends, network management systems

Clearfield www.clearfieldconnection.com 763-476-6866 Fiber distribution systems and associated components

CommScope www.commscope.com 800-982-1708 Fiber enclosures, HFC cable, fiber optic and wireless integration products

Connexion Technologies www.connexiontechnologies.net 919-535-7329 Construction and operation of FTTH networks, management of service provid-ers

Corning/Corning Cable Systems www.corning.com; 828-901-5000 Optical fiber, optical fiber cable, fiber www.corningcablesystems.com cabinets and splitters, fiber connectors,

splice and test equipment

Design Nine www.designnine.com 540-951-4400 Broadband planning, design and project management

DIRECTV www.directv.com 888-777-2454 Satellite TV solutions for residential (including multifamily) and business customers

Dish Network commercial.dishnetwork.com 800-454-0843 Satellite TV solutions for business, hospi-tality and multifamily housing

Ditch Witch www.ditchwitch.com 800-654-6481 Construction equipment for laying fiber

Draka Communications - www.drakaamericas.com 800-879-9862 Optical fiber, cabling and connectivity Americas solutions

Emerson Network Power www.emerson 440-246-6999; Outside plant enclosures and equipment, networkpower.com 800-800-1280 power systems and turnkey services

Enablence Technologies www.enablence.com 613-270-7860 Fiber access equipment, PLC-based FTTH triplexers and diplexers

Ericsson www.ericsson.com/us 972-583-0000 Fiber and copper access equipment, cables and interconnect products, net-work management tools, switches, IPTV middleware

ETI Software Solutions www.etisoftware.com 770-242-3620 Software for billing and provisioning, prepaid subscriber services, and ad inser-tion

EXFO www.exfo.com 418-683-0211; Telecom test and measurement solutions 800-663-3936

FiberZone Networks www.fiberzone-networks.com 301-941-1928 Automated fiber management systems

Finley Engineering www.fecinc.com 417-682-5531 Network design and engineering services

Foxcom www.foxcom.com 609-514-1800 Broadband fiber optic MDU distribution systems, satellite signal transport over fiber

Graybar www.graybar.com 800-GRAYBAR Distributor of fiber connectivity and test (472-9227) equipment, VAR services



Great Lakes Data Systems www.glds.com 800-882-7950 Billing and provisioning software for video and broadband services

Greenfield Communications www.egreenfield.com 949-248-8898 FTTH design, construction and service provision

GVTC www.gvtc.com 800-367-4882 Voice, data, video and security services over a high-speed network

Harmonic www.harmonicinc.com 408-542-2500; Digital video and fiber optic solutions 800-788-1330

Hiawatha Broadband www.hbci.com 888-474-9995 Voice, video, data and wireless services Communications over high-speed networks

Hitachi Communication Technologies America www.hitachi-cta.com 770-446-8820 Fiber access solutions including GPON, RF Over Glass (RFOG) and GePON; wireless infrastructure products

IneoQuest www.ineoquest.com 508-339-2497 Digital video quality assurance technol-ogy

InfiniSys Electronic Architects www.electronicarchitect.com 386-236-1500 Multifamily network design, engineer-ing, assessment, planning, integration

Internet2 www.internet2.edu 734-913-4250 Research and development of new net-working technologies

JDSU www.jdsu.com 408-546-5000 Fiber optic communications components and testing equipment

KGP Logistics www.kgplogistics.com 800-755-3004 Value-added distributor of outside plant, central office, transmission, customer-premises and broadband products

Leviton Manufacturing www.leviton.com 718-229-4040 Premises wiring, outside plant, central office solutions and home automation products

LTS Group www.LTSCompany.com; 858-566-6030 Development, design, deployment, www.mycomspan.com; maintenance and operation of fiber-to- www.ledcor.com the-premises and wireless communica-

tions networks

LUS Fiber www.lus.org;www.lusfiber.com 337-993-4237 Voice, video and data services delivered over an FTTH network

Martin Group www.martin-group.com 877-996-9646 BSS/OSS solutions, business and engi-neering services

MetaSwitch www.metaswitch.com 510-748-8230 Softswitch, application suite, network management system and subscriber inter-face

Michels Corporation www.michels.us 920-583-3132 Fiber optic network planning, design and construction

Montclair Fiber Optics www.montclairfiber.com 608-831-4440 Optical splitters, CWDMs, WDMs and amplifiers

Motorola www.motorola.com 888-944-HELP; Fiber access equipment including GPON 866-515-5825 and RFOG; metro WiFi, WiMAX, LTE solutions; modems; home networking



Multicom www.multicominc.com 800-423-2594 Distributor of broadband products for FTTx, MFH2 and the digital transition; design and VoIP services

Multilink www.multilinkone.com 440-366-6966 Network power supplies, enclosures and cabinets, fiber distribution, cable man-agement, enclosures, raceways

Occam Networks www.occamnetworks.com 805-692-2900 IP- and Ethernet-based Broadband Loop Carrier and related fiber and copper ac-cess equipment

OFS www.ofsoptics.com 770-798-5555; Optical fiber, optical cable, fiber 888-342-3743 management and connectivity products

for homes, businesses and MDUs, splic-ers, network design services

On Trac www.ontracinc.net 423-317-0009 FTTx consulting, design and installation services

Optelian www.optelian.com 877-225-9428; Optical transport systems for access, 770-690-9575 metro and regional networks, test equip-

ment

Optical Cable Corporation www.occfiber.com 540-265-0690 Fiber optic and copper cabling and con-nectivity solutions

Pace International www.paceintl.com 507-424-4900; Products and services for commercial- 800-444-7223 grade satellite TV, cable TV, home the-

ater and audio

Pacific Broadband Networks www.pbnglobal.com; 703-579-6777 Ethernet and RF optical products to www.pbnamericas.com support FTTx and HFC; network de-

sign, construction and maintenance

Preformed Line Products www.preformed.com 440-461-5200 Cable anchoring and control hardware and systems, fiber optic and copper splice closures, high-speed cross-connect devices

Prysmian www.prysmian.com 803-951-4800; Optical fibers and telecommunication 800-713-5312 cables

Quanta Services www.quantaservices.com 713-629-7600 Design, construction, installation and maintenance of broadband fiber optic, copper, coaxial cable and wireless net-works

Senko Advanced Components www.senko.com 508-481-9999 Fiber distribution and connectivity equipment

Smithville www.smithville.net; 812-876-2211 Residential broadband services and fiber www.smithvilledigital.net connectivity for businesses and govern-

ment agencies

Spirent Communications www.spirent.com 408-752-7100 Tools for remote and field testing of next-generation networks

Steeplechase Networks www.scnets.com 413-229-0030 Network planning and management, application aggregation

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave www.sumitomoelectric.com 919-541-8100; Optical fiber cable, fiber management, 800-358-7378 cable assemblies, fusion splicers, test

equipment, interconnect assemblies and components



SureWest Communications www.surewest.com 866-787-3937 Digital TV, high-speed Internet access, voice and security services

Suttle www.suttleonline.com 800-852-8662 Structured cabling solutions; enclosures and connectors for voice, data and video equipment

Team Fishel www.teamfishel.com 614-274-8100; Utility construction and network 800-347-4351 installation services

Telco Systems www.telco.com 800-227-0937 Fiber access and Carrier Ethernet solutions

Telect www.telect.com 800-551-4567 Network power management, outdoor enclosures, optical connectivity, cables and patch cords, cable management, home networking

Tellabs www.tellabs.com 630-798-8800 Transport and access solutions including FTTH, digital cross-connects, network management

TeraSpan www.teraspan.com 877-VI-FIBER Micro-trenching solutions for fiber optic deployment

Tetra Tech www.tetratech.com 626-351-4664 Network assessment and business plan-ning, program and project management, property rights acquisition, zoning and permitting, design and engineering, operations and maintenance

Toner Cable Equipment www.tonercable.com 215-675-2053; Distributor of video distribution 800-523-5947 equipment, fiber optic and coax cable,

fiber links and systems, passives, connectors, tools, test equipment, amplifiers

TraceSpan Communications www.tracespan.com 734-846-0549 Monitoring and analysis systems

TT Technologies www.tttechnologies.com 800-533-2078 Trenchless equipment including piercing tools, guided boring tools, pipe bursting systems, winches, drills

Tyco www.tycoelectronics.com 610-893-9800 Fiber optic cabling and the complete range of FTTH equipment between the optical line terminal and optical network terminal

UTOPIA www.utopianet.org 801-613-3800 Deployment and operation of an open access FTTP network

Verizon Communications, www.verizon.com/ FiOS telecommunications services, Verizon Enhanced communities including TV, Internet and phone, Communities delivered over Verizon’s all-fiber network

Vermeer Corporation www.vermeer.com 641-628-3141; Horizontal directional drilling 888-837-6337 equipment, utility and pedestrian tren-

chers and plows

Westek Electronics www.westek.com 800-526-2673 Telecom test and measurement test cords, patch and hardwire cable connectivity



Windstream Communications www.windstream.com 866-961-9463 Voice, data and digital TV services

Zhone www.zhone.com 510-777-7000; Multiservice broadband access 877-946-6320 equipment integrating FTTx, Ethernet

in the First Mile and wireless access technologies

Zoomy Communications www.zoomyco.com 970-928-7722 Design, engineering, planning, project management, construction management, operation and maintenance of FTTH networks

ZyXEL Communications Corp www.us.zyxel.com 714-632-0882; Fiber access equipment; digital home 800-255-4101 equipment; DSL, WiFi and WiMAX

electronics; Ethernet switches; VoIP equipment

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3M Company/Communication Markets Divisionwww.3M.com/telecom800-426-8688

Key Products: Interconnection, fiber management and facilities protection products for broadband networks

Summary: With more than 40 years in the telecommunications industry, 3M Communication Markets Division offers a suite of scalable solutions to communications service providers around the world, ranging from underground and buried plant to the central office and customer premises. 3M systems optimize net-work testing, construction, locating and maintenance for faster, more reliable high-bandwidth transmissions; enable physical media-layer capabilities for FTTP and DSL deployments from central office to customer premises; and deliver fiber optic tech-nologies to leverage existing infrastructure or install new net-works. Recent product releases include the SLiC Fiber Aerial Terminal Closure 530 for factory-terminated external cable as-sembly module (ECAM) FD drop; the SLiC Fiber Aerial Ter-minal Closure 530 with Internal Drop Termination for direct splice drops; the Fiber Dome Closure FDC 10S for protecting fi-ber splice joints; the Quick Connect System 2810, an insulation displacement connector termination system; and the Ladder Kit 710/MS2-TMK-LK for line-splicing operations in aerial appli-cations. The Communication Markets Division also introduced new fiber distribution boxes and terminals for service providers installing FTTH networks in multi-dwelling units (MDUs). 3M’s revenue for 2008 was $25.3 billion; the Communication Markets Division is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

A-D Technologies www.adtechnologies.com 800-847-7661

Key Products: Integrated system of materials and equipment for installation and protection of power, CATV, data communications, electrical and telecom cables

Summary: A-D Technologies (formed from a merger of Dura-Line and ARNCO) supplies fiber optic conduit to companies in the telecom, cable TV, power and other markets. The com-

pany’s customers include AT&T, Cablevision, Qwest, Telmex, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. Based in Knoxville, Ten-nessee, and employing about 400 people, A-D Technologies operates manufacturing plants in the US, India, Mexico and the Czech Republic, and sells its products in more than 30 countries. In 1981 Dura-Line became the first manufacturer to develop a duct for the installation and protection of fiber optic cables, and in 2004 it introduced a complete line of fiber optic microduct products. A-D Technologies provides infra-structure solutions for water, gas and power utilities in addition to telecommunications, and is committed to addressing new applications of nonmetallic conduit. Recent products include Pinpoint, an HDPE resin locatable conduit.

Actiontec Electronicswww.actiontec.com408-752-7700

Key Products: Broadband customer-premises equipment

Summary: Actiontec Electronics develops broadband con-nectivity solutions for communications, entertainment, home management and more. Offerings range from IPTV-capable broadband home gateways to DSL modems, wireless net-working devices, routers and digital entertainment devices. The company designs its carrier-class products to be easy to install, manage and use, and sells them through both retail channels and broadband service providers. Actiontec’s in-home broadband networking router is the basis of the digital home architecture for Verizon’s FTTH deployment, provid-ing connectivity at speeds of up to 100 Mbps and support-ing remote management and troubleshooting. In 2008, the company introduced new DSL gateways intended to lower operating expenses for Tier 2 and 3 providers. Actiontec also unveiled its environmentally friendly DSL modem at NXTcomm08. In early 2009, in conjunction with Entropic Communications, the company debuted the Actiontec MoCA Network Adapter, a wired home networking alternative for home theater installers. Actiontec also launched new Ethernet-over-Coax MoCA and HomePNA Network Adapters, which enable broadband connection to set-top boxes and other Inter-

“For the fiber-to-the-home industry, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring

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– Gary Evans, President and CEO, Hiawatha Broadband Communications


net-ready entertainment devices using existing coaxial cable. Founded in 1993, Actiontec is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and maintains branch offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Shanghai, China; and Taipei, Taiwan. The company has more than 200 employees.

ADCwww.adc.com952-938-8080; 800-366-3889

Key Products: Fiber and copper connectivity products, structured cabling solutions, wireless equipment and professional services

Summary: Communications service providers around the world use ADC products to deliver high-speed, high-quality video, data and voice services to consumers and businesses. The company’s network infrastructure solutions and services in-clude OmniReach FTTx and Next Generation Network Fiber solutions supporting fiber-to-the-premises networks for central office, distribution, access and MDU/CPE applications. The TrueNet portfolio provides copper and fiber cable, connectivity and cable management solutions for data centers and local area networks. The IP-based wireless portfolio includes InterReach in-building solutions and FlexWave outdoor solutions for cov-erage and capacity in places where carriers and enterprises have difficulty delivering wireless voice and data services to their customers. ADC employs about 9,500 professionals worldwide, holds thousands of patents, and had sales of $1.46 billion in fiscal year 2008. Headquartered in Minneapolis, the company has sales in more than 130 countries and occupies facilities in Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom as well as the United States.

Adesta www.adestagroup.com 402-233-7700

Key Products: Design, construction and maintenance of stand-alone or integrated communications networks and electronic security systems

Summary: Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Adesta is a systems integrator and project management company for com-munications networks and security systems. The company specializes in the design, implementation and maintenance of communications networks and infrastructure for public and private customers. Adesta has deployed more than 2 million miles of fiber in more than 150 metropolitan and rural areas and completed over 1,000 electronic security systems in the United States, Asia, Europe, Central America and the Middle

East. The company maintains 12 regional offices throughout the US. Adesta specializes in last-mile and broadband solutions for ILECs, CLECs, utilities, municipalities, large integration firms and rural associations. Customers include Maryland Broadband Cooperative, Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative, Five Col-lege Net, Northern Enterprises/North-Link, CBN Connect, Boulder Valley (CO) School District, Colorado Springs School District #11, Chicago Transit Authority, Connecticut Telecom-munication System and the State of Iowa. Adesta’s revenue in 2008 was $92 million and its employee count was 375.

ADTRANwww.adtran.com256-963-8000

Key Products: Solutions for FTTP, FTTN, FTTC, DSL, carrier Ethernet, mobile backhaul and IP business networks

Summary: Founded in 1985, ADTRAN is a global provider of networking and communications equipment for service pro-viders and enterprises. With a portfolio of more than 1,700 products, ADTRAN, headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, is equipped to address almost every networking need from carrier-class voice, video, and Ethernet services delivery to business-class routing, switching, IP telephony, network moni-toring and management. ADTRAN solutions are designed to minimize both initial and ongoing expenses, resulting in lower total cost of ownership and an accelerated return on invest-ment. The company has approximately 1,600 employees, and sales for 2008 were approximately $501 million.

“During periods of economic slowdown, there are certain

industries that are positioned and poised to realize significant growth opportunities. I believe

broadband and fiber optic communications is one

of those industries.” – Mike Powers, President and CEO,

Greenfield Communications


ADVA Opticalwww.advaoptical.com

Key Products: Optical+Ethernet systems for long-haul, metro core, backhaul and access networking, including WDM-PON

Summary: ADVA Optical Networking is a global provider of telecommunications equipment specializing in carrier and enterprise Ethernet optical transport. It provides solutions for telecommunications service providers, financial institutions, health care, government and research/education campus net-works. Products include solutions for carriers building metro fiber rings; metro and regional core networks; access backhaul networks; and cellular backhaul. Globally, ADVA Optical Net-working has a strong business delivering Ethernet demarcation technology for business services along with Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) functionality for triple-play backhaul and storage data center connectivity. The FSP 150CC-825, which provides gigabit Ethernet over fiber, is designed for delivering retail Ethernet services to businesses; the FSP 3000 WDM-PON solution, introduced last fall, provides high-bandwidth, cost-effective fiber-to-the-building connectiv-ity for both residential and business applications. After more than 15 years in the industry, ADVA Optical Networking is a trusted partner to more than 200 carriers and 10,000 enterprises around the world. ADVA Optical Networking markets and sells its products worldwide through a dedicated direct sales force, OEMs, value-added resellers and systems integrators. Trading publicly in Europe, ADVA Optical Networking reported 2008 revenues of about $280 million (218 million euro).

Advanced Media Technologies (AMT) www.amt.com 954-427-5711; 888-293-5856

Key Products: Fiber optic transmission equipment, headends, IP and QAM set-top boxes, cable modems

Summary: Advanced Media Technologies (AMT) is a CATV and broadband electronic equipment provider. As a value-add-ed reseller of high-performance products from the world’s most recognized manufacturers, AMT targets emerging technology applications in broadband with a complete line of products for CATV, IPTV and FTTH. AMT’s product offerings include many of the industry’s leading manufacturers such as Mo-torola, Amino, Blonder Tongue, Pacific Broadband Networks, EGT, RGB Networks, Adtec, Drake, Olson Technology and Emcore. AMT customers include major MSOs in the United States and Latin America as well as telcos, PCOs and enter-tainment and multimedia content delivery companies around the world. Started in 1985 as DX Communications, AMT has a large staff of industry veterans. Located in Deerfield Beach, Florida, Advanced Media Technologies Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of ITOCHU International, the North American subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation of Japan.

High-Speed Broadband ProvidersFrom among the thousands of great ISPs in North America, these firms have shown particular vision in expanding residential access to higher-speed broad-band. Wireline operators listed here are offering 15 Mbps or higher (sometimes much higher) Internet downstream speeds in at least some markets. Satel-lite and wireless providers are bringing the benefits of broadband to areas unserved by other broadband providers. BBP Top 100 companies are in bold.

Company Name Web AddressAT&T www.att.comBright House Networks www.brighthouse.comBristol Virginia Utilities www.bvu-optinet.comBroadweave Networks www.broadweave.comCablevision www.cablevision.comCenturyLink (merger

of CenturyTel and EMBARQ) www.centurytel.comCharter Communications www.charter.comClearWire www.clearwire.comComcast www.comcast.comConnexion Technologies www.cnxntech.comCox Communications www.cox.comEATEL www.eatel.comGreenfield

Communications www.egreenfield.comGVTC www.gvtc.comHiawatha Broadband

Communications www.hbci.comHughesNet www.hughesnet.comInsight Communications www.insight-com.comLTS Group/ComSpanUSA www.comspanusa.netLUS Fiber www.lusfiber.comMediacom www.mediacomcc.comPaxio www.paxio.comQwest www.qwest.comRCN www.rcn.comSuddenlink

Communications www.suddenlink.comSmithville www.smithville.netSureWest www.surewest.comTime Warner Cable www.timewarnercable.comUTOPIA www.utopianet.orgVerizon

Communications www.verizon.com/fiosWestel Fiber www.westelfiber.comWildBlue www.wildblue.comWilson, NC Greenlight www.greenlightnc.comWindstream

Communications www.windstream.com


AFL Telecommunicationswww.afltele.com864-433-0333; 800-235-3423

Key Products: FTTx electronics (PON, point-to-point, and DIRECTV MFH3), wireless solutions, network management platforms, fiber optic cable, fiber and copper interconnect products, optical connectivity, outside plant hardware, fusion splicers and test equipment, training and comprehensive system integration services

Summary: Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Spartan-burg, South Carolina, AFL is a manufacturer and service pro-vider enabling high-speed delivery of voice, video and data communications to a variety of markets. AFL’s product line includes fiber optic cable, connectivity, fiber management, outside plant closures, demarcation devices, Fujikura fusion splicers, Noyes test equipment and The Light Brigade training and education. AFL plans, designs, implements and maintains communications networks, offering solutions for private MDU and master-planned community networks as well as telephone, cable TV, utility, hospitality, enterprise and wireless compa-nies. As a DIRECTV Master System Operator, AFL offers end-to-end solutions including access to DIRECTV program-ming and services for MDUs, master-planned communities, and hospitality and university applications. AFL’s bandwidth management and conditional Internet access solutions enable system operators to offer the best in video from DIRECTV and innovative Internet packages. AFL also provides mesh wireless solutions for MDU, master-planned community, municipal-ity and enterprise applications, and recently provided an end-to-end managed WiFi solution with BelAir Networks for the newly renovated Hyatt Regency Newport. In May 2009 AFL Network Services was selected for the wireless integration of the Omni Hotels. AFL has more than 3,000 employees world-wide and is a division of Fujikura Ltd., with manufacturing, sales and administrative offices located in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Mexico and China.

Alcatel-Lucentwww.alcatel-lucent.com908-582-3000

Key Products: Wireline and wireless broadband access equipment, IP routing platforms, optical switching and transport solutions, NGN and IMS solutions, IMS applications, IPTV solutions, network management, service integration capabilities, optical fiber, connecting hardware and accessories, and right-of-way solutions

Summary: Alcatel-Lucent, a telecommunications giant formed in 2006 by a merger between Lucent and the French telecom equipment vendor Alcatel, is a leader in fixed, mobile and con-verged broadband networking and IP technologies, applica-tions and services. The company leverages the technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry. Alcatel-Lucent partners with service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide to deliver voice, data and video communication ser-vices. One out of three fixed broadband subscribers around the world are served through access networks provided by Alcatel-Lucent; these networks encompass a range of access technolo-gies (xDSL, VDSL, GPON, P2P fiber) and deployment models (FTTN, FTTB, FTTH). With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent reported revenues of $12.6 billion in 2008. It is incorporated in France, with executive offices lo-cated in Paris and in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Alliance Fiber Optic Products (AFOP) www.afop.com408-736-6900

Key Products: Fiber optic components and integrated modules

Summary: Alliance Fiber Optic Products (AFOP) designs, manufactures and markets high-performance fiber optic com-ponents and integrated modules for the optical network equip-ment market. These include passive optical components such as

“Network operators find themselves dealing with rapidly increasing quantities of fiber, particularly in the access and metro regions of

the network. Network operators are actively seeking the benefits of automation to deal with the expanding fiber infrastructure. At the same

time, they insist on retaining the basic reliability and performance characteristics of manual connectivity.”

– Sandy Roskes, VP Marketing and Business Development, FiberZone


interconnect systems, couplers and splitters; thin-film CWDM and DWDM components and modules; fixed and variable op-tical attenuators; and integrated subsystems. Based in Sunny-vale, California, the company serves communications equip-ment manufacturers that deliver optical networking systems to all three segments of the communications network: long-haul, metropolitan and first-mile access. AFOP was founded in 1995, has 800 employees, and maintains manufacturing and product development facilities in the US, Taiwan, and China. In 2008 AFOP generated revenues of $38.7 million, up from $33.8 million in 2007.

Allied Telesiswww.alliedtelesis.com408-519-8700

Key Products: Devices and solutions for running Ethernet/IP networks over fiber and copper, including Layer 3 Ethernet switches, GePON customer premises equipment amd multiservice access platforms, NICs, media converters and wireless access points

Summary: Allied Telesis, headquartered in Tokyo with a network management subsidiary in Bothell, Washington, is a pioneer in the planning, development, manufacture and sales

of P2P and GePON network equipment and is the world’s largest supplier of fiber network interface cards. Its GePON ONU is available in form factors as small as 4x4 inches. Its AT-iMG646PX-ON GePON intelligent Multiservice Gateway for Outdoor Deployment offers up to 1 Gbps per customer. This spring the company announced the world’s first Fast Ethernet fiber Network Interface Card (NIC) in ExpressCard format for consumer TV. The company has pioneered an “Eco” prod-uct line engineered to reduce power consumption. Products in this line use centralized power management features that automatically place idle circuitry into a lower power mode to save energy (and battery life in laptops). The parent company had 2008 revenue of almost $500 million (48 billion yen) and ended the year with 2,300 employees. The company, which was established in 1987, has been particularly prominent in P2P Ethernet solutions in the United States.

Allopticwww.alloptic.com925-245-7600; 866-255-6784

Key Products: FTTH solutions including RF Over Glass (RFOG) and Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GePON)

Summary: Alloptic develops and delivers optical access solu-tions that are used by CATV, telecom, and private network operators to offer converged communications, entertainment, security, and automation services for business and residential customers. The company is the clear market leader in RFOG (RF Over Glass) solutions and worldwide deployments and also provides GePON solutions. Alloptic’s history of innovation, dating to its founding in 1999, includes numerous patents that have fundamentally advanced the capabilities and performance of passive optical networks. With its 10GePON technology, Alloptic is well prepared for the transition to next-generation access networks. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Al-loptic has customers in 20 countries worldwide.

Alpha Technologies www.alpha.com 360-647-2360

Key Products: Fiber-to-the-home powering options for single-family, multiple-dwelling and small office home office (SOHO) premises

Summary: Founded in 1976, Alpha Technologies is a major player in power systems to the broadband communications industry worldwide. Alpha’s line of products provides critical power conditioning and emergency backup to cable television, data and voice networks. Rapid growth in global communica-

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tions as well as the connection between system power and over-all network reliability have created a demand for Alpha’s prod-ucts across an array of communications applications. Alpha’s customer base is in 50 countries and includes major cable tele-vision system operators, telecommunications service providers and full-service communications providers. Currently Alpha, with more than 1,000 employees, has sales and service centers in the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, China and Aus-tralia. Alpha Technologies is a member of The Alpha Group, a global alliance of independent companies that share a common philosophy: to create powering solutions for communications, commercial, industrial and renewable energy markets.

Astec Undergroundwww.astecunderground.com865-408-2100; 800-527-6020

Key Products: Trenchers, vibratory plows and directional drilling equipment

Summary: Astec Underground, a subsidiary of Astec Indus-tries, offers a complete line of underground construction equip-ment used to construct, maintain and repair telecommunica-tions networks, including basic copper and fiber optic plant and cable television systems. The company manufactures and markets Astec utility trenchers and horizontal directional drills as well as Trencor heavy-duty mechanical chain trenchers and specialty rock excavation machines. In 2008 Astec introduced its EarthPro Raptor Series, a new line of low-profile digging chains highly resistant to wear and tear, as well as its Tren-cor T1760 mechanical drive chain trencher for rock trenching, utility installation and pipeline work. Customers include small contractors operating a single trencher; large utility providers and contractors with fleets of underground construction equip-ment; horizontal directional drilling specialists; and contrac-tors building giant cross-country pipelines. Headquartered in Loudon, Tennessee, with 160 employees, Astec operates a 330,000-square-foot facility that includes corporate offices, a new research and development center, training facilities, a manufacturing plant and a custom paint facility. Astec Un-derground is one of 15 companies owned by Astec Industries, which had revenues of $974 million in 2008.

AT&T, AT&T Connected Communitieswww.att.com/communities888-899-9048

Key Products: Voice, video, data and wireless services for residential and business customers

Summary: AT&T is the largest communications holding company in the world by revenue. Based in Dallas, Texas, it

employs 296,000 people worldwide and had more than $124 billion in revenues for 2008. AT&T serves 16.7 million high-speed Internet subscribers, including about 1 million on its new fiber-enabled network, which also provides U-verse TV, an all-IPTV television service. The AT&T Connected Communities program is a strategic marketing initiative between AT&T and regional or national single-family builders, developers, real es-tate investment trusts, apartment ownership and management groups and homeowners’ associations to provide next-generation communications and entertainment solutions to residents and homebuyers and increase the value of their communities. The initiative involves marketing and delivering AT&T voice, video and broadband services – including fiber-based technology and AT&T U-verse services, where available – to rental properties and residential developments. AT&T Connected Communi-ties has completed contracts with properties representing sever-al million homes, condominiums and rental properties. AT&T Connected Communities recently announced that it had built a fiber-to-the-premises network to support U-verse services in the Bluestone Apartments community, a master-planned rental development in Greenfield, Indiana.

Atlantic Engineering Groupwww.atlantic-engineering.com706-654-2298

Key Products: Fiber optic design and engineering (central office and outside plant), construction (headend, aerial and underground), technical services (splicing, testing and turn-up) and construction management

Summary: Atlantic Engineering Group (AEG), based in Brasel-ton, Georgia, and founded in 1996, provides design, engineering, construction, technical services and construction management for telecommunications providers including municipalities, utilities and independent telcos, and for governmental and

“We believe the next “killer app” of broadband usage may be using [the] home connection to make our electric energy

grid much more reliable and efficient by interacting with smart

appliances. The world of ‘The Jetsons’ is upon us.”

– James H. Salter, PE, Chairman, Atlantic Engineering Group


Smart Grid projects. Services include outside plant design and construction. AEG has completed more than 65 fiber projects, including 17 fiber-to-the-premises projects.

Aurora Networkswww.aurora.com408-235-7000

Key Products: Optical transport products, including RFOG solutions, to support cable providers’ migration from hybrid fiber cable to advanced HFC, Fiber Deep and DOCSIS-friendly fiber to the premises, including PON

Summary: Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Aurora Networks specializes in helping the cable industry evolve with solutions for building future-proof networks. Aurora Networks delivers technology optimized for cable operators. Using its understanding of cable networks, Aurora Networks delivers unique solutions – such as its Fiber Deep architecture and digital return technology – and offers a line of optical transport products designed to address spe-cific issues of the cable broadband industry. Its node platform, first introduced in 2002, is optimized for scaling bandwidth to each subscriber through support for multiple segmentation technologies (LcWDM, DWDM and CWDM). Aurora’s solu-tions include its Fiber Deep architecture, Fiber on Demand for dedicated fiber-based Ethernet services, BitCoax tool to boost coax capacity, end-to-end RFOG and RFPON (RFOG plus PON) implementations, and Node PON for migration to the all-IP world.

Blonder Tongue Laboratorieswww.blondertongue.com732-679-4000; 800-523-6049

Key Products: Analog products supporting CATV headend and distribution applications; digital products supporting 8VSB/QAM applications; encoder products supporting standard- and high-definition TV applications; systems design and engineering, technical support and technical training

Summary: Blonder Tongue, based in Old Bridge, New Jersey, is a technology development and manufacturing company that delivers encoding, digital transport and broadband product so-lutions to cable, including the multi-dwelling unit market, the lodging/hospitality market and the institutional market (hos-pitals, prisons and schools).

For nearly 60 years Blonder Tongue has been providing real-world solutions based on advanced technology designs that have enabled the company to maintain its position as a market leader in the private cable industry. Although the com-

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These companies specialize in working with property owners and developers to provide tele-communica-tions networks and/or services to multi-family hous-ing, homeowner associations, resorts, hotels or stu-dent housing over fiber, copper or coax.

Company Name Web AddressAirwave Networks www.airwave-networks.comAmerican Cable Services www.americable.usAT&T Connected

Communities www.att.com/communitiesBroadStar

Communications www.broadstar.comConnexion

Technologies www.cnxntech.comConsolidated

Smart Systems www.consolidatedsmart.comCrystal Clear Technologies www.crystalclear

technologies.netDirecPath www.direcpath.comFront Door Networks www.frontdoornet.comFTTH Communications www.ftthcom.comMDU Communications www.mduc.comMultiband www.multibandusa.comPavlov Media www.pavlovmedia.comPorchlight www.porchlight

communications.comPrime Time Communications www.primetime

communications.netPrimeVision

Communications www.myprimevision.netPrivate Cable Systems www.pvtcable.comRoad9 www.road9.netSatellite Management

Services www.smstv.comShenandoah

Telecommunications www.shentel.comTCI www.tcintegration.comTotalVision www.total-vision.netVerizon Enhanced www.verizon.com/

Communities communitiesWestel Fiber www.westelfiber.comYgnition Networks www.ygnition.comZial Networks www.zial.comZoomy

Communications www.zoomyco.com


pany’s core products are designed to primarily serve traditional CATV markets, the recent release of several encoding products has allowed the company to expand its position in the HDTV and IPTV markets as well.

Bristol Virginia Utilitieswww.bvu-optinet.com276-669-4112

Key Products: Broadband services, consulting services

Summary: Bristol Virginia Utilities was the first municipal utility in the United States to deploy an all-fiber network offer-ing the triple play of video, voice and data services. BVU is a municipally owned system providing electric, water, wastewa-ter and fiber optic telecommunication and information services to Abingdon, Washington County, and the city of Bristol, Vir-ginia. These combined systems employ 158 people. BVU Op-tiNet, a nonprofit division of BVU, was launched in 2003 to provide digital cable, telephone service and high-speed Internet and now serves 9,500 customers in Southwest Virginia. BVU FOCUS is a consulting, operations and management firm operating under the umbrella of the City of Bristol, Virginia, and BVU. With 63 employees, 40 of whom operate a remote facility in Mooresville, North Carolina, it offers assistance to

municipal entities in meeting their communities’ needs for telecommunications and information services and traditional utility operations. BVU provides 50 percent of the funding for Bristol’s Economic Development Department and is heavily

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for America when we are out building networks, and not sitting

around slicing up Stimulus pie.” – Minesh Patel, VP Outside Plant Business Unit, Charles Industries


involved in promoting economic development to prospective and existing industrial and commercial establishments. This year the City of Bristol, Virginia, was named the only US final-ist for the world’s Top Seven Intelligent Communities by the Intelligent Community Forum, with BVU recognized for the contributions of its broadband network to economic growth.

Calient Networks www.calient.net 408-232-6400

Key Products: Automated fiber optic cross-connect systems (AFOCS) providing fiber management solutions for telecommunications providers and other markets

Summary: Calient Networks, which is headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional engineering and manufactur-ing operations in Santa Barbara, California, manufactures the DiamondWave family of automated fiber optic cross-connect systems (AFOCS) for telecommunications service providers worldwide. The DiamondWave family consists of FiberCon-nect (automated fiber optic cross-connect system), FiberMoni-

tor (automated fiber management plus real-time dynamic nonintrusive fiber monitoring) and PONConnect (automated PON fiber management for FTTx deployments). These prod-ucts are designed to allow network operators to intelligently manage their fiber infrastructure in a fully automated, na-tive “all optical” and bandwidth-agnostic manner. Calient’s customers include AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Terremark, Deutsche Telekom, KDDI, NTT, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Er-icsson, Juniper, Fujitsu and national research and education networks around the world. Calient sells worldwide through a direct sales force as well as through partners including Tyco Electronics, MRV, Cornet and Gale Technologies. The com-pany recently secured $5 million in financing to continue its expansion into the global Tier 1 service provider market.

Calixwww.calix.com877-766-3500; 707-766-3000

Key Products: Software and equipment for deploying FTTH and DSL networks, including multiservice access platforms, OLTs and ONTs, outside plant and network management software

Summary: Calix is the world’s largest equipment supplier fo-cused solely on access, and is North America’s most widely de-ployed fiber-to-the-premises solutions provider. The Calix Uni-fied Access Infrastructure allows providers to deploy any service over any media type and protocol, via a form factor that fits their deployment needs. The company has equipped many ru-ral systems and pioneered long-range OLTs. The Calix C7 mul-tiservice access platform enables the deployment of legacy and advanced broadband services, including GPON. Its E-Series includes Ethernet platforms for delivering copper- and fiber-

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“The traffic in the exhibit hall was very good with operators, integrators, telcos and CATV operators

asking lots of good questions, looking for the right solutions for their buildings and properties. There

were also lots of networking opportunities and great customer sit down meetings.”

– Sam Tagliavore, Sales Manager Pacific Broadband Networks

“We expect a frenzy of FTTH construction activity with the

stimulus program. We believe we have weathered the worst of the housing market and economic crisis, and are now positioned to help build better connected

communities.” – Diane Kruse, CEO,

Zoomy Communications


based services, including a new residential active Ethernet plat-form, and its P-Series offers a broad portfolio of optical network terminals for residential, business and MDU deployments. All Calix products are managed by the Calix Management System, which provides a single network view and advanced manage-ment capabilities across an entire unified access infrastructure. Founded in 1999, Calix is headquartered in Petaluma, Califor-nia, with offices in Boston and Minneapolis.

CANARIEwww.canarie.ca613-943-5454

Key Products: Operation of an advanced research network; research and development related to high-performance networking

Summary: CANARIE is Canada’s advanced research and innovation network. Established in 1993, the nonprofit cor-poration serves more than 50,000 researchers at almost 200 Canadian universities and colleges, government labs, research institutes, hospitals and other private and public sector organi-zations, and connects them to innovators around the corner, across the country and around the world. With major fund-ing from the Government of Canada, CANARIE provides advanced networking capability that enables scientists to man-age, analyze and exchange very large volumes of data. It also enables researchers and their partners to develop new tools that harness the power of the network. Recent initiatives include the Green IT program, which will develop advanced com-puting and networking technologies that reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s ICT infrastructure and enable collaboration on promising green IT solutions; and the promotion of a market-based demonstration project that aims to provide residential users with the opportunity to own or control their own fiber connections to the Internet.

Canobeam Canon Broadcast and Communicationswww.canobeam.com201-807-3300; 800-321-4388

Key Products: Free space optics

Summary: Canon, a global $30 billion company operating in many markets, pioneered the technology for the Free Space Optics line of optical transceivers, which transmit data over the air on beams of infrared light. The models in the Cano-beam series deliver data speeds from 25 Mbps to 1.5 Gbps and cover distances from 20 meters to 1,000 meters. Canobeam’s Auto Tracking function constantly maintains beam alignment and compensates for vibrations in the installation base caused by weather and other factors. Like optical fiber, Canobeam sys-tems are protocol-independent and require no radio-frequency permits or licenses, and they are used in FTTH deployments in situations where fiber optic cables are impractical. Canon recently introduced the Canobeam DT-150 HD for wireless uncompressed bidirectional high-definition and standard-def-inition SDI transmission. The 1.5 Gbps link transmits digital HD/SD video, audio and control signals via Free Space Optics at up to one kilometer for sports and other productions.

Canobeam is marketed by Canon USA’s Broadcast and Communications Division, headquartered in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.

Charles Industrieswww.charlesindustries.com 847-806-6300

Key Products: Outside plant fiber optic distribution pedestals and enclosures, fiber terminals, extended-reach DSL systems

Summary: Charles Industries designs and manufactures bur-ied distribution pedestals for fiber optic applications, serving telecommunications, municipality, utility, marine and indus-trial markets worldwide. The company introduced nonmetallic

“Due to economic conditions, the sales environment continues to be challenging as cost savings and value have understandably become

our customers’ main priorities….Our strategy to transform into an advanced broadband service provider has been a successful and critical

decision, because we are subject to the significant loss of telephone access lines that is so common in the telecommunication industry

today due to wireless and new voice competition.” – Steve Oldham, President and CEO, SureWest


fiber pedestals to the industry in 2001 and has continued to provide new solutions for nearly all fiber deployment architec-tures. Charles Fiber Distribution Point (CFDP) pedestals of-fer GR-771-compliant closed architecture protection of both ribbon fiber and loose buffer tube fiber. CFDP pedestals can accommodate loop-through and stub-out distribution cable, branch and drop splices, and fusion, mechanical or preconnec-torized splicing. BDO open-architecture fiber pedestals offer a lower-cost alternative for cost-conscious deployments. This year the company introduced Charles Universal Broadband Enclosures (CUBE), a line of compact metallic OSP Fiber Ter-minals designed for backhaul, automatic meter reading, remote equipment deployment and equipment consolidation applica-tions. Charles Industries, which is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, has about 350 employees and manufactures all of its products in five US facilities.

Cisco Systems www.cisco.com 770-236-5000

Key Products: Active Ethernet and DOCSIS-PON solutions for fiber-to-the-home deployments; digital set-top boxes and accessories, cable modems, headend equipment and network management systems

Summary: Cisco Systems has long provided much of the equipment that supports the Internet backbone, but recently it has moved into the access network as well. Cisco’s E-FTTH

(Ethernet fiber to the home) solution, which has been deployed by several European providers, includes Ethernet access switch-es, aggregation routers and optical network terminals. Cisco SPVTG (Service Provider Video Technology Group), formerly Scientific Atlanta, supplies set-top boxes and cable modems, transmission networks for home broadband access, and digi-tal interactive subscriber systems for video, high-speed Internet and VoIP networks. SPVTG is focused on the convergence of the PC and TV and is extending multimedia broadband ap-plications to new platforms. In April 2009, SPVTG introduced tru2way hardware and software, including its Digital Network Control System Release 4.0 series, Axiom middleware imple-mentation and set-top boxes. Cisco also recently announced new compact, high-density Prisma II optics products to im-prove the performance of existing fiber in cable networks, as well as a DOCSIS Passive Optical Network (D-PON) architec-ture that is intended to help cable operators upgrade to FTTH technology. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco re-ported revenues of $39.5 billion in 2008, an increase of 13 per-cent over 2007. The company has about 66,000 employees.

Clearfield www.clearfieldconnection.com 763-476-6866

Key Products: Fiber distribution systems and associated components

Summary: Clearfield, headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota, provides fiber management and connectivity systems for inde-pendent telephone, cable television and municipal networks. Products include the WaveSmart platform of powered optical signal products and the FieldSmart Fiber Management Platform, which includes the Fiber Distribution System, Fiber Scalability Center and Fiber Delivery Point series. The Field-Smart product

Network Testing, Monitoring and Management Services (Other than private cable operators)

Company Name Web Address

Alcatel-Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.com

Aricent www.aricent.com

Communication Technology Services www.cts1.com

Ericsson www.ericsson.com

Korcett Holdings www.korcett.com

Source Technology www.source-t.com

Steeplechase Networks www.scnets.com

TCI www.tcintegration.com

Tellabs www.tellabs.com

UTStarcom www.utstar.com

“We believe that FTTx is still an emerging market with significant

future growth and we are committed to ongoing research

and development to deliver cost-effective and highly efficient

powering solutions.”– John Hewitt, VP Cable and Headend Sales,

Alpha Technologies


lines, centered around the Clearview Cassette of integrated fiber protection, support a wide range of panel configurations, densi-ties, connectors and adapter options, and are offered alongside an assortment of passive optical components. Clearfield provides a complete line of fiber and copper assemblies for inside plant, outside plant and access networks. Clearfield had revenues of $23.5 million for the fiscal year ending September 2008.

CommScopewww.commscope.com800-982-1708

Key Products: Cable and connectivity products including fiber enclosures, hybrid fiber coaxial cable, fiber optic and wireless integration products

Summary: Founded in Hickory, North Carolina, more than 30 years ago, CommScope had 2008 revenues of $4.01 billion and is a leader in the design and manufacture of connectivity solutions for communications networks. CommScope is the world’s largest manufacturer of coaxial cable for hybrid fiber/coax applications and a major supplier of coaxial, fiber optic and twisted-pair cables, as well as rugged conduit products and broadband equipment solutions for wireless plant, FTTH and commercial services applications. CommScope has a global manufacturing and distribution network supporting custom-ers of its four major businesses. In December 2007, Comm-Scope completed the acquisition of Andrew Corporation, broadening the range of its infrastructure solutions for wire-less, enterprise and broadband communications networks; in 2008 it announced a collaboration with Harmonic to provide an integrated FTTH solution for cable operators. Recent prod-uct innovations include the 2008 launch of a new line of fiber distribution hub cabinets as well as new customer-premises equipment for its cable FTTH solution. The US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Telecommunications Pro-gram accepted CommScope’s BrightPath fiber-to-the-home solution in April 2009.

Connexion Technologieswww.connexiontechnologies.net919-535-7329

Key Products: Design, customization and management of telecommunications networks

Summary: Connexion Technologies customizes and manages state-of-the-art communications networks in single-family, multifamily, high-rise, resort and hospitality properties nation-wide. Its award-winning networks are designed to optimize the communications experience and value of properties for resi-dents and property owners. Connexion Technologies is not a

service provider; rather, it manages a suite of providers that offer entertainment and communications applications, includ-ing enhanced television, telephone, Internet and other services, over Connexion’s carrier-neutral networks. The company is based in Cary, North Carolina. It was established in 2002 to target greenfield developments with fiber to the home but has broadened its market to include existing properties as well. It serves properties in 17 states.

Corning/Corning Cable Systemswww.corning.com;www.corningcablesystems.com828-901-5000

Key Products: Optical fiber, optical fiber cable, FTTH cabinets, splitters, terminals, connectors, cable assemblies, MDU products, other telecommunications hardware and equipment, splice and test equipment, engineering services and training

Summary: Corning developed the first fiber optic cable for communications in 1970 and remains a world leader in special-




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ty glass and ceramics, creating and manufacturing components that enable high-technology systems. The company, whose 2008 sales totaled nearly $5.9 billion, is distinguished by sus-tained investment in R&D, more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge and a distinctive collaborative culture. Corning Cable Systems develops and manufactures optical cable, hardware and equipment designed to make fiber-to-the-x deployments faster, easier, more reliable and less costly. Its patented OptiTap Connector has become the industry standard in preconnectorized, environmentally hardened technology. The ClearCurve product suite, based on ultrabendable optical fiber, opened the way for cost-effective installation of fiber-to-the-home networks in multidwelling units (MDUs) and other complicated deployments. Corning Cable Systems Evolant Solutions for Carrier Networks delivers tip-to-tip product and service offerings for FTTx, CATV and wireless applications, and its preconnectorized solutions have revolutionized the way FTTx networks are deployed. Consul-tants and network designers have access to a variety of design tools and resources as part of Corning’s FTTxpert Program. The Corning Total Access Program provides design, engineer-ing, furnishing and installation companies with the tools nec-essary to ensure successful FTTH and wireless deployments, while the Corning Connected Community Program helps homebuilders and developers market FTTH to consumers.

Design Nine www.designnine.com 540-951-4400

Key Products: Broadband planning, broadband project management, broadband network design and implementation

Summary: Design Nine offers broadband planning and en-gineering services such as fiber and wireless network design, stimulus grant assistance, needs assessment and fiber/wireless broadband build-out assistance to communities, developers and local governments, including financial modeling, legal and organizational design of community broadband systems and

project management. The firm’s network designs include open access and open service broadband networks. Design Nine is heavily involved in assisting clients with stimulus funding re-quests, and is working directly for the state government of New Mexico, coordinating the development of all its broadband stimulus funding. Headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, De-sign Nine has sales and project management offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The company’s many public and private sector clients include the City of Dan-ville, Virginia, where Design Nine has provided assistance with network architecture, vendor selection, business and financial planning, and service provider development to nDanville, the first municipal open access, Layer 3 open services network in the US. Another major Design Nine project, The Wired Road, for the city of Galax, Virginia, is the first municipal integrated fiber and wireless open access, open services network in the United States.

DIRECTV www.directv.com 888-777-2454

Key Products: Satellite TV services to residential and business customers; network installation and integration

Summary: Headquartered in El Segundo, California, DI-RECTV delivers satellite TV service to US residential and business customers with a strong emphasis on multifamily so-lutions. DIRECTV offers two multifamily solutions, MFH2 and MFH3. MFH2, which is appropriate for properties of all sizes, and for existing as well as new construction, uses sin-gle-wire multiswitch technology. MFH3, designed for prop-erties with 150 or more units and including remote network monitoring, uses IP-based technology and requires the new “I” series DIRECTV receivers. MFH2 and MFH3 can be imple-mented as a single property headend, providing a one-dish-per-building solution. Both solutions provide access to all of DIRECTV’s programming and services, including DVR, all of DIRECTV’s current and planned HD channels, interactive services and more. DIRECTV offers more than 130 HD chan-nels and has enriched its content experience with the launch of DIRECTV on DEMAND, a new service that offers both instant access to movies and TV shows pushed to the cus-

“In contrast to the overall tenor of the times, we continue to see customer demand for new network capabilities, as

telecommunications infrastructure improvements remain high on priority lists worldwide, whether prompted by government initiatives or fundamental customer needs and competition.”

– Steven Glapa, VP Product Management and Marketing, Zhone


tomer’s DVR, as well as broadband access to more than 7,000 titles that can be downloaded to customers’ set-top boxes. DI-RECTV also recently extended its exclusive agreement to offer the NFL Sunday Ticket to DIRECTV customers through the 2014 season. DIRECTV has 16,000 employees in the US and revenues were $17.3 billion in 2008.

Dish Networkcommercial.dishnetwork.com 800-454-0843

Key products: Video programming packages for business, hospitality and multifamily housing delivered via satellite

Summary: EchoStar Commercial Services, the division that offers Dish Network for business, hospitality and multifamily housing, provides satellite solutions for apartments and condos, office and retail locations, bars and restaurants, hotels, hospitals and assisted living facilities, universities, government and mili-tary facilities as well as creating custom solutions. Dish offers two bulk programming options for MDUs: The Digital Home Plan is a shared-dish system that allows residents to create their own accounts and select preapproved programming packages and equipment of their choice. The residents are billed directly from DISH Network at standard residential rates. Bulk Pro-gramming with Digital Upgrades/Neighborhood Value Plan delivers a low-cost bulk package to the entire complex with individual upgrade options. In 2007 EchoStar launched ViP-TV, a wholesale video IP transport and distribution platform that can transport more than 300 channels of programming to providers. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, Dish Net-work had 13.7 million subscribers in 2008, a loss of 102,000 subscribers from 2007, the first loss of customers in the com-pany’s history. Revenues, however, were $11.6 billion in 2008, up from $11.1 billion in 2007.

Ditch Witchwww.ditchwitch.com800-654-6481

Key Products: Construction equipment for laying fiber

Summary: Ditch Witch dates from 1949, when the founder invented a workable compact trencher. The Ditch Witch or-

ganization specializes in the design and manufacture of high-quality underground construction equipment. It sells trenchers, vibratory plows, pneumatic piercing tools, backhoes, electronic tracking and locating tools, horizontal directional drilling sys-tems, drill pipe, downhole tools, vacuum excavation systems, excavator-tool carriers, mini skid steers pipebursting systems, and the Zahn family of power utility equipment. In April 2009, the organization released two new low-cost trenchers: the RT10 and the RT12. In May 2009, the company announced the re-lease of the Ditch Witch 980 fault system, a new and improved system for locating faults in direct-buried, unshielded power and communications cables typically found at streetlight circuits and meter risers, and across driveways, sidewalks, and streets. Ditch Witch Financial Services (DWFS) offers a variety of financing and lease options. The Ditch Witch organization’s manufactur-ing headquarters is located in Perry, Oklahoma, and has more than 1,000 employees, with a dealer organization worldwide.

Draka Communications – Americaswww.drakaamericas.com800-879-9862

Key Products: Optical fiber cable solutions for network operators, telecommunications carriers, utilities, installers and enterprises

Summary: Draka Communications – Americas, founded in 1910 and based in Claremont, North Carolina, provides ca-bling solutions for a wide range of applications. It is a division of the multinational firm Draka, one of the world’s largest opti-cal fiber producers with more than 25 million miles of fiber de-ployed in North America alone. Draka, headquartered in Am-sterdam, had net sales of $4.15 billion and 10,005 employees in 2008. In December 2007, Draka purchased the minority share of its subsidiary Draka Comteq from Alcatel-Lucent, merged the two head offices and is now using the name Draka Com-munications for this part of the business. Draka Communica-tions’ single-mode fiber, BendBright, is a bend-insensitive fiber that combines the unlimited transmission capacity of optical fiber with copper-like flexibility and handling. Because it can

“Applications such as HDTV are moving beyond 1080p to higher 2D resolutions, and even 3D imaging in the home is becoming a reality,

creating exponential bandwidth growth…We also anticipate growth in applications areas such as cellular backhaul and commercial

services where copper cabling is increasingly limited.” – Dr. Bernhard Deutsch, Director of Marketing and Market Development, Corning Cable Systems


withstand repeated bending to very small radii and is back-ward compatible with older fiber, BendBright facilitates bend-ing, connecting and storing fibers in real-world FTTH and business situations. In September 2008 Draka surpassed the 150,000-mile mark for sales of BendBright-XS. Its groundwire fiber business was recently sold to AFL Telecommunications.

Emerson Network Powerwww.emersonnetworkpower.com440-246-6999; 800-800-1280

Key Products: AC and DC power, outside plant enclosures, precision cooling systems, embedded computing and power, integrated racks and enclosures, power switching and controls, monitoring and connectivity

Summary: Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, is a global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity from grid to chip for telecommunication networks, data centers, health care and industrial facilities. Business-Critical Continuity is the assurance that critical technology investments will not fail due

to power loss and disrupt a company’s business. Based in Co-lumbus, Ohio, Emerson Network Power provides solutions and expertise in areas including AC and DC power and precision cooling systems, embedded computing and power, integrated racks and enclosures, power switching and controls, monitoring and connectivity. All solutions are supported globally by local Emerson Network Power service technicians. The company has an estimated 48,000 employees and fiscal 2008 revenue of $5.8 billion. It is a member of Green Grid.

Enablence Technologieswww.enablence.com613-270-7860

Key Products: PLC-based FTTH triplexers and diplexers, FTTH central office and customer-premises equipment

Summary: Founded in 2004 and with corporate headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Enablence Technologies is a publicly traded company that designs, manufactures and sells optical compo-nents, subsystems and systems. Enablence’s Network Division provides the TRIDENT 7 Universal Optical Line Terminals (OLTs), Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) and Element Management System. Its Optical Components & Subsystems Division provides FTTx access products such as integrated tri-plexers and diplexers for BPON, GPON and GePON splitters. It also offers solutions for the metro and long-haul markets. Many of the company’s component products apply planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology that integrates 45+ com-ponents into a single optical chip to support the global rollout of fiber to the home. New products and technologies include a 40 Gbps tunable optical dispersion compensator; a multicast switch; a high-speed DWDM for transmitter/receiver optical subassembly and a photodiode chip with integrated bandpass filter. Last year, Enablence’s FTTx Networks Division merged with Pannaway, a broadband access and transport solutions provider with nearly 300 rural telco customers. In May 2009 the Delhi Telephone Company in Delhi, New York, selected Enablence as its exclusive supplier for FTTH deployments. The company’s revenue for fiscal 2008 was $2.6 million.

Ericssonwww.ericsson.com/us972-583-0000

Key Products: VDSL2 and FTTH electronics, Ribbonet air-blown fiber solution for FTTx applications, cables and interconnect products, microwave networks, network management tools, stations and broadband switches, IPTV middleware

Video Programming Aggregators (Linear, VoD and interactive)

Company Name Web Address4Com www.4com.com

Accedo Broadband www.accedobroadband.com

Avail Media/TVN www.availmedia.com

Cloverleaf Digital www.cloverleafdigital.com

Comcast Media Center (HITS) www.comcastmediacenter.com

CSI Digital www.csidigital.net

DIRECTV www.directv.com

Dish Network commercial.dishnetwork.com

Eagle Broadband www.eaglebroadband.com

KT Communications www.ktcom.tv

National Cable Television Cooperative www.cabletvcoop.org

National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative www.nrtc.coop

Satellite Management Services www.smstv.com

Skyway Connect www.skywayconnect.com

Telechannel www.telechannel.tv


Summary: Ericsson is one of the largest providers of telecom-munications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally. Over 1,000 networks in more than 175 countries use its network equipment and 40 percent of all mobile calls are made through Ericsson systems. Ericsson is one of the few companies worldwide that can offer end-to-end solutions for all major mobile communications standards. A worldwide leader in GPON, the company recently announced

contracts with the three major Chinese telecom providers to roll out GPON networks in nine Chinese provinces. Ericsson invests heavily in R&D and actively promotes open standards and systems; with more than 23,000 patents, it has one of the industry’s most comprehensive intellectual property portfo-lios. Ericsson was founded in 1876. Global headquarters are in Stockholm, Sweden, with North American headquarters in Plano, Texas. More than 78,000 employees generated revenue of $26.7 billion in 2008.

ETI Software Solutions www.etisoftware.com 770-242-3620

Key Products: Back-office software for service providers including service delivery platform, billing solution, field technician application, ad insertion software and prepaid services platform

Summary: Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, ETI Software Solutions is a developer of software products deployed by more than 120 utility systems, telecom-

“FTTP maturation, the overall economic market freefall earlier this year and the government’s

stimulus package have created a perfect storm for FTTP network

deployers who are looking for the best price for their networks.”

– Cheri Beranek Podzimek, President and CEO, Clearfield


munications and private FTTH service providers serving mil-lions of subscribers worldwide. Triad SDP systems offer the ability to fully automate provisioning of FTTH, DSL, IPTV, RF video, and softswitches. Triad’s modules include order en-try/rating, work order management/scheduling, and report-ing and billing functionality (énconcert) to support advanced telecommunications services. Since Triad’s debut in 2004, ETI has been deployed in 40 systems, including many of North America’s largest FTTH services providers.

EXFO Electrical Optical Engineering www.exfo.com 418-683-0211; 800-663-3936

Key Products: Test and service assurance solutions for the global telecommunications industry

Summary: EXFO, based in Quebec City, Canada, provides test and service assurance solutions for the global telecommu-nications industry. The Telecom Division, representing close to 90 percent of the company’s business, offers test solutions and monitoring systems to network service providers, cable TV operators, network equipment manufacturers and component manufacturers in about 70 countries. EXFO’s modular FTB-500, FTB-200, AXS-200, IQS-600 (Windows/ PC-based) and InterWatch platforms host test solutions covering all layers of network infrastructure and extending across the full tech-nology lifecycle. In February 2009, EXFO acquired PicoSolve, a privately held Swedish company that produces oscilloscopes used in the design and production of next-generation optical networks. In fiscal 2008 the company reported revenues of $184 million, a 20 percent increase over 2007.

FiberZone Networkswww.fiberzone-networks.com301-941-1928

Key Products: Automated fiber management systems

Summary: FiberZone Networks provides Automated Fiber Management (AFM) solutions that allow facility operators to deliver new fiber-based services, design and operate networks efficiently and flexibly, and improve customer service and network uptime. FiberZone AFM enables network operators to provision, manage and troubleshoot networks end-to-end without having to perform on-site servicing. The foundation of AFM is FiberZone’s patented Latched Optical Coupling, which delivers remote control and automation to the fiber in-frastructure while maintaining the attributes and reliability

of a manual patch panel. According to the company, Fiber-Zone’s platforms enable improved levels of service and fewer network faults, lowering total cost of ownership of the fiber in-frastructure. FiberZone AFM technology also enables carriers to generate new revenue streams through on-demand service provisioning. In September 2008, the company announced the

Network Planning, Design, Engineering, Construction (Excludes companies that only build networks they will own and manage)

Company Name Web AddressAdesta www.adestagroup.com

AFL Telecommunications www.afltele.com

Atlantic Engineering Group www.atlantic- engineering.com

Corning Cable Systems www.corningcable systems.com

Design Nine www.designnine.com

DSI Technologies www.dsifiber.com

Emerson Network www.emersonnetwork Power power.com

Fiber-Tel Contractors www.fibertel contractors.com

Finley Engineering www.fecinc.com

InfiniSys Electronic www.electronic Architects architect.com

Inteleconnect www.inteleconnect.com

KGP Logistics www.kgplogistics.com

KiS Communications www.kis-comm.com

LTS Group www.ltscompany.com

Michels Communications www.michels.us

MPNexlevel.com www.mpnexlevel.com

Multicom www.multicominc.com

OFS www.ofsoptics.com

On Trac www.ontracinc.net

Source Technology www.source-t.com

Steeplechase Networks www.scnets.com

TCS Communications www.tcscomm.com

Team Fishel www.teamfishel.com


Tetra Tech www.tetratech.com

US Metronets www.usmetronets.com

Zoomy Communications www.zoomyco.com


general availability of its flagship product, the AFM-360, and also announced sales of the AFM-360 to large carriers in Asia and the US. FiberZone Networks is one of the charter mem-bers of the Advanced Fiber Connectivity and Switching Forum (AFCS), formed in June 2008. The company is privately held with offices in the United States and Israel.

Finley Engineeringwww.fecinc.com417-682-5531

Key Products: Network design and engineering services

Summary: Founded in 1953, Finley Engineering Company (FEC) has more than 200 employees in nine offices nationwide and is one of the largest telecom network design companies in the US. The company specializes in end-to-end engineering consulting in the fields of telecommunications, cable television, electric power transmission and distribution, project manage-ment and right-of-way services. FEC develops standard design criteria for telecom network projects and follows through with detailed designs, construction documents, contracts, contract administration and material lists. Once a project is under way, the company can provide construction observation and project management. Finley provided the first full FTTH installation in Missouri for Alma Communications, an independent tele-phone company providing services in rural Missouri.

Foxcom www.foxcom.com 609-514-1800

Key Products: Broadband fiber optic MDU distribution systems for video, voice and data; satellite downlink signal transport over fiber

Summary: Foxcom, a division of OnePath Networks, provides fiber optic solutions to the MDU market and the professional satellite earth station and video distribution markets. Founded in 1993, Foxcom has two product lines: point-to-multipoint distribution platforms for the MDU triple play market, and point-to-point transport of satellite signals in earth stations, broadcast facilities, cable TV headends and other satellite gateway applications. In 2008 Foxcom launched products for both the PCO and the satellite communications markets: the BsmarTV suite, an MFH-2-ready, triple play deployment plat-form for the MDU market, and SatLight/Platinum, enabling advanced RF and fiber optic link control and monitoring, for the earth station market. The addition of active Ethernet prod-ucts to the BsmarTV platform create a full triple-play fiber optic distribution system with the broadest pipe to the home. Foxcom’s corporate headquarters and its research and develop-

ment are based in Israel, and it also has offices in the US, UK, and South Africa. Foxcom currently employs more than 40 people, with the majority in research and development.

Graybarwww.graybar.com800-GRAYBAR (472-9227)

Key Products: Fiber connectors, couplers, housings, panels, splice trays, fusion splicers, cleaners, test equipment, VAR services

Summary: Graybar, a Fortune 500 company, specializes in sup-ply chain management services and is a leading North American distributor of components, equipment and materials for several industries. With net sales of $5.4 billion in 2008, Graybar em-ploys approximately 8,000 people at more than 240 distribution centers throughout the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. It is one of North America’s largest and oldest employee-owned compa-nies. Established in 1869, Graybar stocks and sells hundreds of thousands of items from thousands of manufacturers and can procure, warehouse and deliver almost any kind of electrical, communications or data product, component or service. Fiber connectivity solutions represent a fast-growing area in its cata-log. Through its distribution network and value-added services, including kitting and integrated solutions, Graybar is helping its customers power and network their facilities.

With the explosion of HD channels, IPTV programming

and high-speed Internet access demanding higher bandwidth

capacity, fiber-based triple-play distribution systems in MDUs

are becoming the infrastructure of choice. Since fiber optic

infrastructure costs have come down, this investment is now

cost-effective for both the greenfield and retrofit markets.”

– Jack Hotz, CEO, Foxcom


Great Lakes Data Systemswww.glds.com800-882-7950

Key Products: Billing and provisioning software for cable TV, Internet, VoIP, pay-per-view, video on demand and other broadband services

Summary: Great Lakes Data Systems was founded in 1980 by cable professionals to meet the industry’s need for reliable, in-telligently designed billing software. Customers are primarily small to midsized cable companies, ranging from startup oper-ations to systems with more than 250,000 subscribers. GLDS serves more than 300 operators including both private cable

operators and fiber-to-the-home providers such as the munici-pal FTTH system in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and several oth-ers. Voice, video and data can be provisioned directly from the billing system and itemized on a single monthly subscriber bill. The company’s two largest offices are in Carlsbad, California, and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, but it operates in 49 states and 40 countries worldwide. Key products include WinCable, for cable billing and subscriber management, and WinVoIP, which can provision, import, consolidate, manage, report and bill call detail records from most integrated VoIP vendors’ packages. The GLDS SuperController II add-on for pay-per-view can be used along with other billing software, and interfaces with most headend equipment and set-top boxes. GLDS also sells hosted solutions for providers that choose not to run billing and provisioning systems in house.

Greenfield Communicationswww.egreenfield.com949-248-8898

Key Products: Fiber optic design, construction and operations; service provider for voice, video, high-speed data and community Intranet services

Summary: Based in Southern California, Greenfield Communi-cations Inc. was formed in 2001 to provide turnkey fiber-to-the-home solutions for developers of new master-planned residential communities. The company has 11 active FTTH projects and more than 7,000 customers throughout California and Arizona. Greenfield Connect, a division of Greenfield Communications, provides low-voltage structured wiring, home entertainment and automation packages and security monitoring. Greenfield also has contracts with UCLA, the City of Pasadena and the City of Dana Point to provide fiber optic design, cabling and communi-cation services. The company was recently approved as a dealer for DIRECTV and plans to deploy its MFH3 system in new and existing multiple-dwelling-unit projects.

GVTCwww.gvtc.com800-367-4882

Key Products: Video, high-speed Internet, security monitoring, local and long-distance telephone and advanced data services

Summary: GVTC was formed as a telephone cooperative in 1951 to provide phone service to rural residents of Central and South Texas. Today it is the largest telephone cooperative in Texas, with more than 41,000 customers in 11 counties across an area that covers approximately 2,000 square miles. In ad-dition to phone service, GVTC provides high-speed Internet, digital TV and home security monitoring. GVTC was the first telecommunications entity to provide fiber-to-the-home tech-

Fiber-to-the-Home Electronics (Central-office and/or

customer-premises equipment)

Company Name Web AddressADTRAN www.adtran.com



Allied Telesis www.alliedtelesis.com

Alloptic www.alloptic.com

Aurora Networks www.aurora.com

Calix www.calix.com

Cisco Systems www.cisco.com

Commscope www.commscope.com

ECI Telecom www.ecitele.com

Enablence www.enablence.com


Hitachi Communication Technologies www.hitachi- America cta.com

Motorola www.motorola.com

Occam Networks www.occamnetworks.com

PacketFront www.packetfront.com

Pacific Broadband Networks www.pbnamericas.com

Telco Systems www.telco.com


TXP Corporation www.txpcorp.com


Zhone Technologies www.zhone.com

ZyXEL Communications www.us.zyxel.com


nology in South Texas, and its 20 Mbps residential broadband speeds and 25 Mbps business broadband speeds are among the fastest in the San Antonio area. GVTC is in the midst of a five-year, $35 million FTTH expansion project, replacing copper lines with fiber connections in most of its established communi-ties. The project is projected to add FTTH to 20,000 additional premises by year-end 2012. The company was recently awarded the FTTH Council Chairman’s Award for expansion of FTTH connections. GVTC has 225 employees and revenues for 2008 were $75 million. Because it is a nonprofit, any telephone-relat-ed revenues over and above operating expenses are allocated to member-owners in the form of capital credits; GVTC is issuing $4.1 million in capital credit payouts to its members for 2008.

Harmonic www.harmonicinc.com 408-542-2500; 800-788-1330

Key Products: Digital video and fiber optic solutions for networks

Summary: Harmonic provides digital video, HFC access and software solutions for the world’s leading broadcast, cable, satellite, Internet, mobile and telco providers. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Harmonic operates R&D, sales and systems integration centers worldwide. US customers in-clude AT&T CruiseCast, Cablevision Systems, Charter Com-munications, Comcast, Cox Communications, DIRECTV, EchoStar, Hearst-Argyle, Insight Communications, Sinclair Broadcasting, Time Warner Cable and Yahoo. International customers include many Tier 1 providers in Europe and Asia. Recent product introductions include the ProStream 4000 multiscreen encoder, part of Harmonic’s solution for converged

video delivery to TV, PC and mobile devices, and the Divi-com Electra 8000 universal SD/HD MPEG-2 AVC encoder, a 1-RU encoder with multiresolution, multistandard, multiser-vice and multichannel capabilities. Harmonic has partnered with Microsoft and YouTube on digital content management and with CommScope on an FTTH solution for cable opera-tors. In March 2009, Harmonic acquired Scopus Video Net-works, increasing its presence in the contribution/distribution market. Harmonic reported revenues of $365 million in 2008, up 17.3 percent over 2007.

Hiawatha Broadband Communicationswww.hbci.com888-474-9995

Key Products: Internet access, cable television, telephone and wireless services

Summary: Founded in 1997, Hiawatha Broadband Commu-nications (HBC) offers residential, business and wholesale tele-vision; Internet access; telephone; and media production ser-vices in southeast Minnesota. Wireless services will be added soon. HBC operates both hybrid fiber/coax and fiber-to-the-home networks and has completed the activation of three new fiber-to-the-home communities in the towns of Rollingstone, Stockton and Lewiston. HBC provides a complete video ser-vice selection of more than 100 TV channels (including high-definition programming), digital music, pay-per-view where available, and extensive local programming produced by HBC Productions. Digital video service is available in nine service ar-eas. The company has 68 employees, seven retail communities and a wholesale division. Annual revenues are $12 million.

“Consumer trends – led by the explosions in online video and content sharing – are certainly the easiest factors to identify. However,

other building systems such as energy management and digital messaging are making broadband infrastructure integral to efficient building operations. Additionally, the always-on, always-connected

lifestyle residents now enjoy will only become even more commonplace and more complex….Communities with the capacity to leverage new technologies will be able to deliver incredibly rich experiences that are

personalized to each resident’s tastes, and opportunities in multifamily go far beyond the capabilities of the typical single-family home.”

– Mike Whaling, VP Business Development, InfiniSys


Hitachi Communication Technologies Americawww.hitachi-cta.com770-446-8820

Key Products: Optical access solutions, optical transport equipment, electronic and optical components, wireless infrastructure products

Summary: Hitachi develops and manufactures optical access equipment, including EPON, GPON and RFOG fiber-to-the-premises solutions, for telecommunications service providers, cable television network operators, utilities, municipalities and real estate developers. In April, 2009, Hitachi merged Salira Systems Inc., a Hitachi-owned provider of EPON technology, into Hitachi Telecom (USA) Inc. to form Hitachi Communi-cation Technologies America Inc. (HCTA). The company also offers ultra-high-speed optical transport systems and multicar-rier power amplifiers for wireless infrastructure applications. Hitachi Communication Technologies America is headquar-tered in Norcross, Georgia, with offices in Santa Clara, Cali-fornia. The company is a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. of Japan. Hitachi Ltd. has approximately 400,000 employees worldwide and in fiscal 2008 (ended March 2009) generated sales of $102 billion (10,000 billion yen). Hitachi Ltd. is ranked No. 3 in the electronics, electrical equipment category of the Fortune Global 500 for 2007, and 48th overall.

IneoQuest www.ineoquest.com 508-339-2497

Key Products: Digital video quality assurance technology

Summary: Established in 2001, IneoQuest is a privately held company based in Mansfield, Massachusetts, with 168 em-ployees. Its digital video quality assurance technology includes solutions that audit, monitor, analyze and troubleshoot digital video from the set-top box to the headend, enabling customers in the telephony, cable, satellite, broadcast and network equip-ment industries to improve digital video quality and reduce operating expenses. IneoQuest’s IQPinPoint platform encom-passes video test and analysis solutions including the Cricket, a family of intelligent video network probes that enable video network operators to analyze, debug and resolve video quality and MPEG errors. IneoQuest’s iVMS, the software manage-ment component of IQPinPoint, delivers a delivers a complete view of the health of the digital video network along with rapid, practical isolation and remote troubleshooting. The company also launched VeriFrame, a programming verifica-tion solution that enables video providers, manufacturers and broadcasters to automatically verify video and audio content frame by frame, detecting black screen, luminance levels and freeze frame, and audio levels. In February 2009, IneoQuest

partnered with network-quality tester Spirent Communica-tions to provide an end-to-end global video quality-testing suite for network equipment manufacturers. Also new this year is Cricket QAM Plus, an affordable, dual QAM and MPEG monitoring and analysis tool that enables cable network opera-tors to monitor, analyze, debug and resolve video quality issues at hub sites or subscriber premises.

InfiniSys Electronic Architectswww.electronicarchitect.com386-236-1500

Key Products: Multifamily technology consulting, telecommunications network design, technology amenity engineering, FTTA Fiber-to-the-Apartment system, acquisition due diligence (technology assessments), strategic technology planning, low-voltage system integration, in-building wireless/cellular networks, resident technical support services, product design services, service provider contract negotiations, project management

Summary: InfiniSys helps multifamily developers and prop-erty owners leverage technology to improve operations and differentiate their communities. As independent technology advisors, the company creates comprehensive, standards-based amenity solutions for new and existing apartments, condomin-iums, student housing, mixed-use developments and master-planned communities. InfiniSys also represents developers and property owners in negotiations with service providers and contractors. Most recently, it has been creating online market-ing campaigns that enable property owners to connect com-munities and create new revenue streams. InfiniSys also works with electronics manufacturers and service providers to create new product and service offerings. Offering services nation-wide, InfiniSys is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Internet2www.internet2.edu734-913-4250

Key Products: Research and development of new network applications and technologies that will form the basis of the next-generation Internet

Summary: Internet2 is a research and development consor-tium led by more than 200 US universities working in part-nership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet. Supported by a core cen-tral staff, Internet2 activities are member focused and led. In-ternet2 efforts are focused on advanced network applications in-cluding interactive distance learning, remote access to unique scientific instruments, real-time access to large databases and streaming high-definition video; new network capabilities such as quality of service, multicasting and IPv6 that will enable tomorrow’s commercial Internet to provide the reliable perfor-


mance advanced applications require; middleware including standardized security, directories and other services required by advanced network applications; and high-performance net-works linking the campuses and laboratories of more than 200 Internet member institutions. The high-performance networks participating in the Internet2 project provide the environment in which new network applications and capabilities can be deployed and tested. Thousands of K-12 schools are now also connected to Internet2, providing schoolchildren with unprec-edented educational opportunities and teachers with new op-portunities for professional development.

JDSUwww.jdsu.com408-546-5000

Key Products: Fiber optic communications components and testing equipment including attenuators, circulators, couplers/splitters/WDMs, detectors/receivers, transmission, amplification, wavelength management modules, circuit packs, optical test platform

Summary: JDSU is a provider of optical products and test and measurement solutions for telecommunications service provid-ers, cable operators and network equipment manufacturers. It provides the building blocks required for Agile Optical Net-works (AONs) – enabling systems that can be managed re-motely and respond dynamically to changes in network traffic patterns. JDSU was formed in 1999 with the merger of JDS Fitel, known for its passive optical components, and Uniphase Corporation, known for its active components and lasers, and it has acquired 26 companies since then. JDSU is now one of the largest providers of fiber optic test solutions in the world, thanks to its acquisitions of Westover Scientific, Innocor, Casa-byte, Test-Um and Acterna. With sales and distribution in more than 160 countries, JDSU serves an expanded customer base that includes the largest 100 telecommunications and cable ser-vices providers and system manufacturers worldwide. Based in Milpitas, California, JDSU has 4,244 employees. Revenue was more than $1.5 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008.

KGP Logisticswww.kgplogistics.com800-755-3004

Key Products: Outside plant, central office, datacomm, transmission, customer premises and broadband products

Summary: KGP Logistics, formerly EMBARQ Logistics until it was acquired by KGP Telecommunications in March 2009, has been providing the telecommunications industry with sup-ply chain and distribution services for more than 30 years. The company’s national distribution network comprises 10 regional distribution centers located strategically across the United States and 10 product manufacturing facilities that provide fiber and copper factory-terminated cable, custom assemblies, and assem-ble, wire and test (AWT) services along with complete engineer, furnish and install (EF&I) services. KGP distributes voice, video, data and wireless products of more than 1,500 manufacturers, ranging from basic communications craft tools and supplies to broadband network equipment. Markets served include Region-al Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), independent telephone companies, municipalities, public utilities, contractors, installa-tion companies, OEMs and Internet service providers.

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Leviton Manufacturingwww.leviton.com718-229-4040

Key Products: Premises wiring, outside plant, central office solutions and home automation products

Summary: Founded in 1906, Leviton Manufacturing is lo-cated in Little Neck, New York, and provides voice, data and home networking products for industrial, commercial, OEM and residential markets as well as basic electrical infrastructure and energy management products. Leviton takes fiber con-nectivity all the way from the central office to the jack inside the house, with fiber-to-the-home solutions including optical distribution cabinets, pedestals, drop terminals, network inter-face devices, fiber optic enclosures, optical splice components and accessories and fiber optic cable assemblies. The voice and data division produces both fiber and copper products at its manufacturing complex in Bothell, Washington. Residential structured cabling and home control products are offered to builders and homeowners through Leviton Integrated Net-works and Controls. In January 2007, Leviton joined forces with Microsoft to offer homeowners a way to remotely control lighting and other Z-Wave-enabled home automation schemes using many popular consumer electronic products. Last year Leviton acquired ControlThink, a home and building control software and services company. In September 2008, the com-pany teamed up with ViewSonic Corp. to combine its Vizia RF + wireless home lighting with ViewSonic’s Z-Wave technology-based touch panel.

LTS Groupwww.LTSCompany.com; www.mycomspan.com; www.ledcor.com858-566-6030

Key Products: Development, design, deployment, operation and maintenance of fiber optic and wireless communications networks

Summary: Headquartered in San Diego, California, with of-fices throughout the US and Canada, LTS Group is an op-erations outsource partner that provides its customers with solutions ranging from designing, building and maintaining national and regional networks to high-volume field operations work. LTS has more than 400 telecom technicians in addi-tion to mobile project-oriented experienced field deployment crews. This past year, LTS re-entered the near-shore submarine market and expanded its suite of services in the wireless space. In 2007, the LTS Group acquired local telecommunications operator ComSpan USA to form ComSpan Communications, a full-service FTTP network operator in Oregon with a strat-egy of expanding into neighboring states. ComSpan now oper-

ates four fiber-to-the-home networks in addition to its original Roseburg network. LTS is part of the Ledcor Group of Com-panies, a multibillion-dollar private construction and managed services company with over 60 years of industry experience and more than 5,000 employees. Ledcor provides managed telecommunication services, building construction, heavy civil construction, industrial construction and property develop-ment services across Canada and the US. The Canadian head-quarters of the parent company is in Vancouver.

LUS Fiberwww.lus.org, www.lusfiber.com337-993-4237

Key Products: Digital voice, video, Internet access and community intranet access over an FTTH network

Summary: Lafayette Utilities System, a department of the Lafayette, Louisiana, Consolidated Government, operates LUS Fiber, the first community-owned all-fiber optic network in Louisiana. The utility, which had operated a wholesale fiber network since 2002, began offering triple-play services to resi-dents and small businesses early this year after prevailing in a legal battle that lasted for several years. When the buildout is completed in 2011, the network will pass all of the premises in this city of about 120,000 – making it the largest munici-pal network in the United States. LUS involved the com-munity to an unusual degree in planning the network and the services to be delivered over it, holding a series of public forums to discover what local residents and businesses wanted from the fiber-to-the-home network and proactively trying to avoid increasing the digital divide. Based on community input, LUS Fiber not only offers residential Internet access at speeds up to 50 Mbps (upstream as well as downstream), but provides all subscribers with symmetrical 100 Mbps access to a peer-to-peer community intranet. Another unusual offering is the TV Web portal, which provides basic Internet access to residents without a computer. Additional high-bandwidth applications are planned for the future.

Martin Groupwww.martin-group.com877-996-9646

Key Products: BSS/OSS solutions, business and engineering services

Summary: Founded in 1970, Martin Group is a global provider of enterprise-wide business support systems/operations support systems (BSS/OSS) solutions, next-generation engineering ser-vices and consulting services. With nearly 40 years of commu-nications experience, Martin Group provides solutions and ser-


vices that enable communications providers to offer any service over any network. The company’s team of software developers, engineers, regulatory specialists and business process experts serve more than 250 clients around the world. Martin Group is headquartered in Mitchell, South Dakota, with additional of-fices in Rapid City, South Dakota, and Missoula, Montana.

MetaSwitchwww.metaswitch.com510-748-8230

Key Products: Class 4/5 softswitch, application suite, subscriber interface, network management system

Summary: MetaSwitch is a provider of carrier systems and software solutions that power the migration of communi-cations networks to open, packet-based architectures. The MetaSwitch open softswitch architecture enables the delivery of VoIP, TDM and next-generation telephony services, and in-teroperates with a wide range of legacy equipment. MetaSphere is a unified set of communications services, including Hosted IP PBX, designed to create new revenue streams for network

operators and to provide a cost-effective solution for modern-izing legacy services. CommPortal is a subscriber interface enabling access to key telephony and messaging applications from the subscriber’s phone, TV, mobile device and computer. MetaView Network Management System enables MetaSwitch networks to be provisioned and administered through a GUI client or via integration with third-party OSS platforms. Based on open standards, including IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), MetaSwitch solutions scale from a few hundred to millions of subscribers. MetaSwitch has more than 900 deployments worldwide, ranging from Tier 1 global carriers to regional service providers and including operators of wireline, cellu-lar, broadband wireless, cable and fiber networks. For 2008, MetaSwitch reported revenues of $118.1 million, with profits of $22.2 million. The company is privately held by investment firms Francisco Partners and Sequoia Capital, as well as by the Employee Benefit Trust (EBT).

Michels Corporationwww.michels.us920-583-3132

Key Products: Fiber optic network design and construction, including outside plant construction, structured cabling and fiber splicing and testing

PBN’s next generation terminal makes it easy for customers to deploy a true triple-

play solution with a flick of a switch. Through a strong history in broadband access solutions, PBN really

understands the nuts and bolts to designing and developing products and solutions that make real technical

sense to Network Operators and their customers. A single box provides all functionality for an entire

community network with up to 512 subscribers per GEOLT unit. Options for CATV RF overlay and RFoG

return paths are readily available to support legacy DOCSIS and video on demand applications as well.

PBN’s next generation terminal makes it easy for customers to deploy a true triple-

play solution with a flick of a switch. Through a strong history in broadband access solutions, PBN really

understands the nuts and bolts to designing and developing products and solutions that make real technical

sense to Network Operators and their customers. A single box provides all functionality for an entire

community network with up to 512 subscribers per GEOLT unit. Options for CATV RF overlay and RFoG

return paths are readily available to support legacy DOCSIS and video on demand applications as well.

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Summary: Michels Corporation, an international engineering and construction contractor based in Brownsville, Wisconsin, began in 1959 as a pipeline construction company and entered the telecommunications industry four years later. Today it has two divisions serving the telecommunications industry. Mi-chels Communications specializes in fiber optic network con-struction in all sectors of the industry, from local telephone and long distance companies to cable TV providers, education and the enterprise sectors. In 1983, Michels was one of the first companies to construct fiber lines and it now constructs thou-sands of miles of fiber optic and broadband networks each year. Mi-Tech Services, the second telecom division, is a full-service engineering firm offering FTTx solutions including cable res-toration, outside plant planning and design, project manage-ment and right-of-way acquisition.

Montclair Fiber Opticswww.montclairfiber.com608-831-4440

Key Products: Optical splitters, CWDMs, WDMs and amplifiers

Summary: Since 1995 Montclair has been offering optical products such as PLC splitters, CWDMs, WDMs, attenua-

tors, high-power amplifiers, EDFAs for CATV, CATV optical receiver modules, DBS optical receiver modules, media con-verters, optical Ethernet switches, optical network units, OEO converters, circulators, interconnectivity products and fiber management and accessories, alldesigned and environmental-ly tested to meet industry-standard (Telcordia) requirements for FTTx applications. The company’s products are installed throughout North America, enduring some of the harshest en-vironments. Customers include telcos, CATV operators, utili-ties and municipalities, developers, contractors/installers and OEMs. The company has seven employees.

Motorola Home & Networks Mobility Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutionswww.motorola.comHome & Networks Mobility: 888-944-HELPEnterprise Mobility: 866-515-5825

Key Products: Broadband, video and access technologies including fiber-to-the-x solutions, RFOG, metro WiFi, modems, VoIP, WiMAX and LTE, home entertainment and networking

Summary: Motorola Home and Networks Mobility delivers advanced broadband services to the home, in the home and beyond. Delivery mechanisms include fiber optic, xDSL, and hybrid fiber coax in addition to WiMAX and LTE networks. Fiber solutions include GPON central-office and customer-premises equipment, a Passive Optical LAN enterprise solu-tion, and an RFOG solution for cable operators. The com-pany’s digital video headend technology feeds more than 80 million homes worldwide. Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solu-tions offers enterprise, government and municipal customers wireless broadband technologies and applications designed to



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seamlessly deliver IP coverage to indoor and outdoor spaces. The portfolio includes point-to-multipoint and point-to-point fixed broadband solutions, mesh wide-area networks, enter-prise wireless LAN, Motorola AirDefense wireless security and WiMAX solutions for private and public networks. In 2008, Motorola had sales of $30.1 billion.

Multicomwww.multicominc.com800-423-2594

Key Products: Fiber optic cables, connectors, receivers, amplifiers, attenuators, enclosures, splitters, splicers, tools, coaxial cables, hybrid fiber and coax systems, optoelectronics; design and VoIP services

Summary: Multicom is a manufacturer and full-line stocking distributor of broadband products for end-to-end integration of communications solutions. Established in 1982, Multicom has a multimillion-dollar inventory, stocking more than 13,000 products from more than 270 of the world’s major manufactur-ers. These products are used to acquire, process and distribute audio, video, television and data signals over fiber optics, cop-per, and coax cable. The company offers versatile solutions for FTTx, MFH2 and the digital transition. Multicom’s design and engineering team has worked throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. Recent design projects include the Madeira Condominiums on Marco Island, Florida; the Norris Inpatient Tower in University of Southern California University Hospital in Los Angeles; the Puerto Rican Convention Center in San Juan; the National Park Seminary in Washington, DC; and the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio. Multicom also sells retail and wholesale VoIP services through its Mconnect subsidiary. Multicom is headquartered in Orlan-do, Florida, and maintains sales offices, rep agencies and subdis-tributors throughout North America and Latin America.

Multilink www.multilinkone.com 440-366-6966

Key Products: Network power supplies, enclosures and cabinets; fiber distribution and cable management solutions; MDU enclosures; raceway and pathway solutions

Summary: Multilink, which was founded in 1983, continues to evolve from a manufacturer of telecommunications network components to a worldwide supplier and integrator of end-to-end bundled solutions. The company’s customers include in-dependent telcos, regional Bell operating companies, utilities, local area network providers and cable TV MSOs. Products are

designed to meet the needs of both legacy plant and new tech-nology applications; the company’s new product development has been focused on fiber optic–based solutions, including new hinged overlay molding for FTTH deployment in MDU buildings. Based in Elyria, Ohio, Multilink is privately owned and has 162 employees.

Occam Networkswww.occamnetworks.com805-692-2900

Key Products: IP- and Ethernet-based Broadband Loop Carrier and related telecommunications access equipment

Summary: Occam Networks is a broadband access supplier offering multiservice access platform (MSAP) solutions based on pure packet technologies. The company’s broadband ac-cess solutions enable service providers to offer voice, data and video services over copper and fiber. Occam systems empha-size a combination of simple design, flexibility and scalability, especially important for service providers transitioning from all-copper networks to copper/fiber or all-fiber networks. More than 2 million BLC 6000 ports are currently deployed at more than 315 service providers in North America and the Carib-bean. In 2008-2009, Occam announced its first Tier 2 GPON design win; launched the Occam OS 6.1 operating system, a common OS that supports both copper and optical products; and added a line of six GPON optical network terminals with extensive configuration options for residential and business services. The company offers on its Web site a comprehensive repository of information and commentary on the broadband stimulus package created by the American Recovery and Re-investment Act.

OFSwww.ofsoptics.com770-798-4000; 888-342-3743

Key Products: Optical fiber, optical cable, fiber management and connectivity products for homes, businesses and MDUs, splicers, network design services

Summary: OFS, a Furukawa company, designs, manufactures and supplies optical fiber, optical fiber cable, specialty photon-ics, and optical connectivity products and solutions for many applications. Headquartered near Atlanta, Georgia, OFS is a global provider with facilities in North America and Europe and sales offices around the world. The company’s heritage goes back to Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the tele-


phone, and includes technology powerhouses such as Bell Labs, AT&T and Lucent Technologies. Since 2001 OFS has been a subsidiary of Furukawa Electric, a global leader in optical com-munications founded in 1884 and based in Japan. OFS’ latest breakthrough, ultra-bend-insensitive EZ-Bend optical cables, offer fast and easy installation for MDU and in-home wiring applications. Other OFS brands include the FOX Solution (Fi-ber Optics to the X), an end-to-end FTTx offering to fiber-con-nect homes, businesses and multiple dwelling units; the V-Linx Spool & Play Solution for MDU applications; FITEL fusion splicers; full-spectrum AllWave FLEX ZWP bend-optimized fiber; ORBITAL fiber management cabinets; and all-dry Fortex DT and AccuRibbon DC cables. OFS can also help optimize network designs with its OptiCost FTTx Modeling Services.

On Tracwww.ontracinc.net 423-317-0009

Key Products: Fiber splicing, FTTH installation (video, voice, data), commercial installation, MDU design/installation, consulting, system audits, inventory management, project management, safety training

Summary: Based in Tennessee, On Trac provides services for the FTTH industry, including telephone companies, utilities and municipalities across the country. On Trac has connected over 75,000 premises to FTTH networks, with both aerial and underground drops. Customers include Auburn Essential Ser-vices in Auburn, Indiana; Bristol Tennessee Essential Services in Bristol, Tennessee; Clarksville Department of Electricity in Clarksville, Tennessee; Dalton Utilities in Dalton, Georgia; and GVTC in New Braunfels, Texas.

Optelianwww.optelian.com877-225-9428, 770-690-9575

Key Products: Optical transport systems for access, metro and regional networks, test equipment

Summary: Optelian’s LightGAIN systems provide transpar-ent, carrier-grade optical transport for telecom, multiservice operator (MSO), utility and enterprise customers worldwide. LightGAIN is used for xWDM, reach extension, path protec-tion and FTTx applications in all parts of the network from en-terprise and access to long-haul. Power-saving LightGAIN fea-tures pluggable and tunable optics from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps, amplification and dispersion compensation, and complete net-work management with optical service channel (OSC). Light-GAIN 3060 is ideal for enterprise and remote terminals, 5140 for small power consumption and footprint, and 6140 for high port density. Founded in 2002, Optelian has facilities in Ot-tawa and in the Atlanta area. The company’s design and manu-facturing is fully in-house in North America, and it has sales and support partnerships worldwide.

Optical Cable Corporationwww.occfiber.com540-265-0690

Key Products: Fiber optic and copper cabling, connectors, boxes, other networking solutions

Summary: Optical Cable Corporation manufactures fiber op-tic and copper data communications cabling and connectiv-ity solutions primarily for the enterprise market, offering an integrated suite of products that operate as a system solution or seamlessly integrate with other providers’ offerings. Opti-

Customer-Premises Equipment (Other than optical network terminals) Includes set-top boxes, modems, routers, resi-

dential gateways, etc.

Company Name Web Address2Wire www.2wire.com

Actiontec www.actiontec.com

Advanced Digital Broadcast www.adbglobal.com


Amino www.aminocom.com

Arris www.arrisi.com

Aztech www.aztech.com


Comtrend www.comtrend.com

Eagle Broadband www.eaglebroadband.com

Entone www.entone.com

Leviton www.leviton.com

Motorola www.motorola.com


Pirelli Broadband Solutions www.pirelli.com

Ruckus Wireless www.ruckuswireless.com

Samsung www.samsung.com

Telect www.telect.com

Thomson www.thomson.net

ZyXEL Communications www.us.zyxel.com


cal Cable Corporation pioneered the design and production of fiber optic cables for demanding military field applications, as well as fiber optic cables suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. With the acquisition of SMP Data Communications in May 2008, the company gained copper connectivity data com-munications solutions. Offerings include products designed for commercial, enterprise network, data center, residential and campus installations and customized products for specialty ap-plications and harsh environments including military, indus-trial, mining and broadcast applications. Products include fiber optic cable, copper and fiber optic connectors, copper and fiber optic patch cords, racks, cabinets, datacom enclosures, patch panels, face plates, multimedia boxes and cable and connectiv-ity management accessories. Founded in 1983, Optical Cable Corporation is headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, with of-fices and manufacturing and warehouse facilities located in Roanoke and near Asheville, North Carolina.

Pace Internationalwww.paceintl.com507-424-4900; 800-444-7223

Key Products: Distribution of DISH Network content and hardware and DISH Network-approved installation materials and accessories; hardware and tools for commercial-grade satellite TV, cable TV, home theater and audio; tools and kitting services; meters and test equipment; Televes QAM distribution equipment; fiber products; technical support and training, SBCA training, call center; billing services; back-office support services

Summary: Pace is a national distributor of hardware, content and installation tools for communications companies in the

multiplatform industry. As an authorized distributor for DISH Network, the company offers the full lineup of DISH Network hardware and content to operators. Pace carries the industry’s most recognized product manufacturers as well as a private-la-bel product line. The company offers end-to-end hardware and content solutions for PCOs, REITs, retailers, property owners, operators, and telcos targeting triple-play communities. Turn-key services include system design, technical support, ‘Built, Balanced and Burned’ analog and QAM headends, billing and customer support. The company provides its proprietary Mas-ter Vendor Procurement services to Fortune 100 clients in the consumer electronics industry. Founded in 1972, Pace operates from its headquarters in Rochester, Minnesota, and through facilities in Denver, Colorado, and Ningbo, China.

Pacific Broadband Networks (PBN)www.pbnglobal.com, www.pbnamericas.com703-579-6777

Key Products: FTTH electronics and network management software; optical nodes for HFC networks; optical headend equipment; optical accessories including couplers, patch cords and multiplexers

Summary: PBN is a supplier of advanced optical broadband access products and network solutions. Its headend equip-ment, network management and access products are suitable for HFC, FTTH, RFOG, Ethernet and DOCSIS applications. PBS’s product portfolio is designed to enable network opera-tors to bridge the gap between existing and emerging technolo-gies. Customers include major telcos and MSOs serving tens of millions of subscribers around the world. PBN is privately held and based in Australia, with research and development facilities in Melbourne and Beijing and offices in Australia, China, Europe and the Americas. PBN is also well represented by channel partners globally.

“Going beyond the emerging services currently available, such as video downloads and uploads and the tools that make

working at home possible, we’ll find applications like remote energy management, remote health monitoring and home concierge service

(in MDUs). All of these capabilities require a broadband connection with enough bandwidth to support these applications....Verizon has

invested in those capacities to ensure that our customers always get the best service at the speeds and capacities they need.

No broadband customer should ask for anything less.”– Eric Cevis, President, Verizon Enhanced Communities


Preformed Line Productswww.preformed.com440-461-5200

Key Products: Cable anchoring and control hardware and systems, fiber optic and copper splice closures, and high-speed cross-connect devices

Summary: Founded in 1947, Preformed Line Products is an international designer and manufacturer of products and sys-tems employed in the construction and maintenance of over-head and underground networks for energy, communications and broadband network companies. PLP’s customer base in-

cludes telecommunications network operators, cable television and broadband service providers, power utilities, corporations and enterprise networks, government agencies and educational institutions. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the compa-ny operates three domestic manufacturing centers located in Rogers, Arkansas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Albemarle, North Carolina. PLP serves worldwide markets through inter-national operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Eng-land, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, Spain and Thailand. Net sales for 2008 were $269.7 million.

Company Name Web Address3M Company www.3M.com/telecom

A-D Technologies www.adtechnologies.com

ADC www.adc.com


Alliance Fiber Optic Products www.afop.com

Antronix www.antronix.com

Calient Networks www.calient.com

Calix www.calix.com

Channell Commercial Corporation www.channellcomm.com

Charles Industries Ltd. www.charles industries.com

Clearfield www.clearfield connection.com

CommScope www.commscope.com

Corning Cable Systems www.corning cablesystems.com

Draka Communications www.draka americas.com

Emerson Network Power www.emerson networkpower.com

Emtelle www.emtelle.com


FiberZone Networks www.fiberzone- networks.com

Harmonic www.harmonicinc.com

Company Name Web AddressLeviton www.leviton.com

MRV Communications www.mrv.com


Multilink www.multilinkone.com

Occam Networks www.occamnetworks.com


Optelian www.optelian.com

Optical Cable Corporation www.occfiber.com

Preformed Line Products www.preformed.com

Prysmian www.prysmian.com

Radiant Communications www.rccfiber.com

SENKO Advanced Components www.senko.com

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave www.sumitomoelectric.com

Suttle www.suttleonline.com

Telect www.telect.com


TeraSpan www.teraspan.com

Timbercon www.timbercon.com

TXP www.txpcorp.com

Tyco Electronics www.tycoelectronics.com

Westek Electronics www.westek.com

Zhone Technologies www.zhone.com

Fiber Management Includes cabinets, cross-connect panels, splitters, aggregators, pedestals, connectors, duct, conduit, etc.


Prysmianwww.prysmian.com803-951-4800; 800-713-5312

Key Products: Optical fibers and telecommunication cables

Summary: Headquartered in Milan, Italy, with US headquar-ters in Lexington, South Carolina, Prysmian has multiple pro-duction facilities worldwide and supplies products to most of the world’s largest telecom operators, including optical fiber, optical cable, copper cable, FTTx passive solutions, premises/data cable and connectivity hardware. With its two business divisions, Energy Cables and Systems and Telecom Cables and Systems, Prysmian boasts a global presence with subsidiaries in 38 countries, 53 plants in 21 countries, 7 research and devel-opment centers in Europe, North America and South Amer-ica, and more than 12,000 employees. In the past few years Prysmian has supplied millions of meters of fiber for FTTH in the US alone, where projects range in size from individual municipalities to large-scale rollouts. Prysmian’s sales in 2008 exceeded 5 billion euro ($7 billion). Last year the company announced a contract with Andorra Telecom that will help the Principality of Andorra become the first country in the world to provide a direct optical fiber link to all homes and busi-nesses. Recent product releases include the bend-insensitive CasaLight family of fibers which, together with the VertiCasa

cabling system for multiple dwelling unit applications, enables fast, low-cost rollout of FTTH.

Quanta Serviceswww.quantaservices.com713-629-7600

Key Products: Design, construction, installation and maintenance of broadband fiber optic, copper, coaxial cable and wireless networks

Summary: Quanta offers the entire spectrum of broadband installation and maintenance services, whether for inside or outside plant facilities; analog or digital signals; coaxial, fiber optic or hybrid transmission; or residential or commercial net-works. The company provides the expertise to get headend fa-cilities up and running and supports all the requisite existing and emerging technologies. Services include rack installation, engineering, long-term site and system planning and project management. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Quanta, which has about 14,000 employees, has offices in 40 states and operates throughout the US and Canada. Revenues for 2008


were $3.78 billion, compared with $2.66 billion for 2007. Cus-tomers include AT&T, Qwest, Verizon Communications and many leading energy utilities.

Senko Advanced Components www.senko.com508-481-9999

Key Products: Fiber distribution panels, network access terminals, fiber protection equipment, fiber cleaning and inspection equipment, splitter modules, couplers, attenuators, connectors and adapters

Summary: Senko Advanced Components develops, manu-factures, markets and distributes more than 1,000 fiber optic products for the telecom and datacom industries worldwide. Its “Intelligent Building Solution” facilitates the distribution of advanced high-bandwidth services such as HDTV and tele-medicine within commercial buildings, multifamily buildings, hotels, hospitals and educational institutions. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Boston, Senko Advanced Components is a subsidiary of Senko Group in Japan. It has 1,500 employees and is privately held.

Smithvillewww.smithville.netwww.smithvilledigital.net812-876-2211

Key Products: Telephone, long distance, Internet, cellular and home security services

Summary: Headquartered in Ellettsville, Indiana, privately owned Smithville is Indiana’s largest independent telecom company. The company is currently working on bringing FTTH services, with 100 Mbps residential Internet access, to 30,000 residential homes and businesses in southern Indiana. Its subsidiary Smithville Digital operates the Indiana Digital Gateway, a Metro Ethernet network providing connectivity for businesses, health care providers and government offices near Bloomington and French Lick, Indiana. The Digital Gateway’s fiber optic technology allows for both last-mile connectivity and network management solutions to help customers meet their data transmission needs. Founded in 1922 as Smithville Tele-phone Company, today Smithville employs about 200 people.

Spirent Communicationswww.spirent.com 408-752-7100

Key Products: Remote diagnostics, handheld solutions and lab test solutions to evaluate performance of next-generation technologies

Summary: Spirent provides tools for service management and field testing of new communications services and applications, as well as enabling large companies and governments to secure and manage their networks. In addition, Spirent’s engineers provide counsel to many of the leading communications stan-dards organizations and have pioneered testing of Ethernet networks, IP telephony, VPNs, triple play, CDMA applica-tions, and location-based services. Currently, Spirent is help-ing to test the first deployments of next-generation networks in Asia, Europe and North America. Areas of expertise include:

Fiber and Fiber CableThese firms supply optical fiber and cable for fiber ac-cess deployments.


3M Company www.3M.com/telecom

ADC www.adc.com


Belden www.belden.com

CommScope www.commscope.com

Corning, Corning www.corning.com, Cable Systems www.corningcable systems.com

Draka Communications www.draka americas.com

Emtelle www.emtelle.com


General Cable www.generalcable.com


Nexans www.nexans.com, www.nexansinterface.com


Optical Cable Corporation www.occfiber.com

Prysmian www.prysmian.com

Sumitomo Electric www.sumitomo Lightwave electric.com

Timbercon www.timbercon.com


broadband networking (DSL, gigabit Ethernet, and IP), con-vergence (VoIP, IP VPNs, IPTV), next-generation Internet (IPv6), wireless (CDMA, UMTS, location-based services), en-terprise networks (load testing, system performance, network security) and satellite navigation (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo). Spirent’s corporate headquarters are in the United Kingdom and its operational headquarters are in Sunnyvale, California. The company, which has 1,500 employees worldwide, had rev-enues of $424.6 million in 2008.

Steeplechase Networks www.scnets.com413-229-0030

Key Products: Network planning and support, application aggregation

Summary: Steeplechase Networks is a is a software and ser-vices provider that partners with network operators to aggregate and deliver applications and content to for public and private community networks throughout North America – ranging from a community-based WISP in Massachusetts, to wireless broadband and security infrastructure for gated communities in Florida and Southern California, to a regional FTTH net-work in Virginia. Steeplechase brings support and technology to network operators, enabling them to deliver advanced Web services to their subscribers. Steeplechase’s product suite enables network operators to deliver more than just “triple-play” services but allows them to make the communities they serve healthier, greener, and smarter. Steeplechase selects and tests best-in-class network equipment and value-added services, including essen-tials like remote backup and restore services as well as special-interest features like energy management, gaming networks, video services, online music lessons and medical monitoring. Based in Southfield, Massachusetts, Steeplechase was founded in 2005 and is privately held.

Sumitomo Electric Lightwavewww.sumitomoelectric.com919-541-8100; 800-358-7378

Key Products: Optical fiber cable, fusion splicers and accessories, termination products, splitters and other network passive components, FTTH solutions, FutureFLEX Air-blown Fiber Infrastructure for the LAN.

Summary: Sumitomo may be best known for introducing the first peelable optical fiber ribbon and mass fusion splicing to the US. Recent FTTH introductions include the industry’s first ribbon drop cable and an expanded dry cable line with new dry loose-tube cable. Sumitomo Electric Lightwave serves the major public network provider, ILEC, CATV, municipal and enterprise network markets. A wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI), Sumitomo Electric Lightwave is located in Research Triangle Park, North Caro-

lina. Its many first-to-market introductions in North America include gel-free ribbon cable, hostile-environment cable, bend-insensitive drop cables, automated cleavers, and the industry’s only dual-heater splicers. SEL was also first in North America to introduce air-blown fiber technology, its FutureFLEX Air-blown Fiber enterprise network infrastructure system. Because any type and count of fiber can be blown in and out of the net-work microduct undamaged, the system allows the provider to install only the amount of fiber and bandwidth needed at a giv-en time. FutureFLEX customers include the Pentagon; Mayo Clinic and other hospitals and systems; National Institutes of Health (NIH); DFW, McCarren, Logan, and many other air-ports; MGM Grand; NASA; Toyota; Johns Hopkins Univer-sity; and Duke Energy Center. Sumitomo Electric Lightwave was established in 1984. Its parent company generated revenues of $21.6 billion for the year ending in March, 2009.

SureWest Communications www.surewest.com 866-787-3937

Key Products: Video, voice and data services delivered over fiber-to-the-home, hybrid fiber/coaxial (HFC) and DSL access networks

Summary: SureWest, the major telecom player in the Sacra-mento area, is one of the largest fiber-to-the-home providers in the United States with more than 150,000 residential custom-ers and 15,000 business customers in the greater Sacramento and Kansas City regions. The company sold its wireless opera-tions to Verizon in May and is expanding its broadband busi-ness, as evidenced by its 2008 acquisition of Everest Broad-band, a data, video and voice provider in the Kansas City area. SureWest, which has about 900 employees, posted revenues of $230.4 million for 2008.

Suttlewww.suttleonline.com 800-852-8662

Key Products: Structured cabling solutions; enclosures and connectors for voice, data and video equipment

Summary: Founded in 1910, Suttle is a manufacturer of com-munication connectivity products for major service providers and installers. The company’s legacy was built on traditional telephony connection hardware. Today, Suttle is one of the only manufacturers capable of supplying a complete, high-quality, triple-play connectivity offering for voice, data, and video com-munications. Its fiber connectivity product line includes a field termination system, connectors, fiber panels, assemblies and a variety of other complementary products. Headquartered


in Hector, Minnesota, Suttle is a wholly owned subsidiary of Communications Systems Inc., a publicly traded company. The company’s quality management systems are ISO 9001 and TL9000 registered. Sales in 2008 were $44.4 million.

Team Fishelwww.teamfishel.com614-274-8100; 800-347-4351

Key Products: Utility construction and network installation services

Summary: With more than 70 years of experience in the tele-communications industry, Team Fishel specializes in the design and construction of first-mile residential fiber optic networks. Customers include telecommunications and broadband com-munications providers, gas distribution companies, electrical utility companies, government agencies, public and private en-terprises, commercial and residential developers, general con-

tractors and educational institutions. Team Fishel’s Corning-certified FTTx designers and network engineers work closely with customers to design the optical access architecture, secure rights of way and all the required permits with the municipal-ity, and coordinate with the developers and other utilities. By designing residential duct systems and using joint trench in-stallation techniques, Team Fishel provides cost-effective FTTx delivery systems and new revenue opportunities for greenfield deployments. Established in October 1936, Team Fishel now has 22 offices nationwide and 1,250 “teammates,” or employ-ees. The company is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Telco Systemswww.telco.com800-227-0937

Key Products: Carrier Ethernet access products including active Ethernet (P2P) CPE gateways, demarcation devices, aggregation and multiservice switches

Summary: Founded in 1972 and based in Foxboro, Massa-chusetts, Telco Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BATM


ADTRAN www.adtran.com


Allot Communications www.allot.com

Amdocs www.amdocs.com

Anritsu www.anritsu.com

Arbor Networks www.arbornetworks.com

Aricent www.aricent.com

Arris www.arrisi.com

Bivio Networks www.bivio.net

Calix www.calix.com

Capanis Networks www.capanis.com


Comarch www.comarch.com

Communications Data Group www.cdg.ws

Comverse www.comverse.com

Convergys www.convergys.com

ECI Telecom www.ecitele.com


ETI Software Solutions www.etisoftware.com


Fine Point Technologies www.finepoint.com

Great Lakes Data Systems www.glds.com

Harmonic www.harmonicinc.com

Highdeal (SAP) www.highdeal.com

HP www.hp.com

Logisense www.logisense.com

Martin Group www.martin-group.com

MetaSwitch www.metaswitch.com

Openet www.openet.com



Phoenix Broadband www.phoenixbroadband.com

Procera Networks www.proceranetworks.com

Sandvine www.sandvine.com

Telcordia www.telcordia.com



Xangati www.xangati.com

Zeugma Systems www.zeugmasystems.com

Network Management Solutions Includes OSS and software for network monitoring, optimization,

provisioning, service management, subscriber management, billing, etc.


Advanced Communications, offers multiservice Carrier Eth-ernet access and demarcation solutions that enable carriers and service providers to deploy highly reliable and manageable Ethernet services to business and residential subscribers. The product suite includes solutions for residential FTTH, intelli-gent demarcation and Ethernet service delivery for commercial applications, and Metro Ethernet Access Rings. In February 2008, Telco Systems acquired Charles Industries’ broadband multiplexer product line. This year the company launched an active Ethernet portal, www.active-eth.com, to provide re-sources for potential FTTH deployers. Telco also announced the expansion of its FTTH offerings with the introduction of the EdgeGate 242W, an indoor wireless-enabled active Ether-net residential gateway, and an enhanced EdgeGate 483 out-door CPE gateway with dual 1 Gigabit uplinks.

Telect www.telect.com 800-551-4567

Key Products: Fiber optic and copper connectivity solutions, network power management, outdoor enclosures, cable management systems, cables and patch cords, home networking solutions

Summary: With more than a quarter century of experience in communications connectivity and power management, Telect provides solutions for the network’s physical layer from the central office or data center to the outside plant and into the home. In addition to central-office communications solu-tions including cable management, copper and Ethernet con-nectivity, fiber optic distribution, power distribution, equip-ment racks and cabinets, Telect offers outside plant solutions

for housing network equipment, as well as structured cabling and access switching systems for the home, MDU/MTU or small office. Telect is a privately held company headquartered in Liberty Lake, Washington. The company also has facilities in Plano, Texas (manufacturing and systems integration) and Guadalajara, Mexico (manufacturing). Its 700 employees in-clude sales representatives around the globe.

Tellabswww.tellabs.com630-798-8800

Key Products: Access networking, digital cross-connect, IP/Ethernet, managed access, network management, optical networking and voice quality enhancement technologies

Summary: Tellabs, based in Naperville, Illinois, claims 41 of the top 50 global telecom service providers as customers for its access, mobile backhaul, optical networking and business ser-vices solutions. Customers include telecom service providers, independent operating companies, MSO/cable TV companies, enterprises and government agencies in more than 90 coun-tries. In 2008 Tellabs generated sales of $1.7 billion.

TeraSpanwww.teraspan.com877-VI-FIBER

Key Products: Micro-trenching fiber optic deployment solutions

Summary: Formed in 1997, TeraSpan Networks is a privately owned Canadian company that develops and deploys micro-trenched fiber optic networks, primarily for “last mile” fiber-to-the-business and fiber-to-the-home applications. TeraSpan’s Vertical Inlaid Fiber (VIF) System has been deployed globally for clients including Alcatel-Lucent, Shaw Cable Systems, the Port of Tacoma and Relacom Norway. In the US, TeraSpan partners with construction and engineering firms such as HP Communications to design and install VIF-based networks for carriers, businesses, schools, hospitals and municipalities. Compared with traditional underground deployment methods, TeraSpan’s patented micro-trenched solutions are nonintrusive and less disruptive to existing infrastructure, significantly re-ducing deployment time, labor and costs and improving time to market for new fiber optic services. TeraSpan recently en-tered into an agreement with construction firm Quanta Ser-vices that expands the US footprint of qualified installers of the TeraSpan VIF System. In addition, Quanta has developed new equipment, deployment and restoration techniques to further reduce the cost of TeraSpan installations.

“Design Nine’s intense focus on successful planning and

execution of broadband projects enables us to take our clients

from early-stage business and financial planning to having world-class integrated fiber

and wireless networks up and running quickly.”

- Andrew Cohill, President, Design Nine


Tetra Techwww.tetratech.com626-351-4664

Key Products: Communications services including network assessment and business planning, program and project management, property rights acquisition, zoning and permitting, design and engineering, and operations and maintenance

Summary: Based in Pasadena, California, Tetra Tech employs more than 9,000 people in 245 offices worldwide. Tetra Tech provides development and deployment for wired communica-tions systems. It plans, designs, permits, constructs and main-tains cell phone, coaxial cable and fiber optic networks. The company began in 1966 as an engineering company devoted to waterways and coastal areas, but branched out in 1997 to include communications services and now installs fiber optic networks worldwide. In June 2009, Tetra Tech acquired three companies that expand its geographic coverage and technical services: Tes-oro Corporation, Mussetter Engineering, and ACI Engineering. In 2008, the company had revenues of $2.14 billion.

Toner Cable Equipment www.tonercable.com 215-675-2053; 800-523-5947

Key Products: Digital television systems and solutions, integration of digital headends, conditional access systems, MPEG encoders, digital signal processing products, fiber optic cable, fiber links and systems, FTTH, coaxial cable, passives, connectors, tools, test equipment and amplifiers

Summary: Toner Cable Equipment is a large stocking distribu-tor of television signal distribution equipment used by the cable television industry, private cable operators, the hospitality indus-try, educational facilities, business broadcasters and other mar-kets. Toner provides equipment for the digital transition includ-ing QAM demods, digital processors and MPEG encoders. It has provided several large systems and educational facilities with hundreds of headends. Toner Cable is the largest distributor of equipment for Blonder Tongue, Pico Macom, RL Drake, Ol-son Technology, Ortel, Sadelco, Middle Atlantic, Cablematic, Videotek, Fiber Options and, just announced in April, Blankom. Toner offers solutions for comprehensive TV signal distribution over fiber, coax and unshielded twisted pair. Founded 38 years ago and employing 41 people, Toner Cable Equipment serves both government and international clients, offering expertise in international technical standards, formats and requirements. In addition to its headquarters in Horsham, Pennsylvania, Toner has divisions in the UK and Latin America.

TraceSpan Communicationswww.tracespan.com734-846-0549

Key Products: Monitoring and analysis systems

Summary: Established in 2002, TraceSpan develops and man-ufactures broadband monitoring solutions. Its performance analysis products, initially focused on ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+ and VDSL2, are designed for technology and chipset vendors, equipment manufacturers and broadband service providers. Its monitoring systems, the Phantom line, integrate with Lawful

Test and Measurement EquipmentCompany Name Web Address

3M Company/Communication Markets Division www.3M.com/telecom

ADC www.adc.com


Agilent www.agilent.com

Anritsu www.anritsu.com

Applied Instruments www.appliedin.com

Blonder-Tongue Laboratories www.blondertongue.com

Corning/Corning www.corning.com; Cable Systems www.corning cablesystems.com

Emerson Network Power www.emerson networkpower.com

EXFO www.exfo.com

Fluke www.fluke.com

Ineoquest www.ineoquest.com

Ixia www.ixiacom.com

JDSU www.jdsu.com

Multidyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems www.multidyne.com


RADCOM www.radcom.com

SENKO Advanced Components www.senko.com

Spirent Communications www.spirent.com

Sumitomo Electric www.sumitomo Lightwave electric.com

Sunrise Telecommunications www.sunrise telecom.com

Symmetricom www.symmttm.com

Tektronix www.tektronix.com


TraceSpan www.tracespan.com

Westek Electronics www.westek.com


Interception solutions to monitor and record data transparently for use by intelligence gathering agencies and law enforcement authorities. The recently released GPON Xpert is a modular tool designed for R&D, laboratory and field application en-gineers engaged in developing, testing and deploying GPON standard-compliant solutions. It passively records communi-cations between the OLT (optical line terminal) and ONTs (optical network terminals) and analyzes their adherence to the GPON standard, without using any vendor’s chipset. Trac-eSpan is a private US company with its North American office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a development center in Israel.

TT Technologies www.tttechnologies.com 800-533-2078

Key Products: Trenchless equipment including piercing tools, guided boring tools, pneumatic, static and lateral pipe bursting systems, pipe ramming tools, bentonite mixing systems, constant-tension winches, directional drills and mini directional drill rigs

Summary: TT Technologies specializes in trenchless technol-ogy, beginning with pneumatic boring tools. Today, with more than 200 patents worldwide, TT specializes in trenchless ap-

plications for pipe pulling, pipe ramming, pipe bursting, slip-lining and directional boring. Its customers are primarily con-tractors and municipalities. The company offers a nationwide network of regional customer service offices and distribution locations. It also presents comprehensive, hands-on training seminars at its corporate offices in Aurora, Illinois, as well as re-gional shows, seminars and demonstrations throughout North America each year.

Tyco Electronicswww.tycoelectronics.com610-893-9800

Key Products: Fiber optic cabling and the complete range of FTTH equipment between the optical line terminal and optical network terminal

Summary: Tyco Electronics’ Network Solutions division is a global supplier of infrastructure components and systems for the communication service provider, building networks and energy markets. Products include connectors, above- and below-ground enclosures, heat shrink sleeves, cable accessories, surge arrestors, fiber optic cabling, copper cabling and racks for copper and fiber networks; the fiber optic product line includes a complete range of products needed to cover the network functions between the

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optical line terminal and the optical network terminal. Tyco also supplies passive electronic components to communications and other markets. In 2009, Tyco Electronics joined the Cisco Tech-nology Developer Program as part of the program’s IP Commu-nication/Solution Enablers category. The program unites Cisco with third-party developers of hardware and software to deliver tested interoperable solutions to joint customers. In 2008, Tyco Electronics had sales of $14.8 billion to customers in more than 150 countries. The company has 7,000 engineers and worldwide manufacturing, sales and customer service capabilities.

UTOPIAwww.utopianet.org801-613-3800

Key Products: Construction and operation of an open access fiber-to-the-premises network

Summary: A governmental agency created by 16 Utah cities with a combined population of over 500,000, Utah Telecom-munication Open Infrastructure Agency (“UTOPIA”) builds and operates an open fiber-to-the-premises network that links multiple cities and fosters competition among communications service providers that offer Internet access, television, telephone and other services. After some initial difficulty with partners and funding, UTOPIA is emerging as an example of how a municipal model can bring fiber to rural areas that otherwise might not see it for years. The last twelve months have been the beginning of a dramatic turnaround for UTOPIA. UTOPIA restructured with an entirely new management team; began focusing more on business customers; brought on five new service providers and strengthened relationships with others; added long-haul network capabilities; created a 24/7 Network Operations Center; increased its subscriber base by over 14 per-cent; upgraded the network and achieved a five-nines reliability rating; and expanded service in three of its 16 cities. Current providers on the UTOPIA network include Fuzecore, Fibernet, Integra Telecom of Utah, Nuvont, Prime Time Communica-tions, Veracity and XMission. UTOPIA has 30 employees and generated revenues of $3.2 million in 2008.

Verizon Communications Verizon Enhanced Communities www.verizon.com/communities

Key Products: Verizon FiOS telecommunications services, including TV, Internet and phone, delivered over Verizon’s all-fiber network

Summary: Verizon Communications, headquartered in New York City with its operations center in Basking Ridge, New Jer-sey, markets FiOS services delivered over its fiber-to-the-premises network. As of March 2009, the FTTP network had passed 12.7

million premises with fiber and had 2.8 million FiOS Internet customers in about 2,000 communities – three-quarters of all FTTH customers in the US – and more than 2.2 million FiOS TV customers. Verizon’s FiOS Internet service offers residential connection speeds up to 50 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps upstream throughout the FiOS footprint. FiOS TV service of-fers over 100 HD channels, a DVR option and 14,000 video-on-demand choices, 70 percent of which are free. In addition to FiOS, Verizon offers DSL-based high-speed Internet service to residential and commercial customers. Verizon Enhanced Com-munities, a business unit of Verizon Communications, signs ac-cess, service and marketing agreements for Verizon FiOS with owners and developers of single-home developments, new apart-ment and condo and co-op high-rises, privatized military hous-ing, off-campus student housing and small commercial proper-ties to deliver Verizon FiOS. Verizon currently has more than 237,000 employees, and in 2008 it generated operating revenue of $97.4 billion, up 5.1 percent from 2007.

Vermeer Corporationwww.vermeer.com641-628-3141; 888-837-6337

Key Products: Horizontal directional drilling equipment, utility and pedestrian trenchers and plows

Summary: Located in Pella, Iowa, Vermeer Corporation is a manufacturer of agricultural, construction and environmental equipment. The company’s history of involvement in the fiber optics installation industry began in 1991 with its launch of the NAVIGATOR horizontal directional drill product line. Navigator HDD units, which combine durable construction with intelligent technology and high torque, are designed to install telecommunications lines underground without excava-tion or trenching, in order to minimize environmental disrup-tion. Vermeer drills have been instrumental in installing fiber optics around the world. Vermeer has 2,000 employees.

Westek Electronicswww.westek.com800-526-2673

Key Products: Telecom, medical and OEM “test and measurement” test cords, patch and hardwire cable connectivity

Summary: Founded in 1986, Westek manufactures custom fiber and coax test and patch cabling, cable assemblies, fiber jumpers, attenuators, adaptors, patches, cleaning kits, multi-breakouts, multi-fiber pullers (fiber connector insertion re-moval tools), web slitter kits and tech support laptop kits as well as the patented Tel-Line Tester & Tel-Line Tester Pro with onboard 5-Pin Fuse Testing. Westek uses highly durable, light-


weight, state-of-the art materials to manufacture and custom-ize cables and components as well as electronic test kits for communications systems. Westek can either work from client conceptual drawings or assist clients in generating designs. Cli-ents include Qwest, Verizon, AT&T and Fortune 1000 OEM clientele. Registered with Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance and based in Santa Cruz, California, Westek has more than 100 employees worldwide. In July 2009 Westek moved into a new state-of-the-art facility that houses all of its business units under one roof in Watsonville, California.

Windstream Communicationswww.windstream.com866-961-9463

Key Products: Voice, data and digital TV services

Summary: Headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, Wind-stream Communications offers telephone, broadband Internet access and satellite-based digital TV services to customers in 16 states. The company now offers Ethernet Internet access to small and medium businesses in all 16 states. Windstream is building fiber-to-the-home networks in new subdivisions with-in its service areas in at least nine states. The first FTTH net-work, in Canton, Georgia, was deployed in summer 2006, and dozens of others were announced subsequently. Windstream was formed through the spinoff of Alltel’s landline business and merger with VALOR Telecom. In 2007, the company ac-quired CT Communications. The merger adds approximately 132,000 access lines and 31,000 broadband customers, nearly doubling Windstream’s presence in North Carolina. In May 2009, the company announced the acquisition of D&E Com-munications. The merger will nearly double the company’s operating presence in Pennsylvania with the addition of ap-proximately 165,000 access lines and about 44,000 high-speed Internet customers. Windstream has approximately 3 million access lines, 1 million broadband customers, 7,300 employees, and about $3.2 billion in annual revenues.

Zhone Technologies www.zhone.com 510-777-7000; 877-946-6320

Key Products: Telecommunications equipment for multiservice broadband access, including multiservice platform integration of FTTx, Ethernet in the First Mile and wireless access technologies.

Summary: Zhone Technologies’ multiservice access solutions serve more than 700 network operators worldwide. The com-pany offers an integrated portfolio of MSAP, FTTx, EFM and WiFi access technologies, allowing providers to deliver access services including residential and business broadband, VoIP and high-definition IPTV over copper, fiber and wireless. Zhone is headquartered in California and its MSAP products are all manufactured in the United States, in a facility that is

emission-, wastewater- and CFC-free. The company, which has 350 employees, posted revenues of $146.1 million in 2008.

Zoomy Communicationswww.zoomyco.com970-928-7722

Key Products: Design, engineering, planning, project management, construction management, operation and maintenance of fiber-to-the-home networks

Summary: Zoomy Communications partners with developers and municipalities to provide communities with an amenity built on a fiber-to-the-home network and a suite of communi-cations, entertainment and lifestyle services. Zoomy continues to build out new communities and also provides design, engi-neering and construction management services for municipali-ties building FTTH, as well as for network builders in existing communities. Zoomy is also expanding its services interna-tionally. Zoomy’s telecommunications networks deliver ultra-high-speed Internet, television (HDTV, IPTV and traditional CATV), phone service (traditional telephone and VoIP), alarm monitoring, community Web portals, WiFi hot spots and home automation services. The company ranks in the top five in the US in FTTH deployments for new real estate developments, and is one of a handful of experienced, independent firms capa-ble of providing and delivering this full suite of services and ca-pabilities for homeowners. The Company’s CEO, Diane Kruse, has served as the Chairman of the FTTH Council.

ZyXEL Communicationswww.us.zyxel.com 714-632-0882; 800-255-4101

Key Products: Key Products: FTTH central-office and customer-premises electronics; digital home equipment; DSL, WiFi and WiMAX electronics; Ethernet switches; VoIP equipment

Summary: ZyXEL Communications, founded in 1989, is a man-ufacturer of broadband connectivity and networking products. ZyXEL’s FTTH offering includes both active Ethernet and Ge-PON solutions. Its broad line of IP networking solutions includes access multiplexers, customer premises equipment, Internet secu-rity, wireless LAN and VoIP equipment. Customers include Em-barq, Time Warner, Charter, Earthlink, Verizon, Sprint, Chun-ghwa Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Telefónica Brazil and Telia. ZyXEL is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and maintains offices in Anaheim, California, in Europe and in Asia. The company has more than 3,200 employees worldwide and sells its products in more than 150 regional markets in 70 countries. Revenues in 2008 were $479 million.

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