Pannaway Technologies to Announce HomePNA Availability for its Widely Deployed FTTP Solution at GLOBALCOMM 2006
New Pannaway Products Reduce In-home Wiring Burden While Accelerating Digital IP TV Installation Time for Telecom Service Providers
Portsmouth, NH
Pannaway will be demonstrating its multi-award winning and widely deployed Service Convergence Network (SCN™) access solution for copper and fiber deployments and will announce new customer premise equipment with support for the HomePNA 3/ITU G.9954 standard. This new technology will also be demonstrated in Pannaway's booth.
"HomePNA is an emerging technology that has the potential to significantly reduce a telco's operational expenses while enabling them to accelerate the deployment of multimedia broadband services - especially IP TV", said Nicole Klein, Broadband Access Technologies Analyst with Yankee Group. "Access providers that do not have a HomePNA solution are leaving their telco customers behind."
Pannaway's RGN-520™ (Residential Gateway NID) is a second generation Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) product that provides telcos of all types and sizes with a simplified and highly affordable solution for delivering multiple high-bandwidth video services including standard and high-definition IPTV, Video on Demand (VoD) and Digital Video Recorder (DVR) over standard in-home coaxial cable systems. The RGN-520 supports Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Internet Protocol (IP). The device also boasts five switched or routed RJ-45 10/100 Ethernet LAN ports, one simplex SC single strand bi-directional 100MB fiber port, two five REN RJ-11 VoIP-enabled POTS ports and a single coaxial port making it the most robust and flexible fiber-based residential gateway in its class.
Currently deployed and readily available first-generation RGN-510's can be affordably field upgraded to support the HomePNA 3/ITU G.9954 standard preserving existing customer investments.
All of Pannaway's premise devices including the RGN-520 can be remotely provisioned, managed and bulk upgraded using Broadband Access Manager (BAM™), a sophisticated but extremely affordable broadband element management system (EMS) that enables telcos to reduce the installation complexity and operational expenses (OPEX) associated with rolling out and maintaining broadband voice, video, and data equipment and services. BAM was one of only 17 products to receive a Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) 2006 GLOBALCOMM(™) Award of Excellence.
"Pannaway's goal has always been to deliver telco solutions that simplify and accelerate the IP broadband deployment cycle", said Mark Carpenter, President of Pannaway and founding member of the HomePNA Alliance. "With the inclusion of HomePNA in our FTTP product portfolio we're delivering on this goal by allowing our telco customers to reduce operational expenses while improving their bottom line."
Pannaway was the first IP access solutions provider to announce an Optical Line Termination (OLT) system with 10 Gbps Ethernet uplink capabilities (see May 23rd, 2005 release http://www.pannaway.com/company/pr_20050523.cfm).
About Pannaway Technologies
Pannaway provides telco-grade, converged voice, video and data solutions to telecom service providers and emerging Triple Play services companies. Pannaway's multiaward winning, RUS listed and patent-pending IP technologies enable telecom providers worldwide to deliver profitable broadband services to homes and businesses at a fraction of their historical costs. Pannaway also delivers the industry's first end-to-end telco-grade VoIP solution with integrated Primary Line service for lifeline POTS support. The privately held company is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and has been building solutions and service/support programs to fit the specific needs of rural telcos since 2002.
For more information, please visit www.pannaway.com.
