Ethernet over Copper Access Products From Actelis Networks
Actelis Networks® has received “Technical Acceptance” and “Buy American” status from the Rural Utilities Service (“RUS”) branch of the United States Department of Agriculture for the following additional products: ML600 Ethernet Access Devices (EADs), ML2300 next-generation Ethernet aggregation platforms, XR239 EFM Repeaters, and PFU-8 power feeding units, which remotely power Actelis’ XR239 EFM Repeaters. These Actelis products demonstrated compliance to federal regulatory requirements and industry standards, and are now included in the company’s “List of Acceptable” materials. Additionally, all have been accepted under the “Access Equipment” and “Multi-service Access” categories, according to the RUS.
North American carriers can leverage their broadband stimulus dollars and/or use low-interest RUS funds to purchase Actelis’ RUS-listed equipment, which have been designed around the primary mandates of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009: provide service to the highest proportion of rural residents that do not have access to broadband service.
“With our updated RUS listing, we believe it will greatly benefit North American carriers as it allows them to purchase and deploy Actelis products that can quickly and economically deliver on the promise of high-speed ubiquitous broadband services for subscribers in rural America, or those subscribers who have been traditionally out of reach because of their geographic location,” said Eric Vallone, vice president of marketing at Actelis Networks.
As operators face rapidly increasing demand for enhanced broadband services, ranging from delivering services to the “unserved” and “underserved” to backhauling IP DSLAMs and cell towers, to even replacing archaic T1 lines for business customers, they need to figure out how to maximize the number of customers they can reach while minimizing costs. Although fiber could, in some cases, deliver these Ethernet-based broadband services, only a limited number of locations that require fiber actually have access to it. Additionally, new fiber installs are occurring very slowly due to extremely high construction costs; therefore, fiber deployments are nearly impossible to justify in this current economic climate as they are counter to the ARRA’s requirement of maximizing customers served per dollar spent.
In fact, the savings on infrastructure costs are dramatic, according to Actelis’ Vallone, often as much as 10 times cheaper than fiber, which translates to 10 times more customers served for the same money spent. “Operators across North America have proven that the business case for leveraging their existing copper networks is the best way to maximize deployments while minimizing costs.”
Delivering exceptional symmetric speeds of more than 15 Mbps per copper pair, Actelis has become the leading global supplier in the fast growing market for Ethernet over copper solutions. Actelis Networks’ RUS-listed products utilize the existing copper infrastructure to deliver high-quality, high-speed Ethernet broadband services to all customer locations, including those beyond 16 Kft. When paired with Actelis’ unique XR239 EFM Repeaters, the industry’s first standards-based and only widely deployed EFM repeater, carriers can even reach customers out to 82 Kft.
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