Broadband Properties Top 100

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Throughout a difficult year, these companies have continued to innovate, driving the buildout of true broadband in the United States and beyond.

A BBP Staff Report

The Broadband Properties Top 100 list celebrates companies that have contributed to the maga-

zine’s mission of “Building the Fiber-Connected Community.” In 2010, we again honor both the pioneers of fiber to the home and more recent entrants to the industry. We are encouraged that, a decade into the industry’s existence and in the midst of a severe economic down-turn, so many companies continue to innovate in so many ways.

Most of us take for granted that elec-tronics improve according to Moore’s Law. But components don’t magically become faster, better, cheaper and more integrated; they do so because of the efforts of engineers, product managers and many other creative people.

Besides, many of the innovations that put these companies on the list had nothing to do with electronics. There are new ways to put fiber in the ground, new ways to wire MDUs cost-effectively, new designs for outside plant, new types of cable and new ways to provision, mar-ket and manage broadband services. So-lution vendors, distributors, design and engineering firms and service providers are working together to bring the ben-efits of true broadband to communities across the United States.

Companies added to the Top 100 list this year include three service pro-viders (two private and one municipal); three equipment vendors (one of them,

ARRIS, was on the list in 2008, though not in 2009); four firms specializing in various combinations of planning, design and engineering services; one distributor; and one wild card – Google, whose major contribution to fiber to the home so far has been to stir up public enthusiasm for it but that has the potential to influence the industry profoundly.

SELECTION CRITERIAIn selecting the Top 100, the editors looked for organizations that advance the cause of fiber to the premises in one of several ways:

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

• Helping others deploy networks by supplying key hardware, software, design services, construction ser-vices, integration and VAR services.

• Introducing innovative technologies, even if the technologies had not been commercially deployed at the time the list was compiled. We’re always on the lookout for technologies that change the rules – by reducing early

deployment costs, for instance, or making builds significantly cheaper overall.

To be listed among the Broadband Properties Top 100, organizations may be based anywhere in the world, but must do business in North America. A few companies on last year’s list didn’t reappear this year because they no lon-ger seemed to be doing business on this continent.

Because close to 700 organizations are deploying FTTH in the United States, deployers on the list must either be rolling out a great deal of fiber or showing business innovation on the fiber front. The three deployers added to the list this year – Cincinnati Bell, EPB and Optimum Lightpath – are all engaged in ambitious deployments; in addition, EPB has a major smart-grid project and Optimum Lightpath provides a variety of innovative business services.

Corporate form and overall size are not important. Several municipal fiber network operators are on this year’s list, and nonprofit organizations have been included in the past. Though individu-

About the AuthorsOur 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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als 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 en-tirely focused on fiber to the premises, but most deliver or support a mix of

broadband technologies. For some, such as Tetra Tech, broadband represents only a small part of their business – but we considered how important they are to advancing broadband, not how im-portant broadband is to them.

MAKING A DIFFERENCEAs in previous years, the key tiebreaker question 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 orga-nizations – 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 GLANCEDeployers of High-Speed Residential Broadband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 41Private Cable Operators and Fiber Optic Amenity Providers . . . . . . . . | 42Network Testing, Monitoring and Management Services . . . . . . . . . . . | 44Video Programming Aggregators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 46Network Planning, Design, Engineering, Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 48Fiber-to-the-Home Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 50Customer-Premises Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 53Passive Network Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 56Fiber and Fiber Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 58Network Management Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 61Test and Measurement Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 66Video Distribution Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 71

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

A-D Technologies www .adtechnologies .com 800-847-7661 System for installing and protecting cables

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 Network design, construction and maintenance

ADTRAN www .adtran .com 256-963-8000 Solutions for FTTx, DSL, Carrier Ethernet, mobile backhaul and IP business networks

ADVA Optical Networking www .advaoptical .com 888-340-4885 Optical+Ethernet systems for long-haul, metro core, backhaul and access networking, including WDM-PON

Advanced Media Technologies (AMT) www .amt .com 954-427-5711; Distributor of fiber optic transmission 888-293-5856 equipment, headends, IP and QAM set-top boxes, 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 broadband access equipment, IPTV solutions, network management tools, fiber cable, connecting hardware and accessories

Company Web Address Phone Description

2010 Additions To The Top 100 List

• ARRIS• BEC Technologies• Cincinnati Bell• Columbia

Telecommunications Corp.• EPB• Google • Miniflex• Optimum Lightpath• SDT • UniTek Global Services • Vantage Point Solutions • Walker and Associates


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Allied Telesis www.alliedtelesis.com 408-519-8700 Ethernet-based broadband access solutions

Alpha Technologies www.alpha.com 360-647-2360 Powering solutions for communications networks

ARRIS www.arrisi.com 678-473-2000; Equipment for cable operators, 866-362-7747 including RFoG and GEPON solutions

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

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

Atlantic Engineering Group www.atlantic-engineering.com, 706-654-2298 Design and construction services for FTTP, www.aeg.cc smart-grid, metro-area and wide-area networks

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

BEC Technologies www.bectechnologies.net 714-890-0201; Broadband gateways for FTTH 972-422-0877 deployments

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

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

Calient Networks www.calient.net 805-562-5500 Automated fiber optic cross-connect systems

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

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

Charles Industries www.charlesindustries.com 847-806-6300 Fiber optic distribution pedestals and enclosures, extended-reach DSL systems

CHR Solutions www.chrsolutions.com 713-351-5111 BSS/OSS solutions, consulting and engineering services

Cincinnati Bell www.cincinnatibell.com 513-397-9900 Telephone , data, video and wireless services

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

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

Columbia Telecommunications www.ctcnet.us 301-933-1488 Broadband network planning, design, Corporation (CTC) implementation and project management

CommScope www.commscope.com 828-324-2200; Fiber enclosures; HFC, fiber optic and 800-982-1708 wireless integration solutions

Communications Test Design Inc. www.ctdi.com 610-436-5203 GEPON, RFoG, FTTN and wireless network (CTDI) solutions

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

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, hospitality and multifamily housing

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

Draka Communications www.draka.com/ 828-459-8895; Optical fiber and fiber cabling Americas communications 800-879-9862

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

Enablence Technologies www.enablence.com 613-270-7860 FTTH central office and customer-premises equipment, FTTH components

EPB www.epb.net; www.epbfi.com 423-648-1372 Voice, video, data and smart-grid services provided over an FTTH network

Ericsson www.ericsson.com/us 972-583-0000 VDSL2 and FTTx solutions, cables and interconnect products, network management tools, switches

ETI Software Solutions www.etisoftware.com 770-242-3620 Software for subscriber management, flow-through activation and provisioning

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

Google www.google.com 650-253-0000 Construction and operation of FTTH networks, management of service providers (still in planning stages)

Graybar www.graybar.com 800-GRAYBAR Fiber connectivity and test equipment, (472-9227) 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 Communications www.gvtc.com 800-367-4882 Video, high-speed Internet, security monitoring, local and long-distance telephone and advanced data services

Harmonic www.harmonicinc.com 408-542-2500; Video delivery 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 www.hitachi-cta.com 770-446-8820 FTTH solutions including GPON, RFOG and Technologies America GEPON; wireless infrastructure products

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




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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

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

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

Miniflex www.miniflex.co.uk 330-495-2296 Solutions for fiber protection, management and installation

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

Motorola www.motorola.com 847-576-5000 FTTH, RFoG, metro Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE solutions; modems, VoIP, home entertainment and networking

Multicom www.multicominc.com 800-423-2594 Distributor of broadband products for end-to-end communications solutions; design; VoIP services

Multilink www.gomultilink.com 440-366-6966 Network power supplies, enclosures and cabinets, fiber distribution, cable management, raceways

Occam Networks www.occamnetworks.com 805-692-2900 IP- and Ethernet-based broadband loop carrier, FTTH and DSL solutions

OFS www.ofsoptics.com 770-798-4000; Optical fiber, optical cable, fiber 888-342-3743 management and connectivity products for homes, businesses and MDUs; splicers; network design services

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

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

Optimum Lightpath www.optimumlightpath.com 877-LIGHTPATH Ethernet-based data, Internet, voice, video and managed services

Pace International www.paceintl.com 507-288-1853; Products and services for commercial- 800-444-7223 grade satellite TV, cable TV, home theater and audio

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 fiber 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 networks

SDT www.sdt-1.com 601-823-9440 Telecommunications infrastructure services



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 government agencies

Steeplechase Networks www.scnets.com 413-229-0030 Network application aggregation, back-end support

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 Video, voice and data services delivered over FTTH, HFC and DSL access networks

Suttle www.suttleonline.com 800-852-8662 Structured cabling solutions, FTTx enclosures and connectors

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 Solutions for Carrier Ethernet and active www.active-eth.com Ethernet FTTH

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 Networks www.teraspan.com 877-VI-FIBER Microtrenching fiber optic deployment solutions

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

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

Toner Cable Equipment www.tonercable.com 215-675-2053; Distributor of video distribution 800-523-5947 equipment, fiber optic and coaxial cable, fiber links and systems, passives, connectors, tools, test equipment, amplifiers

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

Tyco Electronics 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

UniTek Global Services www.unitekglobalservices.com 267-464-1700 Engineering, construction management and installation fulfillment services

UTOPIA www.utopianet.org 801-613-3800 Construction and operation of an open- access, active Ethernet, FTTP network




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Vantage Point Solutions www.vantagepnt.com 605-995-1777 Network design, project management, RUS loan and grant applications, business modeling

Verizon Communications, Verizon www.verizon.com/communities TV, Internet and phone services delivered Enhanced Communities over an all-fiber network

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

Walker and Associates www.walkerfirst.com 800-925-5371 Products and services for deploying communications networks

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

Zhone Technologies www.zhone.com 510-777-7000; Multiservice broadband access equipment 877-946-6320 integrating FTTx, Ethernet in the First Mile and wireless access technologies

ZyXEL Communications Corp. www.us.zyxel.com 714-632-0882; FTTH central-office and customer-premises 800-255-4101 electronics; digital home equipment; DSL, Wi-Fi and WiMAX electronics; Ethernet switches; VoIP equipment

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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 network-ing devices, routers and digital entertainment devices. The company sells its carrier-class products, which it designs to be easy to install, manage and use, through both retail chan-nels and broadband service providers. Actiontec’s in-home broadband networking router is the basis of the digital home architecture for Verizon’s FTTH deployment, providing con-nectivity at speeds of up to 100 Mbps and supporting remote management and troubleshooting. Recent products include the MoCA Network Adapter, a wired home networking alter-native for home theater installers; Ethernet-over-coax MoCA and HomePNA Network Adapters that enable connections to set-top boxes and other Internet-ready devices over coaxial cable; and the V1000H Wireless N VDSL Modem Router, a versatile CPE solution supporting wireless, Gigabit Ethernet and HPNA networking. Founded in 1993, Actiontec is head-quartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and maintains branch offices in Colorado Springs, Colo.; Shanghai; and Taipei. The company has more than 200 employees.

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 supplies fiber optic conduit to companies in the telecom, cable TV, power and other markets. The company’s customers include AT&T, Cablevision, Qwest, Telmex, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. Based in Knoxville, Tenn., and employing about 400 people, A-D Technologies op-erates manufacturing plants in the United States, India, Mexico and the Czech Republic and sells its products in more than 30 countries. In 1981, one of its predecessor companies, Dura-Line, became the first manufacturer to develop a duct for the installa-tion and protection of fiber optic cables; in 2004, Dura-Line in-troduced a complete line of fiber optic microduct products. A-D Technologies provides infrastructure solutions for water, gas and power utilities in addition to telecommunications and is com-mitted to addressing new applications of nonmetallic conduit. A-D Technologies has emerged as an industry leader in micro-technology with the development of FuturePath, a method of prepackaging up to eight microducts into a single bundled unit to meet a customer’s specific project requirements. FuturePath deployments are cheaper, faster and greener than typical HDPE

installations. In December 2009, A-D Technologies announced a joint venture between Dura-Line India and Al-Jassar, located in Oman. The new company will be called Dura-Line Middle East LLC and will be located in Oman.

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

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

Summary: ADC provides network infrastructure products and services that enable the delivery of high-speed Internet, video, data and voice services to residential, business and mobile sub-scribers worldwide. Many of these products are deployed in next-generation wireline networks, including OmniReach FTTx solutions for the outside plant, FiberGuide cable management systems and TrueNet structured cabling products. ADC’s Inter-Reach in-building distributed antenna systems deliver reliable wireless services indoors, and its FlexWave Prism solution pro-vides microcellular coverage and capacity in outdoor environ-ments. ADC employs more than 9,000 professionals worldwide, holds thousands of patents and had sales of $1.15 billion in fiscal year 2009. Headquartered in Minneapolis, the company sells in more than 130 countries and occupies facilities in 14 countries in addition to the United States. As we went to press, ADC an-nounced that it would be acquired by Tyco Electronics.

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, Neb., Adesta is a sys-tems integrator and project manager for communications net-works and security systems. Adesta was acquired at the close of 2009 by G4S Technology, part of the global security solutions company G4S. Adesta has deployed more than 2 million miles of fiber in more than 150 metropolitan and rural areas and completed more than 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 United States and specializes in first-mile and broadband solutions for ILECs, CLECs, utilities, municipalities, large integration firms and rural associations. Adesta was recently



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awarded a contract by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for an ITS upgrade, and the Nebraska Rural Healthcare Net-work announced a pending transaction with Adesta to design and build an advanced fiber optic medical network. Other re-cent projects include network deployment and customer fulfill-ment services for EPB in Chattanooga, Tenn., and the design, engineering and construction of phase I of a wide-area fiber optic network for Stafford County Public Schools in Virginia. Adesta’s revenue in 2009 was $104 million, and its employee count was 400.

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, Ala., is equipped to address almost every networking need: carrier-class voice, video and Ethernet services delivery, business-class routing, switching, IP telephony, network monitoring and management. ADTRAN has approximately 1,700 employees, and its sales for 2009 were approximately $484 million.

ADVA Optical Networkingwww.advaoptical.com888-340-4885

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 that specializes 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 Networking has a strong business delivering Ethernet demar-cation technology for business services along with reconfigu-rable 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 provides high-bandwidth fiber-to-the-building connectivity for residential and business applications. After more than 15 years in the industry, ADVA Optical Networking serves more than 250 carriers and 10,000 enterprises worldwide. ADVA Optical Networking markets and sells its products worldwide through a dedicated direct sales force, OEMs, value-added resellers and systems integra-tors. Trading publicly in Europe, ADVA Optical Networking reported 2009 revenue of about $287.5 million.

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 Inc. (AMT) is a value-added reseller of high-performance broadband products, targeting emerging technology applications with a complete line of products for CATV, IPTV and FTTH. It specializes in prebuilt headends that range from small DSS systems to fully digital, high-definition headends. AMT offers products from such leading manufacturers as Motorola, Amino, Blonder Tongue, Pacific Broadband Networks, EGT, RGB Networks, Adtec, Drake, Olson Technology and Emcore. Customers in-clude major MSOs in the United States and Latin America as well as telcos, private cable operators and entertainment and multimedia content delivery companies around the world. Located in Deerfield Beach, Fla., AMT is a wholly owned subsidiary of ITOCHU International, the North American subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation of Japan.

“We continue to see the demand for bandwidth grow at an unprecedented rate, due to the popularity of mobile devices and Internet applications. To meet this demand, service providers are

turning to Ethernet as the cornerstone of their network.”– Kevin Morgan, director of product marketing, ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division


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, test equipment, training and comprehensive system integration services

Summary: Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Spartan-burg, S.C., AFL is a manufacturer and service provider en-abling high-speed delivery of voice, video and data commu-nications 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 educa-tion. AFL plans, designs, implements and maintains commu-nications networks, offering solutions for private MDU and master-planned community networks as well as telephone, ca-ble TV, utility, hospitality, enterprise and wireless companies. As a DIRECTV Master System Operator, AFL offers end-to-end solutions that include access to DIRECTV programming and services for MDUs, master-planned communities, and hospitality and university applications. AFL’s bandwidth man-agement and conditional Internet access solutions enable sys-tem operators to offer DIRECTV video and Internet packages. AFL also provides mesh wireless solutions for MDU, munici-pality, hospitality and enterprise applications. AFL has more than 3,300 employees worldwide and is a division of Fujikura Ltd., with manufacturing, sales and administrative offices lo-cated in the United States, the 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, next-generation network and IMS solutions, IMS applications, IPTV solutions, network management, service integration capabilities, optical fiber, connecting hardware and accessories, 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 converged broadband networking and IP technologies, ap-plications and services. The company leverages the technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innova-tion powerhouses in the communications industry. One-third

of fixed-broadband subscribers around the world are served through access networks provided by Alcatel-Lucent; these networks encompass a range of access technologies (xDSL, VDSL, GPON, P2P fiber) and deployment models (FTTN, FTTB, FTTH). With operations in more than 130 countries and 77,000 employees, Alcatel-Lucent reported revenue of $22 billion in 2009. Incorporated in France, it has executive offices in Paris and in Murray Hill, N.J.

Allied Telesiswww.alliedtelesis.com408-519-8700

Key Products: IP switching and Ethernet access platforms that provide connectivity over fiber, copper or wireless for service provider and enterprise networks

Summary: Allied Telesis sells secure IP/Ethernet access so-lutions for enterprise and service provider markets. Founded in 1987 as Allied Telesyn Inc., the company later changed its name to Allied Telesis. It is part of the Allied Telesis Group, headquartered in Bothell, Wash., and Tokyo, which operates in 39 countries, with globalized R&D and vertically integrated ISO 9000 manufacturing. The company employs nearly 2,500 people and had global revenue of $438 million in 2009. Allied Telesis’ end-to-end FTTx solutions, which include both PON and point-to-point active Ethernet, deliver up to 1 Gbps to the premises. Nearly 300,000 living units are connected to ac-tive Ethernet FTTH networks powered by Allied Telesis. The company’s indoor and outdoor iMG multiservice gateways are designed for residential, MDU and business applications, and its operating and unified management software work across switching, carrier access and service gateway products to facili-tate emerging content and services. Allied Telesis technology was used in the first two commercial deployments of IPTV, and today the company is pioneering eco-friendly technology, data virtualization and over-the-top video applications.

Alpha Technologieswww.alpha.com 360-647-2360

Key Products: Power systems for communications networks, including power supplies, surge suppressors, enclosures, batteries, inverters, status monitors, building systems and generators

Summary: Founded in 1976, Alpha Technologies is a ma-jor supplier of power systems to the broadband communica-tions industry worldwide. Alpha’s line of products provides critical power conditioning and emergency backup to cable, FTTH, wireless and other networks. Rapid growth in global



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communications, as well as the relationship between system power and overall network reliability, has created a demand for Alpha’s products across an array of communications ap-plications. Alpha’s customers include major cable television system operators, telecommunications service providers and full-service communications providers in 50 countries. In-ternational markets include Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Australia and the Far East. With more than 1,000 employees, Alpha currently has sales and service centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, China and Australia. Alpha Technologies is a member of The Alpha Group, a global alliance of independent companies dedicated to creating powering solutions for communications, commer-cial, industrial and renewable-energy markets.

ARRIS www.arrisi.com866-362-7747; 678-473-2000

Key Products: Equipment for cable operators, including RFoG and EPON solutions, cable modem termination systems, voice and data modems and gateways, on-demand video and interactive advertising platforms, universal edge QAMs, advanced video encoding and processing, whole-home DVR, HFC access and transport systems, fixed-mobile convergence, software for remote workforce management and network management

Summary: ARRIS aims to provide broadband operators with a complete portfolio of solutions to support voice, demand- driven video, next-generation advertising, IP video and high-speed data services. The company’s new RFoG solution can serve up to 32 subscribers on a single fiber, using splitters or optical taps, on networks spanning up to 20 km between headend and subscriber. This architecture allows EPON to be implemented later over the same fiber network – an important consideration for the future as PON-style networks replace HFC in greenfield projects. In late 2009, ARRIS made two key acquisitions to bolster its video product portfolio: EG Tech-nologies, a supplier of encoding, decoding and video process-ing technologies for digital networks, and Digeo, the company

founded by Paul Allen and best known for its Moxi consumer whole-home HD DVR and cable DVR technology platforms. ARRIS is headquartered in Suwanee, Ga., and operates R&D centers in the United States, Ireland and China, as well as a worldwide network of sales and support. ARRIS has 1,890 em-ployees and reported 2009 revenue of $1.1 billion.

Astec Underground www.astecunderground.com 865-408-2100; 800-527-6020

Key Products: Trenchers, vibratory plows and directional drilling

Summary: Astec Underground, a subsidiary of Astec Indus-tries, manufactures and markets underground-construction equipment used to construct, maintain and repair telecommu-nications networks, including basic copper and fiber optic plant and cable television systems. Product lines include Astec utility trenchers and horizontal directional drills as well as Trencor heavy-duty mechanical chain trenchers and specialty rock ex-cavation machines. In late 2009 and early 2010, Astec intro-duced three new heavy-duty trenchers and the DD-4045 hori-zontal directional drill. Customers include small contractors operating a single trencher; large utility providers and contrac-tors with fleets of underground construction equipment; hori-zontal directional drilling specialists; and contractors build-ing giant cross-country pipelines. Headquartered in Loudon, Tenn., with 150 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 Underground is one of 15 companies owned by Astec Industries, which had revenue of $738 million in 2009.

AT&T, AT&T Connected Communitieswww.att.com/communities

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 nearly 280,000 people worldwide and had more than $123 billion in revenue for 2009. As a leader in deliver-ing IP-based services to residential and business customers in the United States and around the world, AT&T serves more than 17.3 million high-speed Internet subscribers and owns and operates the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network. The compa-ny’s U-verse initiative is bringing voice, video and data services over fiber-to-the-node and fiber-to-the-home networks in 122 markets across 22 states. 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 voice, video

“Solving the puzzle of connectivity in the home is often one of the best

ways service providers can more quickly improve take rates.”

– Jay Kilby, director of marketing and product development, Suttle


Deployers of High-Speed Residential Broadband

These firms are raising the bar for residential access to high-speed broadband. Wireline operators listed here offer 24 Mbps or higher (sometimes much higher) Internet downstream speeds in at least some markets. Some of those with fiber-to-the-home net-works offer equally high upstream speeds. Satellite providers are bringing broadband to areas unserved by other broadband providers. BBP Top 100 compa-nies are listed in bold in this and other tables.

Company Name Web AddressAT&T www.att.comBright House Networks www.brighthouse.comCablevision www.cablevision.comCampus Technologies www.campus

technologies.netCanby Telecom www.canbytel.comCharter Communications www.charter.comCincinnati Bell www.cincinnatibell.comCityLink Fiber www.citylinkfiber.comComcast www.comcast.comConnexion Technologies www.cnxntech.comCox Communications www.cox.comEATEL www.eatel.comEn-Touch Systems www.entouch.netEPB Fiber Optics

(Chattanooga) www.epbfi.comFibernet Monticello www.monticellofiber.comGreenfield

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

Communications www.hbci.comHughesNet www.hughesnet.comLUS Fiber www.lusfiber.comMediacom www.mediacomcc.comPaxio www.paxio.comQwest www.qwest.comSuddenlink

Communications www.suddenlink.comSmithville www.smithville.netSunset Digital

Communications www.sunsetcom.comSureWest Communications www.surewest.comTDS Telecom www.tdstelecom.comTime Warner Cable www.timewarner

cable.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

and broadband services to rental properties and residential developments. AT&T Connected Communities recently an-nounced that it will provide U-verse services to The Broadway – San Antonio, a 20-story residential luxury high-rise with re-sort amenities and services, via a fiber-to-the-node network.

Atlantic Engineering Groupwww.atlantic-engineering.com, www.aeg.cc 706-654-2298

Key Products: Design and construction services for FTTP, smart-grid, metro-area and wide-area networks

Summary: Atlantic Engineering Group (AEG), founded in 1996, designs and builds communications networks. This out-side-plant specialist is headquartered in Braselton, Ga., but de-ploys in-house personnel and on-site project managers around the country and overseas. AEG has completed more than 75 networks, including 21 fiber-to-the-premises projects as well as many HFC builds, metropolitan networks, and wide-area net-works. Clients include municipalities, electric utilities, cooper-atives and government agencies; a recent client is Vermont’s 22-town ECFiberNet. The company is an “all in” service provider for fiber optic networks, with the ability to provide mapping, design, construction and materials control.

Aurora Networkswww.aurora.com408-235-7000

Key Products: Optical transport products that support cable operators’ evolution from hybrid fiber-coaxial networks to advanced HFC, fiber-deep and RFoG architectures that deliver fiber to the premises and support future migration to PON technologies.

Summary: Aurora Networks, founded in 1999 and headquar-tered in Santa Clara, Calif., specializes in helping the cable in-dustry evolve with solutions that build future-proof networks. Using its understanding of cable networks, Aurora Networks delivers solutions such as fiber-deep and RFoG architectures and Node PON technology and offers a line of optical trans-port products designed to address issues specific to the cable broadband industry. The company’s node platform, introduced in 2002, is optimized for scaling bandwidth to each subscrib-er through support for multiple segmentation technologies (LcWDM, DWDM and CWDM). Aurora Networks’ node platform also supports the company’s fiber-deep architecture, fiber on demand for dedicated fiber-based Ethernet services, end-to-end RFoG and RFPON (RFoG plus PON) implemen-tations and Node PON for migration to the all-IP world.



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BEC Technologies714-890-0201; 972-422-0877 www.bectechnologies.net

Key Products: Ultra-broadband gateways for homes and businesses, Ethernet switches and routers, smart-grid interfaces

Summary: BEC Technologies provides customer-premises equipment for GPON and active Ethernet networks, partner-ing with such FTTH equipment vendors as Enablence, Calix and Occam to provide end-to-end network solutions. BEC’s CPE includes broadband gateways and smart-grid solutions. Its Wireless-N point-to-point fiber gateway supports up to 100 Mbps symmetrical. Additional solutions include AV-compliant Powerline Homeplug (Ethernet over in-home wiring) and stand-alone switch/router solutions. BEC solutions have been deployed by more than 140 service providers in the United States, ranging from multistate telephone companies to rural utility cooperatives. BEC Technologies, with offices in Hun-tington Beach, Calif., and Plano, Texas, is the U.S. arm of Tai-wan’s Billion Electric Company, which was established in its current form in 2004 but has roots going back to 1973. Billion operates in 22 countries.

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 Laboratories, Inc., based in Old Bridge, N.J., provides system operators and integrators serv-ing the cable, broadcast, satellite, IPTV, institutional and pro-fessional video markets with comprehensive solutions for the provision of content contribution, distribution and video deliv-ery to homes and businesses. With 60 years of experience, the company designs, manufactures, sells and supports an equip-ment portfolio of standard- and high-definition digital video solutions, as well as core analog video and high-speed data so-lutions for distribution over coax, fiber and IP networks.

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

Key Products: Broadband voice, video and data 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, wastewater and fiber optic telecommunication and information services to the city of Bristol, Va., the town of Abingdon, and Wash-ington County. These combined systems employ 158 people. BVU OptiNet, a nonprofit division of BVU, was launched in 2003 to provide digital cable, telephone service and high-speed Internet; it now serves 8,500 customers in southwestern Virgin-ia. BVU FOCUS is a consulting, operations and management firm operating under the umbrella of the city of Bristol, Va.,

Private Cable Operators and Fiber Optic Amenity Providers

These companies work with property owners and developers to provide telecommunications networks or services to multifamily housing, homeowner as-sociations, resorts, the hospitality industry or student housing, over either fiber or copper.

Company Name Web AddressAiroLink Communications www.airolink.tvAirwave Networks www.airwave-networks.comAmerican Cable Services www.americable.usAT&T Connected

Communities www.att.com/communitiesBroadStar

Communications www.broadstar.comCampus Technologies www.campus

technologies.netConnexion Technologies www.cnxntech.comConsolidated

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

technologies.netDirecPath www.direcpath.comFront Door Networks www.frontdoornet.comHLS Communications www.hls

communications.comInnCom Cable www.icubedinc.comMDU Communications www.mduc.comMultiband www.multibandusa.comPavlov Media www.pavlovmedia.comPrime Time www.primetime

Communications communications.netPrivate Cable Systems www.pvtcable.comRoad9 www.road9.netSatellite Management Services www.smstv.com TCI www.tcintegration.comVerizon Enhanced www.verizon.com/

Communities communities Westel Fiber www.westelfiber.comYgnition Networks www.ygnition.comZial Networks www.zial.com


and BVU. With 63 employees, 40 of whom operate a remote facility in Mooresville, N.C., BVU FOCUS 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 involved in promoting economic development to prospective and existing industrial and commercial establishments. In 2009, the city of Bristol, Va., was named the only U.S. 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 805-562-5500

Key Products: Optical switching and fiber management solutions for telecommunications providers and other markets

Summary: Calient Networks has its headquarters and manu-facturing facility in Santa Barbara, Calif. Its flagship product is the FiberConnect FC320X Optical Switch and FiberMoni-tor, which performs automated fiber management and real-time, dynamic, nonintrusive fiber monitoring. These products are designed to allow network operators to intelligently man-age their fiber infrastructure in a fully automated, native all- optical, bandwidth-agnostic manner. Calient’s customers in-clude AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, Cisco, Fujitsu and others. Cali-ent sells globally through a direct sales team as well as through a partnership with Gales Technology.

Calixwww.calix.com707-766-3000; 877-766-3500

Key Products: Broadband access platforms for fiber and DSL networks, including multiservice access platforms, Ethernet service access platforms and nodes, OLTs and ONTs, outside plant, network and services management software

Summary: Calix is a provider of broadband communications access systems and software for copper- and fiber- based net-work architectures. Its access portfolio, designed to help com-munications service providers evolve their networks to Ethernet and deep fiber efficiently and cost-effectively, enables the deliv-ery of revenue-generating services from basic voice and data to advanced broadband services over legacy and next-generation networks. Calix has shipped more than 6 million ports to more than 500 North American and international customers.

Headquartered in Petaluma, Calif., Calix had 2009 revenue of $233 million.

Canon Broadcast and Communications Divisionwww.canobeam.com 201-807-3300; 800-321-4388

Key Products: Free-space optics data transceivers

Summary: Canon U.S.A.’s Broadcast and Communications Di-vision, based in Ridgefield Park, N.J., offers the Canobeam line of free-space optics digital transceivers, which transmit data over the air on beams of infrared light. Like optical fiber, free-space optics equipment is protocol-independent and requires no radio-frequency permits or licenses. Canobeam products are used in FTTH deployments in logistically challenging situations where fiber optic cables are impractical, for network redundancy, and to get networks up and running quickly. 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. Canon U.S.A. is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business and industrial digital imaging solutions. Its parent company, Canon Inc., a top technology pat-ent holder, ranked fourth overall in the United States in 2009, with global revenue of $35 billion.

Charles Industrieswww.charlesindustries.com 847-806-6300

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

Summary: Charles Industries designs and manufactures buried distribution pedestals for fiber optic applications. The company, which serves telecommunications, CATV, munici-pality, utility and government service providers, introduced

“The future of broadband is fiber all the way – everywhere –

eventually with two or more FTTH service providers serving each home

across our great nation.” – John George, director, systems and

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nonmetallic fiber pedestals in 2001 and continues to pro-vide new solutions for nearly all fiber deployment architec-tures. Charles Fiber Distribution Point (CFDP) pedestals of-fer closed-architecture protection for ribbon fiber and loose buffer-tube fiber. The Buried Distribution Optical (BDO) line of open-architecture fiber pedestals offers a lower-cost alterna-tive for cost-conscious deployments. Charles Universal Broad-band Enclosures (CUBE) provide compact environmental protection for electronics at cell sites, automatic meter reading and other remote equipment deployment and equipment con-solidation applications. Charles Industries, which is headquar-tered in Rolling Meadows, Ill., has about 350 employees and manufactures all its products in four U.S. facilities.

CHR Solutions www.chrsolutions.com713-351-5111

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

Summary: CHR Solutions provides consulting and IT man-aged services/infrastructure to the rural telecommunications, energy and finance market segments. Offerings include en-gineering, financial, regulatory, compliance and marketing services; association management; wireless strategies; strategic planning and operational optimization; IT managed services; remote infrastructure management; data center services; secu-rity and disaster recovery; applications development and in-frastructure development; and a network operations center. In September 2009, the company merged with Martin Group, a global provider of enterprisewide business support systems/op-erations support systems (BSS/OSS) solutions, next-generation engineering services and consulting services. CHR Solutions is headquartered in Houston, with offices in Dallas; Austin, Texas; Lubbock, Texas; Camden, Ark.; Columbia, Mo.; Min-neapolis, Minn.; and Springfield, Ill.

Cincinnati Bellwww.cincinnatibell.com513-397-9900

Key Products: Telephone, data, video and wireless services

Summary: With headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincin-nati Bell provides integrated communications solutions – in-cluding local, long distance, data, Internet, entertainment and wireless services – to residential and business customers in Greater Cincinnati. Cincinnati Bell is revamping its copper network to allow delivery of services over a fiber optic network. Its fiber-based services, branded as Fioptics, include advanced high-speed data, digital television and telephone service. Fiop-tics services provide customers with alternatives to broadband and television services offered by traditional cable companies. Fioptics Internet offers speeds up to 30 Mbps – currently the fastest available in the Cincinnati area. Fioptics TV includes an expanded selection of high-definition and digital channels

Network Testing, Monitoring And Management Services (Other Than Private Cable Operators)

Company Name Web Address

Alcatel-Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.comAricent www.aricent.comCHR Solutions www.chrsolutions.comCommunication Technology Services www.cts1.comEricsson www.ericsson.comIBBS www.ibbs.comKorcett Holdings www.korcett.comSource Technology www.source-t.comSteeplechase Networks www.scnets.comTCI www.tcintegration.comTellabs www.tellabs.com

“A gigabit to the desktop and home is rapidly emerging as table stakes in bandwidth services. Faced with this reality, many forward-thinking operators are turning to next-generation access strategies leveraging

wavelength-division multiplexing technology. WDM-PONs leverage existing technology and standard protocols to efficiently deliver indefinite scalability without distance limitations for both business and residential applications.”

– Jim Theodoras, director of technical marketing, ADVA Optical Networking


as well as parental control features, HD DVR and video on demand. Fioptics services can be bundled with other Cincin-nati Bell services, allowing customers to receive a single bill for all their communications and entertainment needs. Cincinnati Bell’s 2009 revenue was $1.34 billion.

Cisco Systemswww.cisco.com770-236-5000

Key Products: Active Ethernet, RFoG and RF video overlay solutions for fiber-to-the-home deployments; digital set-top boxes and accessories; cable modems; wireless routers; headend equipment; network management systems

Summary: Cisco’s Ethernet FTTH, or active Ethernet solu-tion, which has been deployed globally, includes Ethernet access switches, aggregation routers and optical network ter-minals. The company’s Prisma D-PON solution delivers an FTTH option for cable service providers by enabling a PON architecture in the outside plant while maintaining existing HFC back-office systems, providing for incremental FTTH growth on a future-flexible, low-maintenance architecture. Cisco also supplies set-top boxes and cable modems, transmis-sion networks for home broadband access and digital interac-

tive subscriber systems for video, high-speed Internet and VoIP networks. Cisco Systems, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., reported revenue of $36.1 billion in 2009. The company has about 68,000 employees worldwide.

Clearfield www.clearfieldconnection.com 763-476-6866

Key Products: Fiber distribution systems for the inside plant, outside plant and access networks

Summary: Headquartered outside Minneapolis, Minn., Clear-field designs and manufactures the FieldSmart Fiber Manage-ment Platform, which includes its latest-generation Field- Smart Fiber Crossover Distribution System for the inside plant, FieldS-mart Fiber Scalability Center for the outside plant and FieldS-mart Fiber Delivery Point series for access networks. The three product lines are built on the Clearview Cassette, an integrated 12-fiber management system that can be replicated whenever and wherever it is required in the network. For environments requiring only a few fibers, Clearfield offers the Clearview xPAK

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cassette, the foundation of the FieldSmart Small Count Delivery (SCD) Series. Clearfield is a public company with revenue of $25 million for the fiscal year ending September 2009.

Columbia Telecommunications Corporation (CTC)www.ctcnet.us301-933-1488

Key Products: Broadband network design, assessment, review, and implementation; business plan development; technology planning; project management services

Summary: Founded in 1983, Columbia Telecommunications Corporation (CTC) provides communications engineering consulting services for public-sector and nonprofit clients na-tionwide. The company’s expertise includes feasibility analysis, business plan development, network design, network deploy-ment, RFP development and negotiations with private-sector providers. CTC also provides support with strategic planning, engineering, network design, business planning and applica-tion preparation for federal and state broadband grants. CTC is not affiliated with any equipment manufacturers, communi-cations carriers, cable operators or service providers. Using its expertise and independence, the company evaluates the advan-tages and lifetime costs of different approaches, makes inde-pendent recommendations, explains and justifies conclusions to policymakers and decision makers, oversees engineering and

communications projects and verifies project status and project completion. CTC is headquartered in Kensington, Md., and has satellite offices in several other states.

CommScopewww.commscope.com828-324-2200; 800-982-1708

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

Summary: Founded in Hickory, N.C., more than 30 years ago, CommScope had 2009 revenue of $3 billion and is a lead-er in the design and manufacture of infrastructure solutions for communications networks. CommScope is the world’s largest manufacturer of coaxial cable for hybrid fiber-coax applica-tions and a major supplier of coaxial, fiber optic and twisted-pair cables, subscriber premises connectivity products, rug-ged conduit products; and optical infrastructure solutions to serve residential and commercial customers. CommScope has a global manufacturing and distribution network supporting customers of its four major businesses. In 2010, CommScope introduced two significant additions to its BrightPath FTTH solution that expand its availability into global markets and make it compatible for use in PON applications.

Communications Test Design Inc. (CTDI)www.ctdi.com610-436-5203

Key Products: PON, RFoG, FTTN and wireless network and customer-premises equipment; legacy telco and cable management and equipment services

Summary: In 2008, the 35-year-old CTDI, based in West Chester, Pa., started its transformation from a company con-centrating mainly on legacy network maintenance to a fiber powerhouse. In July 2009, it purchased Motorola’s FTTN business. This spring, it acquired PON and RFoG pioneer Al-loptic – its fifth major acquisition in two years. The company can now equip, build and manage modern packet-switched and DOCSIS networks from the first mile to the central office and on to national trunks. Its Home4000 ONT can mix legacy and DOCSIS services; the Edge200 delivers voice, video, and data services for 64 ONTs while maintaining legacy network management capabilities. CTDI, which is privately held, has 5,500 employees in 45 facilities worldwide.

Connexion Technologieswww.connexiontechnologies.net919-535-7329

Video Programming Aggregators (Linear, VoD and Interactive)

Company Name Web AddressAccedo Broadband www.accedobroadband.comAvail Media/TVN www.availmedia.comCloverleaf Digital www.cloverleafdigital.comComcast Media

Center (HITS) www.comcastmediacenter.comCSI Digital www.csidigital.netDIRECTV www.directv.comDish Network commercial.dishnetwork.com4Com www.4com.comNational Cable Television

Cooperative www.cabletvcoop.orgNational Rural

Telecommunications Cooperative www.nrtc.coop/pub/us/

Satellite Management Services www.smstv.com

Skyway Connect www.skywayconnect.comTelechannel www.telechannel.tv


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 and high-rise properties nationwide. Its award-winning networks are designed to optimize the communica-tions experience and value of properties for residents and prop-erty owners by creating “A Better Connection,” the company’s service mark. Connexion Technologies is not a service provider; rather, it manages a suite of providers that offer entertainment and communications applications, including enhanced televi-sion, telephone, Internet and other services, over carrier-neutral networks. The company is based in Cary, N.C. It was estab-lished in 2002 to target greenfield developments with fiber to the home but has broadened its market to include existing properties as well. It operates in all major markets.

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-ty glass and ceramics, creating and manufacturing components that enable high-technology systems. The company, whose 2009 sales totaled nearly $5.4 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. At the end of 2009, Corning had ap-

proximately 24,000 employees worldwide. Corning Cable Sys-tems develops and manufactures optical cable, hardware and equipment designed to make FTTx deployments faster, easier, more reliable and less costly. Corning Cable Systems Evolant Solutions delivers tip-to-tip product and service offerings for FTTx, CATV and wireless applications; these preconnector-ized solutions have revolutionized the way FTTx networks are deployed. The OptiTap Connector, part of the Evolant Solu-tions, has become the industry standard in preconnectorized, environmentally hardened technology. The ClearCurve prod-uct suite, based on ultrabendable optical fiber, opened the way for cost-effective installation of fiber-to-the-home networks in MDUs and other complicated deployments. Consultants and network designers have access to a variety of design tools and resources as part of Corning’s FTTxpert Program. The Corn-ing Total Access Program provides design, engineering, fur-nishing and installation companies with the tools necessary to ensure successful FTTH and wireless deployments, and 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 and feasibility studies, fiber business and financial planning, broadband project management, broadband network design and implementation

Summary: Design Nine offers broadband planning and engi-neering services, including fiber and wireless network design, grant writing assistance, needs assessment and fiber/wireless broadband buildout assistance to communities, developers and local governments. Design Nine specializes in financial model-ing, business planning and legal and organizational design of community broadband systems and project management. The

“Advances in video distribution technology have enabled residents of apartments, condos and co-ops to experience the full breadth

of video entertainment services and opened the door for business opportunities for providers such as DIRECTV to offer their services to

the 28-million-unit MDU market. Living in a large apartment or condo complex no longer means consumers have to settle for only one

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firm’s network designs include open-access and open-service broadband networks. Headquartered in Blacksburg, Va., De-sign Nine is currently working in Virginia, Florida, Massachu-setts, Minnesota, New Hampshire and New Mexico. The com-pany’s many public- and private-sector clients include the city of Danville, Va., where Design Nine has provided assistance with network architecture, vendor selection, business and fi-nancial planning and service provider development to nDan-ville, a municipal, open-access, Layer 3 open services network. Another major Design Nine project, The Wired Road, covers 1,000 square miles in southwestern Virginia. Design Nine re-cently won a company contract to manage a major expansion of The Wired Road that will take fiber to three additional towns, including a rural FTTH deployment. The company also rolled out a carrier-class, open-access network for the city of Palm Coast, Fla., which included financial planning, designing net-work architecture (with an MPLS backbone), designing a colo-cation facility, and attracting service providers and customers to the new network.

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, Calif., DIRECTV delivers satellite TV service to residential and business cus-tomers with an increasing focus on multifamily solutions. DIRECTV’s satellite distribution technologies for the multi-dwelling market include MFH2, which is appropriate for prop-erties of all sizes and uses single-wire multiswitch technology, and MFH3, now known as DIRECTV IPAdvantage, which is designed for properties with 150 or more units, includes remote network monitoring, uses IP-based technology and requires “I” series DIRECTV receivers. MFH2 and MFH3 can be imple-mented as a single property headend, single roof-mounted dish solution. Both solutions provide access to all DIRECTV pro-gramming and services. In the United States, DIRECTV offers its 18.6 million customers more than 130 HD channels and Dolby Digital 5.1 theater-quality sound (when available), ac-cess to exclusive sports programming, such as NFL SUNDAY TICKET, and such advanced technology as the DIRECTV DVR Scheduler and the DIRECTV Whole Home DVR expe-rience. New in 2010 are 30 additional HD channels, national channels dedicated to 3-D, the first 3-D broadcast of the MLB All-Star game, an expansion of DIRECTV Cinema service to more than 400 pay-per-view titles, and whole-home DVR technology. DIRECTV revenue, including its U.S. and Latin America operations, was $21.5 billion in 2009.

DISH Networkcommercial.dishnetwork.com 800-454-0843

Network Planning, Design, Engineering, Construction

Excludes companies that provide these services only for networks they will own or manage.

Company Name Web AddressAdesta www.adestagroup.comAFL Telecommunications www.afltele.comAtlantic Engineering Group www.atlantic-

engineering.comBristol Virginia Utilities www.bvu-optinet.comCHR Solutions www.chrsolutions.comColumbia Telecommunications

Corporation (CTC) www.ctcnet.usCorning Cable Systems www.corningcable

systems.comDesign Nine www.designnine.comDSI Technologies www.dsifiber.comEmerson Network Power www.emerson

networkpower.comFiber-Tel Contractors www.fibertel

contractors.comFinley Engineering www.fecinc.comGibson Technical Services www.gibsontech.comInfiniSys Electronic Architects www.electronic

architect.comInteleconnect www.inteleconnect.comi3 Group www.i3-group.co.ukJ&R Underground www.jrunderground

llc.comKabel-X USA www.kabelxusa.comKGP Logistics www.kgplogistics.comKiS Communications www.kis-comm.comLTS Group www.ltscompany.comMichels Communications www.michels.usMid-State Consultants www.mscon.comMPNexlevel.com www.mpnexlevel.comMulticom www.multicominc.comOFS www.ofsoptics.comOn Trac www.ontracinc.netPulse Broadband www.pulsebroadband.netQuanta Services www.quanta

services.comSource Technology www.source-t.comSpectrum Engineering

Corp. www.spectrumeng.comSteeplechase Networks www.scnets.comTCS Communications www.tcscomm.comTeam Fishel www.teamfishel.comTellabs www.tellabs.comTetra Tech www.tetratech.comTurnkey Network Solutions www.tkns.netUniTek Global Services www.unitekglobal

services.comUS Metronets www.usmetronets.com


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

Summary: DISH Network offers video programming for multitenant buildings, single-family neighborhoods, hospitals and assisted-living properties. Services range from low-cost bulk programming delivered to an entire complex to custom-ized triple-play accounts for each resident’s upgrade choices. DISH brings the best in television programming, including high-definition, international, movies and sports program-ming packages, together with the most advanced technology available, including 1080p VoD and the ViP 722 HD DVR. DISH Network will be the first video partner for Google TV when that service launches this fall. Google TV is an open platform that will integrate multichannel television with Web media content, allowing subscribers to search for content across DISH Network, the Internet and their DVRs. Headquartered in Englewood, Colo., Dish Network had more than 14.1 mil-lion satellite TV customers as of March 2010.

Ditch Witchwww.ditchwitch.com800-654-6481

Key Products: Construction equipment for laying fiber

Summary: Ditch Witch dates from 1949, when its 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 tren-chers, vibratory plows, pneumatic piercing tools, backhoes, electronic tracking and locating tools, horizontal directional drilling systems, drill pipe, downhole tools, vacuum excavation systems, excavator-tool carriers, mini skid steers, pipe bursting systems and the Zahn family of power utility equipment. Ditch Witch Financial Services offers a variety of financing and lease options. New products in 2009 included two low-cost tren-chers; a ride-on trencher; and an improved system for locating faults in direct-buried, unshielded power and communications cables. The Ditch Witch organization’s manufacturing head-quarters is located in Perry, Okla., and has more than 1,000 employees. The equipment is distributed through a worldwide dealer organization.

Draka Communications Americaswww.draka.com/communications828-459-8895; 800-879-9862

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

Summary: Draka Communications Americas is part of one of the largest optical fiber producers in the world – the 100-year-old Draka, based in Amsterdam. It is a leader in optical fiber and cable solutions, with more than 15,000 cables for indoor, indoor-outdoor, outdoor and specialty applications. Its bend-insensitive BendBright fiber line, first introduced in 2002, is available in single-mode and multimode cables. Draka’s re-gional headquarters, located in Claremont, N.C., is the only colocated fiber and cable facility in North America; its 128-acre campus is home to a 1.2-million-square-foot manufac-turing facility dedicated to the development, delivery and deployment of optical fiber and fiber cable networks. Draka, which has 9,600 employees and more than 68 factories, sales and support offices in 31 countries, had revenue of about $3 billion in 2009.

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 switchingand controls, monitoring and connectivity

Summary: Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, is a global leader in enabling business-critical continuity – the assurance that critical technology investments will not fail be-cause of power loss – from grid to chip for telecommunications networks, data centers, health care and industrial facilities. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Emerson Network Power provides solutions and expertise for AC and DC power and precision cooling systems, embedded computing and power, integrated racks and enclosures, power switching and controls, infrastruc-ture management and connectivity. Emerson Network Power’s suite of solutions for supporting communications network in-frastructure includes outside-plant enclosures and equipment, NetSure DC power systems and turnkey services.

Enablence Technologieswww.enablence.com613-270-7860

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

Summary: Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Enablence is a global supplier of optical networking systems, subsystems and com-ponents. Enablence Systems Division’s fiber-to-the-home and



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fiber-to-the-business solutions have been implemented by more than 420 service providers, including, most recently, Cam-bridge Telephone in rural Nebraska. The Optical Components and Subsystems Division is a global leader in planar lightwave circuit technology, which integrates dozens of components into a single optical chip; this division’s products have been inte-grated widely into networks around the world and are serving tens of millions of subscribers. In April 2010, Enablence signed an agreement to merge Israel-based broadband access vendor Teledata into its Systems Division. Teledata’s multiservice ac-cess platform and VDSL capabilities will broaden Enablence’s product line, providing international customers with a path to evolve their copper networks to fiber. Enablence’s revenue for fiscal 2009 was $45 million.

EPB www.epb.net, www.epbfi.com423-648-1372

Key Products: Voice, video, data and smart-grid services provided over a fiber optic network

Summary: EPB, the municipal utility of Chattanooga, Tenn., has provided affordable electric power to the Chattanooga area since 1935 and now serves a 600-square-mile area that includes eight counties in Tennessee and Georgia. In 2000, it launched EPB Telecom to provide communications solutions to local businesses; with more than 2,400 customers, EPB Telecom is now the second largest business communications company in the Chattanooga market. In 2008, EPB began building a fiber-to-the-home network that is already available to more than 100,000 homes and businesses and will be available through-out the entire service area, nearly 170,000 homes and busi-nesses, by the end of 2010. It launched services in September 2009, offering 150 Mbps symmetrical Internet access; digital voice; and video services in localities where it has been awarded cable franchises. EPB also uses its fiber-to-the-home network as the backbone for its smart grid, which will provide increased power reliability, greater operational efficiency and more power management tools for the utility’s electric customers. In 2009, the company was awarded $111.5 million in federal stimulus

funding by the Department of Energy to expedite the buildout of the smart grid.

Ericssonwww.ericsson.com/us972-583-0000

Key Products: Deep-fiber access portfolio including VDSL2, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint products; Ribbonet air-blown fiber solution for FTTx; cables and interconnect

“Open-access networks are really beginning to deliver the results that have been promised. They are attracting service providers, and as those providers

compete for customers, prices for services such as Internet access and VoIP telephone are dropping as much as 50 to 70 percent.”

– Andrew Cohill, president, Design Nine

Fiber-to-the-Home Electronics These companies provide active equipment

for fiber access networks.

Company Name Web AddressADTRAN www.adtran.comAlcatel-Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.comAllied Telesis www.alliedtelesis.comARRIS www.arrisi.comAurora Networks www.aurora.comCalix www.calix.comCisco Systems www.cisco.com Communications Test

Design Inc. (CTDI) www.ctdi.comECI Telecom www.ecitele.comEnablence www.enablence.comEricsson www.ericsson.com Hitachi Communication www.hitachi-

Technologies America cta.comMotorola www.motorola.comOccam Networks www.occamnetworks.comReadyLinks www.ready-links.comTelco Systems www.telco.comTellabs www.tellabs.comUTStarcom www.utstar.comZhone Technologies www.zhone.comZyXEL Communications www.us.zyxel.com


products, microwave networks, network management tools, stations and broadband switches, IPTV middleware

Summary: Ericsson is the world’s largest provider of technol-ogy and services to telecom operators. W ith approximately 25,000 patents, it has one of the industry’s most comprehen-sive intellectual property portfolios. It is the leader in mobile technologies, providing support for networks with more than 2 billion subscribers, and also the largest provider of managed services. The company’s portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, and broad-band and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. Ericsson deep-fiber access solutions range from FTTx and VDSL2 broadband access products to air-blown fiber passive solutions. The company’s end-to-end IPTV solution encompasses everything from the video headend to middleware to quality-of-service monitoring and provision-ing – including edge, metro and deep-fiber access, as well as operation and maintenance. In April 2010, Ericsson entered into an agreement to acquire Nortel’s majority shareholding in LG-Nortel; the completion of this transaction will give Er-icsson a foothold in the emerging WDM-PON market. The company was founded in 1876 and has global headquarters in Stockholm and North American headquarters in Plano, Texas. More than 86,500 employees generated net sales of $27.1 bil-lion in 2009.

ETI Software Solutionswww.etisoftware.com 770-242-3620

Key Products: Software for subscriber management, flow-through activation and provisioning

Summary: Since 1992, ETI Software Solutions has de-livered billing and operational software solutions to tele-

communications, broadband and satellite service providers worldwide. ETI’s products integrate back-office systems with FTTH and IPTV technologies, allowing instantaneous pro-visioning and billing of voice, video and data services. The company’s flagship product, Triad sdp, has out-of-the-box automated provisioning support for FTTx, IPTV and soft-switch technologies from vendors that include Alcatel, Calix, Cisco, MetaSwitch, Microsoft, Minerva, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks and Occam. Triad’s modules include or-der entry and rating; work order management and schedul-ing; reporting; and billing. Subsystems such as customer- premises equipment inventory, PPV/VoD management and re-porting can also be managed via Triad sdp technology.

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

Key Products: Test and service assurance solutions

Summary: EXFO, based in Quebec City, provides test and service assurance solutions for wireless and wireline network operators and telecommunications equipment manufacturers. It accounts for an estimated 33 percent of the portable fiber optic test market. The telecom division, which provides more than 90 percent of the company’s revenue, offers solutions that assess the performance and reliability of converged IP fixed and mobile networks from core to edge. Key technologies sup-ported include 3G, 4G/LTE, IMS, Ethernet, OTN, xDSL and various optical technologies. EXFO has a staff of approximately 1,600 people in 25 countries, supporting more than 2,000 cus-tomers worldwide. In March 2010, EXFO acquired NetHawk Oyj, a privately held company headquartered in Oulu, Fin-land. NetHawk’s products include protocol analyzers for test-ing, troubleshooting and optimizing wireless networks as well as high-performance network simulators for load generation,

“Today, providers are faced with the challenge of meeting subscriber expectations for video quality service across multiple devices

and can expect this to continue as the industry evolves. Whether they deliver video traditionally or through new methods, such as 3-D television,

they all need solutions that help ensure and enhance quality subscriber experience while not draining resources. With all these advancements,

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regression and functional testing. In fiscal 2009, the company reported revenue of $172.9 million.

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 net-work uptime. FiberZone AFM enables network operators to provision, manage and troubleshoot networks end to end with-out having to perform on-site servicing. The foundation of AFM is FiberZone’s latched optical coupling, which delivers remote control and automation to the fiber infrastructure while main-taining the attributes and reliability of a manual patch panel. AFM technology also enables carriers to generate new revenue streams through on-demand service provisioning. In 2008, the company launched its flagship product, the AFM-360 and also announced sales of the AFM-360 to large carriers in Asia and the United States. In April 2010, FiberZone an-nounced a new software module to automate recovery from fiber cuts and equipment port failures across a network. FiberZone Networks is a charter member 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 has more than 200 employees in 10 offices nationwide and is one of the largest telecom network design companies in the United

States. The company specializes in end-to-end engineering consulting for telecommunications, wireless, cable television and electric power transmission and distribution networks, as well as project management and right-of-way services. Finley develops standard design criteria for clients’ projects and fol-lows through with detailed designs, construction documents, contracts, contract administration and materials lists. Once a project is under way, Finley can provide construction obser-vation and project management. It has completed more than 6,500 miles of FTTH projects and passed more than 35,000 homes. In April 2010, the company acquired Bryant Survey-ing and Mapping (BSM), a regional full-service surveying and mapping company with a broad base of corporate, municipal and private clients throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.

Foxcomwww.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 dis-tribution 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 applica-tions. Recent products include the BsmarTV suite, an MFH-2-ready, triple-play deployment platform for the MDU market; and SatLight/Platinum, which enables advanced RF and fiber optic link control and monitoring for the earth station market. The addition of active Ethernet products to the BsmarTV plat-form creates a full triple-play fiber optic distribution system with the broadest pipe to the home. Foxcom’s corporate headquarters and its research and development are based in Israel, and it also has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom and South

“We believe the next boost to broadband deployment will come from creatively using today’s technologies to reduce the operational costs of

installation and deployment. It’s very exciting to see that some of the most innovative service providers in the industry have the vision to prove

out new concepts from emerging infrastructure vendors.”– Cheri Beranek, president and CEO, Clearfield


Africa. Foxcom currently employs more than 40 people, with the majority in research and development.

Googlewww.google.com650-253-0000

Key Products: Construction and operation of open-access, fiber-to-the-home networks (planned)

Summary: Unlike the 99 other companies on this year’s Top 100 list, Google has not yet contributed to the buildout of fiber to the home – other than by boosting the demand for band-width with its quest to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” This year, however, Google drew enormous public attention to the benefits and potential of FTTH. When it announced in February that it planned to build open-access, 1 Gbps-capable networks in one or more U.S. cities, Google energized broadband advocates throughout the country, inspiring more than 1,100 communi-ties to apply to become Google Communities. Google plans to select its fiber communities by the end of 2010, but a sig-nificant number of applicants have decided to continue seek-ing financing for community broadband networks even if they

are not selected. Google has promised to share with the public what it learns about new techniques for fiber deployment and about next-generation applications. Headquartered in Moun-tain View, Calif., Google has pioneered much of the software that makes the Web usable. Its 2009 revenue, derived primarily from Web-based advertising, was $23.7 billion.

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 supply-chain management services and is a leading North American distributor of components, equipment and materials for several industries. With net sales of $4.38 billion in 2009, Graybar employs about 6,900 people at more than 240 dis-tribution centers throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. It is one of North America’s largest and oldest employee-owned companies. Established in 1869, Graybar stocks and sells hundreds of thousands of items from thou-sands of manufacturers and can procure, warehouse and de-liver almost any kind of electrical, communications or data product, component or service. Fiber connectivity solutions represent a fast-growing area in its catalog. Through its dis-tribution network and value-added services, including kitting and integrated solutions, Graybar is helping its customers pow-er and network their facilities.

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

Key Products: Billing and provisioning software for cable TV, Internet, VoIP, VoD, pay-per-view 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. Its customers are primar-ily small to midsized cable companies, ranging from startup operations 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 mu-nicipal FTTH system in Tullahoma, Tenn., and several others. Voice, video and data can be provisioned directly from the bill-ing system and itemized on a single monthly subscriber bill. The company’s two largest offices are in Carlsbad, Calif., and Beaver Dam, Wis., but it operates in 49 states and 40 countries worldwide. Key products include WinCable, for cable billing

Customer-Premises Equipment Other Than Network Interface Devices

These companies provide set-top boxes, modems, routers, residential gateways, home networking gear

and related equipment.

Company Name Web AddressActiontec www.actiontec.comAdvanced Digital Broadcast www.adbglobal.comAlcatel-Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.comAmino www.aminocom.comARRIS www.arrisi.comBEC Technologies www.bec technologies.netCisco Systems www.cisco.comComtrend www.comtrend.comEchoStar www.echostar.comEntone www.entone.comLeviton www.leviton.comMotorola www.motorola.comRuckus Wireless www.ruckuswireless.comSamsung www.samsung.comTelco Systems www.telco.comTelect www.telect.comTechnicolor www.technicolor.comTilgin www.tilgin.com2Wire www.2wire.comZyXEL Communications www.us.zyxel.com

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and subscriber management, and WinVoIP, which can provi-sion, import, consolidate, manage, report and bill call detail re-cords 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 it 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 and low-voltage design, construction and operations; service provider for voice, video, high-speed data and community Intranet services

Summary: Based in Southern California, Greenfield Commu-nications 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 9,000 customers throughout California and Arizona. Greenfield is currently designing 11 more communities and has secured contracts for an additional 22 projects representing more than 250,000 homes. Greenfield also has contracts with UCLA, the city of Pasadena and the city of Dana Point to provide fiber optic design, cabling and communications services. The com-pany recently entered the existing multifamily housing market space, providing bundled voice, video and data packages.

GVTC Communicationswww.gvtc.com800-367-4882

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

Company Name Web AddressA-D Technologies www.adtechnologies.comADC www.adc.comAFL Telecommunications www.afltele.comAlliance Fiber Optic Products www.afop.comBelden www.belden.comCalient Networks www.calient.comCalix www.calix.comChannell Commercial Corporation www.channellcomm.comCharles Industries Ltd. www.charles industries.comClearfield www.clearfield connection.comCommScope www.commscope.comCorning Cable Systems www.corningcable systems.comDraka Communications www.draka.com/ Americas communicationsEmerson Network Power www.emerson networkpower.comEricsson www.ericsson.comFiberZone Networks www.fiberzone- networks.comHarmonic www.harmonicinc.comLeviton www.leviton.comLite Access www.liteaccess.comMiniflex www.miniflex.co.uk

Company Name Web AddressMontclair Fiber Optics www.montclairfiber.comMRV Communications www.mrv.comMulticom www.multicominc.comMultilink www.multilinkone.comOccam Networks www.occam networks.comOFS www.ofsoptics.comNexans www.nexans.comOptelian www.optelian.comOpterna www.opterna.comOptical Cable Corporation www.occfiber.comPreformed Line Products www.preformed.comPrysmian www.prysmian.comRadiant Communications www.rccfiber.comSENKO Advanced Components www.senko.comSumitomo Electric www.sumitomo Lightwave electric.comSuttle www.suttleonline.comTelect www.telect.comTellabs www.tellabs.comTeraSpan www.teraspan.com3M Company www.3M.com/telecomTimbercon www.timbercon.comTyco Electronics www.tycoelectronics.comWestek Electronics www.westek.comZhone Technologies www.zhone.com

Passive Network Components These companies provide distribution frames, cross-connect panels, splitters, enclosures,

connectors, duct, conduit and similar equipment for fiber access networks.


Summary: GVTC is a full-service communications provider that offers high-speed Internet, digital cable TV, phone service and home security monitoring in a 2,000-square-mile area of south-central Texas. The company is in the midst of a five-year, $35 million FTTH expansion project and is replacing copper lines with fiber connections in most of its established communities. The project is projected to add FTTH to 20,000 additional premises by 2013. In December 2009, GVTC lever-aged the capabilities of its fiber network to offer customers 40 Mbps Internet download speeds and 10 Mbps upload speeds, the fastest available in southern Texas. In March 2010, GVTC introduced Total Home Networking, a managed service that helps both business and residential customers connect multiple computers and electronic devices so they can share a single high-speed Internet connection. GVTC has 225 employees, and revenue for 2009 was $75.7 million. Because it is a non-profit, any telephone-related revenue over and above operating expenses is allocated to member-owners in the form of capital credits. This year, GVTC will disburse $4.2 million in capital credits to its telephone cooperative members.

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

Key Products: Video delivery solutions

Summary: Harmonic provides video delivery solutions for many of the world’s leading broadcast, cable, satellite, Internet, mobile and telco providers. Its solutions address the growing demand for delivering high-definition and on-demand video to any de-vice – not just the TV but also the PC and mobile devices. Har-monic supports video delivery over fiber to the premises with its MAXLink Video Optical Amplifier, which provides an RF video overlay using 1550 nm signal transport. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., the company operates R&D, sales and systems integration centers worldwide. U.S. customers include Cablevision Systems, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox

Communications, DIRECTV, EchoStar, Hearst-Argyle, Insight Communications, Sinclair Broadcasting, Time Warner Cable and Yahoo. International customers include many Tier 1 provid-ers in Europe, Latin America and Asia. In May 2010, Harmonic announced plans to acquire Omneon, a provider of video pro-duction and playout solutions to media customers. Harmonic reported revenue of $319 million in 2009.

Hiawatha Broadband Communicationswww.hbci.com888-474-9995

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

Summary: Founded in 1997, Hiawatha Broadband Communi-cations (HBC) offers residential, business and wholesale televi-sion; Internet access; telephone; and media production services in southeastern Minnesota. Wireless services were added in 2009. HBC operates both hybrid fiber-coax and fiber-to-the-home networks and recently completed the activation of three new fiber-to-the-home networks in the towns of Rollingstone, Stockton and Lewiston. HBC provides a complete video service selection of more than 100 TV channels (including high-defi-nition programming), digital music, pay-per-view where avail-able and extensive local programming produced by HBC Pro-ductions. Digital video service is available in nine service areas. The company has 68 employees, seven retail communities and a wholesale division. Annual revenue is $14 million.

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

Key Products: Optical access solutions, optical transport equipment, electronic and optical components, wireless infrastructure products, home networking applications development and management solutions

“The competitive telecommunications landscape has created a need for bundled services now more than ever. This retention

value has become a standard that will determine who leads this market today and in the future. Companies that are able to quickly provide this unique customer experience will transform themselves into true

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Summary: Hitachi develops and manufactures optical access equipment, including GEPON, RFoG and DePON (DOCSIS over GEPON) solutions, to support the deployment of fiber to the premises by telecommunications and cable television net-work operators, utilities and municipalities. In May, the com-pany announced 10 Gbps capability for its EPON platform. It also offers metro and long-haul CWDM/DWDM platforms up to 10 Gbps and packet optical transport solutions up to 100 Gbps. Hitachi Communication Technologies America is head-quartered in Norcross, Ga., with offices in Santa Clara, Calif., and Dallas, Texas. The company is a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., which is the third largest technology company on Earth, with fiscal 2009 revenue of $96.4 billion, about 19 percent of which was in the IT and telecommunications sector. Hitachi has ap-proximately 360,000 employees worldwide.

IneoQuest Technologieswww.ineoquest.com 508-339-2497

Key Products: End-to-end video quality and service assurance solutions

Summary: IneoQuest’s solutions audit, monitor, analyze and troubleshoot video from the headend to set-top box and across multiple devices, including television, Internet and mobile devic-es. The IQPinPoint platform encompasses video test and analy-sis 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. Established in 2001, IneoQuest is a privately held company based in Mans-field, Mass. It has international sales operations in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

JDSUwww.jdsu.com408-546-5000

Key Products: Fiber optic communications components and testing equipment

Summary: JDSU provides test and measurement solutions and other optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, network equipment manufactur-ers and enterprises. Its portfolio of optical communications solutions includes attenuators; circulators; couplers; splitters; WDMs; detectors/receivers; subsystems for transmission, am-plification and wavelength management; circuit packs and optical test platforms. All are designed to enable agile optical networks – systems that can be managed remotely and respond dynamically to changes in network traffic patterns as demand increases. JDSU is also a leader in the evolution of 40G and 100G high-speed networks, offering both optical components and test equipment. Based in Milpitas, Calif., JDSU has 4,000

Fiber and Fiber Cable These firms supply optical fiber for

fiber access deployments.

Company Name Web AddressADC www.adc.comAFL Telecommunications www.afltele.comBelden www.belden.comCommScope www.commscope.comCorning, Corning www.corning.com,

Cable Systems www.corningcable systems.com

Draka Communications www.draka.com/ communications

Ericsson www.ericsson.comGeneral Cable www.generalcable.comMulticom www.multicominc.comNexans www.nexans.comOFS www.ofsoptics.comOptical Cable

Corporation www.occfiber.comPrysmian www.prysmian.comSumitomo Electric www.sumitomo

Lightwave electric.comTelect www.telect.comTimbercon www.timbercon.com

As the Internet evolves from websites and individuals to Web apps and communities, we are seeing the Darwinian sorting of network offerings.

The value of FTTH’s unparalleled speed and low latency will be fully apparent and realized by new applications, smart sensors and

media-rich communications and social networks. – Edward Zyszkowski, CEO, Steeplechase Networks


employees. Revenue was more than $1.29 billion for the fiscal year ending 2009.

KGP Logisticswww.kgplogistics.com800-755-3004

Key Products: Products for the outside plant, central office, datacomm, transmission, customer premises and broadband

Summary: Headquartered in Faribault, Minn., KGP Logistics has provided the telecommunications industry with supply-chain and distribution services for more than 30 years. The company’s national distribution network, which comprises seven regional distribution centers and eight product manufac-turing facilities, provides fiber and copper factory-terminated cable; custom assemblies; assemble, wire and test services; and engineer, furnish and install services. KGP Logistics distributes voice, video, data and wireless products from more than 1,500 manufacturers, ranging from basic communications craft tools and supplies to broadband network equipment. Markets served include regional Bell operating companies, independent tele-phone companies, municipalities, public utilities, contractors, installation companies, OEMs and Internet service providers.

Leviton Manufacturingwww.leviton.com718-229-4040

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

Summary: Founded in 1906 and still owned by the found-ing family, Leviton Manufacturing is located in Little Neck, N.Y. It 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 connectivity all the way from the central office to the jack inside the house with fiber-to-the-home solutions that include optical distribution cabinets, ped-estals, drop terminals, network interface devices, fiber optic enclosures, optical splice components and accessories and fiber optic cable assemblies. The company’s voice and data division produces both fiber and copper products at its manufacturing complex in Bothell, Wash. Residential structured cabling and home-control products are offered to builders and homeowners through Leviton Integrated Networks and Controls. In 2010, Leviton launched its HOME 6 and HOME 5e solutions, with Cat 6 and 5e connectors and patch cables specifically designed for residential applications.

LUS Fiberwww.lus.orgwww.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, La., 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

“The future looks bright for continued growth in this industry, which is being driven by the success of IPTV over both managed and unmanaged networks.

To achieve the quality of service that people are accustomed to for TV, the networks delivering TV must be upgraded. This is happening not only with telcos, but also with cable and satellite operators. Continued demand for

linear TV channels plus the advent of OTT video from independent and start-up content providers through unmanaged networks will continue to march forward. Consumer demand for video from these sources will

require additional bandwidth, so service providers with the most end-to-end bandwidth will prevail. In a nutshell, it’s called progress.”

– Pete Pifer, CEO, ETI Software Solutions



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2002, began offering triple-play services to residents and small businesses in 2009 after prevailing in a legal battle that lasted for several years. Construction of the citywide buildout is expected to be completed in July 2010, nine months ahead of schedule. Completed, the network passes all the premises in this city of about 120,000. LUS involved the community to an unusual de-gree 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 and proactively trying to avoid increasing the digital divide. Based on community input, LUS Fiber not only offers residential Internet access at symmetrical speeds up to 50 Mbps but also provides all subscribers with sym-metrical 100 Mbps access to a peer-to-peer community intranet. Analog video and digital video service are also provided, with the digital video service powered by Microsoft Mediaroom. Dig-ital video customers have access to whole-home DVR, instant channel change and picture-in-picture browsing. Additional ap-plications are planned for the future.

Michels Corporationwww.michels.us920-583-3132

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

Summary: Michels Corporation, an international engineering and construction contractor based in Brownsville, Wis., began in 1959 as a pipeline construction company and entered the telecommunications industry four years later. Michels Com-munications, a division of Michels Corporation, specializes in fiber optic network construction in all sectors of the industry, from local telephone and long-distance companies to cable TV providers, education and enterprise networks. Mi-Tech Servic-es, another division of the company, is a full-service engineer-ing firm offering FTTx solutions that include cable restoration, outside-plant planning and design, project management and right-of-way acquisition. In 1983, Michels was one of the first

companies to construct fiber lines; now, it constructs thousands of miles of fiber optic and broadband networks each year.

Miniflex www.miniflex.co.uk330-495-2296

Key Products: Solutions for fiber protection, management and installation

Summary: Established in 1994 and based in Suffolk, U.K., Miniflex designs and manufactures optical fiber installation systems and products for FTTx implementations in homes and offices. Miniflex products offer a cost-effective way to protect and manage optical fiber. The product range includes protective tubing, ruggedized cables, installation systems and ancillary products. Optical Fiber Protection Tubing (OFPT) offers protection against crushing and kinking of fibers and hazardous tensile loads while limiting bends to an acceptable radius. Because of OFPT’s rigid flexibility and buckling resis-tance, pigtails made from 3mm OFPT can be easily installed in FTTH deployments by pushing them into microducts, as an alternative to blowing or pulling fiber. Miniflex has provided fiber protection products for British incumbent BT since 2005 and established a U.S. subsidiary in 2008.

Montclair Fiber Opticswww.montclairfiber.com608-831-4440

Key Products: Optical splitters, CWDMs, WDMs and amplifiers

Summary: Established in 1995, Montclair Fiber Optics pro-vides standard and custom passive and active optical compo-nents to the FTTx and telecom markets. Leveraging its core partnerships with OEM manufacturers, Montclair offers reli-able lower-cost products, flexibility in custom product design, dedicated inventories and comprehensive service and support. For 15 years, Montclair has consistently served more than 50 customers nationwide, including several leaders in the FTTx

“Consumer demand for rich media is growing at an exponential rate, faster than communications service provider access networks are evolving

to meet these service requirements. By pushing ‘Fiber Forward’ in their networks, service providers can rapidly address this surge in demand,

substantially improving access and connectivity speeds while dramatically altering their ongoing operational costs.”

– Carl Russo, CEO and president, Calix


and telecom industries. Products are Telcordia-compliant and RoHS-compliant, and the company’s manufacturing partners’ facilities are ISO- and TL9000-certified. New in June 2010 is a ruggedized 1550 nm erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) designed for outside-plant FTTx and CATV networks. The amplifier is constructed for long-term weather-resistant and reliable operation over a wide temperature range.

Motorola www.motorola.com847-576-5000

Key Products: Video and broadband solutions for FTTH, DSL, HFC, WiMAX, LTE, home entertainment, home networking

Summary: Motorola designs and manufactures digital video,

set-top boxes, video distribution systems, broadband access in-frastructure platforms, broadband gateways and wireless net-works. The world’s leading provider of digital entertainment devices, it shipped its 100 millionth digital entertainment device in 2009. Broadband delivery mechanisms include fiber optics, xDSL, hybrid fiber-coax, WiMAX and LTE. Fiber so-lutions include GPON central-office and customer-premises equipment, a passive optical LAN enterprise solution and an RFoG solution for cable operators. In February, the company acquired BitBand, a provider of content management and de-livery systems that specializes in video on demand for IPTV. Motorola is headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill., and had net sales of $22 billion for 2009, of which video and broadband technologies accounted for about $8 billion.

Company Name Web AddressADTRAN www.adtran.comAdvance Fiber Optics www.ospinsight.comAlcatel-Lucent www.alcatel-lucent.comAllot Communications www.allot.comAmdocs www.amdocs.comAnritsu www.anritsu.comArbor Networks www.arbornetworks.comAricent www.aricent.comARRIS www.arrisi.comBivio Networks www.bivio.netCalix www.calix.comCapanis Networks www.capanis.comCHR Solutions www.chrsolutions.comCisco Systems www.cisco.comComarch www.comarch.comCommunications

Data Group www.cdg.wsComtrend www.comtrend.comComverse www.comverse.comCOS Systems www.cossystems.comECI Telecom www.ecitele.com

Company Name Web AddressEricsson www.ericsson.com ETI Software Solutions www.etisoftware.comFine Point Technologies www.finepoint.comGreat Lakes Data Systems www.glds.comHighdeal (SAP) www.highdeal.comHP www.hp.com/go/ismIBBS www.ibbs.comLogisense www.logisense.comMetaSwitch www.metaswitch.comOpenet www.openet.comProcera Networks www.proceranetworks.comPulse Broadband www.pulsebroadband.netSandvine www.sandvine.comTelcordia www.telcordia.comTellabs www.tellabs.com TraceSpan www.tracespan.comUTStarcom www.utstar.comWeird Solutions www.broadband

provisioner.comXangati www.xangati.comZeugma Systems www.zeugmasystems.com

Network Management Solutions These companies provide OSS or software for network monitoring, optimization, provisioning,

service management, subscriber management, billing and related functions.

“We humbly thank each and every community and individual for taking the time to participate. If one message has come through loud and clear, it’s this:

People across the country are hungry for better and faster Internet access.”– Google Fiber for Communities project team (on website)



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Multicomwww.multicominc.com800-423-2594

Key Products: Fiber optic cables, passives, receivers, amplifiers, nodes, attenuators, enclosures, splitters, fusion splicers, tools and coaxial cables for hybrid fiber-coax systems; systems design; VoIP services

Summary: Multicom is a manufacturer and full-line stock-ing distributor of broadband products for end-to-end integra-tion of communications solutions. Established in 1982, Mul-ticom has a multimillion-dollar inventory, stocking more than 13,000 products from more than 270 of the world’s major manufacturers. These products are used to acquire, process and distribute audio, video, television and data signals over fiber optic, copper and coaxial cable. Since the beginning of 2010, Multicom has announced three additions to its fiber optic product line: the Optical Micro-Node, the 1310 Transmitter and a return path receiver. Multicom’s design and engineering team has worked throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. Recent design projects include the Madeira Con-dominiums on Marco Island, Fla.; the Norris Inpatient Tower at the University of Southern California University Hospital in Los Angeles; the Puerto Rican Convention Center in San Juan; and the National Park Seminary in Silver Spring, Md. Multi-com also sells retail and wholesale VoIP services through its Mconnect subsidiary. Multicom is headquartered in Orlando, Fla., and maintains sales offices, rep agencies and subdistribu-tors throughout the Americas.

Multilinkwww.gomultilink.com440-366-6966

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

Summary: Multilink, founded in 1983, is a manufacturer of telecommunications network components that has expanded to become a worldwide supplier and integrator of end-to-end solutions. The company’s customers include independent tel-cos, regional Bell operating companies, utilities, local-area net-

work providers and cable TV MSOs. Its products are designed to meet the needs of both legacy plant and new technology applications; new product development targets fiber optic–based solutions, including new hinged overlay molding for FTTH deployment in MDU buildings. Also new is the com-pany’s Downspout Raceway product line, which hides cables or conduits on the side of a building in a product that looks like a downspout. Based in Elyria, Ohio, Multilink is privately owned and has 158 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 solutions based on pure packet technologies. The company’s solutions support voice, data and video services over copper and fiber and enable the transition from all-copper networks to copper-fiber or all-fiber networks. In 2009-2010, Occam added a line of six GPON optical network terminals with extensive configuration op-tions for residential and business services and introduced the award-winning 48-port Active Ethernet BLC 6316, the BLC 6216 VDSL2 solution and a comprehensive operating sys-tem. More than 3 million of Occam’s broadband loop carrier ports have been deployed by more than 350 service providers in North America and the Caribbean. Occam is also supplying Fairpoint Communications in its provision of Metro Ethernet services to the Maine School and Library Network, enabling mobile backhaul services for Centennial of Puerto Rico and supplying a GPON solution to West Whitlawburn Hous-ing Co-operative (WWHC) through its U.K.-based value- added reseller Fibre Options. Occam is based in Santa Barbara, Calif., and had revenue of $84.0 million in 2009.

“Customer demand for higher bandwidth continues to grow, and online video streaming services are increasing the demand even more.

Communications providers must be able to offer services over our networks that meet this demand.”

– Steve Oldham, president and CEO, SureWest


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

Key Products: Optical fiber; optical cable; splicers; fiber management and connectivity products for homes, businesses and MDUs; 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. Headquar-tered near Atlanta, Ga., OFS is a global provider with facili-ties in North America and Europe and sales offices around the world. The company’s heritage, which goes back to Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the telephone, includes tech-nology powerhouses such as Bell Labs, AT&T and Lucent Tech-nologies. Since 2001, OFS has been a subsidiary of Furukawa Electric, a global leader in optical communications founded in 1884 and based in Japan. OFS ultra-bend-insensitive EZ-Bend optical cables are designed to offer fast and easy installation for MDU and in-home wiring applications. Other OFS brands in-clude FOX (Fiber Optics to the X), an end-to-end offering for connecting homes, businesses and MDUs with fiber; 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 For-tex DT and AccuRibbon DC cables. OFS also helps optimize network designs with its OptiCost FTTx Modeling Services. To cut the cost and complexity of multifamily deployments, over the past year OFS refined its MDU distribution offerings, intro-duced a new line of multimode fiber (the LaserWave family) and certified a version of its single-mode, bend-tolerant fiber to work with a bend radius as small as 5 mm. Furukawa Electric reported revenue of $10.5 billion in fiscal 2009, about 14.4 percent of it from its telecommunications businesses.

On Trac www.ontracinc.net 423-317-0009

Key Products: Fiber splicing, FTTH installation, 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 FTTH splicing, mainline fiber splicing, networking commercial installation, and MDU de-sign and installation. It also offers professional services, includ-ing consulting, system audits, inventory control and project management. On Trac’s principal service areas are in Tennes-see, Georgia, Texas, Indiana and Louisiana. Customers include telephone companies, utilities and municipalities. Recent in-stallations include Auburn Essential Services in Auburn, Ind.; Bristol Tennessee Essential Services in Bristol, Tenn.; Clarks-ville Department of Electricity in Clarksville, Tenn.; Dalton Utilities in Dalton, Ga.; and GVTC in New Braunfels, Texas. On Trac has connected more than 80,000 premises to FTTH networks using both aerial and underground drops.

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 integrate with other providers’ offerings. Optical Cable Cor-poration pioneered the design and production of fiber optic cables for demanding military field applications, as well as fi-ber optic cables suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. Of-ferings include products designed for commercial, enterprise network, data center, residential and campus installations and customized products for specialty applications and harsh en-vironments including military, industrial, mining and broad-cast applications. Products include fiber optic cable, copper

“Universal access to high-bandwidth broadband services remains critical for sustained economic growth and quality of life. Despite regulatory concerns,

fiber-based high-speed access represents ‘must-have’ infrastructure for America to continue its competitive position and capacity for innovation.

The 100 Mbps level must become the U.S. standard.”– Darby McCarty, CEO, Smithville



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and fiber optic connectors, copper and fiber optic patch cords, racks, cabinets, datacom enclosures, patch panels, face plates, multimedia boxes and cable and connectivity management ac-cessories. The company’s patented modular connection system includes plug protrusions on internal and external surfaces that prevent improper cable connectivity options and create mul-tiple levels of restricted access to a network. Founded in 1983, Optical Cable Corporation is headquartered in Roanoke, Va., with offices and manufacturing and warehouse facilities locat-ed in Roanoke and near Asheville, N.C.

Optimum Lightpathwww.optimumlightpath.com877-LIGHTPATH

Key Products: Ethernet-based data, Internet, voice, video and managed services

Summary: With headquarters in Jericho, N.Y., Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, pro-vides Ethernet-based communications solutions for large and midsized businesses in the New York metropolitan area. The company’s reliable, resilient and scalable fiber-to-the-business-premises network extends more than 3,900 route miles and is connected to more than 3,800 buildings. Recent service intro-ductions include hosted voice, interactive patient care, high-definition voice and virtual private ring service. New customer wins include Wayne Township, Next Generation Radiology, Holy Name Hospital, Medical Arts Radiology and Creskill Public School District. Optimum Lightpath’s revenue for 2009 was $255.5 million.

Pace International www.paceintl.com 507-288-1853; 800-444-7223

Key Products: Distribution of DISH Network content and hardware and DISH Network-approved installation materials and accessories; EchoStar ViPTV IPTV solutions; 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 an automation and procurement specialist with expertise in supporting communications systems world-wide. As an authorized national hardware and content dis-tributor for DISH Network and an EchoStar IPTV reseller, the company offers complete video solutions for telcos, ISPs and system operators. Pace’s support services for private cable operators include system design, DISH Network receivers and equipment and back-office services. Pace also carries commu-nications hardware and tools from major vendors, along with a lineup of products sold under its brand, MVP. Founded in 1972, Pace operates from its headquarters in Rochester, Minn., and through facilities in Denver and in Ningbo, China.

Preformed Line Productswww.preformed.com440-461-5200

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

Summary: Founded in 1947, Preformed Line Products is an international designer and manufacturer of products and systems used to construct and maintain overhead and under-ground networks. PLP’s customer base includes telecommu-nications network operators, cable television and broadband service providers, power utilities, corporations and enterprise networks, government agencies and educational institutions. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the company operates do-mestic manufacturing centers in Rogers, Ark.; Albuquerque, N.M.; and Albemarle, N.C. PLP serves worldwide markets through operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Eng-land, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, Spain and Thailand. Net sales for 2009 were $257.2 million.

“This is an exciting time to be involved in fiber to the premises. The entire landscape of broadband technology is changing around the world. We

see entire countries setting ambitious fiber-to-the-premises goals, Google is driving innovation here in the States, and we’re proud to be part of an

increasingly dynamic and inventive culture.”– Todd Marriott, executive director, UTOPIA


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

Key Products: Optical fiber and telecommunications cables

Summary: Headquartered in Milan, Italy, with U.S. head-quarters in Lexington, S.C., Prysmian has multiple production facilities worldwide and supplies most of the world’s largest telecom operators with products that include optical fiber, op-tical cable, copper cable, FTTx passive solutions, premises/data cable and connectivity hardware. With its two business divi-sions, Energy Cables and Systems and Telecom Cables and Sys-tems, Prysmian boasts a global presence with subsidiaries in 39 countries; 56 plants in 24 countries; seven research and devel-opment centers in Europe, North America and South America; and more than 12,000 employees. Prysmian’s projects range in size from individual municipalities to large-scale rollouts. Recent product offerings include a 1,728-fiber armored rib-bon cable, the highest fiber count cable ever installed in North America. Prysmian also offers a full line of ADSS and OPGW cables, which can be used by FTTH and middle-mile builders that have access to electrical utility poles or transmission infra-structure. Prysmian’s sales in 2009 exceeded $4.5 billion.

Quanta Services www.quantaservices.com 713-629-7600

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

Summary: Quanta offers turnkey broadband installation and maintenance services for inside- and outside-plant facilities; analog and digital signals; coaxial, fiber optic and hybrid trans-mission; and residential and commercial networks. Services in-clude rack installation, engineering, long-term site and system planning and project management. Customers include AT&T, Qwest, Verizon Communications and many other leading ser-vice providers. Other industries Quanta serves include electric power, renewable energy and natural gas and pipeline. Head-quartered in Houston, Texas, Quanta has about 14,000 em-ployees working across all 50 states and in Canada. Revenue for 2009 was $3.31 billion.

SDT www.sdt-1.com601-823-9440

Key Products: Telecommunications infrastructure services

Summary: The services SDT provides to telecommunications carriers, developers and integration providers include network planning, design, development, installation, testing, turn-up and maintenance on network environments from ultra-long-haul fi-ber networks to FTTx buildouts, wireless, LAN and more. Its integrated project delivery strategy enables it to bundle services in various combinations as turnkey solutions. SDT has complet-ed major FTTH projects for Telepak Networks in Mississippi and Cameron Communications in Louisiana. Headquartered in Brookhaven, Miss., SDT has a second office near Atlanta and operations in 35 states. The company has 200 employees.

SENKO Advanced Componentswww.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




“I’m not sure that I’m quite typical of most of the Summit attendees, in that as a consultant who is involved in the FTTH, MDU, local government and the stimulus, nearly all of the presentations are germane. I thought

the conference was excellent and appreciated the opportunity to be there. The conference and the BBP magazine continue to get better all the time and that is saying something in this day and age. Reading the BBP

magazine cover to cover is S.O.P., standard operating procedure!”

– Terry Johnson, PresidentUtility Communications Network

To Exhibit or Sponsor, contact: Irene Prescott at [email protected], or call 505-867-2668.

For other inquiries, call 877-588-1649, or visit www.bbpmag.com.



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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 build-ings, hotels, hospitals and educational institutions. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Boston, SENKO Advanced Com-ponents is a subsidiary of SENKO Group in Japan. It has 1,500 employees and is privately held.

Smithville www.smithville.net www.smithvilledigital.net 812-876-2211

Key Products: Telephone, long distance, Internet, managed services, cellular, home security services; design, construction, installation and maintenance of broadband fiber optic and wireless networks

Summary: Founded in the 1920s as the Monroe County Tele-phone Company, privately owned Smithville is now Indiana’s largest independent telecom company, with more than 190 employees. Smithville is deploying FTTH services – which, at 100 Mbps, provide the fastest connectivity available in Indi-ana – to more than 30,000 businesses and residences in the southern half of the state. Its subsidiary Smithville Digital provides fiber-based connectivity, data consulting, network management and managed services for businesses, university campuses, biotechnology companies, health care providers and government offices in southern and central Indiana. Smithville Digital has expanded its high-speed fiber access to Indiana certified technology parks and technology incubators, includ-ing the new facility at Indiana University in Bloomington, the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park associated with the Naval Surface Warfare Center and military laboratory in southern Indiana, and a number of Indiana-based financial institutions. The Indiana Digital Gateway operated by Smithville Digital leverages fiber optic technology for both first-mile connectiv-ity and network management solutions. The company is also active in telemedicine and telehealth initiatives, particularly in rural areas of Indiana.

Steeplechase Networks www.scnets.com 413-229-0030

Key Products: Network application aggregation, back-end support

Summary: Steeplechase Networks is a software and services provider that partners with network operators to aggregate and deliver applications and content for public and private com-munity networks throughout North America, including mu-nicipal networks, ILECs and others. Steeplechase’s back-end support and technology enable network operators to deliver advanced Web services that make the communities they serve healthier, greener and smarter. Steeplechase selects and tests best-in-class network equipment and value-added services, in-cluding essentials such as remote backup and restore services as well as special-interest features such as energy management, gaming networks, video services, online music lessons and medical monitoring. Based in Southfield, Mass., 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

Test and Measurement EquipmentCompany Name Web AddressADC www.adc.comAFL Telecommunications www.afltele.comAgilent www.agilent.comAnritsu www.anritsu.comApplied Instruments www.appliedin.comCorning Cable Systems www.corningcable

systems.comEXFO www.exfo.comFluke www.fluke.comGAO Tek www.gaotek.comIneoQuest www.ineoquest.comJDSU www.jdsu.comMultidyne Video &

Fiber Optic Systems www.multidyne.comRADCOM www.radcom.comSENKO Advanced

Components www.senko.comSpirent Communications www.spirent.comSumitomo Electric www.sumitomo

Lightwave electric.comSunrise Telecommunications www.sunrise

telecom.comSymmetricom www.symmttm.comTektronix www.tektronix.com3M Company/Communication

Markets Division www.3M.com/telecomTrilithic www.trilithic.comWestek Electronics www.westek.com


network passive components, FTTH solutions, air-blown fiber infrastructure systems

Summary: Sumitomo may be best known for introducing peel-able optical fiber ribbon and mass fusion splicing to the Unit-ed States. Other products introduced to the North American market include gel-free ribbon cable, hostile-environment cable, bend-insensitive drop cables, automated cleavers and dual-heater splicers. This year the company introduced the Lynx2 Custom-Fit splice-on connector and next-generation termination equip-ment for its FutureFLEX air-blown fiber system. Sumitomo Electric Lightwave serves the major public network provider, ILEC, CATV, municipal and enterprise network markets. Cus-tomers for the FutureFLEX air-blown fiber system include the Pentagon; the Mayo Clinic and other hospitals and systems; the National Institutes of Health; DFW, McCarran, Logan, and many other airports; the MGM Grand; NASA; Toyota; Yale University; Johns Hopkins University; Con Edison; Duke En-ergy Center; and many others. A wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI), Sumitomo Electric Light-wave was established in 1984 and is located in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Its parent company generated estimated revenue of $22 billion for the year ending in March, 2010, of which more than 10 percent was attributed to communications products.

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

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

Summary: SureWest is headquartered in Roseville, Calif., with more than 137,000 residential customers and 15,000 business customers in the Greater Sacramento and Kansas City regions. As of March 2010, SureWest deployed FTTH to more than 147,000 of its 310,000 marketable homes; its FTTH offering features symmetrical Internet speeds of up to 50 Mbps. In Jan-uary 2010, SureWest launched its Advanced Digital TV service to customers in the Sacramento region. The new service, pow-ered by the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform, includes features such as whole-home DVR. SureWest has also entered into wireless backhaul agreements with two national wireless carriers to provide service to nearly 200 cellular tow-ers. SureWest, which has about 900 employees, posted revenue of $241.7 million in 2009.

Suttlewww.suttleonline.com800-852-8662

Key Products: Structured cabling solutions, FTTx enclosures

and connectors for premises voice, data and video equipment, xDSL splitters

Summary: Founded in 1910, Suttle is a manufacturer of com-munications connectivity products for major service provid-ers and installers. Though the company’s legacy was built on traditional telephony connection hardware, today Suttle sup-plies a complete on-premises connectivity offering for voice, data and video communications. In March 2010, Firecomms, a leading developer of high-speed plastic optical fiber (POF) transceivers, announced Suttle as a licensee of its OptoLock in-terconnect system, an easy-to-use, low-cost housing for instant termination of bare POF. OptoLock provides plugless termi-nations that allow for simple, quick connections of network devices. Headquartered in Hector, Minn., Suttle is a wholly owned subsidiary of Communications Systems Inc. The com-pany’s quality management systems are ISO 9001 and TL9000 registered. Sales in 2009 were $42.9 million.

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

Key Products: Utility construction and network installation services

Summary: With more than 75 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 municipal permits, and coordinate with the developers and other utilities. By designing residential duct systems and using joint trench installation techniques, Team Fishel provides cost-effective FTTx delivery systems and new revenue opportunities for greenfield deployments. Established in 1936, Team Fishel now has 28 offices nationwide and 1,000 “teammates,” or employees. The company is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Telco Systemswww.telco.com; www.active-eth.com800-227-0937

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Summary: Founded in 1972 and based in Mansfield, Mass., Telco Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of BATM Advanced Communications, offers multiservice Carrier Ethernet access and demarcation solutions. The product suite includes solutions for residential FTTH and intelligent demarcation and Ethernet service delivery for commercial and packet backhaul applica-tions. Telco recently expanded its FTTH offerings with the in-troduction of the EdgeGate 242W, an indoor, wireless-enabled active Ethernet residential gateway, and an enhanced EdgeGate 483 outdoor CPE gateway with dual 1 Gigabit uplinks. BATM reported revenue of $135.4 million in 2009.

Telect www.telect.com 800-551-4567

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

Summary: With more than 25 years of experience in commu-nications connectivity and power management, Telect provides solutions for a network’s physical layer from the central office or data center to the outside plant and into the home. Telect’s central-office communications solutions include fiber optic distribution panels and frames, copper connectivity products, cable management, Ethernet patching systems, power distri-bution, equipment racks and cabinets, and superstructure and cable rack. For outside-plant applications, Telect also provides enclosures, small-form-factor and multifunctional connectiv-ity platforms and distribution and connectivity solutions for rural carriers. Telect’s structured cabling and access switching systems are suitable for the home, MDU/MTU or small office.

Telect is a privately held company headquartered in Liberty Lake, Wash. The company also has facilities in Plano, Texas (manufacturing and systems integration), and Guadalajara, Mexico (manufacturing), along with sales representatives and support staff around the globe.

Tellabswww.tellabs.com630-798-8800

Key Products: Access networking equipment, digital cross-connects, IP/Ethernet, managed access, network management, optical networking

Summary: Tellabs is fast evolving from a company based on traditional switched-circuit TDM telephony into a major play-er in optical networking. Some 43 of the top 50 global com-munications service providers use Tellabs mobile, optical, busi-ness or services solutions. Customers include telecom service providers, independent operating companies, MSO/cable TV companies, enterprises and government agencies in more than 90 countries. Tellabs, based in Naperville, Ill., employs about 3,250 people, including 1,400 outside the United States. Last December, the company strengthened its 3G/4G portfolio – which already included fiber-borne backhaul – with the acqui-sition of WiChorus, a supplier of mobile Internet infrastructure products. In 2009, Tellabs generated sales of $1.5 billion.

TeraSpan Networkswww.teraspan.com877-VI-FIBER

Key Products: Microtrenching fiber optic deployment solutions

“The demand for broadband connectivity across many vertical sectors has changed significantly in recent years as building tenants, businesses and organizations search for the higher-speed bandwidth that helps people communicate, businesses succeed and community

organizations better coordinate their activities. Metro Ethernet fulfills the promise of a connected future by supplying cost-effective, ultra-high-

speed networks that surpass existing technologies in every way.”– Julia McGrath, senior vice president of marketing

and business development, Optimum Lightpath


Summary: Formed in 1997, TeraSpan Networks develops and deploys microtrenched fiber optic networks that dra-matically improve time to market for fiber-to-the-business and fiber-to-the-home applications. Compared with tradi-tional underground deployment methods, TeraSpan’s patented microtrenched solutions are nonintrusive and less disruptive to existing infrastructure, significantly reducing deployment time, labor and costs. With distribution in 30 countries around the world, TeraSpan’s Vertical Inlaid Fiber (VIF) System has been proven in many environments. In the United States, TeraSpan partners with construction and engineering firms such as HP Communications and Quanta Business Services to design and install VIF-based networks for businesses, homes, hospitals and municipalities.

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, Calif., Tetra Tech employs 10,000 people in 280 offices worldwide. Tetra Tech is a leading provider of consulting, engineering, program management, construction, and technical services addressing the resource management and infrastructure markets. In addition to pro-viding water, environmental and energy solutions, Tetra Tech helps develop and deploy wired communications systems. It plans, designs, permits, constructs and maintains cell phone, coaxial cable and fiber optic networks. In 2009, the company had revenue of $2.29 billion.

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 telecommunica-tions industry, the 3M Communication Markets Division of-fers a suite of solutions to communications service providers that range from underground and buried plant to the central office and customer premises. 3M systems optimize network testing, construction, location and maintenance; enable physi-cal media-layer capabilities for FTTP and xDSL deployments

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from central office to customer premises; and deliver fiber optic technologies to leverage existing infrastructure or install new networks. 3M’s new One Pass Fiber Pathway enables fast in-stallation of FTTP networks in MDUs; this horizontal cable pathway and drop-cable solution can be installed in just one pass around a hallway perimeter. 3M’s revenue for 2009 was $23 billion. The Communication Markets Division is head-quartered in Austin, Texas.

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 dis-tributor of television signal distribution equipment used by the cable television industry, private cable operators, the hospital-ity industry, government and educational facilities and business broadcasters. It has provided several large systems and educa-tional facilities with hundreds of headends. Toner offers solu-tions for TV signal distribution over fiber, coax and unshielded twisted pair. Equipment for the digital transition includes QAM demods, digital processors and MPEG encoders. Toner Cable is the largest distributor of equipment for more than 110 manu-facturers, including Adtec, Blonder Tongue, Pico Macom, RL Drake, Olson Technology, Ortel, Sadelco, Middle Atlantic, Ca-blematic, Sencore and Fiber Options. Founded 39 years ago and employing 35 people, Toner Cable Equipment offers expertise in international technical standards, formats and requirements. In addition to its headquarters in Horsham, Pa., Toner has divi-sions in the United Kingdom and in Latin America.

TT Technologieswww.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; 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, Ill., 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 communications service providers, building networks and en-ergy providers. Products include connectors, above- and below-ground enclosures, heat-shrink sleeves, cable accessories, surge arrestors, fiber optic cabling, copper cabling and racks for cop-per and fiber networks. The fiber optic product line includes a complete range of products needed to cover the network func-tions between the optical line terminal and the optical network terminal. Tyco Electronics also supplies passive electronic com-ponents to communications and other markets. In 2009, Tyco Electronics joined the Cisco Technology Developer Program as part of the program’s IP Communication/Solution Enablers category. The program unites Cisco with third-party develop-ers of hardware and software to deliver tested interoperable so-lutions to joint customers. In 2009, Tyco Electronics had sales of $10.3 billion to customers in more than 150 countries. The company has 7,000 engineers and worldwide manufacturing, sales and customer service capabilities.

UniTek Global Serviceswww.unitekglobalservices.com267-464-1700

Key Products: Engineering, construction management and installation fulfillment services

Summary: UniTek Global Services is a provider of permanently outsourced infrastructure services, including engineering, con-struction management and installation fulfillment services, to companies in the wireless and wireline telecommunications, broadband cable and satellite television industries. Customers include AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Sprint Nextel and Time Warner. In January 2010, UniTek and Berliner Communica-tions merged to become UniTek Global Services. Headquar-tered in Blue Bell, Pa., UniTek now has a combined workforce of more than 5,400 people working in 110 locations through-


out the United States and Canada. Revenue for UniTek Global Services was $89 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2010.

UTOPIA www.utopianet.org 801-613-3800

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

Summary: A government agency created by 16 Utah cit-ies whose combined population exceeds 500,000, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) builds and operates an open fiber-to-the-premises network linking multiple cities. UTOPIA fosters competition among communications service providers that offer Internet, video, telephone and other services. After some initial difficulty with partners and funding, UTOPIA has emerged as an example of how a municipal model can bring fiber to rural areas that oth-erwise might not see it for years. Since restructuring in 2008, UTOPIA has focused more on business customers, brought on nearly a dozen new service providers and strengthened relation-ships with others, added long-haul network capabilities, created a 24/7 network operations center, increased its subscriber base by more than 20 percent, upgraded the network and achieved a five nines reliability rating, and expanded service in four of its 16 cities. There are now 15 providers on the UTOPIA network.

Over the last year, UTOPIA deployed services to Brigham City, Utah, where about 30 percent of the population signed up to finance connection to the FTTH network – a model unique in the United States. UTOPIA has 34 employees and generated revenue of $3.34 million in 2009.

Vantage Point Solutionswww.vantagepnt.com605-995-1777

Key Products: Design of FTTP, FTTN, and DOCSIS networks and video headends; project management; RUS loan and grant applications; business modeling

Summary: Vantage Point Solutions is a telecommunications engineering and consulting company that offers technology services, regulatory expertise and financial advice to rural tel-cos. In addition to feasibility studies, long-range communica-tions plans, outside-plant services and regulatory consulting, it offers revenue assurance services, such as billing reviews and phantom-traffic studies, to help network builders expand their product offerings. Vantage Point is a private company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Mitchell, S.D. It employs a staff of 130.

Verizon Communications Verizon Enhanced Communitieswww.verizon.com/communitieswww.verizon.com212-395-2121

Key Products: Verizon FiOS 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, N.J., markets FiOS services delivered over its fiber-to-the-premises network. As of the end of March, the FTTP network had passed 15.6 million premises with fiber and had 3.6 million FiOS In-ternet customers in about 2,000 communities – three-quarters of all FTTP customers in the United States – and more than 3 million FiOS TV customers. By the end of 2010, it is expected to pass about 17 million households with fiber; roughly 1 million more were spun off to Frontier. Verizon’s FiOS Internet service offers residential connection speeds up to 50 Mbps downstream and 35 Mbps upstream throughout the FiOS footprint. FiOS TV offers more than 565 channels, including up to 140 HD channels and 40 international channels in more than 20 lan-guages; multiroom DVR; an advanced interactive media guide and widgets for social networking, news and entertainment; and a VoD offering with 18,000 monthly titles, 70 percent of them free. In addition, Verizon offers DSL-based residential and commercial Internet service. Verizon Enhanced Communities, a

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Laboratories www.blondertongue.comCasa Systems www.casa-systems.comCisco Systems www.cisco.comDIRECTV www.directv.comEchoStar www.echostar.comEricsson www.ericsson.comFoxcom www.foxcom.comGoBackTV www.gobacktv.comHarmonic www.harmonicinc.comMotorola www.motorola.comMulticom www.multicominc.comMultidyne Video &

Fiber Optic Systems www.multidyne.comPico Macom www.picomacom.comR.L. Drake www.rldrake.com



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business unit of Verizon Communications, signs access, service and marketing agreements for FiOS with owners and developers of single-family home developments, high-rises, privatized mili-tary housing, off-campus student housing and small and medi-um-sized commercial properties. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 217,000. In 2009, it generated consolidated revenue of more than $107 billion.

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 involvement in the fiber optics instal-lation industry began in 1991 with the launch of its Navigator horizontal directional drill product line. Navigator HDD units are designed to install telecommunications lines underground without excavation or trenching in order to minimize environ-mental disruption. Vermeer drills have been instrumental in installing fiber optics around the world. Vermeer, with 2,000 employees, has 180 dealerships worldwide.

Walker and Associateswww.walkerfirst.com800-925-5371

Key Products: Products and services for deploying communications networks

Summary: Headquartered in Welcome, N.C., Walker and As-sociates is a distributor of network products. It offers custom network deployment kits; engineer, furnish, install and test ser-vices; virtual warehousing; and integration. Its products support essential carrier service delivery technologies, including FTTx, IP, WiMAX, wireless backhaul, optical transport, Ethernet over copper, WDM, digital cross-connect and more. Walker, which was established in 1970, provides sourcing, stocking and order management services to more than 1,500 telecommunications

service providers and resellers, including independent carriers, competitive service providers, wireless service providers, utilities and governments. Fiber deployments constitute a growing part of Walker’s offerings. Walker is a certified women-owned small business and is TL9000 certified.

Westek Electronicswww.westek.com 800-526-2673

Key Products: Custom cable design and manufacturing, test and patch cords, line tester kits, fiber cleaning kits and tools

Summary: Founded in 1986, Westek manufactures custom fi-ber and coax test and patch cabling, cable assemblies, fiber jump-ers, attenuators, adaptors, patches, cleaning kits, multibreakouts, multifiber pullers (fiber connector insertion removal tools), web slitter kits and tech support laptop kits, as well as patented tools such as Tel-Line Tester & Tel-Line Tester Pro with onboard 5-pin fuse testing. Westek uses durable, lightweight, state-of-the art materials to manufacture and customize cables, components and electronic test kits for communications systems. Westek can either work from client conceptual drawings or assist clients in generating designs. Clients include Qwest, Verizon, AT&T and Fortune 1000 OEM clientele. Registered with Lloyd’s Regis-ter Quality Assurance and based in Santa Cruz, Calif., Westek has more than 100 employees worldwide. In July 2009, Westek moved into a new state-of-the-art facility that houses all its busi-ness units under one roof in Watsonville, Calif.

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 750 network operators worldwide. The com-

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pany offers an integrated portfolio of MSAP, FTTx, EFM and Wi-Fi access technologies, allowing providers to deliver ac-cess services that include residential and business broadband, VoIP and high-definition IPTV over copper, fiber and wire-less. In the second half of 2009, Zhone announced its flagship FTTx platform, the MXK, along with a comprehensive suite of smart ONTs. As a direct result, Zhone added 50 new cus-tomers worldwide, including Etisalat, making Zhone a leading GPON vendor in the Middle East and Africa and increasing its GPON port shipments by more than 4500 percent over a one-year period. Zhone is headquartered in California, and its MSAP products are manufactured in the United States in a fa-cility that is emission, wastewater and CFC free. The company, which has 350 employees, posted revenue of $126.5 million in 2009.

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

Key Products: Broadband access gateways, routers, wireless routers, PON customer-premises equipment, Ethernet

switches, indoor and outdoor WLAN APs and controller system, next-generation firewalls, VoIP adapters, WiMAX

Summary: ZyXEL Communications, founded in 1989, is a manufacturer of broadband connectivity and networking prod-ucts. Its FTTH offering includes both active Ethernet and GE-PON solutions, and it offers a complete range of multiservice broadband wireless gateways and routers, connected home and entertainment devices and SMB networking solutions. Head-quartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, ZyXEL has its North American headquarters in Anaheim, Calif. Globally, the company has more than 3,200 employees and sells its products in more than 150 regional markets in 70 countries. BBP

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