The Wisconsin-based Midwest Tel Net consortium, Hillsboro Telephone Co. Inc., LaValle Telephone Cooperative and Richland-Grant Telephone Cooperative, have selected Occam Networks’ BLC 6000 platform to deliver voice, video and high-speed data to the companies’ rural residential and small business subscribers.
Hillsboro Telephone Co. is replacing five different types of loop carriers in their network with Occam’s BLC 6000. To date, Hillsboro has installed the BLC in central office (CO) and remote office locations and is delivering voice, data and video to its subscribers.
LaValle Telephone Cooperative plans to provide 100% of its subscribers with advanced broadband services by the end of 2005. The carrier will provide traditional voice service, DSL and video, as well as position itself to deliver VoIP. Over the next 18 months, LaValle will install the BLC 6000 in two CO exchanges and 10 remote sites. In mid-April it will begin delivering triple play services.
Richland-Grant Telephone Cooperative plans to install the BLC 6000 in five COs and 23 remotes, using the central office BLCs as DSLAMs to feed the remotes. It expects to install the BLCs in 14 remotes this year and to complete the project by the end of 2005. With the completion, Richland-Grant will provide 100 percent of its 3,000 subscribers with advanced broadband services. http://www.occamnetworks.com
