| MRV Products ILEC/CLEC  Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) face the challenge of responding to the unbundled services act (UNE-P) at the same time as enhancing their infrastructure and trying to expand revenue by installing new, higher speed access services without cannibalizing existing revenue. ILECs are also looking to Enterprise customers as a source of revenue, providing business solutions (such as bundled voice and data), outsourced infrastructure management, and transport services. Furthermore, in today's economic climate, it is critically important to reduce the overhead expenses due to Operational Support Systems (OSS). The Telecommunications Act of 1996 created the CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) industry to compete with the ILECs. While many CLECs have suffered as a result of the recent dramatic downturn in the Carrier marketplace, some are still strong, and are effectively deploying high-speed broadband access to many communities around the country. Unburdened by the requirement of maintaining large legacy networks, CLECs are freer to implement newer, "Greenfield" solutions with Ethernet and IP, providing voice, video and data services to their customers. Of course, CLECs face many of the same challenges of ILECs, including delivering Enterprise business solutions and managing large, complicated networks, and so many of the same solutions apply. CLEC operators may also be interested in MRV's Metro Ethernet services. MRV provides solutions to ILEC and CLEC problems through a variety of product lines. The FiberDriverT product line supports a vast array of fiber-optic connectivity products, including media converters, signal repeaters, and Wave-Division Multiplexing products. These devices allow network expansion and service enhancement with minimal new infrastructure, by extending the use of the existing fiber plant. LECs can provide Ethernet-over-VDSL (EoV) service, using the OptiSwitchT product line to deliver extremely high-rate residential or business Internet access services, using their existing local-loop copper wiring. EoV technology provides up to 15Mbps symmetric service with distances up to 8,000 feet. MRV provides a variety of sizes and shapes of EoV equipment, to fit any size deployment. Delivering business services to Enterprise customers is an exciting area of potential revenue growth for LECs. The OptiSwitch family provides a full solution for Enterprise switching and routing from very small (a few 10Mbps ports) to very large (hundreds of Gigabit ports) networks. The OptiSwitchT family also provides Voice-over-Ethernet technology, which allows E1 or T1 signals (usually inter-PBX links) to operate over an Ethernet backbone. This is a cost effective way of providing Enterprise business voice and data services. MRV's In-ReachT Remote Presence Management solution provides an excellent cost-savings mechanism for both outsourcing of Enterprise network management and for reducing the OSS cost of the LEC's own network. Remote Presence technology allows the administrator to securely access any part of the network either in-band (through the network itself) or out-of-band (through the telephony network) for management purposes. MRV's solution even includes the ability to manage the power connections of remote network infrastructure equipment, so that an administrator can force an unresponsive machine to power-cycle without ever leaving the office. This ability to manage the network infrastructure in-band and out-of-band from a central point dramatically reduces the number of times a service technician needs to make an on-site call either to an Enterprise customer or a network access point, which reduces the OSS cost accordingly. To find out more about MRV solutions for Internet Service Providers, contact your MRV sales representative, at sales@americanteledata.com. |
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