March 28, 2005 Santa Barbara, CA -- Occam Networks, a supplier of Ethernet- and IP-based loop carrier equipment to global telecommunications companies, today announced the signing of a strategic alliance with Tellabs. According to a press release, the alliance will open up market opportunities with North American Local Exchange Carriers for Occam's IP-based loop carrier equipment.
"We are pleased and excited that Tellabs has selected Occam's Ethernet- and IP-based Broadband Loop Carrier products and technology to sell to some of North America's biggest carriers," comments Bob Howard-Anderson, Occam's president and CEO. "Our IP/Ethernet BLC 6000 family has already been adopted by 75 independent operators, including five of the top 30 largest in North America."
In the alliance, Tellabs has licensed Occam's Ethernet transport technologies for integration into its FiberDirect portfolio. For its part, Occam gains access to Tellabs' cabinet products, enabling the company to provide its IOC customers with more deployment options for delivering services over copper access networks, and to evolve to packet-based fiber networks.
"We believe the access network is poised for transformation over the next five years, as service providers decide how to deliver high-bandwidth services such as triple play. It's clear that Ethernet and IP are expected to be key technologies in this transformation," posits Matt Davis, director of broadband access technologies for the Yankee Group, an IT and telecommunications research and consulting firm. "Strategic relationships such as the Tellabs/Occam alliance make sense, as broadband technology vendors seek to leverage any advantage they can to create a solution set that will allow them to take advantage of this quickly emerging opportunity."
According to the release, Occam's Broadband Loop Carrier platform enables providers to create broadband access networks capable of delivering revenue-generating services such as VoIP, IPTV, and very high-speed data over copper using IP and Ethernet protocols. The platform is based on the company's Intelligent Blade Interconnect Architecture (IBIA), which provides low-, medium-, and high-capacity configurations.