- 12 June 2006 -

Dumont Telephone picks Hitachi for Fiber-to-the-Home

Dumont Telephone Company, Dumont, Iowa, has selected Hitachi's AMN1220 Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) platform for the delivery of triple play services in the city of Dumont and surrounding areas. Part of a seven-year plan by Dumont Telephone to provide fibre optic connectivity throughout the company's service area, the initial deployment will begin this month, with about 100 subscribers with in the city of Dumont.
Future deployments will include the surrounding rural areas. Services will be for both residential and business applications.

Roger Kregel, Dumont Telephone General Manager, stated, "We are pleased to be able to provide world-class communications services to our subscribers, today and in the future. Hitachi's AMN1220 GPON system gives us the bandwidth we will need for future services such as high definition TV, as well as the ability to deliver our current cable TV services over fibre optic cable."

"Hitachi is pleased to be selected by Dumont Telephone to provide our AMN1220 product family for their GPON project," said Frank Banks, Hitachi Telecom vice president of sales. "We expect that Dumont will be among the first cities in the United States to offer commercial services based on full-rate GPON technology."

The AMN1220 FTTP platform is a family of high-performance GPON products that provide ultra high bandwidth communication services to residential, business and institutional subscribers using a single optical fiber direct to the subscriber's premises. Compliant with ITU-T G.984 standards, the AMN1220 provides data rates of 2.488Gbps downstream and 1.244Gbps upstream. Standards compliance provides assurance that service providers will have maximum flexibility in implementing FTTP solutions as applications and services are added in the future. Legacy TDM services such as T1 are seamlessly handled in their native formats using GPON Encapsulation Mode (GEM) framing.

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