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ADC, a supplier of network infrastructure solutions for fiber deployments, reportedly announced that its entire portfolio of Fiber Optic Panel solutions have been accepted by the USDA Rural Development Telecommunications program.

 

The Fiber Optic Panel product portfolio from ADC (News - Alert) includes FMT Series Fiber Optic Panel, the FPL Series Fiber Optic Panel and the FL2000 and FL1000 series of modular panels for rack and wall mountings. These solutions are designed to provide industry-leading cable protection and management that is essential in any successful fiber communications network, say company officials.

 

The acceptance by USDA Rural Development Telecommunications Program lets ADC offer the entire suite of Fiber Optic Panel solutions to be used in bringing improved, widespread broadband services to underserved and rural communities.

 

ADC already offers hundreds of Rural Utilities Service-listed products to carriers serving rural areas in the United States and seeking funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

 

Service providers seeking funding from the RUS can propose the use of these products in applications they submit for the agency’s loans and grants.

 

“As the first broadband stimulus awards are announced, rural carriers across the country can expand broadband access to their customers as they invest in broadband infrastructure development,” Jaxon Lang, vice president of Global Connectivity Solutions - Americas for ADC, said in a statement.

 

Some of the other products on the RUS list include ADC’s FiberGuide Fiber Management Systems, Next-Generation Frames and OmniReach Fiber Access Terminals.

 

Recently ADC announced partnership with Aricent, a global innovation, technology and services company, to add Aricent’s Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access  Access Service Node software as part of the ADC WiMAX (News - Alert) ecosystem, TMCnet reported.

 

The addition of Aricent’s (News - Alert) software-based ASN as an option for WiMAX systems based on ADC’s compact, place-anywhere FlexWave MMX base stations, enables enterprises, universities, and wireless Internet service providers to deploy WiMAX systems while saving up to 40 percent over the cost of a traditional hardware-based ASN, the company said.