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(Editor’s Note: This article refers to a video interview shot in San Jose as part of TMCnet’s “On the Road” video series. To view the entire library of videos from Road Shows and other industry shows, as well as product demos and interviews in our in-house studio, visit TMCnet Videos home page.)

Recently TMCnet’s CEO Rich Tehrani invited Eric Vallone, vice president of marketing at Actelis (News - Alert) Networks, to TMC newsroom and asked him to present his company’s overview to the subscribers. Describing Actelis as a leading global supplier of Ethernet over Copper equipment to carriers and service providers, Vallone said that his company serves some 200 customers across 40 nations worldwide.

“Carriers are driving to deliver high-speed and broadband service to their customers everywhere. And we are helping them to do so with our innovative solutions,” noted Vallone. In expressing his company’s strengths and capabilities, Vallone boasted about how Actelis was dramatically changing the landscape for broadband deployment over existing copper network through Ethernet technology breakthroughs.

He said that carriers need to reach their customers everywhere including remote rural regions. And bringing fiber to these regions is costly and time consuming. Carriers realize that they cannot roll fiber to every base station and businesses. Hence, he added, it makes sense to increase the speed of copper several fold and leverage what is already in the ground.

Jokingly Vallone commented, “No one is ripping copper from the ground.” Continuing his discussion with Tehrani, Vallone said "Actelis is reaching new heights with its latest Ethernet technology breakthroughs. Our patented dynamic rate boost and dynamic spectral shaping capabilities will provide carriers and enterprises with the greatest rate, reach and reliability by delivering superior broadband capacity and network efficiency where they need it most -- the access network."

As a result, Actelis is enabling carriers and service providers to easily and economically expand their bandwidth offering and extend coverage further into their customer serving areas. By optimizing transmission over multiple copper pairs, dynamic rate boost (DRB), for instance, delivers several fold improvement in rate and reach, compared to competing solutions available today, according to Vallone.

Furthermore, he shed some light on the new Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) repeater that is capable of supporting 15 Mbps per single copper pair and more than 100 Mbps using 8-pair bonded links. Emphasizing the need for compliance with industry standard, he continued to say that patented DSS technology was enabling its EFM repeaters to meet compliance requirements of ANSI T1.417-2003. And, thereby, virtually eliminate any impact on neighboring ADSL/ADSL2+/VDSL2+ services.

Speaking  to Tehrani about ANSI T1.417-2003 standard, Vallone reiterated the point that ANSI T1.417 compliance means that Actelis’ high-speed EFM systems and repeaters will have no adverse impact on any neighboring voice and broadband services, such as ADSL, ADSL2+ and VDSL2 (xDSL), when deployed in the access portion of the public telephone switching network (PTSN). Telcordia (News - Alert), an authority on the ANSI T1.417 standard, used a series of sophisticated testing tools and processes to conduct the full suite of tests defined in T1.417 using Actelis’ EFM systems and repeaters, Vallone said in his video interview.In conclusion, Vallone stated that with dramatic improvements over traditional T1/E1 technologies, Actelis has leapfrogged the industry with Ethernet over Copper breakthroughs and continues to redefine rate, reach and reliability.For detailed interview, check out the video below: