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In August Occam and RVW, Inc. will present a complimentary business and technology symposium, IP in Your Network – Defining the Benefits of Employing IP in Your Access and Core Network. This hands-on symposium will provide you with the real-world knowledge you need to build a next-generation network that can deliver full video, voice and high-speed data services.  You have three chances to attend. The symposium will be held on August 1, 2 and 3 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Columbus, Nebraska. Click here to register today for your invitation! |
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 Visit us at one of these upcoming events. Colorado Telecom Association Summer Convention July 23-26 Telluride, CO Website NCTIA Showcase August 3 Concord, NC Website Missouri Telecom Industry Association Meeting August 6-9 Lake of the Ozarks, MO Website Tri-State Conference (WY, UT, ID) August 8-10 Jackson Hole, WY Website Tennessee Telecom Association Convention August 28-30 Nashville, TN Website |
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  BLC 6314 recognized for technological innovation and ingenious design. Click to read more Pacific Coast Business Times Names Occam to its 101 One Hundred List. |
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 ONUG is one of the hottest groups in town for catching up on the latest technology, products and network design from Occam and its partners. Join ONUG to meet with your peers on a regular basis and help direct the future of Occam technology. Make sure you don't miss the next ONUG conference! Become a member, today! |
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 Download new resource material from Occam Marketing. Datasheets OccamView EMS, 5.0 BLC 6314 ONT Series White Papers Engineering a Lucrative DSL Financial Model |
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 To help us tailor this newsletter to fit your needs we are sponsoring a monthly raffle. All you need to do to enter is submit a topic or suggestion. We will select monthly winners and send them each an Occam Leatherman Juice S2. The Juice 2 is Leatherman's most compact multipurpose tool and retails for $65. Who doesn't want another cool tool? Send your suggestions here  |
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 "We have great confidence in Occam - the company, the personnel and the products. We have had the BLC in our network for more than four years, and during that time, we have found the sales, support and engineering teams to be very responsive. They have worked with us to meet our needs and requirements, adding features that we have said we wanted." -Duo County Telephone Cooperative, Mark Henry, VP of Operations - Kentucky "Occam is very focused on delivering innovative products to the market they are serving. They are delivering a scalable, IP-based platform that enables independent telcos to deploy tomorrow's solutions today, making it easier for companies like Tuckersmith to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing technology environment." -Tuckersmith Communications, Rob Van Aaken, Plant Operations Manager - Ontario, Canada "I smile and I pat myself on the back for selecting Occam. I made the decision a long a time ago, when lots of other vendors were touting that they could do the same thing as Occam. Today, I rarely talk to an IOC that has products from those vendors installed in its network. In fact, some of those vendors are no longer around." -CC Communications, Dave Tilley, Broadband Supervisor - Nevada |
 Welcome to the first edition of Occam’s monthly eNewsletter, The Occam Edge. As you know, Occam is a fast-moving, forward-thinking company. We created this newsletter to make sure you know what’s happening with the company, our products, our partners, and the industry in general. We want to make sure that you have all the information you need to make sound product, technical and financial decisions as you make the transition to an all Ethernet and IP access network. We’ve included features like Tech Tips from our expert Technical Support team to provide you with the latest tricks of the trade in planning, installing and deploying your network, as well as how to make troubleshooting any issues that may arise easier. And, we’ll tell you what we are doing with telcos just like you to help them become more competitive and more profitable. As your technology partners, we want this newsletter to be yours – to address your interests and needs. If we aren’t covering the topics and issues you want to know about, please drop us an email at info@occamnetworks.com and we will make sure those topics are added. After all, we are the company that likes things to be simple, flexible and scalable. Bob Howard-Anderson |
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 Occam has recently announced a series of exceptional new products to give your access network all the bandwidth it needs, to make deploying a fiber network easier than ever and to make managing your copper or fiber network a snap.
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 Occam Brings New Online Training Courses to Your Desk
The first online course, Introduction to TCP/IP and VoIP Technologies, has been developed and produced in association with Watershed Networks and provides a Web-based technical introduction to TCP/IP and VoIP. This online course introduces these technologies as they specifically apply to Occam BLC networks and is intended to serve as a prerequisite course to the four-day BLC Installation and Operations class. Training materials include text, graphics and illustrations, an audio lecture and a variety of interactive exercises. The materials are designed for telco technicians with limited or no IP experience, who need additional knowledge to prepare for the Occam hands-on course. The online class is also of value for those who are unable to attend additional Occam training, as well as for management and planning personnel with responsibilities for BLC networks who need to understand IP technology concepts and vocabulary. Upon receipt of a purchase order, the student will be supplied with a login code to access the on-line class from anywhere on the web, as well as a printed workbook. The entire course takes from five to six hours, and the class may be started and stopped at will. The login code remains active for seven days from first use. The new course is available now and costs $449.00 list price (Occam PN 755133). Occam will give the first 25 students to sign up a $50 discount off the full purchase price. Contact your local sales representative to sign up today! |
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 Occam Initiates Ongoing Webinar Series Starting in July, Occam will present the first in an ongoing series of monthly educational and informational webinars to be given on the third Thursday of each month. July's webinar, Roadmap to Engineering a Lucrative DSL Financial Model, will explore how the wrong DSL pricing can affect subscriber take rates and, as a result, your profit margin. The webinar will be presented on July 20, 2006 at 10:00 AM PDT by industry expert, Roger Bakos. Bakos is well known within the rural service provider community for his pragmatic insights on profitably deploying IPTV and VoIP technologies. Formerly at JSI, Roger has worked with service providers to formulate their strategic business and technology decisions and to explore ways to make their existing voice, Internet, video and wireless businesses more profitable. Click for more information and to register The company's next monthly webinar is scheduled for August 17, 2006 at 10:00 AM PDT. The August topic is Maximizing Your T1 Fed Remote Investment. Presented by Occam Director of Strategic Products and Markets, Juan Vela and Occam Director of Strategic Technology and Solutions, Dov Zimring, this webinar will provide critical insight into how you can meet POTS and ADSL2plus service demands while preparing for tomorrow's network augmentations (fiber feeders). Click for more information and to register In the month of August, we will present a bonus webinar, Exploring OccamView EMS 5.0, scheduled on August 8, 2006 at 10:00 AM PDT. Presented by Chris Cotter, Senior Product Manager, the presentation will highlight the new features of the Element Management System and provide a live demonstration to give you a sense of the product in action. Click for more information and to register |
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 If you missed the 2006 Occam Networks Users Group (ONUG) Conference, here are a few of the highlights from this year's three-day conference. This year Occam inaugurated a first-ever series of optional technical training workshops before the conference on the topic of Securing the Access Network - New and Emerging Features and IP Security Management. The company presented a total of 10 general sessions ranging from a Standards Update to FTTP to an Occam Product Roadmap discussion. The Network Engineering Panel offered attendees the chance to discuss Network Design Ideas with a group of Occam sales engineers. This event was a hit among the attendees with 85 percent rating the event as 'excellent' or 'above average.' Another attendee favorite was a customer presentation given by Dave Martin of Blackfoot Telephone who shared his experience in transitioning the company's access network to IP and Ethernet.  Other events included Application Briefs by a variety of Occam partners including, Aware, Cisco, CopperCom, IneoQuest, Innomedia, MetaSwitch, Tekelec and Thomson; a Customer Panel discussion on delivering video; and a myriad of social events, games, music and fun.A good time was had by all and everyone found the event highly beneficial. Here are a couple of attendee comments:
 
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 Molalla Communications and Occam Launch Molalla Project 29  Occam Networks recently helped Molalla Communications of Molalla, Oregon kick off a new company initiative with an old-fashioned outdoor barbeque. Complete with lots of burgers, hot dogs, ribs, corn on the cob and sundaes, Molalla and Occam kicked off the IOC’s Project 29, the installation of 29 new Occam remote cabinets equipped with Occam BLCs. Through this project Molalla is moving its access network to an all IP and Ethernet network that prepares the telco to go wherever the market may take them.  |
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 Occam Networks posted its third consecutive profitable quarter and eighth consecutive quarter of record revenue and double-digit customer growth in the second quarter of 2006. Click to read more During the quarter, the company also appointed Brian Strom, former president and CEO of SureWest Communications, to its Board of Directors. Brian is an industry visionary whose business acumen made SureWest one of the most successful IOCs in the United States. Additionally:
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 Industry analyst firm, Broadband Trends, reported that Occam Networks was among the four top companies to increase its market share in the DSL market in the first quarter of 2006. Click to read more Click on these links for more news stories about Occam. |
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 Occam recently joined the CopperCom Partner Alliance. CopperCom, a leader in next-generation switching solutions, and Occam will work closely together to ensure seamless interoperability of their products. The companies have completed GR-303 interoperability testing and will begin interoperability testing with SIP and MGCP this summer. According to CopperCom VP, Bob Kersey, "Our customers will see immediate and direct benefits with Occam as a member of our Partner Alliance." Click to read more |
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 Stay up to date with the latest happenings in the industry. IPTV: Give Us Three Years Telcos Don't Expect 'Significant' IPTV Revenue Until 2009, Says Survey By Ken Wieland, Telecommunication Magazine, July 6, 2006 Click to read I've Been Fibered! It's an old idea-decades old-but fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) has finally arrived. And I've been fibered! by A. Michael Noll, Telecommunications Magazine, July 5, 2006 Click to read |
To make it easier than ever for you to get the training you need at a pace that meets your busy schedule, Occam Networks is providing a series of online training courses. These new course will let you improve your skill without leaving your office.
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