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 Last week the Technology Council of Southern California named Occam Networks the Best Company of the Year in the Security and Networks category. The company was honored at the Council's Thirteenth Annual Technology Industry Awards Dinner held in Los Angeles on March 7. Awards were presented in eight separate categories and the Council selected winners from three nominees in each category. Read more . . . |
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 To celebrate St. Patrick's Day on March 17th, we challenge you to come up with an Occam limerick. We will select our favorites and publish them in next month's newsletter. And, two lucky contestants will win an all-Irish gift basket complete with shamrocks and lots of other good luck charms. Celebrate ‘St. Paddy's' in true Irish style with Occam. Send your limericks to svasquez@  |
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 In the spirit of St. Patrick's Day we offered Occam employees the opportunity to submit their own Occam limericks. Here are the four winning submissions: Twisted Pair Rock ‘Em |
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 “Occam is an industry leader, a very stable company. Their use of IP and Ethernet in their products shows that they are a very forward thinking company. Their innovation and forward thinking shows in the traction they have within the market. They set the standard for how other vendors design their products.” Chanse Bruns,
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 Visit us at one of these upcoming events. March NTCA Telecom Executive Forum April SCTA Spring Convention NTCA IP Possibilities Conference TANE Spring Showcase TTA Spring Meeting PTA Annual Convention PoliTech 2007 May Tri-State Telecom Operations Conference WVTA Annual Convention OTA Technology Show WSTA Annual Convention Alaska Telephone Annual Meeting KTA Annual Meeting Arizona-New Mexico Telecommunications Association Spring Conference
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Brochures & Datasheets Tech Briefs CALEA Brief Network Traffic Intercept Feature Overview Case Studies & Customer Profiles Hargray Communications Group Customer Profile Ontario & Trumansburg Telephone Companies Customer Profiles Valley TeleCom Group Customer Profile Farmer's Telecommunications Cooperative Case Study White Papers |
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We believe that our success owes more to great products, technology and customers than just luck. Throughout the year I frequently visit many of our 200-plus Occam customers, because I think that customer communications is an invaluable tool for keeping Occam “in sync” with your needs and new directions. During my visits, I typically talk with a variety of people – from company presidents and general managers, to CO managers, to technical staff members. One of the most consistent messages I hear from everyone is how pressured you each feel to deliver "new services." I hear reasons such as your customers demand these new services, it's a new revenue opportunity and/or my competitors are doing it, so I must do it. I also hear your concerns about the risks and uncertainties that you are experiencing as you move toward delivering these new services. You tell me that you must rebuild parts of your network, and that you and your team must learn and deploy new technologies, among other things. Like anyone faced with enormous change, each of you has the tendency to want to stay with the old technologies that "worked for us in the past." It's only natural. While we all believe that IP/Ethernet is the answer for delivering new services most effectively – whether it's IPTV, which is still "catching up" to CATV, or VoIP, or just better control and management of the balancing of data, voice, and video services – we know there is still the need to get “all the pieces right.” We anticipate that this will be an ongoing evolutionary process for the near future. Fiber vs. copper is also a source of concern for many of you. While a dedicated, full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet fiber pipe directly to the subscriber is the most powerful and future-proof solution available, some of you are concerned that you cannot justify fiber economically. Those of you that choose not to run fiber to the premise are still confronted with the growing need to meet demands for higher and higher bandwidth from shorter and shorter copper. How will you be able to do this? While this is certainly a challenge, ADSL2Plus bonding provides an excellent solution to help you meet this challenge. And, we believe that we will see mass deployment of ADSL2+ Bonding solutions this year. Additionally, there is the potential that VDSL2 will become a mainstream technology in 2008 or 2009, with the advent of next generation silicon chips. Whatever your choice, Occam wants to work with you to determine the best solution for your network today and help you evolve in the future. Occam was founded on the idea that our world is constantly changing and evolving. We believe that Ethernet and IP is the future of telecommunications. Our technology and products reflect that. But along with change and evolution, Occam was also founded on the principle of keeping things simple and providing solutions that "work." We continue to adhere to that principle today. The bottom line? Our journey to the network and services of the future requires that we all embrace change. During that journey Occam remains committed to working through these changing needs and technologies with you and to keeping your networks simple, cost-effective, flexible, and scalable. Bob Howard-Anderson |
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Occam Networks' Dov Zimring Appointed DSL Forum Consul Occam Adds Aware's Dr. DSL Line Diagnostics to its BLC 6000 Occam Networks (OCNW) to Offer Aware Inc.'s (AWRE) Dr. DSL Line Diagnostics Platform Etex basing IPTV on Occam Networks gear IPso Facto… Etex Selects Occam for Provision of Triple Play Services Occam Networks Wins Deal with Etex |
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 New Regional Vice President of Sales for Canada and Central US. Tom Gordon has recently joined Occam as Regional Vice President of Sales for Canada and the Central US. A seasoned veteran of the telecommunications industry, Gordon has more than 19 years of experience and extensive knowledge of leading edge and emerging technologies in the telecommunications industry including TDM, ATM, PON, EFM and IP networks, and the convergence of voice, data and video. He joins Occam from Zhone Technologies where he spent the last two years. Prior to his tenure at Zhone, Gordon spent 15 years at Paradyne Corporation where he held a variety of sales and executive positions. |
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 First Speaking Engagement at IPTV World Forum Occam is proud to announce that Dov Zimring, Director of Strategic Technology and Solutions, has recently been appointed a DSL Forum Consul. The DSL Forum is a consortium of approximately 200 leading broadband industry players including telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking and service provider companies. |
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Occam will play a key role in the event with executives speaking at several venues. Join them for these interesting and informative sessions: Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 9:00 am Thursday, April 12, 2007, 3:30 pm Thursday, April 12, 2007, 1:30 pm |
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 Check here for up-to-date information on the latest Occam webinar. Occam's March webinar takes a look at what's behind the increasing need for network bandwidth. Join Occam Director of Strategic Technologies and Markets, Juan Vela, on March 29 at 10:00 am PST/ 1:00 pm EST for 10G Ethernet - Drivers for Increasing Capacity, an insightful view into the subscriber's growing appetite for speed and the challenges that appetite presents service providers. To join Juan for this important webinar, register here. Stay up to date with the latest information! If you have missed any of our previous webinars, such as last month's timely webinar on meeting CALEA requirements, CALEA: Striking Fear in the Hearts of Telco Managers, you can now view it and any of our other valuable webinars at your leisure by clicking here. |
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 Adds CRM System and Customer Portal In Fall 2006 Occam Customer Support (CS) installed a new Customer Relationship Manager system. Since its installation the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) has been using the system to create and track customer support issues via a ticket system. The Occam Customer Portal currently enables customers to:
To use the portal you need a username and password, which can be obtained by sending an email to Ron Jeffries at rjeffries@occamnetworks.com with "Customer Portal" in the subject line. As a reminder to current users, the customer portal scripting requires a Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. The Occam Customer Support team has plans to expand the capabilities of the portal over the coming months. If you have suggestions for how the portal can best serve you, please let us know by sending an email to support@occamnetworks.com. |
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 ONUG Web Page Updated to Keep You Up To Date on ONUG Happenings. Make sure you don't miss our 3rd Annual Occam Network Users Group Conference on September 5-7, 2007 in Hilton Head, South Carolina. The conference is being held at the Westin Resort located in Port Royal Plantation. Within the plantation, you will find two pools, three championship golf courses, and sixteen tennis courts. Other activities such as kayaking, deep-sea fishing, and horseback riding are also available. Named to Conde Nast Traveler's 2002 Gold List, the resort provides the utmost in southern hospitality.
Online registration for the User Conference will be available in May. Be sure to register early so you won't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas with Occam and our partners. To make it easy for you to stay up to date on what's going on with ONUG, we have recently updated the ONUG web page at www.occamnetworks.com/onug. Check this site often to read the minutes from the Advisory Board meetings, participate on discussion boards, and to keep current on the User Group Conference events, including the conference agenda. |
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Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative, a rural telco in Tennessee, is already putting The Power of Partnership to work. The telco is deploying the joint Occam/Aware solution as it turns up its IPTV-over-DSL service on more than three thousand lines. Greg Anderson, General Manager of Bledsoe Telephone, commented, “Dr. DSL will allow us to do end-to-end testing from a central location, save us money on portable test equipment, truck rolls and reduce our need for additional personnel.” Occam OS Release 5.2R2 supports the Dr. DSL Line Diagnostics Platform, and product demos are now available from Occam. Schedule your demo today by calling your Occam representative. |
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Occam recently attended two important industry events, the NTCA Annual Meeting and the Comptel PLUS Spring 2007 Convention and Expo, where we met with customers from across the US and Canada. During the NTCA Annual Meeting, we hosted two VIP dinners, which gave us an excellent opportunity to talk with telco executives about the most important issues facing them in the coming year.
From February 27 through March 2, Occam representatives attended Comptel PLUS in Las Vegas. At the event, Juan Vela, Occam Director of Strategic Technologies and Markets, moderated the 10 Gigabit Ethernet and the Next Generation Capacity panel. Other panel members included representatives from Hibernia Atlantic, Level 3 Communications and Global Crossing. The panel members covered a wide variety of topics in an hour-long session including:
The panel was a key part of the Emerging Market Trends Track and attracted a large crowd of interested participants. If you would like to learn more, attend our March 29 Thursday Webinar Series. Click here to register.
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IP/Video Technologies: One day BLC 6000 Installation and Operation: Four days with hands-on lab IP/Video Technologies: One day BLC 6000 Installation and Operation: Four days with hands-on lab |
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IPv6 Forum lauds worldwide VoIP interoperability IPTV 2007: MPEG-4 And HDTV to Boost IPTV? Fiber-to-the-Home Council Calls for "100 Megabit Nation" Cable operators eyeing hosted VoIP for small biz Mopping up
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May the luck of the Irish be with you on this upcoming St. Patrick's Day. Like the Irish, Occam's good fortune continues as we were just named the “Best Network and Security Company of the Year.” The sidebar on the left provides more information on our most recent award. 
Don't miss the IP Possibilities Conference and Expo on April 9-13 at the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's the conference of the year for rural telcos who want to know more about IP. Sponsored by the NTCA and OPASTCO, the conference provides a variety of session tracks ranging from IPTV Essentials to IP Infrastructure to Rural VoIP.
One of the largest independent operating companies in Texas, Etex Telephone Cooperative, Inc., has selected the Occam BLC 6000 System to deploy advanced services including Triple Play. According to Danny Johnson, Assistant Manager of Etex, “Although we work with other equipment providers, we chose to bring in Occam to help us upgrade our network to offer IPTV and a complete range of Triple Play services. We are deploying one of the largest installations in Texas. To date, Occam's BLC implementation has met all of our expectations and their engineers have completed all the projects we identified on time and on budget.” Etex serves 710 square miles of territory in rural East Texas and has approximately four thousand lines throughout its network. 
Occam recently announced that it will offer Aware's advanced DSL diagnostics technology as an additional package to enable customers to pre-qualify and provision copper lines for IPTV and advanced triple-play services over DSL. Aware's Dr. DSL® Line Diagnostics Platform is compatible with Occam's BLC equipment, and when used together, offer rural telcos a complete system for implementing advanced DSL diagnostics for next-generation services. 
The Occam Networks logo is a trademark of Occam Networks, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Content subject to change without notice. March 2007. Ethernet Protection Switching US Patents 6,834,056 and 6,623,186.