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The
CEO
Connection
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As
we move
into the new year, our goals for 2009 are simple. We want to continue
to grow
and strengthen our company by
expanding our customer base, adding strategic
business partners and broadening our role in the industry. To do that
we must
continue to deliver innovative technology and products
with the
performance and
intelligence that meet your most demanding requirements, while more
simply
enabling you to provide new, cutting-edge services .
Last
year
we focused on expanding our portfolio of fiber products; but we know
that there
are still many valuable copper lines in your networks—so this
year look
for
some exciting new products designed to help you leverage installed
copper
plant.
We
are
also placing an added emphasis on our
participation in important standards
organizations so that we can
play a larger role in creating industry standards
that represent your voice. During the week of January 20th,
Occam
hosted a meeting of the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group, an
international GPON standards organization. More than 75 vendors and
operators
from approximately 40 companies were in attendance. While we have been
FSAN members
for many years, this event gave us a chance to expand
our role in the
important
standards organizations that shape the future of your networks.
As
we
begin 2009, we recognize that many of you are filled with uncertainty
about the
economy, regulatory changes and other things that may affect your
business. We
start the year with a promise to you
to continue to look at the challenges you
face with new ideas, to rethink how things have been done in the past,
and
resolve to find new, simpler ways to meet those challenges.
Wishing
you and your
business a most prosperous New Year.
Bob Howard-Anderson
President and CEO
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OccamOS
6.1 CA
Available in June
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>>
Converged release runs on all Occam blades; includes
important updates and new features for enhanced service delivery and
BLC performance.
OccamOS 6.1
will be available in June under controlled
availability
(CA). It features a series of
important improvements and new features that will deliver improved
performance, ease of use, and manageability. These include:
- A common
operating system (OS) across all BLC 6000 blades. OccamOS 6.1 is a
“converged” release that simplifies BLC management
and speeds addition of new features and upgrades by technicians
resulting in OpEx savings.
- Adds
support for GPON Carrier Ethernet Services
- Transparent
LAN Service (TLS) and configurable VLAN assignment on ONT
subscriber LAN ports for Carrier Ethernet Services
- Adds
direct MGCP-to-softswitch support to our GPON ONT solution to enable a
choice of either SIP or MGCP operation for endpoints
- Adds GPON
dynamic bandwidth allocation/oversubscription to improve performance on
large networks
- Adds SRA +
retransmission to provide better DSL performance on copper lines that
may be impaired by age or noise
- Adds
industry standard pseudowire emulation edge to edge (PWE3) T1 transport
over Ethernet to BLC 6440 and select ONTs
For more
information about OccamOS 6.1 contact your local sales representative
or Occam Customer Support.
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Thursday
Webinars
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Occam kicks
off its 2009 webinar series with an important and timely discussion of Ethernet Business
Services: A New High-Margin Revenue Stream.
Presented by Juan Vela, Director of Solutions Marketing and Strategy on
February 5, at 10:00 am PDT/ 1:00 pm EDT, this webinar will discuss traditional and emerging
business services, including
business services as defined by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF); provide
an overview of the technology options for delivering these services;
and present the Occam Ethernet Business Services vision.
View last
month’s Configuration Guidelines and Best Practices for
Deploying IPTV over DSL webinar and any of our other information
webinars at your leisure by clicking
here.
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Expert
Training at your Fingertips
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If you or
someone in your organization needs initial or advanced training, sign
up for an Occam training class. Visit our Occam
Training web page
for class descriptions, class availability and online signup, or call
805-692-3569 for more information.
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The
Buzz
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>>Stay
up to date with the latest happenings in the industry.
Let's
Spend on Broadband and the Power Grid
By Samuel J.
Palmisano,
Wall St. Journal, January 13, 2009
Obama:
broadband in every community in America
By Jeffrey Silvia,
RCR
Wireless, January 12, 2009
Defining
'broadband' key in stimulus plans
By Ed Gubbins,
Telephony, January 9, 2009
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