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Comtrend (News - Alert) Corp., a supplier of broadband, VoIP and data networking equipment, announced today that two regional telecom companies in the United States, Rural Telephone and Bayland Telephone, have adopted Comtrend’s NexusLink ADSL2+ Bonded modems as their exclusive residential platform for ADSL2+ deployment.

 

With the help of these latest selections, company officials say, both the telecom companies expect to deliver IPTV, HD programming and other next-generation services over copper.

 

Seen as an alternative to fiber and other digital services distribution methods, Bonded ADSL2+ technology – defined through the International Telecommunication Union’s ITU-T G.998.1 standard – combines two or more copper pairs as a single connection.

 

The technology, according to Comtrend, a research firm, allows telcos to deliver up to 48 Mbps of downstream throughput speed over a bonded set of copper pairs, along with eliminating the need for extra infrastructure.

 

Thanks to this technology, telcos can deliver High-Definition Video along with higher data speeds at long distances from a Central Office, said company officials.

 

Officials said that that their company’s NexusLink modem is “specifically designed to make ADSL2+ Bonded technology possible.” Along with supporting Triple Play architectures, NexusLink modem doubles the bandwidth performance of traditional ADSL2+ modems.

 

The device, officials say, has four 10/100 Ethernet, 802.11g wireless LAN, dual ADSL line and USB interfaces including host function for peripheral devices.

 

Moreover, as a fully functional residential gateway, the NexusLink has full routing capabilities including traffic management and TR-069 capability, according to the companies.

 

“The NexusLink bonded ADSL2+ modem allows us to deploy mature HD MPEG2 IPTV (News - Alert) to our customers,” said Shane Broyles, central office manager at Rural Telephone, an all-digital communications company in Northwestern Kansas heavily oriented toward high-speed data and computer applications.

 

He also said that this saves his firm the significant expense of converting content to MPEG4 and working through the challenges that this new technology presents to both our set top vendors and middleware provider.

 

Broyles added: “We can also provide IPTV and premium Internet access at longer distances using our existing copper plant.”

 

Paul Hermsen, broadband manager at Bayland Telephone of Abrams, Wisconsin, said that NexusLink modem has enabled his company’s rollout of HD content to subscribers, adding that it has maximized the bandwidth the company can deliver on the existing infrastructure while keeping the installation clean and professional.”

 

Both Rural Telephone and Bayland Telephone officials say the’ve started using NexusLink modems in the field.