Pannaway equipment earns RUS acceptance

DECEMBER 13, 2007 -- Pannaway Technologies Inc. (search for Pannaway) says it has received technical acceptance for embedded components, fabric materials, and line access modules by the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Acceptance on the RUS List of Materials allows qualified borrowers to use RUS loan funds to purchase and deploy the Pannaway equipment, which includes 2.5 GPON and 100/1000-Mbit/sec Active Ethernet technologies.

This latest round of RUS acceptance enhances Pannaway's existing Service Convergence Network (SCN) system for both copper and fiber broadband deployments, which initially gained RUS acceptance in 2005.

The RUS provides technical guidance and financial support in the form of loans and grants to qualified utilities with the goal of establishing advanced broadband services in rural communities. Eligible service providers, such as independent operating companies (IOCs) receive these loans at interest rates and terms that are more favorable than those generally available from the private sector, provided that these IOCs invest in RUS-approved products.

"Fiber is the future of broadband telecommunications, but many ILECs are faced with the challenge of having limited means and flexibility as they seek to upgrade," explained Tom Eveslage, CO supervisor of Albany Mutual Telephone, a Pannaway customer based in Minnesota. "Pannaway's 2.5 GPON and Active Point-to-Point Ethernet fiber system listings with the RUS enable telcos to choose the technology that best fits their business plan and long-term needs as they prepare to deliver high-quality broadband services moving forward."

Pannaway's RUS-approved components, which are used in both the MAGNM-20 multi-service access platform and the Inteleflex broadband loop carrier, are designed to cost-effectively scale to support a wide range of access technologies, from legacy T1 and POTS to ADSL2+, bonded ADSL2+, GPON, and Active Point-to-Point Ethernet subscriber connections in one integrated and fully manageable, all-IP system.

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