FlexLight outfits South Korean GPON network

July 19, 2005 Seoul, South Korea and Dallas, TX -- FlexLight Networks, a vendor of Gigabit passive optical networks, has deployed a GPON network in Gangseo-gu Ward, Seoul's second largest municipality.

"Deployment of the Gangseo-gu Ward's private GPON system using Optimate has enabled the municipality to significantly reduce operational expenditures for leased lines, and deliver significantly higher bandwidth (up to 2.5 Gbit/sec) than was possible over traditional leased facilities," reports S.H. Lee, head of the Gangseo communications department. "The reliability and resilience enabled by FlexLight's GPON systems was the key factor in Gangseo's decision to deploy Optimate."

According to a press release, using the company's Optimate system, the municipality's regional headquarters is linked to 26 remote branches in a series of protected fiber rings that deliver high-speed Ethernet data, video, and TDM services. According to the company, the transparent nature of its GPON system guarantees toll-quality voice services comparable to traditional TDM-based services and private lines. The network's topology protects mission-critical services by switching to a backup network within 50 milliseconds of a fiber failure event. The company says that system redundancy is also provided by its Optimate system, ensuring carrier-class PON functionality.

"FlexLight's Optimate system provides SDH-like quality and assurance of service availability at a fraction of the capital cost of deploying SDH equipment in the access layer," concludes Michael Camp, CEO of FlexLight Networks. "We believe South Korea is a leader in significant bandwidth and service growth requirements for robust, reliable, high capacity networks, and are pleased to be supporting our local partners to meet this need with GPON."