Posted 03/2000
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WINfirst LLC (www.winfirst.com) selected DSET Corp. (www.dset.com) to provide gateways for the delivery of high-speed voice, video and data services to customers of the fiber-to-the-home residential network it is building. WINfirst bought DSET's ezLocal ordering gateway for electronic interconnection with SBC and Pacific Bell to automate the migration of customers to the WINfirst network. DSET gateways also will be used to support 911 and long-distance services for WINfirst's customers. WINfirst has received regulatory approval to build network facilities in Sacramento and San Diego, Calif.; and in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas, which represent more than 3.2 million homes. A temporary permit pending full approval has been received for Portland, Ore. The company is also pursuing regulatory approval for Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.; Phoenix; and the state of Nevada.
Broadband services provider Gabriel Communications Inc. (www.gabrielcom.net) selected Spirent Communications plc's (www.spirent.com) Hekimian Laboratories Inc. (www.hekimian.com) to provide remote testing and service assurance. Gabriel is implementing Hekimian's TestDS to help with the deployment of unbundled voice, DSL, dedicated T1 and other integrated services. By employing Hekimian's REACT 2001 Remote Test OSS in its NOC and CopperMax test probes in its collocated CO space, Gabriel will be able to automate crucial service management processes, giving it needed scalability in order to meet its market expansion goals. Hekimian has also developed custom network element interfaces to the company's DSLAM and is currently reviewing other integration opportunities.
Facilities-based CLEC Florida Digital Network Inc. (www.floridadigital.net) will use 3Com Corp.'s (www.3com.com) CommWorks 5020 Intelligent activation System to provision DSL services. FDN will integrate CommWorks 5020 with the Hotwire GranDSLAM DSL Access Multiplexer from Paradyne Corp. (www.paradyne.com). CommWorks 5020 will automate activation of the Hotwire GranDSLAM by working through CORBA and XML to integrate fully with FDN's order entry and management system.
Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (ART, www.art-net.net), which provides broadband fixed wireless IP services to ICPs, ISPs, ASPs and IXCs, will integrate NetCracker Technology Corp.'s (www.netcracker.com) Network Inventory System as part of its OSS solution. ART plans to use the NetCracker Solution to inventory and track its fast-growing network infrastructure as the service provider enters several new U.S. markets. NetCracker also has developed a provisioning system for service providers. NetCracker offers a policy-driven, inventory-based provisioning solution that enables automated flow-through processes. The system, which is now commercially available, utilizes NetCracker's open, enterprisewide Network Inventory Management application that regularly reconciles against live networks to provide an accurate and current repository of inventory data. The NetCracker provisioning system shares its architecture with the rest of NetCracker's solutions by utilizing a fully web-based, open and user-definable platform.
