Software solution works with installed DSLAMs and modems for IPTV video
services activation and DSL line troubleshooting
BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aware, Inc. (Nasdaq:
AWRE), a leading supplier of broadband technology and DSL test and
diagnostics solutions, today announced that West Kentucky Rural Telephone
Cooperative has selected Aware's Dr. DSL(R) Line Diagnostics Platform as
its IPTV and DSL line testing solution. The Dr. DSL Line Diagnostics
Platform (LDP) is an advanced test and diagnostics server-based solution
that, when used in conjunction with West Kentucky's installed access
equipment, offers a comprehensive, centralized system for analysis and
diagnostics of the carrier's DSL lines.
"As we push out the edge of our copper loops and roll out DSL-based
IPTV video services to our subscribers, we needed a robust, centralized
provisioning and line diagnostics tool to help us troubleshoot and quickly
and efficiently resolve any line discrepancies," commented Craig Sullivan,
Plant Superintendent of West Kentucky. "Aware's Dr. DSL Line Diagnostics
Platform offered us an ideal server-based solution that works seamlessly
with our installed Occam BLC equipment, enabling us to ensure the service
levels and troubleshoot the subscriber lines of our new bandwidth-intense
broadband and IPTV service offerings."
Over the last several years, West Kentucky has demonstrated pioneering
leadership in achieving a network to compete for video customers. In 2007,
West Kentucky became one of the original beta customers for the National
Rural Telecommunication Cooperative (NRTC)-sponsored initiative to bring
IPTV to rural customers and has approximately 18,000 subscribers in Western
Kentucky and Northwestern Tennessee. The carrier uses Occam Networks' BLC
6000 equipment and OccamView(TM) Element Management System.
Aware's Dr. DSL LDP is a software-based server solution with a robust
standard-compliant testing and service assurance technology which helps
service providers reduce costs, eliminate unnecessary equipment, and ensure
the highest quality-of-experience (QoE) for their customers. LDP works with
multiple technology platforms and is unique in that it is compatible with
multiple DSLAMs and chipset vendors and requires no additional equipment.
As an integrated software-based solution, it combines the raw single-ended
testing (SELT) and dual-ended testing (DELT) diagnostics data with Aware's
award-winning Dr. DSL software, which has been used to deploy millions of
DSL lines worldwide.
"Accurate data rate estimates are critical for assuring service levels
on copper lines providing IPTV," commented Peter LeBlanc, Aware's vice
president of sales and marketing. "Using our Dr. DSL LDP, West Kentucky now
has a cost-effective tool to confidently categorize its copper plant, both
through initial baseline service activation tests as well as ongoing tests
to track circuit changes over time."
Aware's Dr. DSL LDP and evaluation platforms are available immediately
either from Aware, Inc. or through reseller Occam Networks as an additional
option for its BLC 6000 product line. More information about Aware's Dr.
DSL Line Diagnostics Platform can be found on Aware's website at
http://www.aware.com/ldp.
About West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative Corp.
Founded in 1951, West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative Corp.
provides state-of-the-art voice, Internet and long distance services to the
residents and businesses of eight counties in Western Kentucky and
Northwest Tennessee. The company currently has more than 18 thousand
subscribers in 18 exchanges. West Kentucky Rural Telephone has its
headquarters in Mayfield, Ky. Visit http://www.wktelecom.coop for more
information.
About Aware
Aware is a leading technology supplier for the telecommunications
industries. For more than ten years, Aware has pioneered innovations at
telecommunications standards-setting organizations and continues to develop
and market DSL silicon intellectual property and test and diagnostics
products. Its StratiPHY(TM) IP product line supports DSL standards,
including ADSL2+ and VDSL2, and has been broadly licensed to leading
semiconductor companies. Telecom equipment vendors and phone companies use
Aware's DSL test and diagnostics modules and Dr. DSL(R) software to help
provision DSL circuits globally. Aware is also a veteran of the biometrics
industry, providing biometric and imaging software components used in
government systems worldwide since 1992. Aware's interoperable,
standard-compliant, field-proven imaging products are used in a number of
applications, from border management to criminal justice to medical
imaging. Aware is a publicly held company (Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford,
Massachusetts. http://www.aware.com
Safe Harbor Warning
Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding
future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates
or projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the DSL
market. Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by such
statements. The DSL factors include, but are not limited to: we have a
unique business model, our quarterly results are difficult to predict, our
DSL licensing and DSL test and diagnostic businesses depend upon a limited
number of customers, we derive a significant amount of revenue from a small
number of customers, we depend on equipment companies to incorporate our
technology into their products, we face intense competition from other DSL
vendors, DSL technology competes with other technologies for broadband
access, our business could be harmed if our test and diagnostic hardware
and software products have quality problems, we depend on a single source
contract manufacturer for the manufacture of our DSL hardware products, our
manufacturing systems may not be adequate for our DSL test and diagnostics
hardware products, we depend on single source suppliers for components in
our DSL hardware products, and our business is subject to rapid
technological change. We refer you to the documents Aware files from time
to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the
section titled Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 and other reports and filings made with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Aware, StratiPHY and Dr. DSL are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Aware, Inc. Any other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their
respective owners.
CONTACT: Peter LeBlanc of Aware, Inc., +1-781-276-4000
SOURCE Aware, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.wktelecom.coop
http://www.aware.com/
CONTACT:
Peter LeBlanc of Aware, Inc., +1-781-276-4000
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