Home Telephone selects ADC's LoopStar 1600 solution to provide new customer services

ADC (NASDAQ:ADCT)(www.adc.com) today announced that Home Telephone Company, an independent telecommunications company in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, has selected ADC's LoopStar 1600 Sonet system to provide additional services to customers in the Berkeley County area.

Home Telephone is using the LoopStar 1600 platform to provide full-service, quality telecommunications throughout Berkeley County and part of Dorchester County.

The company offers a 'one-stop shop' for telecommunications services, including local and long distance telephone services, cable television, Internet access and paging.

"We wanted to expand our network to existing customers, to provide additional TDM and Ethernet services," said William Helmly, president and COO for Home Telephone Company.

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"We evaluated ADC's product, along with other leading vendors' products, and selected the LoopStar system because it was economical, highly flexible, and enabled us to serve our customers' current and future needs. The LoopStar 1600 platform allows us to deliver traditional TDM services and provides new growth for Ethernet delivery. Recently, we upgraded one of our major customers from DS3 to Ethernet with minimal changes required to the system."

The scalable LoopStar 1600 is an advanced, next-generation Sonet multi-service transmission platform that allows carriers to cost-effectively aggregate, deploy, and manage TDM and Ethernet services. The compact, multi-service platform reduces costs and simplifies the transition into new business services. The LoopStar 1600, designed for central office (CO) and customer premises environments, as well as co-location point of presence, can be deployed in a broad range of applications, such as enterprise access and transport, cell site backhaul and MSC aggregation, DSLAM backhaul and CO interoffice transport.

"We are pleased to support the Home Telephone network and enable the delivery of existing and new services that meet the business requirements of their customers," said Hilton Nicholson, president of the Active Infrastructure Business Unit for ADC. "Our LoopStar transmission and access systems allow carriers to cost-effectively transport and manage TDM and Ethernet services to end-user customers from a single platform."