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May 29, 2012

PEG Bandwidth Chooses Integrated Ekinops and Extreme Networks Solution

Network provider PEG Bandwidth announced a contract with Ekinops (News - Alert), a supplier of next generation optical transport equipment for telecommunications service providers, and Extreme Networks, a company that builds, and installs Ethernet network solutions, to meet its LTE (News - Alert) Networks construction needs.

Ekinops and Extreme Networks have been working together since late 2011.  Both of the companies partnered to provide one of the industry’s most powerful Transport, Switching/Routing solution offerings. The integrated Ekinops-Extreme Networks (News - Alert) offering, with its focus on flexibility, scalability, and operational simplicity, offers an end-to-end backhaul solution from the tower to the metro and core. Its capabilities allow a provider to use the same equipment for a variety of other applications as well, such as residential triple play, business services, data center, disaster recovery, and internal IT needs.

PEG Bandwidth, a national provider of 4G mobile backhaul infrastructure services for carriers, offers cell site backhaul services, metro transport solutions, and long-haul transport services to other carriers.

According to the terms of this new contract, Ekinops has agreed to provide the optical transport equipment for PEG Bandwidth, along with Ethernet switches and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) mobile backhaul switches from Extreme Networks.

"The combination of Ekinops' transport equipment and Extreme Networks' switching and routing equipment is the perfect fit for the needs of service providers such as PEG Bandwidth," Rob Adams (News - Alert), vice president of marketing for Ekinops, said in a press release.

"As both companies leverage their own strengths, we are able to provide our customers with integrated, best-in-breed transport, switching, and routing solutions," Adams added.

PEG Bandwidth will leverage a next generation 4G network infrastructure as it continues to roll out and support new 4G and LTE network construction for national Tier one carrier customers.

As indicated, PEG Bandwidth selected 4G solutions from Ekinops and Extreme Networks to meet its goal in building a next generation LTE backhaul network. The companies provide a compelling combination of performance and value, due to their capabilities to cost-effectively provide ultra-low latency Ethernet switching, with the ability to provide less than one microsecond latency for packet delivery through the switch with their aggregation and mobile backhaul switch platforms.

Key equipment involved in the contract includes the Ekinops 360 optical transport platform, which offers DWDM and CWDM on a single platform for metro, regional, and long-haul applications. With its unique T-Chip technology, the Ekinops 360 leverages Ekinops' ability to provide many capabilities of transport systems on a single programmable chip.

Ekinops is also supplying PEG Bandwidth with Extreme Networks’ Summit X670 10GbE stackable switches and its E4G 200 Mobile Backhaul routers. The Summit series switches provide PEG Bandwidth with flexibility and bandwidth, scaling from as little as 24 Gbps to more than a terabit, with a flexible selection of interfaces

"We selected the Ekinops solution for its ability to meet a broad range of our backhaul and transport needs," Christopher Pickard, PEG Bandwidth chief technology officer and vice president of Network Operations, said in a statement.




Edited by Brooke Neuman
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