Actelis (News - Alert) Networks, a supplier of Ethernet over copper solutions, announced that the company's product portfolio of high-speed Ethernet in the First Mile systems is compliant with the ANSI T1.417-2003 standard for Spectrum Management for Loop Transmission Systems by Telcordia (News - Alert).

The products include its line of XR239 EFM Repeaters. Compliance with the T1.417 standard indicates to telecom network service providers that Actelis' high-speed EFM systems and repeaters will not affect neighboring voice and broadband services like ADS, ADSL2+ and VDSL2 or xDSL.

Telcordia, an authority on the ANSI T1.417 standard, employs a series of sophisticated testing tools and processes to conduct the full suite of tests defined in T1.417 using Actelis' EFM systems and repeaters, said Telcordia sources.

"Telcordia performed a thorough evaluation, both analytically and in the lab, which clearly demonstrated that Actelis' EFM systems and repeaters are spectrally compatible with all common central office-based loop transmission technologies, as defined in the T1.417 standard," said Ken Kerpez, senior scientist at Telcordia.

Kerpez led this detailed compliance testing process and was one of the primary authors of the standard.

In the case of large-scale deployments for carriers it is important to give an assurance that any new high-bandwidth services introduced into their networks do not adversely impact existing and future xDSL services. Actelis' EFM systems and repeaters allow telecom service providers to systematically migrate their customers from legacy T1/E1 or xDSL services to fast, efficient and highly reliable EFM-based broadband services. The migration has to be effected without disrupting these services and preserving their current and future revenue streams.

According to company sources this simplifies segregating of services in different binders, and allows them to focus on creating and delivering new higher revenue and higher margin services by providing higher speed services to more customers.

"Service providers want to deploy high-speed services over long loops without worrying about spectral interference, but traditional thinking has been that repeaters have to be limited to low speeds to be spectrally compliant," explained Dr. Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, chief technology officer at Actelis. 

Eric Vallone, vice president of marketing at Actelis said that receiving compliance is a remarkable achievement for Actelis Networks and its customers. He added that Actelis has given the assurance that a carrier can run multiple services in the same binder without any interference and has hence eliminated the need to build out any parallel networks.