Monday, December 22, 2003

Vonage Signs Private Label VoIP Partnership with ANPI

Vonage will provide a co-branded broadband telephony service to Associated Network Partners Incorporated (ANPI's) cable television and long distance telephony member companies across 35 U.S. states. Vonage will offer ANPI's participating ISP's, who in turn serve several hundred thousand high-speed Internet subscribers, unlimited local and long distance calling throughout the U.S. and Canada for a flat rate.


ANPI is the first consortium of phone companies and telecom service providers to partner with Vonage. ANPI has 275 member companies.
http://www.vonage.com

Acterna Introduces Fiber Mapping Software

Acterna introduced a new Optical Fiber Mapping (OFM) software application that provides a bird's eye view of a network's outside fiber plant, enabling the operator to hone in on the exact location of faults, outages, affected nodes, and customer sites. Acterna said the high-fiber density of metro networks requires operators to have up-to-date documentation that includes original schematics created by a designer in paper or electronic formats, maps, photos, plant assets, and network element data. The new software enables users from different divisions within an organization to generate customized reports.
http://www.acterna.com