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ITS Telecom Deploys Sorrento Networks' WDM Products in Fiber-to-the-Home NetworkSorrento's GigaMux products extend high-speed broadband services to rural communityDENVER — July 12, 2010 — Sorrento Networks announced today that ITS Telecommunications Systems, Inc. (ITS), headquartered in Indiantown, Florida, is deploying the Sorrento GigaMux 1600 and 3200 platforms in its new Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network that will make high-speed broadband services available to every residence in its rural service area. ITS is using a loan from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), a division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), to build its new fiber optic network in the rural community it serves. To receive financing, RUS requires that borrowers buy only those products that have received RUS technical acceptance. The Sorrento GigaMux product line has met all RUS requirements and standards, enabling ITS to deploy the GigaMux products to support its growing bandwidth requirements. By implementing Sorrento's wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) platform within its FTTH network, ITS is expanding the scalability and flexibility of its metro optical infrastructure to offer more, higher speed data services. ITS plans to fully complete its FTTH project by the end of 2011. "With our FTTH initiative, we are able to offer our residential and business customers integrated voice and data services, with video to be added in the near future, as well as effectively provide those in our service area with the virtually unlimited communication capabilities they will want and need as technology advances in the future," said Jeff Leslie, president and CEO of ITS. "We have dedicated the past four years to this project and see the addition of Sorrento's WDM products to our network as a critical piece of our new fiber optic network architecture." Sorrento's metro optical product offering is ideally suited for metro, metro core and regional WDM applications. Sorrento's GigaMux portfolio simplifies the establishment of new networks and enables customers to seamlessly add capacity to existing WDM infrastructure without interrupting traffic signals. "With the increasing demand for Internet access, more rural telephone companies like ITS are considering the benefits of WDM technology to gain the necessary bandwidth and speed to roll out even basic broadband services," said Jim Nevelle, CEO, Sorrento Networks. "We anticipate more rural service providers will follow the lead of ITS." Sorrento Networks' GigaMux platform enables ITS to deliver high speed services that require a significantly reduced capital outlay and fewer management requirements than other optical networking products. A protocol-independent design allows the GigaMux platform to transport and extend the traffic of SONET/SDH, layer 2/3 Ethernet and SAN simultaneously and in their native format. This unmatched level of flexibility and control allows ITS to add or upgrade bandwidth incrementally based on traffic requirements.
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