Under the terms of this agreement, which extends through April 2004, AFC will provide SBC with DSL-ready remote access equipment. SBC is the nation’s leading provider of DSL service. The agreement also includes deployment of AFC’s services to states in SBC’s Ameritech region such as Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, adding to existing services provided to SBC in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas.
Our entire organization has been committed to SBC’s vision of near-ubiquitous DSL service to its customers across America, commented John Schofield, president and CEO for AFC. SBC’s next-generation network is highly sophisticated, and will require remote access equipment that is equally as sophisticated yet easily manageable, scalable and cost effective.
AFC will provide SBC with its DMAX1120 and EMAXplus multi-service access platforms, as well as AFC’s environmentally hardened 240D and 672D outside plant cabinets. AFC’s DMAX1120 and EMAXplus systems will allow SBC to quickly and cost-effectively modernize existing infrastructure and narrowband digital loop carriers (DLCs) throughout its outside plant network, providing a full suite of narrowband, broadband and wideband services which can be fed over fiber or copper transmissions.
