"Last Mile" Connectivity - The Optical Solution

Here in U.S., the regulatory door has cracked open allowing a couple of the incumbent local exchange telephone monopolies into the highly competitive long distance market. In addition, these incumbents have been diligent in their pursuits of other fast growing market telecom segments and in partaking of the merger mania of the past few years. While corporate management of these giants have devoted its energies and resources to these seemingly lucrative pursuits, attention to core businesses and constituencies has suffered. Regulators are levying fines and calling some of these incumbents to task for poor service quality and lack of responsiveness to customers looking for basic local exchange telephone service.

The incumbents of course deny there's a problem or blame it on a lack of qualified skilled workers in today's tight telecom labor markets. Whatever the reasons, the problems confronting those in need of "last mile connectivity" for basic phone service are exacerbated for large corporate and institutional users. As the need for ever greater amounts of communications capacity continues unabated, driven by the explosion of e-commerce, the ability of the incumbents and their newer competitors to satisfy that demand is increasingly being challenged. Large users as a result are being frustrated in satisfying their needs for high bandwidths to connect not only to public and private global networks and the Internet, but to their own satellite offices or dispersed premises on their own corporate campuses.

Much of the problem centers on the traditionally worse problem area for telecommunications networks, the infamous "last mile" into the customer's premises. Synergy Telecommunications Corporation (Syntelco), a provider of metro-edge optical solutions, and infrastructure technology services and products, has focused efforts to provided end-to-end solutions that address this problem and to provide a solution that is easy and quick to deploy, capable of delivering capacity up to the OC48 levels, cost effective and scalable into multi-point networks. The technology used is not new - optical lasers, but harnessing its efficiencies and capacities has been developed to the point where its integration into today's communications network environments is a reality.

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