North Carolina's Surry Telephone Membership Corporation Selects Clearfield for Its FTTH Project
October 25 2011 - 2:15PM
Clearfield, Inc. (Nasdaq:CLFD) today announced
that Surry Telephone Membership Corporation is deploying the entire
FieldSmart platform for fiber management and protection needs in an
extensive Fiber to the Home build. As a North Carolina-based
member-owned cooperative, Surry selected Clearfield for the project
that will bring enhanced broadband services to its membership base
as well as allow it to expand services into a CLEC serving area.
Surry's Chief Engineer Richie Parker said, "We selected
Clearfield because it offered a fiber management platform that
scaled from one end of the network to the other. At every
consolidation and distribution point in the network, fiber is
protected within the Clearview Cassette."
Surry is using an active electronics deployment model in its
ILEC serving area and a GPON architecture for its CLEC operations.
"Because we recognize that our take-rates will be different in our
ILEC markets than in our CLEC operations, we needed a fiber
management solution that allowed us to pace our capital equipment
expenditures alongside the increase in subscribers," Parker
continued. "The configurability of Clearfield's FieldSmart
platform is allowing us to contain our spending and reduce costs
during the build-out of this project."
"Surry Telephone's deployment of fiber demonstrates its
commitment to its member-owners," said Cheri Beranek, president and
CEO of Clearfield. "This project, which is financed outside of
government programs associated with the American Recovery Act or
the RUS program, is a wonderful example of the many fiber-rich
broadband projects currently being undertaken by proactive
telephone companies across the country."
About Clearfield, Inc.
Clearfield, Inc. (Nasdaq:CLFD) sets the standard for fiber
performance with the FiberDeep line of fiber connectivity, while
lowering the cost of broadband deployment with the FieldSmart fiber
management platform and the CraftSmart OSP fiber enclosure
system.
CONTACT: Christy Kemp
Calysto Communications
404-266-2060, ext. 539
ckemp@calysto.com
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