ACTON, Mass. -- Appian Communications™ today announced new products that change the economics, scalability and breadth of services available as carriers migrate Small and Medium Business (SMB) establishments from legacy TDM to high-bandwidth, carrier-class Ethernet services. Optimized for simplicity and low cost, the company’s new Services Termination Units (STU) are managed customer/carrier demarcation devices that are right-sized to extend full bandwidth Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and native TDM services to SMB, low-density building, and remote office sites. At the same time, the company announced new software and hardware for its flagship Optical Service Activation Platform (OSAP), supporting the efficient aggregation and grooming of STU-delivered services onto a provider’s existing SONET/SDH and/or IP services backbone.

Based on a simple, “pay as you grow” service delivery architecture, Appian’s comprehensive metro access solution allows providers to cost effectively extend a rich suite of carrier-quality Ethernet and TDM services beyond the large enterprise to now include the mass SMB market.

“Cable MSOs are a great example of service providers who will benefit from Appian’s “success-based” pay as you grow model for delivering commercial grade voice and data services,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst and cofounder of Infonetics Research. “The availability of the STU and the ADC partnership together open an important growth market opportunity for Appian,” continued Howard. (Please see related ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT) and Appian Communications partnership announcement, dated May 12.)

Appian Communications Inc.