BITel Selects Actelis

HANOVER, Germany -- Actelis NetworksR Inc., a worldwide leader in delivering broadband over copper solutions that enable profitable, carrier-grade broadband services over local-loop copper, today announced that BITel GmbH, in partnership with Quante Netzwerke GmbH, has deployed its MetaLIGHTR Ethernet-over-copper platforms. This deployment allows BITel to significantly expand its market by offering high-quality, high-bandwidth and cost-effective Ethernet services to businesses throughout the city of Bielefeld, Germany, using Actelis Networks MetaLIGHT Ethernet-over-Copper platforms.

Actelis' Ethernet-over-Copper platforms allow BITel to meet a rapidly growing demand for Ethernet services. With Actelis' platforms, BITel now delivers economical, symmetrical Ethernet (10Mbps and higher) services using unbundled local loops leased from Deutsche Telecom. Once a customer is secured, Actelis' platforms can be deployed within a day, allowing BITel to immediately begin generating revenue.

"The Actelis MetaLIGHT platform is ideal because of how quickly and economically it allows us to eliminate barriers to delivering high-bandwidth Ethernet services to a wide variety of customers," said Alfred Kerscher, chief executive officer of BITel. "Since the MetaLIGHT platform uses copper pairs available to us through Deutsche Telecom to deliver services, we have everything we need already in place to deliver high-bandwidth Ethernet services. This allows us to expand our service offerings and gain new customers, while keeping our equipment and operating costs to a minimum."

In a recent deployment, BITel chose the MetaLIGHT platform to accelerate the link between a branch office and its headquarters. By using the new Ethernet service from BITel, the customer has reduced its monthly recurring telecommunications service costs, reduced network management time, and now has high-quality bandwidth to run applications such as high-speed internet access, voice and video over IP, among others. The MetaLIGHT platform has enabled BITel to provide a service package that can be customised to the customer including guaranteed, high-quality bandwidth and provides the scalability necessary to increase the bandwidth to the customer in the future.

"Actelis' standards-based Ethernet turn voice-grade copper pairs into a fibre-quality transport link," said Manfred Brandt, chief executive officer of Quante. "The MetaLIGHT platforms provide practical, high-performance solutions that offer ultra fast return on investment, same day deployment, and trouble-free installation. We can offer our customers economical Ethernet services with quality and bandwidth performance on par with fibre."

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