AFL Resells FlexLight

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- AFL Telecommunications, a leading supplier of fiber optic products and services, announces today that AFL has signed a reseller agreement with FlexLight Networks, Inc., a leading GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network, ITU-T G.984.x) vendor, to deploy next-level GPON technology. Under the agreement, AFL will add FlexLight's GPON Optimate platform to its portfolio of FTTx solutions.

The agreement is primarily focused on the supporting Fiber-to-the-Home / Fiber-to-the-Business applications within the Municipal and Greenfield FTTH market segments, and also includes the opportunity to partner with FlexLight in all markets served by AFL. This key partnership will create one of the strongest one-source providers of optical FTTx solutions for the provisioning of Ethernet, Voice and Video services.

"FlexLight is very pleased to partner with AFL Telecommunications to provide turnkey optical access solutions to the new multi-service provider networks. AFL brings a tremendous amount of experience in architecture and design of optical access networks, and FlexLight brings the best in class GPON solutions," said Armando N. Pereira, President and CEO of FlexLight Networks. "This combination will enable rapid broadband deployment for triple-play data, video and voice services."

FlexLight's GPON architecture is the only system that provides fiber redundancy to date and was the first ITU-T G.984.x compliant system. The system is managed through FlexManage, an advanced web-based network management tool. The network infrastructure will be supported by AFL's reliable optical passive components such as fiber closures, racks, connectors, optical splitters and panels.

"This agreement is a perfect fit to our strategy of combining best-of-breed access technologies, such as GPON, with AFL's integration expertise and passive infrastructure solutions," stated Kent Brown, Director of AFL Access Solutions. "This combination allows us to provide our customers with fully integrated, real-world FTTx solutions."

FlexLight Networks Inc.

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