IRVINE, Calif. -- Aktino and its customer, the Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA), have won a Globalcomm Award of Excellence for the use of broadband-over-copper technology, Aktino announced today. The awards, given in advance of the Globalcomm industry conference and trade show June 4-7, recognize the technological and business significance of innovative communications applications.

Aktino will demonstrate its technology during the Globalcomm show in Chicago, where it will be in Booth #36067.

Aktino is the first company to enable the delivery of business-class broadband services throughout the carrier serving area (CSA) footprint over embedded copper loops. MTA and Aktino won the Award of Excellence in the Network Infrastructure category, based on equipment Aktino installed in 2005 for MTA.

Alaska-based MTA, the second largest telephone cooperative in the U.S., with 60,000 access lines, deployed the Aktino AK3000 platform to meet growing demand for bandwidth and reliability at its wireless cell sites. The installation marked the first time that a cell site, fed by seven DS1 circuits over 14 pairs of copper, was transitioned to a new “MIMO on DMT” system, providing the capacity of a full DS3 circuit (28 DS1s on the same 14 pairs) within a few hours, without any disruption of service.

Aktino’s MIMO on DMT – Multiple Input Multiple Output on Discrete Multi Tone – is its advanced approach to reducing crosstalk in copper pair binders to enable the industry’s largest service area footprint of reliable high-bandwidth business broadband. The Aktino technology enables the MTA to create a single “pipe” with bandwidth that is 400 percent greater than the previous technology in place.

"With Aktino’s AK3000 solution, we now provide highly reliable, high-quality full DS3 and fractional DS3 services to customers who previously were limited to T1 circuits,” said Dennis Eby, Broadband Transmission Engineer for the MTA. He added, “The savings over trenching fiber, reduced risk of stranded fiber investments, and the instant revenue from being able to rapidly meet exacting customer demands is a tremendous value.”

MTA’s major wireless service provider customer needed a full channelized DS3 at one of its many cell sites in the MTA footprint, which prompted the MTA to turn to Aktino for a solution.

“We appreciate that this Globalcomm Award of Excellence recognizes an elegant solution to a growing communications need,” said Bruce Kimble, President and CEO of Aktino. “As wireless carriers offer innovative new services, this creates great demands on the backhaul network that feeds cell sites. Because most backhaul networks in the United States are served by copper-based DS1 circuits, carriers must meet the demand rapidly and cost-effectively. Using a MIMO on DMT (VDSL2-based) system enables a huge leap in bandwidth capability and reliability on the existing copper.”

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