GTE Selects GoDigital's GDSL-8 Access System; GDSL-8 System Quickly Meets the Demand for GTE's Added Line Growth

Business Wire, Sept 23, 1998

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1998--GoDigital Telecommunications Inc., announced today that GTE Network Services, a division of GTE Corp., has standardized and approved for deployment GoDigital's GDSL-8 digital loop carrier system in GTE's communications network.

With the GDSL-8 system, customers are able to get added and multiple added line services turned on quickly. They also may benefit from higher modem throughput speeds.

Frank Akers, president of GoDigital stated that: "Line growth, data speed increases and new communications applications require rapid response by the telecommunications service providers, especially in a newly competitive local loop, and GoDigital has addressed these opportunities directly for GTE with the GDSL-8."

Telephone company service providers, planners and outside plant engineers can respond to growing service needs immediately with the GDSL-8 system using a single 160 line Central Office Terminal (COT) shelf, that supports up to 20 single pair copper loops, and eight lines per loop. Loop lengths can exceed 100,000 feet, depending on the cable gauge, and the GDSL-8 system has the flexibility to repeat and/or drop services along the way with a family of small and efficient line-powered repeaters.

The GDSL-8 system uses High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (HDSL) technology, plus efficient power management and packaging capabilities to dramatically extend the current in-place copper plant life and increase its service generating potential.

GoDigital Telecommunications is located in Fremont, and develops, manufactures and markets digital subscriber carrier systems that use high speed digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies to provide multiple voice and data channels, ISDN, and high speed internet or LAN access, over long distances, on a single copper pair.