Allied Telesyn fiber gateways chosen for UTOPIA project

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, Oct 10, 2003

Allied Telesyn, a provider of Ethernet networking solutions for the access edge, announced that its RG223 Residential Gateway has been chosen as the customer premises solution in the Phase I rollout of fiber-to-the premises services for UTOPIA, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency. Covering Salt Lake City and 17 surrounding cities that encompass some 250,000 households and 35,000 businesses, UTOPIA is the world's largest fiber-to-the home (FTTH) and fiber-to-the-business (FTTB) project launched to date. In Phase I of the UTOPIA project (scheduled to begin in early 2004), project consultant Dynamic City will oversee deployment of an all-fiber network to as many as 15,000 homes and businesses.

Once Phase I is completed, the project will expand to include tens of thousands of other homes and businesses in the area. UTOPIA was founded to rapidly improve business and residential telecommunications services throughout Utah by providing a publicly owned core fiber infrastructure over which retail telecommunications can be delivered. UTOPIA will wholesale fiber network capacity to service providers, delivering 100/1000 Mbps edge connectivity through a 5.6-Terabyte core switched network fabric. Allied Telesyn's RG223 Residential Gateway distributes traditional voice and multiple IP-based services throughout a home, including broadband Internet access, voice over IP (VoIP), broadcast television, and video on demand.

The RG223 features two analog phone ports, three 10/100 Ethernet LAN ports, and supports IGMP for secure and efficient multicast video. The RG223 is just one of a growing portfolio of fiber networking products in Allied Telesyn's Triple Play Solutions portfolio, which also includes products for DSL, Layer 3 aggregation, and core networking.