Eagle, World Wide Packets Partner for FTTH
January 31, 2002
By Bob Woods
Broadband wired and wireless products provider Eagle Broadband (Quote) said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with World Wide Packets, a maker of optical network equipment, which provides a solution to deliver massive bandwidth over the last mile of a fiber network.
The MOU calls for Eagle to become a preferred solutions provider of World Wide Packets products and services. In addition, Eagle's ClearWorks subsidiary will become a preferred provider of Bundled Digital Services (BDSSM) for World Wide Packets' Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployments.
Other Eagle subsidiaries, including BroadbandMagic and atlanticpacific, will also participate in the deal, officials said.
World Wide Packets' technology will allow Eagle to greatly reduce its infrastructure costs in its many FTTH deployments, while at the same time increasing the capabilities and features ClearWorks will be able to offer to their customers, officials also said. With the new, all-IP-based deployments using the World Wide Packets home gateway, Eagle can provide its subscribers true IP functionality, including voice-over IP over standard telephones.
Bernard Daines, CEO of World Wide Packets, said, "With the high-performance fiber network solutions World Wide Packets will be deploying through Eagle Broadband, including the entire World Wide Packets Lightning Edge solutions portfolio, our collective customers will enjoy unprecedented communications speeds, the convenience of integrated service delivery and billing, as well as being able to receive new content services that are unavailable through other network architectures"
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