Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom selects New Hampshire vendor for next generation broadband equipment

Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom (WCVT) announced that it has selected Portsmouth, New Hampshire based Pannaway Technologies as its hardware vendor to deliver next-generation broadband services to its 21,000 subscribers. WCVT is deploying Pannaways award-winning IP Packet-based Service Convergence Network (SCNTM) products in 18 remote switching sites with 35 additional sites to follow. This will allow WCVT to upgrade its network with ADSL2+ technology that offers increased reliability and even faster Internet speeds to subscribers.
Our goal is to build a broadband network that deploys easily and wont need to be continually upgraded to support emerging, high bandwidth services, said Bill Fogg, Network Planner, for Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom. Pannaways SCN has the scaleable bandwidth capacity and protocol flexibility that we will need to deliver unrivaled communications services to our rural subscribers over the next decade. Were confident that Pannaway is the best partner for us.
WCVT will migrate its legacy ATM and TDM networks to a single system capable of supporting emerging broadband applications for decades to come. For this significant network upgrade, WCVT selected Pannaways Broadband Access Switch (BASTM) which is a highly scaleable IP-BLC (broadband loop carrier) that supports high-bandwidth voice, video and data services.
About Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom:
Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom is a family owned, independent telephone company serving over 20,000 customers in the Mad River and central Champlain Valley regions of Vermont. The company was incorporated on November 30, 1904, and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2004. Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom provides local and long distance telephone service, and high-speed Internet access. On the web at www.wcvt.com.
About Pannaway Technologies
Pannaway provides customer-proven, IP-Ethernet and SIP-based broadband access solutions that enable telecommunications service providers to offer new Triple Play services to their rural subscribers. Using Pannaways Service Convergence Network (SCNTM) which consists of access, premise, transport and broadband management capabilities, telecom providers can easily transform their existing TDM and ATM networks to support emerging bandwidth intensive services for years to come. Pannaways patent-pending Primary Line VoIPSM is the first telco-grade VoIP solution to ensure E 911 Lifeline calling across multi-vendor product environments. The privately held company is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and has been building innovative IP-Ethernet solutions and service/support programs to fit the specific needs of rural telecom providers since 2002.