Residents and businesses in Guthrie Center, Iowa, are new recipients of voice, video and data services powered by a new optical fiber network that extends all the way to their doorsteps.
The network, developed by Optical Solutions Inc. (www.opticalsolutions.com) was installed by Guthrie Telecommunications Network, Inc. Guthrie Telecommunications Network is a local exchange carrier owned by Panora Cooperative Telephone Association of West Central Iowa.
"In our first phase of construction we've deployed services to hundreds of customer dwellings, and our customers couldn't be more excited," says Andrew
Randol, general manager of Guthrie Telecommunications Network Inc. "In this community, we have seen a very high 'take rate' -- residents are looking forward to now obtaining their voice, video and data services through us."
The bundled package that Guthrie Telecommunications Network offers includes high-speed data, entertainment video (CATV) channels, and multiple phone lines per dwelling.
"It's gratifying to see the positive impact a fiber-to-the-home network can make in a community such as Guthrie Center," says Optical Solutions Chairman Darryl Ponder. "Across the country, enterprising CLECs are
discovering that fiber optics, with its virtually limitless bandwidth capacity for services, is the only technology that will allow them to attract and keep customers far into the future."
Guthrie Telecommunications Network chose the FiberPath system from Optical Solutions for the Guthrie Center overbuild. The FiberPath architecture is based on a passive optical network, or PON, which is the most cost-efficient way to deliver converged voice, video and high-speed data services to the home or business.
The FiberPath system can support both upstream and downstream data transmissions at equally fast speeds. This very high-speed data capability is designed to open new doors of opportunity to people in rural and suburban America.
