Growing the Network Without Adding New Copper Increased Market Demand for Telcom Services Prevailing trends for more business lines, residential multi-lines, Internet access via dial-up modems and ADSL/ modems, and CLEC demands for unbundled loops is creating tremendous demand on the existing last mile copper network. Impact to Incumbent Service Provider Due to the sheer volume of demand for copper access network, coupled with an industry wide shortage of qualified personnel, incumbent service providers are finding it increasingly difficult to expediently satisfy basic service demand | Growing the Network Without Adding New Copper Increased Market Demand for Telcom Services Prevailing trends for more business lines residential multi-lines Internet access via dial-up modems and ADSL modems and CLEC demands for unbundled loops is creating tremendous demand on the existing last mile copper network. Impact to Incumbent Service Provider Due to the sheer volume of demand for copper access network coupled with an industry wide shortage of qualified personnel incumbent service providers are finding it increasingly difficult to expediently satisfy basic service demand. In an increasingly unregulated business environment incumbent service providers are also finding it difficult tojustify the significant investment required to construct additional infrastructure in the existing last mile copper network. PUC Pressure Many incumbent service providers are now coming under harsh criticism from state PUCs for customer complaints related to satisfying demand for additional basic telephone service. Service providers need a cost-effective and rapid-response solution that enables them to profitably satisfy customer demand while also creating additional capacity in the copper plant. Solution ADC s PG-FlexPlus The PG-FlexPlus family of products enable incumbent service providers to quickly place multiple phone lines over a single copper pair. These products are line-powered environmentally hardened and have the modularity to provide copper pair facility relief in the feeder network the distribution network and or at the customer drop. PG-FlexPlus can be installed and turned up for service within hours as opposed to weeks. Central Office Existing copper pairs Y Existing copper pairs X Existing copper pairs X T T . . T Demand for T Demand for T Demand for . new copper pairs T new copper pairs T new copper pairs T Drop Feeder Network Crossbox or Remote Terminal Distribution Network Pedestal or Minimum Point of Entry MPOE Customer Premises Home or Business Q Figure
