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Denver, Colorado – June 25, 2006 – Shenandoah Telecommunications (Shentel), founded in 1902, is an incumbent telecommunication service provider in Virginia and the US Atlantic Coast with more than 225,000 voice, video and data communication subscribers. Shentel has selected BroadHop Service Management Engine (SME) to deploy and manage next-generation services over an IP network powered by equipment from Cisco Systems.
BroadHop and Cisco will deliver an end-to-end solution for service management and subscriber control that will allow Shentel to deploy voice, video and data services to more than 25,000 multi-dwelling units (MDU’s) across Shentel’s portfolio of college housing networks located throughout the Atlantic coast. Shentel’s college housing networks consist of both wired connections to the apartment units and wireless access points located in convenient, centralized locations such as cafes, shops, student centers and public plazas.
Shentel’s solution will include SME for subscriber and service management appliance and Cisco Service Selection Gateway (SSG) device for network aggregation and subscriber control. In addition to SSG, the SME will also integrate with Shentel’s Colubris devices to authenticate and provision wireless subscribers on the network.
The SME-SSG solution provides Shentel with the ability to provision services and authenticate subscribers for multiple services (voice, video and data) in multiple locations across both wired and wireless networks using SME’s intelligent network interface layer and location virtualization technology. For Shentel’s college student subscribers this solution delivers the capability to consume on-demand services such as broadband access or video services whether at home in their apartments over wired IP connections or on-campus via wireless IP connections.
By installing the SME appliance into its IP network, Shentel has an IMS-compliant service architecture, which enables intelligent accounting and subscriber management that integrates seamlessly with Shentel’s existing back office solutions such as customer care and billing.
“BroadHop is pleased to be assisting Shentel deploy next-generation network (NGN) fixed-mobile converged (FMC) solutions. With an all-IP services architecture, Shentel is equipped to enable new revenue streams in its MDU segment,” said Bill Diotte, BroadHop’s President and CEO.
About BroadHop
BroadHop’s IMS-compliant, carrier-class products reduce the complexity and cost of deploying “triple play” voice, video and data services on IP networks. The BroadHop Service Management Engine provides a new layer of intelligence and “user programmability” on IP networks and plug-and-play deployment through its subscriber-awareness and real time policy management technology.
BroadHop enables service providers and enterprise network operators to deploy and manage subscriber-aware IP services across their wireline or wireless networks for a wide-array of service policy-driven solutions including residential, hotspot, mesh, 3G, wireless mobility and enterprise. Today, BroadHop’s products and technology are at the forefront of IP service deployment with dozens of carrier, service provider and Fortune 500 customers. BroadHop’s corporate partners include Cisco Systems, HP, IBM, Dimension Data, Equant and other IP service delivery leaders. For more information please visit www.BroadHop.com.
About Shentel
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company, through its subsidiaries, provides regulated and unregulated telecommunications services to end-user customers and other communications providers in the southeastern United States. Its services include personal communications services through a digital wireless telephone and data network; regulated and unregulated telephone services; coaxial cable-based television services; and local and long distance voice, video, and Internet services to MDU communities, primarily off-campus college student housing. The company also owns and leases tower space and fiber optic facilities in the personal communications service territories to other wireless communications providers. In addition, it provides paging services; sells and services telecommunications equipment; and provides information services and Internet access. As of December 31, 2005, it had 24,740 telephone access lines; 122,975 retail personal communications services subscribers and 38,726 wholesale personal communications services subscribers; 8,684 cable television subscribers; 12,514 dial-up Internet subscribers and 4,748 digital subscriber line customers; and 10,418 long distance subscribers. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Edinburg, Virginia.
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