Internet Express Taps Actelis for Ethernet Equipment

Internet Express has deployed Actelis Networks’ MetaLIGHT Ethernet-over-Copper platform to offer Ethernet services to businesses throughout the Midwest.

The MetaLIGHT solution allows Internet Express to effectively compete in the region without building an expensive fiber network to deliver high-bandwidth services.

The MetaLIGHT products are based on Actelis’ MetaLOOP technology, which performs spatial division multiplexing over multiple copper pairs to deliver what looks like a single connection to customers. This technology breaks apart packets and distributes those piece parts on all available copper connections.

“Only 11 percent of businesses are served by fiber,” says Thomas Reynolds, senior vice president of worldwide sales, marketing and customer support. “A lot of smaller businesses, industrial parks, don’t have access to fiber.” But new applications are driving the need for more bandwidth, he says, adding that most service providers are trying to reach small and media business customers with services in the 3- to 30mbps range.

The initial Actelis products, MetaLIGHT 100E and MetaLIGHT 100E, are point-to-point solutions that deliver DS3 and four T1s on 12 pairs and 16 pairs, respectively. New er CO-based MetaLIGHT 130 and MetaLIGHT 1300 products are point-to-multipoint platforms that enable deployment of high-bandwidth Ethernet services over copper to multiple locations from one centralized platform. The MetaLIGHT 130 supports up to 16 copper pairs, while the MetaLIGHT 1300 can support up to 64 copper pairs. Both systems can deliver from 1 to 40mbps of Ethernet services to a customer site. The Ethernet services from each platform are groomed and handed off to the network through 100mbps or optical GigE interfaces. The MetaLIGHT 50 sits at the customer premises to tie in with the 130 or 1300. All the products use G.SHDSL line code.

Unlike IMA solutions on the market, Reynolds says the Actelis solution does forward error correction to deliver lower bit error rates and thus higher throughput. “If we provision at a 10meg we will run at 10 meg,” says Reynolds.

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