Dear Subscriber,

You may have noticed our new marketing initiative inviting you to take our Price Performance Challenge.  To help you better understand what led us to this contest, we talked to Steven Curtis, vice president of sales and service for the Americas and the initiator of the concept, to see how this program came about.

Interview with Steven Curtis, Vice President of Sales and Service, Americas

Q. Telco Systems just launched a Price/Performance challenge.  Can you tell us how this program came about? A. As with many of my ideas, it started with our customers. I have assembled a team that is very consultative in their approach and really tries to address the needs of the customer, which has been very successful for us.

Perhaps the defining moment however was when we were working with one of our partners in Canada on an RFP.  Having reviewed our information and that of our competitors, they commented that we had the best solution and price.

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New Metrobility Demarcation Solution

A new Metrobility R861 Ethernet demarcation line card has been unveiled which combines the features of the R821 and R851 solutions into a single card.  “The R861 technology allows a service provider’s field engineers to initiate auto-discovery of its peer in a book-ended configuration and subsequently auto-provision at circuit turn-up to make installation quick and simple.

The field engineer literally only needs to connect the fiber to the fiber interface and the R861 does the rest,” said Mark Leal, product line manager at Telco Systems. As a service demarcation device, it supports link and connectivity OAM standards as well as IEEE VLAN-aware and provider bridging standards, granular rate limiting, jumbo frames, and multiple options for remote loopback testing.  

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Meet us on FaceBook…Follow us on Twitter

The age of social networking is upon us – and it’s not just for kids anymore!  Follow our news and posts on FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and digg.  It’s just our way of keeping our lines of communication open.