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ANDA Networks Wins SUPERQuest Award at SUPERCOMM 2003
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June 11, 2003 – Sunnyvale, CA – ANDA Networks, a leader in carrier-class solutions for fiber and copper-based access networks, was honored at SUPERCOMM's 6th Annual SUPERQuest Awards Ceremony, held June 3 at the Georgia World Congress Center. ANDA's EtherEdge 4000™ product, which allows carriers to leverage existing SONET/SDH equipment or dark fiber pairs to deliver Ethernet services, received the award for Best Product in the Optical Networking category. ANDA's EtherEdge 4000 is part of its EtherTone™ family, a portfolio of carrier class products that enables carriers to deliver voice and data services while leveraging the tremendous functionality, ease of use, and low-cost of Ethernet technology. |
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SUPERCOMM 2003, is the premier annual communications infrastructure technology exhibition and conference, and was held last week at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. |
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For six years, the SUPERQuest Awards have honored the best-built networks and most promising new technologies among SUPERCOMM exhibitors and their customers worldwide. SUPERQuest Award recipients have been selected as the best of the best in delivering exceptional network design, supporting technologies and products across all facets of the communications infrastructure industry. Winners are chosen by a panel of judges which include industry leading technology press, analysts and other experts. According to Jack Chalden, general manager of SUPERCOMM, "the strength and resiliency of this industry is reflected in the SUPERQuest Award Winners and Runners-Up. These forward-thinking, innovative companies give promise to the continuing growth and development of this industry and show us exactly where we should be headed in the future." |
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SUPERQuest Award nominations were accepted based on the following criteria: |
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The EtherTone™ family addresses huge opportunities in the carrier Ethernet service delivery market, which is expected to grow to $4 billion in North America by 2005, according to Gartner Dataquest. The EtherTone™ family consists of Layer Two devices that are Layer Three aware, with the ability to use VLANs to separate, prioritize, and manage traffic across the service provider's network. In addition, the EtherTone™ family offers a wide variety of interfaces, including the DS3 interface, when compared to other industry related products. These supported interfaces also include VDSL, 10/100BT, 100FX, Gig-E, DS3, OC-3 and OC-12. |
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| The premier annual communications infrastructure exhibition and conference, SUPERCOMM is owned jointly by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), http://www.tiaonline.org/, Arlington, Va. and the United States Telecom Association (USTA), http://www.usta.org/, Washington, DC. | ||||||||||
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About ANDA Networks |
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Founded in 1998 with company headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, ANDA Networks provides carrier-class solutions for delivering cost-effective communication services across both fiber and copper-based access networks worldwide. ANDA's portfolio of solutions includes EtherTone™, a family that enables carriers to deliver access services over existing SONET infrastructure by leveraging highly economical Ethernet technology, and the Universal Access Platform® for carriers to provide legacy communication services while facilitating flexible, economical migration to next-generation networks. For more information on ANDA Networks, visit http://www.andanetworks.com. |
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