Hong Kong, China // 2006-05-17

PacketFront wins InfoVision award for its cutting-edge BECS technology

PacketFront, the world leader in open access fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology and next generation broadband aggregation, has been awarded by the International Engineering consortium (IEC) with an InfoVision Award, in recognition of its innovative control and provisioning system, BECS. The award, which recognises unique technologies, applications, products, advances and services deemed to particularly benefit the telecom industry, will be celebrated at IEC’s Broadband World Forum Asia 2006 between the 15 and 18 May.

PacketFront won the award in the "Access network technologies and services" category, and was selected from hundreds of nominees, based on strict criteria, including innovation, uniqueness, market impact, customer benefits and value to society.

BECS, the winning system, is the central control and provisioning system of PacketFront's automated broadband solution. It provides unique and world-leading functionalities for the control and provisioning of advanced triple-play services, including carrier-class multicast services.

"We're delighted to receive this InfoVision award," said Martin Thunman, CEO of PacketFront. "We're very proud to have spearheaded the technology that enables self-provisioning triple play services, and we feel that our BECS system is a key enabler of sustainable and profitable broadband networks worldwide – making it highly beneficial for enterprise and home-users alike.

As a company, we believe in building on our successes and strengths, and as such, are expanding globally as demand for our technology and services continues to escalate."

The open access, flexible business model BECS employs is based on an approach that shares both risks and revenues, and it offers valuable wholesale opportunities for the network owner. BECS includes vital functionality in areas such as security, traceability, QoS and conditional access. The system is highly scaleable and ensures high availability, making it ideal for both small-scale and large-scale broadband deployments. Furthermore, open and well-defined interfaces make BECS easy to integrate with a network owner's or service provider's existing OSS/BSS systems.

"We recognise InfoVision finalists as products that provide superior service to the industry and the community," said Tom Costello, IEC's content director. "The competition was stiff with many fine entrants. The selection process was very difficult with an exceptional group of InfoVision Awards this year."