Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Peoples Telephone Cooperative selects Sandvine to enhance the broadband experience for subscribers

Quitman, TX and Waterloo, ON; December 7, 2004 -- Sandvine Incorporated today announced that Peoples Telephone Cooperative has selected Sandvine’s award-winning IP service control platform to improve the subscriber experience on its DSL broadband network.

Hard-to-manage traffic created by the latest crop of popular broadband applications threatens ISPs with rising costs and the potential for degraded network performance. Selecting the right tools for controlling this traffic — e.g. technologies that do so in a subscriber-friendly way — presents unique challenges. Many solutions offer some cost reductions but negatively impact subscriber freedom of choice and degrade the overall Internet experience.

Texas-based Peoples is deploying Sandvine’s award-wining product to help manage its network costs while preserving and even improving its subscribers’ superior online experience.

"We wanted a solution that would maximize the value of our current infrastructure and give us improved visibility into our network traffic,” said John Burford, Network Manager at Peoples Telephone Cooperative.  “We need to stay ahead of broadband trends so that we can provide our subscribers with the services that they require. Sandvine’s IP service control platform allows us to see what’s happening on our network, set policies for the different traffic types, reduce network costs and still maintain our premium online experience for our subscribers.”

ABOUT PEOPLES TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
Peoples Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (PTC) is a Local Exchange Carrier Service for the North East Texas Area. PTC has been providing communications services since 1954 with a “local touch – global reach” attitude. In addition to providing local telephone service, PTC and its subsidiaries also offer long distance, Internet, digital subscriber lines, wireless, alarm monitoring and key systems. The staff and Board of Directors of PTC and its subsidiaries continue to be committed to providing all of the communications needs of our customers as we move ever deeper into the “communication age” of the new millennium. For more information, please visit www.peoplescom.net.

ABOUT SANDVINE
Sandvine’s award-winning network equipment helps broadband service providers understsand what really happens on their networks. Sandvine products add programmable intelligence to the network, a new console for the broadband dashboard that enables ISPs to classify subscriber applications, recognize and address network threats, guarantee service levels and create tiers for multiple broadband services without a forklift upgrade to existing infrastructure. Sandvine is improving the Internet experience for millions of broadband subscribers worldwide. To find out more, visit Sandvine online at www.sandvine.com.

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