CLECs deploy more Paradyne gear

Two competitive local exchange carriers are expanding their use of Paradyne's Hotwire digital subscriber line equipment.

Network Access Solutions, a Sterling, Va.-based data systems integrator and CLEC, is adding multirate DSL to its existing rate-adaptive offering. The new service, dubbed CuNet, offers speeds from 128 kb/s to 2 Mb/s.

CuNet will be offered in Baltimore, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Va., and Washington. NAS is collocating in more than 60 points of presence (POPs) in Bell Atlantic's territory.

Boston-based Harvard.Net added Hotwire Multiple Virtual Line to its existing service offerings. The CLEC is deploying service in about 100 POPs.

In addition, Paradyne introduced a series of service level verification products designed to support T-3 ATM-to-frame relay interworking.

Paradyne's diagnostic tool, the FrameSaver SLV network-to-network interface, sits on each segment of the cloud to provide end-to-end circuit management.

To provision an end-to-end circuit, CLECs have to work with one another, but the management information about that link is often weak, said Jim DesRosiers, field product sales manager for Paradyne. "The NNI product lets carriers see where the trouble is," he said.

The SLV NNI probe is unique, said Chris Nicoll, senior analyst at Current Analysis. "No one else is doing this."