tailieunhanh - GUADALUPE VALLEY DEPLOYS FIBER TO THE PREMISE

Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. (GVTC) was formed in 1951 and today is the largest telephone cooperative in the state of Texas. Spanning 2,000 square miles in eleven counties to the north and east of San Antonio, GVTC serves over 30,000 customers with more than 43,000 access lines. | GUADALUPE VALLEY INTRODUCTION CASE STUDY Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications Cooperative Inc. GVTC was formed in 1951 and today is the largest telephone cooperative in the state of Texas. Spanning 2 000 square miles in eleven counties to the north and east of San Antonio GVTC serves over 30 000 customers with more than 43 000 access lines. The company is a local exchange carrier operates its own long distance company and cable television subsidiary and offers high speed Internet access as well as security systems and monitoring for medical and alarm applications. All GVTC subscribers are also members and owners of the cooperative making service and quality more important than with public companies without such firm ties to the communities they serve. This unwavering commitment to service is an important differentiator as GVTC battles a large MSO for subscribers. In addition the non-profit co-op must operate efficiently because members are used to receiving the annual distribution of profits each June. Creating an efficient high performance infrastructure that can deliver a low cost of ownership for many years to come was one of the main reasons GVTC decided to implement fiber-to-the-premise FTTP for new construction. Riding the steady building boom in their serving areas GVTC has laid fiber to over 2 500 homes in 2004 and has started work on the fiber infrastructure on new subdivisions for over 5 000 housing units. In existing subdivisions that are copper-fed the long-range plan is to implement FTTP when copper is retired. CENTRALIZED SPLITTERS REDUCE COSTS Early in the planning phases for its FTTP projects GVTC aligned itself with a centralized splitter architecture in the PON passive optical network . There were at least a couple of different ways to take fiber from our switching equipment to the customer. We found centralizing splitters in one location to be the most efficient and cost effective design said Randy Lefler engineering supervisor who manages GVTC s