Stockholm, Sweden, 2nd July 2009 - Transmode, a leading provider of optical networking solutions, today announced that it had been selected by Sogetel and Groupe Télécom Warwick, two local exchange carriers in Canada to enhance their network capabilities to meet increasing customer demand for IPTV, telecommunications, Internet, and data services.

The two companies jointly chose Transmode Intelligent WDM (iWDM(TM)) optical networking elements as building blocks to consolidate existing traffic and enhance the network capacity of their existing optical infrastructure.

Half way between Montreal and Quebec, Sogetel and Groupe Télécom Warwick provide telecommunications and internet services to both business and residential customers dispersed over a large geographical area. They shared a common SONET optical ring which both companies needed to upgrade with an overlay IP network infrastructure to fulfill a large and growing demand for increased bandwidth. The demand in Sogetel's case was mainly driven by the provision of new IPTV services. After a comprehensive study of the costs and benefits of solutions provided by many optical vendors they chose to deploy Transmode iWDM equipment.

"The decision to deploy Transmode equipment was based on the simplicity of the building blocks they provided us as well as great value in terms of price, quality and on-going cost of support."
said Dominic Germain, Director of Internet Services at Sogetel. "Transmode and the local reseller Sak Data understood our problems and helped us design a network to meet our needs".

The design team from both Sak Data, Transmode and each of the carriers, ensured that the network was designed to support the growth in IPTV and other new differentiated services. The business benefit of a joint network for the two providers is that they can jointly build a more comprehensive network with a larger footprint than they could separately. The new joint network provides each carrier with an alternate protection route via the other carrier's portion of the network in addition to the benefits of a higher speed and higher capacity network.

Groupe Télécom Warwick equally had a need for more services and IP bandwidth and like Sogetel deployed both Transmode's TS-Series and TM-Series products. "We have been delighted with the increased bandwidth enabled by the deployment of Transmode's optical products in our network. Careful selection, design and planning have kept our costs down and our network is now both optimized for current needs and scalable for future needs." said David Guillemette Central Technician at Groupe Télécom Warwick.

"We are delighted to be chosen by Sogetel and Groupe Télécom Warwick to help them cooperate in the building of a network with improved efficiency" said Johan Hammarström, Transmode's Head of North American sales. "This deployment demonstrates that we can provide increased capacity to service providers in the North American market at the right price to meet the growing residential and business needs of their customers".

Sak Data provides both printing and networking solutions for its client companies. Sak Data specializes in providing robust durable printing products as well as networking and communications solutions. Founded in 1977 Sak Data has forged links with some of the world's leading manufacturers and is able to offer customers access to the latest and most appropriate technology for their needs.

About Transmode
Transmode is a leading provider of optical networking solutions for transport of data, voice and video traffic, based on CWDM and DWDM technology (Coarse/Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing).  

Transmode's unique Intelligent WDM (iWDM(TM)) approach has lead to widespread deployment of over 10000 systems in a customer base consisting of more than 250 fixed and mobile network operators, service providers, large enterprises and public institutions across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Transmode's comprehensive product portfolio and strong global organization enable our customers to grow the capacity and to improve service level of their regional, metro and metro access networks, on a cost-efficient basis without compromising on functionality.

For more information please contact:
Ola Elmeland
Vice President Marketing & Communications
Transmode Systems AB
Telephone: +46 8 506 882 71
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