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Weekly UpdatesVideoTele.com, Inc.(VT.c), Beaverton, Ore., a Tektronix company (NYSE:TEK) and leading provider of digital encoding, demultiplexing and grooming solutions, has announced that Hutchinson Telecommunications Inc., a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) in South Central Minnesota, has deployed VT.c's M2-Series video edge devices to deliver over 185 MPEG-2 digital video and music channels -- including premium, local and broadcast offerings.
Hutchinson is using VT.c's M2-T310 encoders and the M2-VMX and M2-AMX video and audio demultiplexers for transmission of entertainment content across copper-based, VDSL lines provisioned by strategic business partner Next Level Communications (Nasdaq:NXTV).
This news comes as telephone companies are seeking new ways to offer new high-growth, high-revenue services over existing infrastructures to a generally static user base. The approach enabled by VT.c's complete head-end solution suite offers LECs and CLECs the opportunity to combine superior digital video offerings with voice and data services at a cost less than that for the hybrid fiber-coax solutions typical of cable broadcasting.
"VT.c's quality technology has radically expanded the CLEC business model, providing the means for our success with video," said Walter S. Clay, chairman, president and CEO of Hutchinson Telecommunications, Inc. "Now we can offer our customers a full complement of affordable entertainment-to-home services while leveraging our basic infrastructure."
"Telecommunications convergence has come to the heartland," said Lee Rainey, vice president of marketing for VT.c. "The addition of digital entertainment services to voice and data offerings means greater revenue opportunities for telephone companies -- and more choices for their customers. VT.c is proud to be a premier producer of superior head-end technology that provides CLECs, IOCs and LECs with reliable and innovative home entertainment services."
About the Companies
Hutchinson Telecommunications, Inc.
Hutchinson Telecommunications, Inc. is a CLEC owned by Hutchinson Telephone Company. Hutchinson Telephone Company is a 103-year-old independent telephone company that provides state-of-the-art local telephone services to more than 13,000 customers across 200 square miles in South Central Minnesota. Hutchinson also has ownership in companies that provide paging, fiber-backbone, cellular and 911 telephone services. The company is headquartered in Hutchinson, Minn.
VideoTele.com
VideoTele.com is a leading provider of MPEG-2 digital encoding, demultiplexing and grooming solutions. With over 20 years of experience, VideoTele.com enables service providers to deliver entertainment video within the Full Service Network environment, as a key building block of the broadband Internet. Headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., VideoTele.com is a subsidiary of Tektronix, Inc.
For more information, visit http://www.videotele.com or call 503/627-2283.
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