CHINA: Deployments of Hi-speed Broadband using FIBEROPTIC and STATE ELECTRIC POWER LINES GRID,

China Announces Broadband Infrastructure Contracts With GTA and Glen Canyon Partners
Friday April 14, 12:00 pm ET


REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2006--GTA, US division of Genertec, the National Import Export Company of China, and Glen Canyon Partners, California-based consortium of technology providers, announce today the completion of negotiations and agreements providing for the purchase of equipment for 21 million residential broadband locations over the next 42 months using the easement and systems of the State Grid.
The State Grid (China's National Electric Company) has been deploying extensive fiber optic networking throughout China. This network amounts to over one million kilometers of active and dark fiber optic channels. This core infrastructure is now extended to include "the Last Mile" -- the link from major network nodes (electrical substations) to homes, apartments and businesses.

This deployment begins in major cities across China where the fiber optic central system is already mature and used by the State Grid electrical distribution companies for communications and network control. A system of 23 Network Operating Centers (NOCs) have been created to control the architecture, which will represent the single largest operating network to date.

The network is designed to provide an array of Value Added Services including Energy Accounting and Metrology, Voice, Internet, Video and Audio Content. In particular, the network implements the long-term Energy Information Technology (Energy IT) strategies of the State Grid companies, including customer information management, usage, demand control and bill presentment and collection via Internet Protocol (IP) technology. In this technology, Internet-centric techniques are used to provide the working vehicle for information transmission, distribution and funds transfer. Additional content and services are provided on a "pass-through" and cost per service basis to the households -- giving state-of-the-art levels of bandwidth and service at minimal cost.

The Last Mile Systems include broadband fiber optic networking at 1.0 Gigabit per second, coupling to Power Line Carrier (80 and 200 Mbit), RF broadband (124 and 200 Mbit) and wired connections (100 Mbit and 1 Gbit).

Glen Canyon is responsible for the technical configuration, design and procurement of the hardware and information delivery equipment including: Network Appliances, Switching, Routing, Internet Voice Telephony, Streaming equipment for Video Connection and Distribution, Metering (water, gas, electric, heating and cooling), Building Management (thermostats, load control), Alarms and Entry Control. These systems integrate the components of electrical distribution and metrology with the infrastructure necessary to provide broadband, high-capability networking, voice and content.

This deployment began nearly five years ago with the State Grid's "Digital City" programs in Beijing and Shanghai -- implemented by Glen Canyon Partners' early efforts. Now the base extends from 5,000 buildings to extensive and comprehensive installations in major regions of China. This program represents a significant investment on the part of the State Grid Companies to improve its power and data network capability and efficiency throughout the country.

First installations of the Gigabit network will be made in Beijing by Beijing Netinfo Corporation.

THE COMPANIES:

State Grid: Fortune 40 National Electric Company of China.

GTA is the United States subsidiary of Genertec Corporation. GTA provides the financial coordination and banking for the blanket contracts between FibrLink and Glen Canyon.

Glen Canyon Partners is a Santa Cruz California-based consortium of technology providers who performs the overall system integration, procurement and provisioning responsibility for the System Deployment.



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