"...Carriers need to find an approach that lets them build out today to meet competitive broadband market requirements, but protect that investment in the face of potential changes in fiber deployment, user density, and service requirements," said Tom Nolle, President of CIMI Corporation. "Critical Telecom has taken DSL to a new level with their virtualization architecture. It offers providers a way of mapping users, features, and services together despite changes in outside plant topology and wiring, regulatory policy and service goals."

Critical Telecom believes that in an uncertain world, broadband access must be flexible, but only if the approach to broadband empowerment is designed to present all of the viable options for customer connection inside the same physical and operational envelope. Critical Telecom’s new approach to broadband access architecture delivers flexibility across many distributed platforms to address service providers' disparate access needs and enable them to realize additional revenue by offering new generation services such as IPTV and broadband multimedia services.

GEmini™ is the first in a series of platforms based on Critical Telecom’s new generation architecture. It is a new class of product that is purpose built for the marriage of fiber and copper in the access network, enabling the cost-effective delivery of high-bandwidth services. GEmini™ enables carriers’ migration to a new generation architecture focused on delivering Triple Play and IPTV. This platform offers extremely low total cost of physical location, GigE bandwidth backhaul and IP/Ethernet transport designed to address the needs of the New Generation Broadband Access Consumer market: a market where variable dimensioning, flexible service sets, and consumer empowerment are the key attributes required in the network infrastructure to deliver flexibility and scalability to the consumer.