Occam Networks Selected by North Central Telephone Cooperative to Deliver Triple Play Services

Tennessee Telco Upgrades Network With Hybrid Copper/Fiber Solution

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Occam Networks® Inc. (NASDAQ:OCNW), a leading supplier of innovative Ethernet and IP-based loop carrier equipment to telecommunications companies, announced today that North Central Telephone Cooperative (NCTC), a fast-growing telecom services provider headquartered in Macon County, Tenn., has purchased components of Occam’s Broadband Loop Carrier system to provide its customers with advanced services, including Triple Play and IP video.

“To meet our customers’ growing need for advanced broadband services, we are implementing a significant upgrade to our network,” said Ronnie Wilburn, vice president of operations, of NCTC. “In addition to ease of deployment and turn up, scalability and reliability, we researched solutions that would provide the best long term operating and cost effectiveness. Occam’s solution fit into our network seamlessly. Occam surpassed several other telecom access equipment providers we reviewed.”

NCTC was formed in 1951 and initially received loans from the Rural Electrification Agency (now known as the Rural Utilities Service or RUS) to provide service. Prior to NCTC, people in rural Tennessee and Kentucky lacked dependable telephone service as for-profit providers deemed the area too sparsely populated to effectively build out and maintain. Today, NCTC offers a wide range of services to residents and businesses in north central Tennessee and south central Kentucky.

The telco has purchased Occam’s BLC 6252-02 ADSL2Plus blade. When NCTC’s upgrade is complete, the telco will manage a hybrid network with video over copper lines out to 5,000 feet and active FTTH to subscriber areas beyond that. The deployment allows for multiple streams of high definition video as well as significant amounts of data bandwidth for subscribers.

“NCTC has a large number of video customers and the IP network upgrade they’ve planned will result in better service to them,” said Nathan Harrell, vice president of sales for Occam. “We look forward to assisting NCTC with future projects to provide even more advanced services to their subscribers.”

About North Central Telephone Cooperative

North Central, founded in 1951, serves the Macon County, Tenn. area and adjacent communities in Tennessee and Kentucky with a wide range of telecommunications services including local, long distance and cellular phone services, DSL/Internet, digital cable television and security services.

About Occam Networks Inc.

Occam Networks' broadband loop carrier (BLC) solutions enable telecommunications and other service providers to offer innovative voice, broadband, IPTV and full triple play services over copper or fiber. Occam solutions give telco service providers the flexibility and scalability to continuously expand their offerings with simplicity of service deployment. Occam's BLC products and services are currently deployed at over 230 service providers in North America and the Carribean. For more information, please visit www.occamnetworks.com.

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Portions of this press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future performance of Occam Networks, including statements predicting increased adoption of products and technologies offered by Occam and the willingness and ability of our customers to purchase additional Occam products and upgrade their product offerings. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from any future performance suggested in such statements. In particular, rapidly changing technologies and market conditions may require changes to Occam’s products, and the willingness of our customers to purchase upgraded products such as Triple Play will depend in part on customers’ existing network configurations and any incremental costs associated with implementing upgrades. North Central may not continue to purchase or install Occam’s products or provide its customers with IP video and data services on the terms or under the conditions that Occam currently anticipates. Occam does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Please also refer to the company’s most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q, annual report on Form 10-K and other filings with the SEC. These filings contain and identify other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.

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