NITCO Milks Economic Development Opportunities with ADTRAN’s Gigabit Service Platform
January 22 2015 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Helps National Dairy Farm Leverage Gigabit
Services to transform business model, enabling future expansion
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of
next-generation networking solutions, today announced the addition
of Northwestern Indiana Telephone Company (NITCO) to its Enabling
Communities, Connecting Lives program. NITCO is deploying ADTRAN’s
advanced Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) portfolio to deliver ultra-fast
broadband to residential customers and Gigabit service to
businesses in the local community. As a result, NITCO has seen
broadband traffic more than double in 2014 with both an increase in
subscribers and more use of the network as customers have
discovered new ways to stay in touch and stay connected. The
company expects to see three times more bandwidth traffic growth in
the next 12 months as well.
NITCO’s Gigabit service has helped local businesses stimulate
economic growth in the area. One of NITCO’s largest bandwidth
customers is a national dairy farm, Fair Oaks Farms, which uses
Gigabit broadband to revolutionize the way it does business. In
addition to remotely monitoring milk production and processing, it
has deployed a hosted voice service, video streaming on-site and
manages orders online. The farm is also building out dairy, pork
and crop learning centers to share knowledge and expertise with
other farms as well as educate school children. The advanced
broadband infrastructure is enabling the farm to easily support all
of these applications simultaneously and allows them to look at
other ways to expand the business in the future.
“For more than 75 years, NITCO has been helping communities in
Northwest Indiana evolve, change and grow as the communications
infrastructure has advanced along the way. We are dedicated to
providing our residential and business customers with the best
technology available because we want to ensure they have big-city
economic opportunities in the small towns they love so much,” said
Tom Long, chief operations officer, NITCO. “ADTRAN enables us to
meet the needs of all of our customers – from our most rural
residents to businesses that are looking for new ways to grow –
with the most advanced fiber platform available.”
“The idea that Gigabit services are only relevant in large
cities or densely populated areas is being disproven by innovative
service providers, like NITCO, that are leveraging the opportunity
to create a new economic reality for the communities they support,”
said Mitch Fleming, regional vice president, sales, ADTRAN Carrier
Networks Division. “ADTRAN offers a flexible and scalable FTTH
platform that provides a strong foundation for the best-in-class
services that NITCO delivers.”
ADTRAN’s Enabling Communities, Connecting Lives program
showcases how innovative technologies are being used in cities,
towns and communities across the country to support economic growth
and urban development. These communities are using ADTRAN’s
world-class Gigabit broadband, Wi-Fi and Cloud service offerings to
re-invigorate downtown business and residential districts, connect
classrooms with other learning centers around the world, and help
attract new companies seeking to relocate out of crowded urban
centers.
About NITCO
Since 1939, Hebron, Indiana-based Northwestern Indiana Telephone
Company (NITCO) has been a top provider of telecommunications
services across Northwest Indiana. NITCO continues to aggressively
meet the challenges being brought about by increased demands for
enhanced services combined with persistent growth within the
communities it serves. As such, the company recently teamed with
DISH Network to provide a triple play bundle of voice, broadband
and TV to its customers. NITCO continues to earn its reputation for
providing quality service at an affordable price, while at the same
time keeping pace with rapidly changing technology. Visit at
www.nitco.com, or call 1-800-996-2981 (219.996.2981 locally). Join
NITCO on Facebook and Twitter to learn more about monthly
promotions, giveaways and community projects. NITCO keeps customers
CONNECTED. ALWAYS.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data,
video and Internet communications across a variety of network
infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service
providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and
millions of individual users worldwide. For more information,
please visit www.adtran.com.
Connect2 Communications for ADTRANAshley Baster,
919-435-9112ashley@connect2comm.com
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