Corning and Pulte Team Up to Bring Life-Enhancing Benefits to HomeownersPulte Homes becomes charter member of Corning Connected Community™ Program
HICKORY, N.C., May 18, 2004 – Corning Cable Systems, an industry-leading manufacturer of fiber optic and copper communications network infrastructure solutions, announces Pulte Homes as the charter member of the Corning Connected Community™ Program.
Corning Cable Systems developed the Corning Connected Community Program to bring the benefits of optical fiber to homeowners everywhere by assisting homebuilders and community developers in building fiber optic infrastructure into their plans. As the first member of the Corning Connected Community Program, Pulte Homes – one of the largest homebuilders in the United States – illustrates its commitment to building truly state-of-the-art neighborhoods.
To qualify as a Corning Connected Community, each connected neighborhood must provide at least 5 Mb/s symmetrical service to all homes via fiber optic connection to the home. Pulte has selected PAXIO Inc. to design, install and service the fiber networks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of today’s non-fiber broadband technologies, such as cable modem and DSL, offer asymmetrical service, meaning higher data rates downstream to the home and much slower speeds upstream from the home.
Corning Cable Systems will provide select new Pulte Home communities in the San Francisco Bay Area with its flexible, high-quality FTTH products and services, placing Pulte at the forefront of this technology and ensuring Pulte’s home-buying customers have the most advanced, reliable technology infrastructure to their home and within their community. Pulte’s partnership with PAXIO also includes construction of fiber to each community, providing virtually unlimited broadband today and into the future. In addition, Corning Cable Systems will help educate potential Pulte customers on the benefits of FTTH and the Corning Connected Community™ Program.
Through its Evolant™ Solutions for Access Networks, Corning Cable Systems offers specialized portfolios of innovative products and services that enable customers to cost-effectively deploy fiber in the last mile. Evolant Solutions for Access Networks encompasses state-of-the-art products, network planning, system design and deployment support.
For additional information on Corning Cable Systems products or services, please contact a customer service representative at 1-800-743-2675, toll free in the United States, or (+1) 828-901-5000, international, or visit our Web site at www.corning.com/cablesystems. Corning Cable Systems LLC is a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated.
About Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is a diversified technology company that concentrates its efforts on high-impact growth opportunities. Corning combines its expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of the properties of light, with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the telecommunications, flat panel display, environmental, semiconductor and life sciences industries.
About Pulte Homes
Pulte Homes (www.pulte.com) builds homes in more than 40 markets nationwide, and has been building them for more than 50 years. They have been honored as “America’s Best Builder,” and named Builder of the Year in 2002. Pulte Homes commitment to quality is reflected in the way it treats customers, by providing them with a home that exceeds their expectations. Adding fiber to these homes is just another way Pulte leads the way in providing exceptional value to their homebuyers.
About PAXIO
PAXIO Inc. (www.paxio.com) is a leader in private fiber-to-the-home deployments and provides complete fiber optic technology and communications solutions for residential and master planned communities. Communities serviced by PAXIO fiber have increased land value, improved access to technology, and residents enjoy exceptional value in telecommunications.
Corning Cable Systems Contact:
Dana S. McEntire
(828) 901-6910
dana.mcentire@corning.com
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