Red Shift Internet Services Selects Brilliants’ Zurich Z-1000 Timing Solution for Highly Accurate Broadband Services

August 21, 2007; 08:59 AM
Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc., a developer of precise and reliable hardware-based Network Time Protocol (NTP) server technology, today announced that Red Shift Internet Services has completed deployment of the Brilliant Zurich Z-1000. The Monterey, California-based Internet Service Provider had selected the Z-1000 solution to enhance its subscriber experience by providing improved reliability and quality of service. With 30,000 subscribers in California, Red Shift Internet Services—an AT&T solutions provider—is the largest service provider on the Monterey peninsula.

“Selecting and deploying the Brilliant Z-1000 was the result of careful due diligence and testing that met and exceeded our evaluation criteria,” commented Karl Van Lear, president and CEO of Red Shift Internet Services. “Our customer satisfaction is critical to the growth of our business and we see our partnership with Brilliant as a key enabler to that realization, since accurate timing and synchronization are critical to providing the best-quality service that our customers have come to expect.”

Brilliant’s Zurich Z-1000 and its innovative technology have been designed to address the critical timing requirements in IP-based networks while seamlessly transporting mission critical applications such as voice and video. Its nanosecond accuracy ensures timing and synchronization needs are consistently met even under high network utilization.

“Red Shift Internet Services selection and deployment of the Zurich Z-1000 demonstrates the need for highly accurate and reliable timing solutions for mission-critical applications, including broadband services,” said Charles Barry, president and CEO of Brilliant Telecommunications. “Growing operators such as Red Shift can now make broadband services more reliable greatly improving the user experience, reducing customer churn and increasing customer acquisition.”

Founded in 2004, Brilliant Telecommunications designs, develops and distributes a family of network timing, management and synchronization solutions, including carrier-class NTP servers, Primary Reference Sources (PRS), and Building Integrated Timing Supplies (BITS). This highly accurate end-to-end timing network solution delivers Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring and management capabilities, in addition to providing timing and synchronization to the most time-sensitive applications in legacy and next-generation IP networks.

For more information please visit www.BrilliantTelecom.com