First Fibre , Ltd.

First Fibre (www.firstfiber.com), based in York, England, develops Network Equipment Building Standard- (NEBS-) and European Telecommunications Standards Institute- (ETSI-) compliant products that support all high-speed protocols ranging from 10Mbps to 2.5Gbps. The systems are available with AC or DC power and can be provisioned from a customer premise or central office through the in-band management feature. Leading North American and European carriers such as British Telecom and SBCAmeritech have deployed First Fibre's products, which include the CityLIGHT flagship line of modular, multi-protocol, carrier-class systems for fiber access and local area network (LAN) extension products; CampusLIGHT media converters, transceivers and repeaters, and CityLAN edge access ( www.firstfiber.com )