ELECTROLINE EXHIBITS THE FIRST DOCSIS®-BASED TRANSPONDER
FOR OPTICAL NODES

The DOCSIS®-based Status Monitoring Transponder implements ANSI/SCTE38-5 2002 (formerly HMS 025 specification)

Montreal, Canada - June 15, 2005 - Electroline Equipment Inc. will be displaying the first ever status monitoring transponder for optical nodes that is based on DOCSIS® technology. Until now, optical nodes could be retrofitted or ordered with “legacy” technology to report vital performance and alarms back to network management systems. Using DOCSIS® and the SCTE HMS specifications, an open standard now makes it easy to integrate node monitoring in established SNMP-based network management systems.

There is no longer a need for expensive, specialized, single purpose and separate network management software systems that are typically needed for legacy transponder products. The new DOCSIS®-based node transponder can integrate easily into any SNMP-based network management tool.

Electroline Equipment Inc. is the world's leading supplier of these CATV management tools: DOCSIS® Status Monitoring Transponders, Ingress Location and Mitigation Devices and Addressable Taps. Other Electroline products include RF Signal Management Products for headends and hubs and the original Electroline DropAmp™.