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NEW YORK - Verizon's aggressive deployment of the most powerful fiber-optic transmission technology in use today, supporting services over its fiber-to-the-home network, has earned the company a Telephony Magazine Innovation Award. The award was presented today.

In accepting the award, Verizon announced that by year-end it will deploy the transmission technology - known as the gigabit passive optical network, or GPON - to nearly 200 of the company's switching centers serving 3.3 million potential customers. GPON, which Verizon began deploying in December 2007, is capable of delivering broadband services at 2.4 gigabits per second (Gbps) downstream and 1.2 Gbps upstream, further improving on the market-dominating speeds of Broadband Passive Optical Network (BPON) technology already deployed by Verizon.

Mark Wegleitner, senior vice president of technology for Verizon, said, "The Telephony innovation award is a gratifying acknowledgement of what has been our fiber-to-the-home strategy from the start: To make aggressive technology choices that can provide forward-looking end-user services and a strong competitive advantage in the marketplace. We thank Telephony Magazine for this recognition.

"GPON enables the kind of customer experience we believe the exploding broadband and entertainment markets require, both today and tomorrow," he said. "Both GPON and BPON deliver the kind of reliable, high-capacity service our customers want from our FiOS products."