BUSINESS SUMMARY
Carrier Access Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells broadband
access equipment to wireline and wireless carriers. It provides wireless
and satellite products, including equipment for use in transporting
and managing voice and data traffic between cell sites and regional
switching offices; and equipment for providing FCC mandated E911 services.
The company offers converged business access products that integrate
multiple voice and data access services, as well as support the connection
of customer voice and data equipment, such as telephones, enterprise
telephone networks, local area networks, video conferencing equipment,
and installed data equipment to wide area network services; and products
that transmit voice communications over the Internet. It also provides
Exxtenz product that enables service providers to utilize PON technology
to deliver services, such as wire-speed Ethernet, voice, T1, and video
services to businesses. The company sells its products directly to wireline
and wireless carriers primarily in the continental United States, Latin
America, and Asia, as well as indirectly through a channel of distributors,
integration partners, and original equipment manufacturers. It serves
wireline and wireless customers, including local and long distance carriers,
wireless mobility carriers, cable operators, Internet carriers, and
international communications providers. The company was founded in 1992
and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado