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TraceSpan™ Communications, a provider of broadband analysis and monitoring solutions, today announced the release of its GPON Phantom™ 3899, a passive Lawful Interception (LI) monitoring solution for optical fiber lines using GPON technology and deployed in an FTTx topology (Fiber to the Neighborhood, Curb, Premises or Home).

GPON Phantom™ is a passive monitoring solution that records and stores broadband digital information

on fiber lines using GPON technology. It is intended for Law Enforcement Authorities (LEA) looking to capture the data between the service provider's premises and the target. GPON Phantom™ allows them to monitor this information without being detected, while providing clear evidence of the tapped information.

GPON Phantom™ adds the unique and revolutionary capability to monitor optical fiber lines to TraceSpan's family of LI products. It follows the company's field-proven monitoring solutions for ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2Plus and VDSL2 lines, which are widely accepted and are being used by a variety of LEA worldwide.

GPON Phantom™ intercepts target communications directly from the line and collects a hundred percent of the information in both directions, to and from the ISP or communications provider. The GPON Phantom™ system is portable, and can be used both as a tactical unit and as a cost-effective centralized monitoring system. It can be installed at virtually any location (central office, communication room, basement or street), while the data can be monitored either locally or at a remote location.

"The growing use of optical communications technologies in the access network poses a new challenge on Law Enforcement Authorities, which need to monitor the information on the line," said Dr. Hanan Herzberg, TraceSpan's founder and CEO. "Now, they can do this thanks to GPON Phantom™, the first and only passive GPON monitoring solution. Along with the excellent feedbacks on our existing monitoring solutions, we've received many requests from our customers to help them address this need, and we're proud to provide them the solution."


GPON Phantom™ is unique in the sense that it allows interception of all data, including peer-to-peer communication, even when it does not pass through the ISP server. Its ease of operation makes it deployable by a single law enforcement agent. It has a standard interface to monitoring systems for easy integration with these systems. All of these, combined with its small footprint, make GPON Phantom™ the ideal solution for any LEA monitoring GPON lines, as well as the perfect solution for the central office. The large number of targets which it can access from a single point makes it a very cost-effective solution.

GPON Phantom™ will be presented in the Milipol Worldwide Exhibition of Internal State Security in Paris, France, November 17th through 20th, 2009, booth location 13 F094.



About TraceSpan Communications

TraceSpan Communications develops and manufactures innovative broadband monitoring solutions. Empowered by patent-pending breakthrough technology, TraceSpan's performance analysis and Lawful Interception products enable non-intrusive monitoring of data in broadband networks.
TraceSpan's Xpert™ multi-layer analyzers are accepted worldwide as the industry's first passive analyzers for vendor-independent testing of VDSL2, ADSL2Plus, ADSL2, ADSL, and GPON networks. TraceSpan's Phantom™ product line enables passive monitoring and recording of data in broadband networks, allowing law enforcement agencies to monitor information without being detected, while providing solid evidence of the tapped information.

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