A regional carrier in the state of Alabama that serves many residences and businesses with high quality telecom services was facing issues with supporting the burgeoning bandwidth demands, while conserving fiber resources. This was the key consideration to upgrade the access network backhaul. Tejas deployed a 100G DWDM solution, based on the TJ1600 packet optical transport platform, which minimized cost and provided industry leading quality and network performance. The TJ1600 reduced operations costs with a single platform for all backhaul requirements, which avoided the need for multiple devices at any site and also provided a single network management system.