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Zayo Bandwidth expands fibre-to-tower service offerings
Zayo Bandwidth, a provider of bandwidth infrastructure solutions for carrier, enterprise and government customers, will deploy TDM and Ethernet services to an additional 300 wireless tower sites in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas of Pennsylvania in support of the current mobile platform and the upcoming transition to 4th generation technologies. The deployment is aimed [...]
Mike DeGraw to lead Deltacom’s Wholesale sales
ITC DeltaCom, a provider of integrated communications services to customers in the southeastern United States, has named Mike DeGraw as Senior Vice President of Wholesale Sales. DeGraw was previously president and co-owner of Huntington Telecom, an international wholesale voice operator. DeGraw brings over seventeen years of sales strategy, business development and corporate leadership experience in [...]
Teliasonera, Alcatel-Lucent deploy 100Mbps access network in Finland
Alcatel-Lucent and Nordics operator Teliasonera have announced the deployment of the first 100Mbps VDSL2-based access network in Finland, enabling the delivery of a full-blown (high-definition) IPTV service offering across the country. Teliasonera’s fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) architecture makes use of fibre cables that are trenched from the operator’s central offices to the basement of (apartment) buildings. From [...]
Teliasonera to deliver content from NY to Sweden in 55 milliseconds
Teliasonera International Carrier has signed a deal to deliver live television broadcasts of a Swedish entertainment show from New York to Sweden – which, the company informed, it will do in 55 milliseconds. Teliasonera claims to be the first network operator with its own fibre-based media network to offer this service on an international and [...]
Ericsson achieves 0.5Gbps data rate with VDSL2 technology
Ericsson has informed that it has performed, what it claims to be, the world’s first live demonstration of a VDSL2-based technology achieving data transfer rates of more than 0.5Gbps. Thw company believes this will allow operators to offer low-cost, high-performance connectivity to an increased range of mobile backhaul customers, enterprise users and residential customers. The [...]
Ericsson, DT trials higher bandwidth optical transmission
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom have successfully made a field trial of higher bandwidth optical transmission. Besides others, Ericsson and DT are engaged in the public funded R&D project 100GET, where this test took place. Ericsson informed that the new technology (delivered in this trial from the Marconi MHL 3000 WDM platform) will accommodate customer’s steady [...]
Alca-Lu to power M-net’s fibre access network
Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a multi-million Euro contract by the Munich-based regional network operator M-net, to deploy the first extensive fibre access network in Munich. The comany informed that in the future, additional Bavarian cities will be connected to M-net’s high-speed access network that consists of a mixed fibre-to-the-building (FTTB)/fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) architecture. Alcatel-Lucent will begin [...]
Tilgin launches portfolio of multi-port Gigabit home gateways
Tilgin, a provider of solutions for multiplay and next-generation broadband services, has launched a new FTTX portfolio of multiport Home Gateways at the Fibre-to-the-Home Council’s European Conference in Copenhagen. Tilgin informed that its new portfolio of Home Gateways are designed for fibre-to-the-home access and include advanced functionality such as multiport with seven LAN ports (7xLAN100BaseT) [...]
Ericsson, Chunghwa deploy optical network in Taiwan
Ericsson will deploy a metro aggregation network for Taiwan’s telecom operator, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), ensuring broadband services, such as IPTV and e-health, for both fixed and mobile access. Ericsson’s Marconi Optical Multi-Service (OMS) solution is expected to improve capacity and network efficiency, eliminating bottlenecks and improving the quality of bandwidth-intensive services such as IPTV. The [...]
