Technologies and ProductsThe need for greater data throughput over ever-longer distances is becoming a major driver behind developments in optical technology, leading many manufacturers to conduct trials over live networks in recent months. The latest company to push the boundaries of speed and distance is Acacia, now part of Cisco. At OFC, the company announced it had […]
Technologies and ProductsAdtran® Inc., has launched its SDX 6330 10Gbps, an open and disaggregated Combo PON fibre access platform, with integrated 400Gbps uplinks. The SDX 6330 is Adtran’s third generation of open and disaggregated OLT devices. With 48 ports of Combo PON in a compact and power-efficient design, Adtran says it sets a new benchmark for lowering […]
News and BusinessAdtran has announced that Greece’s biggest power utility, Public Power Corporation (PPC), is leveraging the Adtran end-to-end fibre broadband solution to launch its pilot high-speed wholesale network in the municipality of Peristeri, within the region of Attica. When expanded nationwide, PPC plans to support all local broadband service providers and connect over three million homes […]
Technologies and ProductsBath, UK-based altnet broadband provider Truespeed has enhanced its network infrastructure to utilise XGS-PON technology as it continues the rapid expansion of its full fibre network. Truespeed says that following a record year of growth since its additional £100 million investment in January 2022, the rollout of XGS-PON technology will allow the company to build […]
News and BusinessFibre access specialist Adtran says Finnish altnet Fibernet, is using the Adtran 10G Fiber Access Platform to build an XGS-PON fibre network that will connect 50,000 customers in its first phase. Fibernet is leveraging its innovative fibre trenching technology to quickly build a fibre network and is using Adtran’s reliable 10G solutions to deploy competitive, […]
News and BusinessDeutsche Giga Access GmbH (DGA) has selected the Adtran’s SDX Series of fibre access platforms to offer its customers scalable FTTH service capabilities. Adtran says its Combo PON technology and the software-defined architecture were differentiators that provided DGA a path to market. They also provided DGA with the flexibility to simultaneously operate 1G and 10G […]
News and BusinessUS-based ADTRAN has announced it is to acquire German metro and carrier ethernet firm ADVA, in an all-stock transaction which values ADVA at around US$930 million (€789) based on a price of €14.98 euros a share. The deal is subject to approval by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, Bundesanstalt fuer Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin), which expected […]
News and BusinessADTRAN has announced a joint development project with the National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC). The initiative is focused on connecting NISC’s iVUE Connect software applications to ADTRAN’s Total Access 5000 (TA5000) fixed fibre access platform, so utility and telecom operators across rural America can enhance their broadband network services with smoother operations and better customer […]
News and BusinessFinnish operator Welcom Net is to utilise ADTRAN’s Gfast fibre extension to extend gigabit services to business properties in Helsinki. Welcom Net will leverage ADTRAN’s Mosaic access domain SDN controller and orchestrator to manage the gigabit services upgrade of existing customers and accelerate the on-boarding of hundreds of enterprise Multi-Tenant Units (MTU) over the next […]
Technologies and ProductsADTRAN® has added support for Combo PON within the ADTRAN Total Access 5000 (TA5000) fibre access platform. The company says with this new capability, the TA5000 becomes the highest density 10G PON solution in the U.S. market, delivering improved economics for operators building new or modernising existing fibre networks. ADTRAN claims its Combo PON offers […]
News and BusinessBT spinoff Openreach has selected ADTRAN’s SDX Series of OLTs and Mosaic Cloud Platform as part of its project to pass 20 million UK homes and businesses by the mid-to-late 2020s with its full fibre network. Peter Bell, Network Technologies Director, Openreach said: “We’re already making our new ultrafast, ultra-reliable broadband network available to around […]
News and BusinessM-net has selected the ADTRAN Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) portfolio for its FTTB products, and Mosaic™ Cloud Platform to help accelerate the introduction of gigabit services to its residential and business customers. M-net is leveraging ADTRAN’s second-generation Gfast technology to expand its fibre broadband network coverage by using the existing wiring in buildings within its footprint. […]
News and BusinessDeutsche Telekom (DT) has selected ADTRAN’s SDX OLT solutions for deployment as part of its new Access 4.0 network, as well deploying it in its existing architectures along with ADTRAN’s SDN-enabled management system, Mosaic Cloud Platform. The goal of DT’s Access 4.0 program is to create an open, programmable, easily extensible and highly scalable access […]
News and BusinessNetwork solutions provider ADTRAN and Orange have entered into a joint development project as part of the operator’s Access Renewal and Evolution Strategy (ARES) program. The partnership will focus on the application of SDN technology to fixed fibre access networks. With a goal of building the best network to support Orange’s fibre access network expansion, […]
Technologies and ProductsADTRAN has launched its Automated Network Intelligence service offering. This capacity planning element of the ADTRAN global service and support portfolio allows providers to intelligently align consumer demand with network supply, affording consumers more tailored internet bandwidth options. “The broadband market has become increasingly competitive over the past decade as the industry races to deliver […]
Technologies and ProductsADTRAN has announced its new global services portfolio. The services expand ADTRAN’s footprint of service capabilities and offer global service providers an advanced ecosystem of turnkey network implementation, maintenance, professional, managed and cloud services. ADTRAN says service providers encounter a broad spectrum of challenges when deploying networks that are both capable of meeting today’s expectations […]
Technologies and ProductsADTRAN, a provider of next-generation open networking and subscriber experience solutions, has announced that its Total Access 5000 (TA 5000) platform has been deployed to improve the reliability and resiliency of a leading regional utility’s high-density Smart Grid power grid distribution network. A first deployment of its kind, the utility is leveraging the TA 5000 […]
News and BusinessCommunity Fibre has selected ADTRAN as its technology partner to deliver 10G residential and business services in the UK. The firm is delivering high-speed fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-premise broadband services to large urban locations across the UK, starting with London and expanding into other areas over the next several years. ADTRAN’s scalable and flexible 10G solutions, […]
News and BusinessProvider of next-generation open networking solutions ADTRAN Inc, has added the ADTRAN SDX 621X residential Optical Network Terminal (ONT) to its portfolio of next-generation 10G PON business ONTs. The expanded FTTP solution set is designed to allow carriers to provide multi-Gigabit services for everyone, everywhere and maximise existing optical distribution networks to save time and costs. […]
Technologies and ProductsAgreement enables operators to deploy dense 5G networks over wireless MESH/SON and fixed NG-PON2 technologies. Adtran, a developer of next-generation open networking solutions, has announced an agreement with CCS to deliver self-organizing mmWave technology for backhaul and access capabilities to wired and wireless operators as they embrace 5G densification architectures and significantly higher access speeds. […]