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INDIGO TELECOM’S 4SITE ADDITION EXPANDS NETWORK DESIGN SKILLS
design and build of wireless and fibre network infrastructure. Indigo’s chairman Kevin Taylor
said: ‘Te synergies between our two businesses present significant opportunities for continued growth and we see huge benefit for our customers from our expanded portolio of services. Both organisations have strong reputations for delivering industry excellence in consulting, projects, delivery and service and we are very excited by the opportunity this will provide to both our employees and our customers.’ Ian Duggan, CEO of 4site added:
Network design consultancy 4site has been acquired by Indigo Telecom Group. Te acquisition is designed to
complement Indigo’s capability in the supply of multi-vendor telecom support services by adding 4site’s design and planning expertise in delivering specialist fibre, and mobile wireless services. Te agreement creates a combined business with an annual turnover
in excess of £50m with 300+ employees across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Singapore. Indigo designs, installs and
maintains international telecom and data networks that enable customers to deliver fixed line, broadband, mobile and other data services to end users. 4site is a specialist provider of mobile wireless and fibre services, including the survey, planning,
‘Tis deal accelerates our long-term growth ambitions by becoming part of a leading global business whose values mirror our own. With its financial backing and scale of operation, Indigo is perfectly placed to support 4site’s growth plans and vision for the future. Te deal will facilitate the continued development and expansion of our telecoms services in Ireland and the wider international market.’
ALTICE SUBSIDIARY BUYS COVAGE TO EXPAND FOOTPRINT
Altice Europe’s French subsidiary, SFR FTTH and its consortium of financial investors has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Cube Infrastructure Fund and Partners Group to acquire 100 per cent of wholesale operator Covage. Te deal is worth €1bn. Covage has a total of 2.4 million
European homes to be passed, including 0.8 million already built. Tese will be added to SFR FTTH’s footprint of more than 5.4 million secured homes to be passed – including 1.7 million homes built. When it becomes part of SFR FTTH, there will be around 8 million secured homes to be passed – including 2.5 million already built. Te acquisition should help SFR FTTH continue its strategy of expanding its footprint. Patrick Drahi, founder of Altice,
said: ‘With this transaction, we bring on board excellent local relationships.’ Te transaction should close in the first half of 2020.
LUMENTUM SELLS OPTICAL COMPONENT LINES TO AFR
Lumentum has entered into an agreement with passive optical component supplier, Advanced Fiber Resources (AFR) where the later will acquire certain assets from the former. Te assets are associated
with some of Lumentum’s lithium niobate-based optical component product lines that are manufactured at the company’s San Donato, Italy site. Tese are part of the discontinued telecom and datacom product lines. Beck Mason, senior vice
president and general manager, telecom transmission at Lumentum said: ‘Tis transaction is a good outcome for all stakeholders as Lumentum’s telecom transmission product strategy is now focused on indium phosphide photonic integrated circuit-based
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components and modules, and we planned to ramp down lithium niobate operations in San Donato.’ XL Wang, AFR’s chairman
and chief executive officer, said: ‘With this acquisition, AFR is excited to expand its market opportunities and capabilities to include lithiumn niobate-based products for the communications and sensing markets. We believe with our strengths in cost-effective high-volume manufacturing we are well positioned to address customer needs for lithium niobate products in our addressable markets.’ Te transaction is subject
to certain customary closing conditions. It is expected to close early in Lumentum’s third quarter of this year.
PHOTOPTICS 2020
8th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser technology Valletta - Malta, 27-29 February, 2020
Speakers
Isabelle Staude, Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Onofrio Maragò, CNR-Istituto Processi Chimico-Fisici, Italy Annemarie Pucci, University of Heidelberg, Germany Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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