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ambition to make high-performance coherent communications solutions widely accessible and affordable. It also enables longer-term economic and environmentally sustainable communications due to the ability to deliver high-end performance and reach within a small footprint and with lower power consumption. Te company said the benefit to customers
would be Effect Photonics’s ability to optimise a complete solution for any application addressing both existing and new possibilities. Effect CEO James Regan said: “Tis is a significant
step in accelerating our ambition to make coherent optical communications ubiquitous and further drive our product portolio growth. We look forward to welcoming the team of highly skilled and experienced design architects and engineers who will be joining us to drive the development of energy efficient, high performance and affordable coherent solutions.” Russell Fuerst, Business Area Leader And Vice
President at Viasat, added: “Given the trend of the fibre optic communications industry towards consolidation to provide vertically integrated end-to-end solutions, we believe that combining
announcement, saying: “We are very well aware of the importance of high-speed broadband across Northern Ireland and with every connection we make, we are making lives beter. Too many homes and businesses have been leſt behind by other broadband providers and that is not acceptable. Tis latest investment helps us to meet our current plan of connecting 330,000 premises and we are already well ahead of schedule.” UK altnet, Netomnia and sister company,
ISP YouFibre, also secured funding to the tune of £295m, led by DigitalBridge Investment Management, the investment management platorm of DigitalBridge Group. Te investment was designed to help Netomnia accelerate and scale its fibre rollout to reach a million properties passed by 2023. DigitalBridge joined existing shareholders
Viasat’s assets and capabilities with the unique integrated photonics capabilities of Effect Photonics will create substantially more market opportunities and beter products. By investing in this Netherlands-headquartered company, we will also further expand our presence in Europe and be able to partner with Effect to bring state-of-the-art integrated photonics to Viasat’s own customers.”
APRIL
In April there was an appetite from Fibre Systems readers for finding out about investments, with the two top stories detailing how two independent operators and an independent ISP secured millions in funding for fibre rollout. Firstly, Northern Ireland full fibre operator, Fibrus, secured £220m from a consortium of banks, including the UK Infrastructure Bank, to fund fibre rollout in Northern Ireland. Tis investment was funded by public and
private capital, including Project Stratum, the NI Executive scheme which has provided £197m to boost rural broadband connections. Colin Hutchinson, CFO at Fibrus, welcomed the
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ESO Capital Partners, AdvenCap, Avenue Capital Group and Soho Square Capital and builds on the £123m investment secured towards the end of 2021. Jeremy Chelot, CEO at Netomnia, said: “We are
thrilled to partner with DigitalBridge and benefit from their support and industry expertise as we work towards our target of one million premises passed in the next two years. We are scaling rapidly and aim to play an active role in unleashing the UK’s digital potential by delivering the benefits that come with multi-gigabit fibre broadband.” Manjari Govada, Principal at DigitalBridge,
added: “We have known Jeremy for several years and are excited to partner with him in scaling the group into a premier FTTP provider in the UK. We have been highly impressed with the growth of the business and the best-in-class team he has assembled.”
MAY
Tis is the fourth edition of the Fibre Yearbook, and it’s interesting to note this is also the fourth time the FTTH Council Europe’s market reports have been the most-viewed story during the month of
reveal. Tis year the studies were revealed back at their usual home, the FTTH Conference, which took place in Vienna. Te Market Panorama report revealed that the
total number of homes passed with FTTH/B in the EU39* countries reached nearly 198.4 million homes in September 2021, compared to 176.3 million in September 2020. Te main movers in terms of homes passed in absolute numbers were France (+4.3 million), the UK (+3.4 million), Germany (+2.4 million) and Italy (+1.5 million). Te number of FTTH and FTTB subscribers in the EU39 region reached 96 million, with EU27+UK accounting for 60%. Te five fastest growing markets in terms of new subscribers were France (+3.8 million), Spain (+1.2 million), Romania (+1 million), Italy (+820 thousand) and the UK (+765 thousand). Te eagerly anticipated Global Ranking
revealed that 20 countries achieved penetration rates higher than 50%. Te global top five ranking was led by UAE, with 97%, followed by Singapore (95.8%), China (94.9%), South Korea (91.1%) and Hong Kong (86.2%). In the European region, for the third consecutive
year in a row, Iceland topped the European FTTH/B penetration ranking with a 78.4% penetration rate. It was followed by Spain (68.4%), with Sweden grabbing third place (64.4%). Seven countries passed the 50% penetration rate mark (Iceland, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Norway, Romania, Latvia). Te council’s Market Forecasts were consistent
with previous estimates and predicted around 199 million homes passed for FTTH/B in 2027 in EU27+UK and 309 million homes passed in EU39 region. It is expected that the top three countries in terms of homes passed will be France (31.1 million), UK (30.1 million) and Germany (26.9 million). Eric Festraets, President of the FTTH Council
Europe, said: “Te data from the latest Market Panorama confirms that fibre rollout is steadily advancing at an increasingly faster pace. We can say with confidence that we are on the right track
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