NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
JULY
In July, it was all about access equipment, and in particular, PON technology, as the most popular story told of how UK independent, CityFibre, entered into a supply partnership with Nokia for work on its open access network to connect up to 8 million premises in 285 UK cities, towns and villages. Te provider is using Nokia’s access nodes for
to meet the EU’s ambitious connectivity targets set out by ‘Gigabit Society 2025’ and ‘Digital Compass 2030’ strategies, yet the current momentum needs to be maintained and for this to happen the support at the political and regulatory level will be key.” Vincent Garnier, Director General of the
FTTH Council Europe, added: “Te data clearly shows we are achieving great progress in terms of fibre rollout, thus contributing to the twin digital and green transition that will reshape how Europeans work, live and do business. Te full fibre connectivity will be key to achieving the EU’s ambitious climate and sustainability targets. Moreover, the Covid 19 pandemic led to more data traffic and more demand, clearly demonstrating the necessity to intensify FTTH deployment and adoption.” * EU39: EU27 countries + UK, 4 CIS countries
(including Kazakhstan and Ukraine), and also Iceland, Israel, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey.
JUNE
Sticking with the FTTH in Europe theme, the Fibre Systems audience flocked to the website in June to find out more about how Deutsche Telekom and Glasfaser Ruhr agreed on large-scale cooperative FTTH expansion in the German city of Bochum. Te project has a total value of €185m. Glasfaser
Ruhr is planning and building the network, while Telekom will operate the network and lease the infrastructure for at least 30 years. Te companies aim to bring about a digitisation
push for the Ruhr area together. By 2032, Bochum, which is one of the largest cities in the metropolitan region, should have a comprehensive fibre optic network, with more than 134,000 direct fibre optic connections (FTTH ) created.
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Te completed network will also be open to other telecommunications providers, with the prerequisite that this is a commercial agreement on fair, market-economy terms. Bochum’s Lord Mayor Tomas Eiskirch
commented: “Te expansion project is the first fibre optic cooperation project in the Ruhr area. In Bochum we are building the network of the future together. An efficient telecommunications network is an important location factor for private households and companies. Te past few years have shown how important home office, teleworking, cloud-based solutions and networking are for households and companies. In the Bochum strategy, we have set ourselves the goal of further promoting the topics of digitisation, modern workplaces and services. Te fibre optic network is an excellent basis for this.” Srini Gopalan, Telekom board member
responsible for business in Germany, commented: “Te Ruhr area is one of the most populous metropolitan regions in Europe. Te need for high-performance digital infrastructure is high here. Glass fibre is the network of the future. Together with Glasfaser Ruhr we will offer people in Bochum access to this network. No company can digitise Germany alone. Cooperations are, and will therefore remain, a mainstay of our fibre optic strategy. In our partnership with Glasfaser Ruhr, each party contributes their strengths – people and companies on site benefit from this.” Patrick Helmes and Christian Graumann, both
managing directors of Glasfaser Ruhr, added: “By the end of 2022, Glasfaser Ruhr will have connected around 33,000 households in Bochum to its fibre optic network. Now we are taking the next step together with Telekom. We are pleased to have gained a strong partner for the expansion project. Te area-wide expansion for Bochum is a huge infrastructure project that we will now tackle together with full force.”
its nationwide network of purpose-built fibre exchanges, fibre modems for customer homes and IP aggregation switches. Te Lightspan access nodes are used by CityFibre to offer wholesale customers multigig residential broadband (up to 10Gb/s in both directions) and higher bandwidth services, such as connecting enterprises and providing backhaul for mobile networks. Powered by Nokia’s Quillion chipset, the same access nodes can be used for both XGS-PON and 25G PON (25Gb/s) on the same fibre, therefore making the network future-proof. John Franklin, Chief Technology And
Information Officer at CityFibre, said: “CityFibre is commited to building a full fibre network that is ‘beter By design’, providing our partners and
their customers with the fastest and most reliable services at the best value. By partnering with Nokia we have enlisted a trusted and market- leading technology vendor to help support a nationwide 10Gb/s XGS-PON technology deployment programme. Sandy Motley, President, Fixed Networks at
Nokia, added: “Te demand for ever-faster speeds continues and we’re delighted that our 25G ready solution has been chosen by CityFibre to enable their GPON to 10G XGS-PON national network upgrade programme, supporting their mission to offer the highest capacity wholesale services into the UK market.”
AUGUST
In August there was an appetite for information about Google’s Equiano cable, as the 144Tb/s, 12 fibre-pair subsea cable arrived in South Africa. Equiano is a private subsea cable that connects Africa with Europe, starting in Western Europe and
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