10Gigafast fibre broadband service provider rolling out true
full-fibre network built to last 100 years
BERLIN & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
ADTRAN®,
Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), the leading provider of next-generation open
networking solutions, announced that Community
Fibre has selected ADTRAN as its technology partner to deliver 10G
residential and business services in the UK. Community
Fibre is leading the way in delivering true full-fibre broadband
services to individuals living in large urban locations across the UK,
starting with London and expanding into other areas in the UK over the
next several years.
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Community Fibre Teams up with ADTRAN to Build 10G Regional Full-Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Network (Photo: Business Wire)
Participating in the urban market means delivering against the
insatiable bandwidth demands of modern-day tenants. This can often
require delivering services in challenging in-building environments.
Consumers want the ability to access multiple 4K video streams,
participate in immersive Virtual Reality Multi-Player Games, experience
rich media content and access a full-suite of business applications to
enable remote working.
ADTRAN’s scalable, flexible 10G solutions and breadth of access
technologies including XGS-PON and NG-PON2, make it the ideal partner
for carriers such as Community Fibre looking to maximize revenue and
service growth potential within the residential and commercial market.
By deploying ADTRAN’s XGS-PON solutions via ADTRAN’s fibre broadband
platform, Community Fibre will leverage ADTRAN’s market-leading Gigabit
experience as it scales services to over 1,000,000 customers in the next
four years. With XGS-PON, Community Fibre is able to cost-effectively
deliver multi-Gigabit services and avoid premature wear and replacement
of network equipment.
Community Fibre has started the process of rolling-out its 10G offering,
beginning with the installation of next-generation network technology at
the Steel Yard, a leading music venue in central London. As a result,
the venue and its patrons will be able to fully benefit from the
advantages this market-leading network provides.
“We are seeing tremendous interest for Gigabit and above service
offerings, and expect that having the first commercially available 10G
service in London will make any building on our network more attractive
to bandwidth-hungry tenants looking for a new space to call home,”
Community Fibre CEO Jeremy Chelot said. “A 10G service means that our
customers have the bandwidth needed to be as connected, entertained and
immersed as they could possibly want, and still provide room for
emerging automation-based and 5G services that we expect to hit the
market in the coming years.”
“Community Fibre is focused on one of the most highly desirable and
underserved demographics in the UK and is committed to meet and exceed a
level of customer service that is unmatched in the market,” ADTRAN Chief
Technology Officer for EMEA and APAC Ronan Kelly said. “Community Fibre
has access to our wealth of network, market, planning and technology
experience as they plan to aggressively roll out services throughout the
UK’s urban markets.”
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is the leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit us at www.adtran.com,
LinkedIn
and Twitter.
About Community Fibre
Community Fibre is on a mission to bring a better internet service to
consumers in the UK. The company is at the forefront of trying to
address the growing issue of ‘Broadband Poverty’, where a large
proportion of UK consumers are offered some of the poorest and slowest
broadband service in Europe.
Headquartered in London, Community Fibre has a clear vision to become
the number one fibre-to-the-home internet provider in London by 2022.
Having started the roll-out in 2013, the company is on track to achieve
its goal of passing 500,000 homes in four years’ time.
Over the last three years Community Fibre has raised £40 million in
investments and is on track to have connected 50,000 homes in 2018.
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Witz Communications for ADTRAN
Ashley Schulte, 919-435-9112
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Source: ADTRAN, Inc.