Leveraging best practices and resources, ECCL will help EMEA network
operators successfully drive deployments and spur economic growth
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2016--
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation
open networking solutions, announced today that it has extended its
successful Enabling Communities, Connecting Lives (ECCL) program
to the entire EMEA region. ECCL will be a useful support program of the
European Commission’s recently announced Connectivity
for a European Gigabit Society Initiative. ADTRAN’s ECCL program has
already fostered economic development and transformation in a growing
number of communities in North America through the sustainable delivery
of ultrafast and Gigabit broadband services, driven by ADTRAN’s FTTP,
G.fast and VDSL vectoring solutions. From an operator deployment and
community engagement standpoint, it can serve as a model for network
operators throughout EMEA that want to leverage best practices,
understand market impact and create partnerships that can help drive
adoption.
“Communities, network operators and equipment vendors must work together
if the European Commission’s vision of Digital Single Market will become
a reality,” said Tony Shortall, director at Telage and former economic
advisor to the European Commission. “Ultrafast broadband connections
will be the linchpin of a globally connected, data-driven economy across
Europe and the world. ADTRAN has demonstrated its ability to help
operators make a positive and long-term impact on their respective
communities and I’d expect them to play a larger role as the European
market develops.”
According to a recent survey of ADTRAN’s ECCL service provider
customers, the primary community segments that have adopted these types
of services include education, healthcare and the residential market.
These service providers have also indicated that the primary driver for
deploying Gigabit and other ultrafast services has shifted. In 2014,
only 30% of respondents were deploying Gigabit as a driver for economic
growth. In 2016, over 60% of respondents cite economic growth as a key
driver for deployments. In addition, service providers are finding that
once Gigabit is deployed the market for Wi-Fi, smart home devices and
services and over the top (OTT) managed services become relevant.
With the European Commission’s focus on schools, transport hubs and main
providers of public services as well as digitally intensive enterprises,
ADTRAN’s results should help underscore the relevance and opportunity of
bringing ultrafast services to communities throughout EMEA. ADTRAN’s
ability to help any network operator create a positive and long-term
impact on its community with these types of services is well documented.
In a little over two years, the ECCL program has benefited over
350 communities in North America, engaging every kind of service
provider, including incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers,
utility companies, MSOs and land developers. Each has capitalized on
ADTRAN’s fibre-based Gigabit broadband and other ultra-broadband
solutions to reinvigorate struggling business and residential districts,
connect classrooms with other learning centres around the world and help
attract new companies seeking to relocate.
“As service providers in EMEA evolve their broadband access networks to
meet demand and gain competitive advantage, they establish superior
connectivity with the global digital economy which, in turn, generates
enormous value to communities that could otherwise be left behind,” said
Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN’s CTO for the EMEA and APAC region. “Our program is
designed to support this process of enablement and to identify the best
examples, use cases and real-life stories. Extending the ECCL program to
EMEA is the next logical step and we look forward to charting its
progress in line with next-generation broadband adoption across the
region.”
UK-based broadband operator Telcom is one of the service providers being
showcased in the ECCL EMEA program. Telcom uses ADTRAN FTTP
technology to deliver ultrafast Gigabit broadband services to
residential and business customers in cities such as Manchester, Leeds
and Glasgow, and understands the impact this has on individual
neighbourhoods.
“Gigabit broadband is a huge benefit to society, attracting
professionals to live and work in newly developed properties and acting
as a catalyst to entrepreneurship,” said Shaun Gibson, CEO at Telcom
Networks. “We’ve enshrined a ‘community-first’ approach in our business
through a scheme called Telcom Unity, which delivers free public Wi-Fi
to local areas, and we even subsidize the cost of local business
connections to worthy public and non-profit organisations. ADTRAN’s
technology is integral to delivering this capability and we welcome the
opportunity to share our experience for the benefit of others in Europe
and beyond.”
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a 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 www.adtran.com.
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