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❑ Packetfront, an open-access broadband network provider, in conjunction with its Norwegian partner Netnordic, has closed a deal to create an open-access FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) network for parts of Norway’s most broadband-orientated municipality. Bykle municipality’s network company Bykle Breiband will build an openaccess network for selected households and summer dwellings at Setersdal in Aust-Agder county in southern Norway.

❑ In less than 28 months, more than a million customers have chosen Verizon Fios TV, making the company the tenth largest cable provider in the United States. The company announced January 28 that it surpassed one million Fios TV customers in January. Fios TV launched in September 2005. Verizon added 226,000 net Fios TV customers in the fourth quarter and a total of 736,000 during the year to end 2007 with 943,000 Fios TV customers. Including satellite TV customers
served in partnership with Directv, Verizon has more than 1.8 million video customers.

❑ Huawei Technologies has launched a solution that can reduce base station power consumption by up to 60%. The Green Sites Solution uses optimised hardware design, a power amplifier and power consumption management to help operators realise a high level of power saving. Reducing the power consumption of base stations has emerged as one of the key concerns of telecom operators around the globe. Huawei’s Green Sites Solution adopts leading power amplifier technologies, including DPD and A-Doherty, that boost the power efficiency of base stations by 45% reducing the overall power consumption of the facilities.

❑ Canada-based MTS Allstream with Microsoft TV and Alcatel-Lucent will implement steps to introduce enhanced next-generation TV and broadband internet services to its Manitoba customers. The new services will be powered by a combination of the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia platform, and Alcatel-Lucent network connectivity. This marks MTS Allstream’s transition from its firstgeneration IPTV platform to Microsoft Mediaroom. Powered by Microsoft Mediaroom, MTS Allstream will provide its customers with more high-definition TV offerings, personal and digital video recorder functionality, improved guide features and other advances.

❑ European fibre provider EU Networks has concluded an agreement with managed hosting provider Megaspace Internet Services (Megaspace). Under the terms of the agreement, EU Networks will deploy IPnex – a next-generation suite of scalable, high-performance IP solutions. Megaspace, an international provider of managed hosting solutions, was facing increasing demand from online gamblers.

❑ Primetel, an alternative telecommunications provider of voice, data and video services in Cyprus, has taken 12% of the local broadband market after being present for only a year and a half. Primetel’s autonomous island-wide Gigabit Ethernet IP, fibre-optic network is able to offer multiple services to consumers. This fibre-optic network allows Primetel to compete on differentiation and operate with higher capital efficiency. It also offers unlimited broadband capabilities and services to users across the country.

❑ Singtel has had its suite of business Ethernet services certified by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the international standards-setting authority on carrier Ethernet services. Services certified include Singtel’s local connectivity service Metro Ethernet and international connectivity services Connectplus E-VPN and E-line. Singtel had to undergo three stages of certification. This included a detailed analysis of Singtel’s Ethernet offerings, as well as more than 300 stringent lab
and field tests.

❑ Citynet has sold its wholesale division located entirely in Tulsa, OK to Louisville, CO based Zayo Bandwidth. Citynet, in partnership with Zayo, will continue to provide connectivity in many areas that will allow both companies to expand. Zayo’s growth strategies and current service areas provide Citynet with an untapped ability to expand its highly innovative retail products into
new markets. Citynet is a growing regional, full service provider of communications services including voice, data, internet, network managed services, and digital telephone service. The company specialises in single source, high-speed communications services.

❑ Equinix has selected Infinera for its metro networks linking its Internet Business Exchange centres in major cities in north America and Asia. Equinix is a provider of network-neutral data centre and interconnection services. Equinix’s IBX centres serve as critical core hubs for IP networks and internet operations worldwide, with 37 IBX centres located in 17 strategic markets
across north America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

 

Published February 2008

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