NEC expands broadband coverage in Sweden
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NEC expands broadband coverage in Sweden

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NEC Corporation and NEC Scandinavia AB have announced the expansion of broadband availability in Mossberg, Sweden.

The milestone was achieved by installing NEC’s iPASOLINK EX-Advanced for Alingsas Energi, a regional provider of energy and infrastructure services. This marks the first time that a 10Gbps ultra-high speed wireless point-to-point link with millimetre wave frequency band of 80GHz has been deployed in Sweden.  

"The planning, digging and installation that is needed for traditional fibre cables requires both a great deal of time and expensive resources," said Kristian Nilsson, Network Manager at Alingsas Energi. "Therefore, we chose NEC's wireless broadband connection via the iPASOLINK EX-Advanced microwave link. This proven solution has quickly provided the residents of Mossberg with a strong and reliable broadband connection that also promises to meet our future needs with a link capacity of 10Gbps, the first such powerful wireless broadband connection in Sweden."

The project was carried out in collaboration with Vixor and Co AB, a wireless communications provider, and by deploying iPASOLINK EX-Advanced were able to connect to an existing optical backbone in the area of Mossberg. The solution is a high profile wireless broadband connection for the transport of reliable, highly connected triple-play services. It is a natural fibre extension with 10GbE optical interfaces and Layer-2 tunnelling features for transparent fibre activity.

In related news, the Angola Cables South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) linking Angola to Brazil wen live and is open for commercial traffic. The 6,165 km, 40Tbps cable was built by NEC and is the first and fastest link between Africa and the Americas with the lowest latency to date.

Before that, NEC announced that it is to build the new ay to Bay Express Cable System (BtoBE) for a consortium comprised of China Mobile International (CMI), Facebook and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The 16,000-km optical high-speed cable will link Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States and is expected to be completed by Q4 of 2020.

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