A telecommunications company named Full Fibre based in the southwest of England, has selected DZS Keymile’s Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) and XGS-PON technologies for its new optical fibre network. Business parks and the surrounding residential areas are targeted by the network operator and will provide homes and businesses with bandwidths of one gigabit per second.
To facilitate the active layer of new FTTX network builds, Full Fibre has chosen Keymile’s GPON and XGS-PON (10-Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network) solutions. DZS KEYMILE is a subsidiary of DASAN Zhone Solutions (DZS) which is a global provider of network access solutions.
Currently, Full Fibre is using Keymile’s modular V8106 OLT platform in a beta environment and a pilot project is underway. This OLT platform which is highly flexible enables network operators to offer both GPON and XGS-PON from the same sub-rack and therefore provide tailored solutions at a local network level.
CEO of Full Fibre, Oliver Helm said, “We chose Keymile because the company has an extensive and powerful product portfolio and can give us exceptional support in identifying and creating customised solutions.” He further added, “Their UK presence and direct relationships with customers mean the procurement process is transparent and support extensive. Also, the company’s track record and business relationships with many other network operators mean we’re confident that Keymile’s products and roadmap will support our requirements well into the future.”
Keymile’s portfolio covers access solutions for all types of FTTx network architecture. It develops solutions for the integration of software-defined networking technologies in the access networks. Additionally, according to research done by Value Market Research on the Global GPON Technology, the growing need of high-speed broadband services, soaring demand for triple play services and increasing demand for scalability of backhaul networks are the prominent factors driving the market growth. On the flip side, higher cost of installation coupled with the availability of substitute technologies may act as a roadblock for the market growth.
Having worked with many UK providers and local authorities on a variety of projects, with technology from copper, fibre and wireless technology it was clear to the team that “the UK’s increasing demand for high bandwidth services can only be supported by full fibre networks.”
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