ADTRAN’s Enabling Communities, Connecting Lives Program Provides Framework for European Commission’s Gigabit Society Init...
October 04 2016 - 05:30AM
Business Wire
Leveraging best practices and resources, ECCL
will help EMEA network operators successfully drive deployments and
spur economic growth
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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