ADTRAN and Zzoomm Accelerate 10G FTTH Across the U.K.
March 07 2019 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
New 10G fibre network build to reach one
million properties in underserved suburbs and towns
ADTRAN, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), the leading provider of
next-generation open networking and subscriber experience
solutions, today announced Zzoomm, a new fibre network operator,
has selected ADTRAN as its technology partner to build a 10G FTTH
network to serve suburbs and towns across the United Kingdom
(U.K.).
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Currently, there are 30 million homes and businesses in the
U.K., but only two million have access to fibre networks and the
high-speed broadband services they deliver. Zzoomm recently
announced the official launch of its full fibre network and will
begin construction this summer with the goal to connect one million
of these previously underserved properties over the next five
years. This 10Gbps service-capable network will afford these
communities access to the most advanced residential and business
applications available now and into the foreseeable future.
The operator is specifically targeting its services to suburbs
of major cities, including London, as well as towns and smaller
cities across the U.K. These communities are currently underserved
by existing operators using copper-based infrastructure. Zzoomm
will leverage the ADTRAN 10G fibre access platform with XGS-PON to
support a highly-economical, symmetric 10Gbps service delivery
solution at competitive broadband price-points.
“Zzoomm’s goal is to connect our subscribers with the services
needed to work, learn and play when and where they want. To
accomplish that, we need a technology partner that is keen to
understand our business and what we need to meet our goals,” Zzoomm
Chief Executive Matthew Hare said. "ADTRAN makes us feel like a
valued customer, while also providing the expertise to help us
build a strong 10G network foundation that will support the
broadband requirements of these areas now and decades into the
future.”
“ADTRAN is enabling operators across Europe, like Zzoomm, to
make significant progress in connecting homes and businesses to
advanced services that enhance subscriber experience and quality of
life,” ADTRAN Chief Technology Officer for EMEA and APAC Ronan
Kelly said. “Our collaboration with Zzoomm to build a 10Gbps
service-capable network is another proof-point that the market is
choosing 10G PON technology over the previous FTTP solutions
deployed over the past decades.”
Next week, ADTRAN and Zzoomm will be attending FTTH Conference,
held March 12-14, 2019, in Amsterdam. To learn more about this
partnership, please visit ADTRAN’s Platinum Sponsor Booth #
P01.
About Zzoomm plc
Zzoomm is designing, building and operating a new full fibre
network, where the fibre runs all the way into the property. Zzoomm
is building out this FTTP (fibre to the premises) network in towns
and suburban areas across the UK where there is no existing access
to a full fibre network.
Zzoomm plc was founded in December 2018 by experienced fibre
network entrepreneur Matthew Hare OBE. Matthew previously founded
ultrafast rural fibre broadband provider Gigaclear in 2010, which
was acquired by Infracapital in 2018 for £270 million.
Zzoomm is headquartered in Oxford and is establishing regional
offices to drive infrastructure planning and build at a local level
in its target market of U.K. towns and suburban areas. For more
information, visit www.zzoomm.com.
About ADTRAN
At ADTRAN, Inc., we believe amazing things happen when people
connect. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, we help
communications service providers around the world manage and scale
services that connect people, places and things to advance human
progress. Whether rural or urban, domestic or international, telco
or cable, enterprise or residential—ADTRAN solutions optimize
existing technology infrastructures and create new, multi-gigabit
platforms that leverage cloud economics, data analytics, machine
learning and open ecosystems—the future of global networking. Find
more at ADTRAN, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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