Openreach Partners with ADTRAN to Build Ultrafast, Ultra-Reliable Broadband to Customers throughout the UK
May 14 2020 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
Openreach will be deploying the industry’s most
open Software-Defined Fibre Access Platform for nationwide
deployment
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of
next-generation open networking and subscriber experience
solutions, announced today that Openreach has selected ADTRAN’s SDX
Series of OLTs and Mosaic Cloud Platform to help it achieve its
ambition of making gigabit and multi-gigabit services available to
20 million homes by the mid-to-late 2020s with its Full Fibre
network. More than 600 retail carriers across the United Kingdom
rely on Openreach to deliver the wholesale capacity to support a
broad portfolio of services to enterprise, small-to-medium
businesses and residential customers.
Peter Bell, Network Technologies Director, Openreach said:
“We’re already making our new ultrafast, ultra-reliable broadband
network available to around 32,000 UK homes and businesses every
week – and we’re on track to reach our target of reaching four and
a half million premises with ‘Full Fibre’ by the end of March
2021.”
“But we don’t want to stop there. Our new network will support
the UK’s economy for decades to come and help it bounce back from
the COVID-19 pandemic, so we’ll be accelerating our Full Fibre
build throughout the year. ADTRAN’s solutions will play a key role
in helping us achieve that as we’re continually searching for
innovative technologies that can help us build the network better,
broader and faster for our customers.”
By delivering the industry’s highest OLT port density per rack,
ADTRAN’s SDX platform will enable Openreach to economically scale
its GPON and XGS-PON network with a level of flexibility that could
not be realized with traditional access solutions. The platform’s
disaggregated, flexible design provides the framework to support
Openreach’s vast number of customers by delivering the granularity
of interconnect speeds required to meet the needs of retail service
providers of all sizes. Capable of supporting gigabit and
multi-gigabit access links on the same OLT port, Openreach’s retail
customers can deliver the right mix of enterprise, business and
residential services based on their own demographics, industry type
and residential interests.
“ADTRAN is thrilled to be part of Openreach’s plan to upgrade
the UK’s broadband infrastructure and the selection is a proof
point that ADTRAN’s open, disaggregated approach to service
creation and delivery is a blueprint for the telecommunications
industry,” said Dan Whalen, ADTRAN’s Chief Product Officer. “Given
the breadth of Openreach’s Full Fibre network, having the ability
to deliver GPON and XGS-PON services from the same OLT port
streamlines service delivery and reduces the complexity of network
design. We make it possible for any service provider, based
anywhere in the country, to have the service options they require
to fit their customer’s needs.”
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.
About Openreach
Openreach Limited is the UK’s digital network business.
We’re 35,000 people, working in every community to connect
homes, schools, shops, banks, hospitals, libraries, mobile phone
masts, broadcasters, governments and businesses – large and small –
to the world.
Our mission is to build the best possible network, with the
highest quality service, making sure that everyone in the UK can be
connected.
We work on behalf of more than 620 communications providers like
SKY, TalkTalk, Vodafone, BT and Zen, and our fibre broadband
network is the biggest in the UK, passing more than 27.5m UK
premises.
Over the last decade we’ve invested more than £14 billion into
our network and, at more than 185 million kilometres – it’s now
long enough to wrap around the world 4,617 times.
Today we’re building an even faster, more reliable and
future-proof broadband network which will be the UK’s digital
platform for decades to come. We’re making progress towards to our
FTTP target to reach 20m premises by mid-to-late 2020s. We’ve also
hired over 3,000 trainee engineers this past financial year to help
us build that network and deliver better service across the
country.
Openreach is a highly regulated, wholly owned, and independently
governed division of the BT Group. More than 90 per cent of our
revenues come from services that are regulated by Ofcom and any
company can access our products under equivalent prices, terms and
conditions.
For the year ended 31 March 2020, we reported revenue of
£5.1bn.
For more information, visit www.openreach.co.uk.
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