FTTH in APAC

The initial rollout will connect 10,000 homes and businesses in the eight largest provinces of the country.

The move allows the provider to bring agility, scalability to meet growing bandwidth demand in the region, while adding more cities and towns to Multinet’s fibre network.

The upgrades are part of the nbn fibre upgrade program, which was recently boosted by $2.4bn of investment from the Australian Government.

The Australian operator has adopted Nokia’s Lightspan MF-14 platform to enable convergence of all services over a single fibre infrastructure

The company has deployed DigitalAsset sensing services including sophisticated vibrational sensors on fibre cables, from FiberSense.

TPG Telecom leveraged G.fast technology from Adtran.

Prysmian Group is to work with Australian operator, Telstra to build a new state-of-the-art intercapital fibre network in the market.

Fibre is the best broadband option for consumers concerned about carbon emissions, according to findings from Australasian research firm, Sapere Research Group.

Nokia and Vodafone Turkey have successfully completed a regional demonstration of a 1Tb/s per channel coherent transmission over the latter’s live optical network.