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Publication: LightReading.com
Date: 4th September 2003
Title: Power Company Picks PacketFront
Tomorrow's
broadband is being created today in Helsingborg. Companies, organisations
and households are gaining access to high-speed data transfer in one of
the country's few genuinely open urban networks. Power company Öresundskraft
owns and operates the network and is responsible for its expansion. PacketFront
is supplying active components for access networks and platforms.
Helsingborg currently has one of the country's few genuinely open urban
networks. This brings tremendous benefits to the customer. An agreement
with Öresundskraft gives access to the network itself, after which
the customer can choose freely between a number of service providers that
are responsible for the content of the network - such as Internet access,
firewalls, VPN solutions, server operation, and different types of business
system. In other words, the customer chooses the services but not the
network owner. This means that whoever is dissatisfied with an Internet
provider, for instance, can change without additional cost. The open network
also means that several providers and suppliers can compete on similar
services. This will enable the customer to compare different offerings,
while the free competition on the network presses prices down.
"The
network owner role suits us well," says Diedrik Fälth, product
manager at Öresundskraft. "Our core business consists of owning
and running networks, not selling Internet access. The services will be
sold in competition with others, and when customers change supplier they
shouldn't have to change their infrastructure too."
The
network is completely built using fibre optic technology, while the active
access component is based on PacketFront's award-winning control and provisioning
system, BECS, and purpose-built broadband routers. The solution means
that Helsingborg's urban network is well equipped for the future. It is
likely that broadband will soon be the carrier of TV and telephony and
not just Internet. The Helsingborg network has more than enough capacity
to cope with this, which is not always the case with simpler, cheaper
broadband solutions. venture.
"Öresundskraft
was thinking early on in terms of open broadband networks," says
PacketFront CEO Martin Thunman. "And since our solution is the leading
one on the market in this area, we're naturally delighted and proud to
have Öresundskraft's confidence."
"But
the project's main winners are the residents of Helsingborg, who are getting
a broadband network that will allow them to enjoy all the advantages that
a true, open network will be able to offer," he adds.
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