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Publication: Light Reading
Date: 10th september 2004
Title: PacketFront Names Euro Customers

PacketFront, the next generation broadband infrastructure provider and leader in open access fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology, has announced at IBC 2004 that it is working with Volker Stevin Telecom, a division of Dutch construction company Volker Wessels, to build the Netherlands' largest FTTH network in the city of Nuenen. The fully automated, open access network will be based on PacketFront's Intelligent Broadband Solution and will offer 8,000 households a comprehensive selection of 'triple play' broadband services - TV/video, telephony and Internet.

Volker Stevin Telecom will build and operate the network, while PacketFront's Intelligent Broadband Solution allows multiple service providers to offer competing broadband services to Nuenen's households over the same physical infrastructure. PacketFront's solution will also enable all day-to-day traffic management and billing.

"We had to find a solution that offers users true freedom of choice, in terms of both service providers and the services themselves," said Marco Westenberg, Manager Business Development of the Volker Wessels Telecom Group. "It was also vital that the solution was user-friendly both for the consumer and for us, regardless of the size and growth of the network. PacketFront's solution is ideal in this respect, offering us exactly the flexibility and automation possibilities we were looking for. This allows us to reduce the network operating costs by minimising staffing and management requirements."

In a separate release:

PacketFront, the next generation broadband infrastructure provider and leader in open access fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology, has announced at IBC 2004 that it is working with Kenniswijk BV, the company implementing the innovative Kenniswijk Project, to help build its FTTH environment in Eindhoven. The Kenniswijk Project is the Netherlands' most important national consumer Information Communications Technology (ICT) and infrastructure scheme, initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs to investigate the social and economic impact of broadband in a community environment.

The Kenniswijk Project has been set up as a vision of the broadband future, where the impact of digital service delivery to selected households in the Eindhoven region is closely monitored and assessed. PacketFront's Intelligent Broadband Solution has been selected by Kenniswijk BV to enable the provision of 'triple play' broadband services - TV/video, telephony and Internet - to residents in this area, thereby realising the full potential of the FTTH network. PacketFront's solution also enables multiple service providers to offer competing broadband services to Kenniswijk's households over this one physical network infrastructure.

"One of the main aims of the Project is to really push the limits of what a fibre-optic infrastructure is capable of delivering," said Henk Koning, general manager of Kenniswijk BV. "As such, we needed a platform that not only accommodates the introduction of triple play services, but that also creates an environment which stimulates the development of innovative service offerings and applications such as e-health and distance learning. The PacketFront solution is perfect for our needs. It is both on the cutting edge of broadband technology, and also inherently flexible in the way it allows us to control and provision services."

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