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Publication: Fibers.org
Date: 25th January 2006
Title: PacketFront wins big in Dutch FTTH deployment

Swedish broadband vendor PacketFront has won a contract to supply next-generation broadband access systems to Portaal in the Netherlands. The social-housing association will employ PacketFront's products to deliver triple-play services to more than 55,000 homes across five cities. The completed network will be the Netherlands' biggest and most advanced fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) implementation to date, and one of the largest in Europe.

Portaal will use PacketFront's BECS control and provisioning system, in combination with its ASR routers, to create a fully automated broadband network that covers homes in Utrecht, Leiden, Nijmegen, Arnhem and Amersfoort. PacketFront's future-proofed and scalable technology gives Portaal the flexibility to extend to additional cities in the future and open up the network to more service providers.

Volker Stevin (part of the Dutch construction group Volker Wessels) will deploy and operate the open-access network for Portaal, allowing competing service providers to deliver triple-play services, as well as online community services, such as eHealth, over the same physical infrastructure. PacketFront will be responsible for ongoing engineering and operational support of the end-to-end network.

"Portaal is developing a significant and innovative network of great magnitude and we are very excited to be involved," said Martin Thunman, CEO of PacketFront. "With the advanced automation features of BECS, our solution will accelerate time-to-market and lower opex costs. Through a single automated connection, Portaal's customers will be able to subscribe to multiple triple-play services."

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