Troy Cable chooses ADTRAN for SmartBand BTOP middle mile project/Eurofiber offers 100 Gigabit Ethernet using Infinera’s DTN platform

Alabama’s Troy Cable has chosen ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) to deliver carrier access and enterprise equipment for the cable operator’s SmartBand Project, according to the systems house. Troy Cable is using funding from the Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) to deploy a 595-mile fiber-optic middle-mile network across southeast Alabama to connect approximately 150 anchor institutions and 4,000 businesses.

ADTRAN says it will supply its Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access Platform (MSAP), Total Access 900 series IP Business Gateways, and the NetVanta 7100 Unified Communications platform for the network which will be designed to provide up to 1 Gbps per customer. The systems vendor also will supply its Advanced Operational Environment (AOE) to offer service-oriented management for Troy Cable’s network.

“At the start of this broadband stimulus project we knew we needed a trusted, reliable business partner to help make this high-performance network a reality and ADTRAN was the perfect choice,” said Conley Freeman, operations manager for Troy Cable. “ADTRAN’s carrier access and enterprise solutions have allowed us to offer the most state-of-the-art IP network available in our coverage area and businesses in our community will now be able to compete as they never have before.”

ADTRAN asserts Troy Cable chose its equipment because of its high service density and network bandwidth support.

Troy is now able to offer to its business customers a complete voice and data service “ADTRAN has been helping our customers with the BTOP initiative from day one and we are excited to see these projects start to come to fruition,” said Mitch Fleming, regional vice president, sales, ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division. “Troy Cable’s Southeast Alabama SmartBand Project will make a difference in how local businesses are able to connect, communicate and collaborate – providing the foundation for new economic growth today and in the future.”

Infinera Corp. (NASDAQ: INFN) says that Eurofiber is using its DTN platform to launch 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) services across the Netherlands and Belgium.

Eurofiber’s network extends through the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, spanning 13,000 km with more than 5,400 connection sites and 590 industrial estates. The operator specializes in providing managed dark fiber connections, Ethernet services, and DWDM-based optical transmission services to service providers and businesses throughout the region.

Eurofiber first deployed Infinera’s DTN platform in 2009 (see “Eurofiber selects Infinera Digital Optical Network for backbone”). Building on the platform’s capabilities, the operator has extended its product portfolio with 100GbE services. Offering 100GbE enables Eurofiber to provide its customers with services to meet the rapidly growing bandwidth demands from Internet exchanges, data centers, cable companies, and Internet service providers.

“About eight years ago, the first 10GbE services entered the market,” said Bart Oskam, managing director of Eurofiber. “At that time, 10 Gbps was a lot of bandwidth, even for Internet exchanges. Today, given the pace in which the demand for bandwidth is increasing, the demand for 100GbE connections will grow much faster. Rather than aggregating multiple 10GbE links to increase capacity, it is often more efficient to simply deploy a single 100GbE connection. The Infinera DTN enables these new 100GbE services from our existing network.”

The Infinera DTN platform is designed for optical transport network operators and features 10GbE, 40 GbE and 100 GbE service interfaces for flexible applications across regional, long-haul, and subsea deployments. Infinera says that 99 customers globally have deployed the system.