Canal Digital Kabel Norway selects fiber technology from NetNordic and PacketFront
Canal Digital Kabel is Norway’s largest distributor of TV and broadband within the cable segment and has more than 500 000 customers. With the increasing demand for Fiber-to-the-Home, Canal Digital is now intensifying deployments to their end-users. PacketFront and its Norwegian partner NetNordic have won the contract for CPE (customer premises equipment).
Canal Digital Kabel has chosen PacketFront’s DRG700 series for their FTTH deployments. This unit will be the end-users access point for IP services such as IPTV, the Video-on-demand service GO, Wimp, Internet and broadband telephony (VoIP). With a speed of up to 1 Gigabit, Canal Digital Kabel’s end-users will have access to ‘fiberspeed’, and can thereby access a larger mix of the growing bandwidth consuming digital services. Using Ethernet P2P, the solution can offer the same bandwidth for download and upload. The number of possible HD, 3D – and next generation 3D channels, will be more or less unlimited.
After a long tender process, Canal Digital Kabel finally decided on the PacketFront DRG 700 series because of its technical capabilities, design and low operational cost. The DRG700 series consists of two modules, a flexible fiber termination unit (FTU) and the DRG which can be «clicked on» to the FTU, resulting in lowered installation and operational costs.
‘’PacketFront and NetNordic are both well-known suppliers of FTTH solutions. Our assessment is that the product is the most advanced, flexible and operationally-friendly of the products we have tested and evaluated’’ says Egil Dischler, Technical Director in Canal Digital Kabel TV AS.
‘’We are very glad to have won this prestigious contract in Norway with our state-of-the-art DRG 700 CPE and we are prepared for mass deployment in 2012. With NetNordic, our preferred and valued partner in Norway, we have an experienced partner for the implementation of this and other FTTH project”, says Tom Andersen, Head of Business Unit CPE, PacketFront.
Press contact PacketFront:
Tuuli Waern, Marketing Manager
Phone: 46 70 7880 490
Email: tuuli.waern@packetfront.com
About Canal Digital
Canal Digital Kabel TV delivers future oriented tv and broadband solutions to around 500.000 Norwegian homes. The company offers more than 100 different TV channels and deliver these in analogue, digital and HD quality. Canal Digital has the best HD-offer in Norway, where several HD-channels are included in the base offer. On top of this, Canal Digital offers one of the fastest broadband connections in the market and also broadband telephony. Everything through one cable from the same supplier. Canal Digital utilizes both HFC and FTTH (Hybrid-Fiber-Coax and Fiber-To-the-Home) for delivering services. Both technologies can deliver high capacities and covers the tv and bandwidths needs both today and in the future. Canal Digital Kabel TV AS had a revenue of 2,1 billion NOK in 2010. Canal Digital Kabel TV AS is led by CEO Morten Fjeldstad. For more information see www.canaldigital.no
About NetNordic
NetNordic is an innovative and dynamic provider of communication and fiber solutions in the Nordics. The company delivers high quality and leading edge solutions within the areas communications, broadband and networks, including applications for these, support, turnkey deliveries and even hosted operations. The NetNordic group currently has 85 employees, with expected revenue in 2011 of EUR 22 million. The company has presence in Norway and the Nordics through offices in Oslo, Kristiansand, Bergen, Stavanger, Halden, Copenhagen (DK) and Helsinki (FIN). For more information, see www.netnordic.com
About PacketFront
A pioneer of FTTH broadband networking, the PacketFront Group offers advanced complete purpose-built solutions for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks as well as world leading FTTH Access, Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and Broadband management software products. The PacketFront Group consists of four independent businesses all in the area of FTTH and high speed broadband and are all technology leaders in their respective fields. For more information, please go to www.packetfront.com
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