ALMERE, THE NETHERLANDS — KNÖV-NetT, a municipal broadband utility, has selected PBN’s AOCM6000 product family, including its HFC-overlay solution, for the future deployment of its high-end FTTH network in and around Bordesholm, Germany, north of Hamburg. At the end of 2010, KNÖV-NetT began to construct its fiber network infrastructure, including two headends, to serve a significant part of the network. Recently, to achieve a balance of capacity and coverage, KNÖV-NetT decided to add strategically situated [...]

COLOGNE, GERMANY – German competitive provider IET Holding announced a contract with ZTE Germany, the German subsidiary of the Chinese equipment vendor ZTE, to construct a new fiber optic network in underserved areas of Germany. As the primary contractor, ZTE Germany will deliver the complete technology for this turnkey network and provide all services required for its construction. Part of this five-year infrastructure project will involve upgrading as many as 1.5 million already-connected households to [...]

HANOVER, GERMANY — Glattwerk, a municipal service provider in the Swiss canton of Zurich, is migrating from a hybrid fiber-cable network to a full fiber-to-the-home network using KEYMILE‘s multiservice access platform, MileGate. Glattwerk is replacing an HFC distribution network that has been in use for many years and will now provide customers with optical connectivity up to 1 Gbps in their homes and businesses. MileGate enables transmission of the existing cable TV signal as an [...]

BONN, GERMANY — German incumbent telco Deutsche Telekom announced its first joint project with an electric utility to operate a fiber-to-the-home network. The regional utility, energie in sachsen (eins), will construct the infrastructure in the city of Chemnitz, and Deutsche Telekom will operate the network. The first customers will be connected as early as fall 2012, with 20,000 homes connected in each of the next three years. The network will offer Internet access at speeds [...]

MUNICH, GERMANY — OFS, a designer, manufacturer and supplier of fiber optic network solutions, announced the launch of its EZ-Bend InvisiLight Optical Solution, which offers virtually invisible, faster fiber routing inside homes and MDUs. John George, director of OFS global technical marketing, says, “For service providers, this solution improves both sides of the business case equation: Its virtual invisibility helps increase customer acceptance and revenues, and the roll-on installation process, auto-slack storage and plug-and-play connectors [...]

Florian Mueller at Foss Patents notes that Apple has filed a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus, which Apple claims violates four Apple patents. The Nexus, launched late last year, is Apple’s latest and greatest competitor in the smartphone wars, and was the first device to showcase Google’s new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The four patents cover slide to unlock functionality, Siri-focused voice search technology, Apple’s word completion patent, and a patent for [...]

BRUSSELS – With fiber to the home available only to 1 million homes at yearend 2011, Germany remains one of the European laggards in ultrafast broadband. According to preliminary data revealed by the FTTH Council Europe, Germany’s FTTH market is dominated by competitive providers, often supported by municipalities and utilities, and mostly focused on large cities. The data, collected for the Council on a twice-yearly basis by industry analyst firm IDATE, shows the number of [...]

Dave Burstein at DSL Prime directs our attention to the fact that overseas, Deutsche Telekom is now selling “up to” 40 Mbps LTE wireless broadband service with a 50 gigabyte monthly cap. The high speeds and high cap don’t come cheap, with the company offering the service as a traditional broadband alternative for 89.95 Euros (or about $125). The service is launching in Cologne, Germany, with 100 additional markets slated for launch over the coming [...]

euNetworks will be providing a fibre-optic backbone infrastucture for Vodafone Germany euNetworks, a fibre-optic infrastructure provider, has announced a network supply deal with Vodafone Germany. As part of the agreement, euNetworks will deliver fibre services to the operator in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin and Munich. The deal will enable Vodafone Germany to strengthen backhaul capabilities for its LTE network, which since its launch in December 2010, now reaches more than four million homes. euNetworks owns 13 [...]

LTE is set to enjoy massive growth in the new few years LTE is set to be the dominant new mobile network technology of the future, growing by 3,400 per cent between now and 2015, according to a report from In-Stat. This huge growth will be driven by networks looking to accommodate users wanting to connect to the internet at any time and on any device, according to the report author Chris Kissel, an analyst [...]