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Nokia Selected as Rural Broadband PON Solution for Mediacom

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Nokia announced that Mediacom, the
5th largest cable operator in the United
States, is building PON networks to pro-
vide multi-gigabit broadband service to
rural, underserved communities. Fueled
partly by state and federal grant projects,
Mediacom will leverage Nokia’s XGS-PON
systems and equipment, to support new
geographical serving areas. Mediacom,
which offers broadband to 3.3 million
homes and businesses in 22 states, will
deploy Nokia’s chassis-based Optical Line
Terminals (OLTs) and node-based OLTs.
The chassis-based solution will be used in
small, non-conditioned cabinets, while the VP of Broadband Partners at Nokia, said: Research Manager & Principal Analyst
node-based will be installed on strands “The United States is committed to en- at Omdia, said: “Cable operators are in-
or utility poles and capable of sustaining suring that all Americans have access to creasingly deploying FTTH for both green-
harsh outside plant environments. J.R. the highest quality broadband services. field and overbuild with next-generation
Walden, Senior Vice President Technolo- Mediacom’s ambition to connect Rural PON technologies, such as XGS-PON and
gy and CTO at Mediacom said: “Nokia is America is critical to help bridge the dig- 25G-PON, because of their inherent energy
supplying Mediacom systems that deliver it divide in our communities, and Nokia is efficiency and almost unlimited scalability,
up to 25G PON today. Their platforms ef- proud to have been selected as its partner. underscoring the MSO green networking
fectively support our services while allow- Through our onshoring of critical 10G fiber strategy.” According to Dell’Oro, Nokia is
ing for future growth and expansion that solutions and optical modules to the Unit- the largest provider of XGS-PON global-
will help Mediacom remain both a market ed States, Nokia will be ready to support ly. In addition, seven out of ten homes in
and industry leader in advanced, high per- operators seeking funding, and to connect the USA with fiber are served using Nokia
formance data services.” David Eckard, more people, sooner. Jaimie Lenderman, equipment.

Nokia to Build Innovation Lab in Dubai

Nokia unveiled plans to open an innovation laboratory will complement existing col- with any cloud server or hardware. There
lab in the UAE as part of wider ambitions to laborations with Dell Technologies and is a further plan to combine Nokia’s soft-
deepen its cloud RAN push in the Middle Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to devel- ware with Dell’s cloud platform to improve
East and Africa while boosting the adop- op new innovations around cloud RAN and the performance of open network architec-
tion of AI and other technologies across strengthen its own portfolio, pointing to tures, as well as to deploy HPE’s hardware
the region. The Finnish vendor stated the its anyRAN software which is compatible for Nokia’s accelerator cards. Tibor Fab-
ry-Asztalos, SVP for product development
engineering and telecom system business
at Dell said the partnership will aid “net-
work operators digitally transform and
quickly bring innovative and revenue-gen-
erating solutions to the market”. Nokia
added it will work with other market-lead-
ing hyperscalers to encourage the “flexibil-
ity of choice of technology suppliers and
operating environments”. The Dubai facil-
ity will also target new use cases around
smart and connected industry, and Nokia
stated its MX Industrial Edge platform
can aid local enterprises accelerate the
shift to Industry 4.0. Network optimization
through the use of AI and machine learning
will also be a key focus at the laboratory.

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