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Tre Sweden Launches 5G in Six Cities

Tre Sweden has announced the 5G, Huawei P40 Pro, Xiaomi Mi 10 and the turn of the year, our customers will be
commercial launch of 5G services in Sony Xperia 1 II. Private customers on a able to get significantly faster speeds.’
Malmo, Lund, Uppsala, Helsingborg, ‘3Surfa’ subscription, plus all business Tre launched pre-commercial 5G services
Vasteras and large parts of Stockholm. users who have subscribed since 15 in two southern suburbs of Stockholm in
The cellco says it has 385 active 5G masts, January 2019, receive 5G connectivity at December 2019. Rival operators Telia and
200 of which are in Stockholm, and it says no extra cost. Per Stigenberg, technical Tele2 switched on their own 5G networks
it expects to be covering most of the center director at Tre, commented: ‘this is the first towards the end of May, while fourth player
of the capital by the end of the summer. step where we use the frequency spectrum Telenor is also expected to launch soon.
Handsets supporting the new service we already have access to. After the real
include the Huawei P40, Huawei P40 Lite 5G frequencies become available around

Windstream, Infinera Transmit 800G Over Long-Haul Network

Windstream worked with Infinera to trial “Packing more bandwidth in a pair of fibers We haven’t crossed that threshold yet.
800 gigabits per second (800G) over 730 is more efficient, and cost decreases,” We’re probably talking about a window
kilometers in a live production network said Bayer. “As a service provider, I need of less than 18 months.” The 800G trial
between San Diego and Phoenix. The a community to start to leverage it. We’re follows on the heels of a 400G trial, which
single-wavelength transmission occurred seeing data centers starting it, and then Windstream and Infinera conducted in
across Windstream’s long-haul network. we’re seeing transport from date center April. The 700G and 800G transmission
Windstream and Infinera also looped back to data center. It’s a progression.” He said performance in the latest Windstream/
the signal to achieve a 700G transmission 400G will really take off when “the router Infinera trial was enabled by advances
over 1,460 kilometers. The trial was world” starts to pick it up. “It’s still cheaper in Nyquist subcarriers, a technology
performed using Infinera’s fifth-generation to turn up four 100G clients than doing developed by Infinera’s Optical Innovation
coherent optical technology - Infinite one 400G client,” said Bayer. “When the Center. Nyquist subcarrier-based solutions
Capacity Engine (ICE6). The parties say the routers move to 400G, it will cause things map the traffic into tightly packed, lower-
results of the trial prove that ultra-high- to take off. We’ll start to see 400 gig clients baud-rate digital subcarriers within a
speed optical transmissions, such as 700G cheaper than doing four 100 gig clients. single optical carrier.
and 800G, can be deployed in real-world
network applications over significant
distances. Windstream says innovations in
faster optical transport will enable network
operators to realize increased efficiency in
cost per bit and power per bit, as well as
increased capacity per fiber. Buddy Bayer,
chief network officer at Windstream, is
speaking on a free FierceWireless virtual
panel today, discussing innovations
in optical transport. Bayer said the
reason Windstream wants to see 400G,
and eventually 800G, is because these
technologies increase the density for a
pair of fibers, which creates a cost savings.

Orange Introduces 400Mbps Speed Option

Orange Belgium has introduced a new previous maximum download speed of in response to a doubling of its customers’
top speed option of 400Mbps for fixed 200Mbps and increase upload speeds fixed internet data consumption over the
broadband customers on its ‘Love’ dual- to 40Mbps for customers on Telenet’s last year, largely due to the shift to remote
and triple-play packages. From 15 June, network and 20Mbps for those within working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
the ‘Internet Boost’ option will double the VOO’s footprint. Orange says the move is

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