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Nokia and du Deliver Residential Broadband Services Over Fixed-Wireless

Access

Nokia announced that du, from Emirates Integrated undoubtedly enjoy the benefits of high-speed internet connectivity
Telecommunication Company (EITC), is deploying Nokia’s Multi- within indoor environments.” Rima Manna, Vice President, Middle
Access Gateway (MAG) to provide broadband services to residential East Market Unit at Nokia MEA, said: “Fixed-wireless access is
and business users over 4G/5G fixed-wireless access (FWA), in becoming a game-changer for bringing innovative broadband
addition to mobile services. du is leveraging the Nokia FastMile 5G services to residential and business users. Nokia is committed to
gateways, MAG, and Nokia professional services. Fixed-wireless helping mobile and converged operators develop new applications
broadband is emerging as one of the most significant use cases and revenue streams with FWA. This exciting new initiative takes
of 5G and will enable du to add new revenue streams with Gigabit our long-lasting relationship with du to the next level.”
speeds and low latency delivery for innovative and immersive
broadband applications. The Nokia MAG leverages its 7750
Service Routers (SR) to efficiently deliver broadband services over
fiber and/or fixed-wireless access technologies. It allows du to
efficiently offload fixed-wireless broadband traffic from its mobile
core network and improve service scalability, subscriber coverage
and time to market. Saleem AlBlooshi, Chief Technology Officer, du,
said: “Fixed-wireless access is a vital and highly effective initiative,
enabling us to provide cutting-edge use cases such as smart
home and IoT solutions to our valued subscribers. As a trailblazer
in this domain, du takes immense pride in being the first in the
MEA region to implement this ground-breaking solution. du’s long-
standing collaboration with Nokia has been fruitful, and this latest
initiative will propel us to develop even more innovative use cases,
ultimately elevating the user experience for our subscribers who will

Nokia and VNPT Bring 10G Broadband to Vietnam

Nokia announced the first deployment of 10G fiber broadband in Moving to a multi-gig network will help VNPT differentiate its
Vietnam with operator Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications services and maintain its leadership position. With this new
(VNPT). The initial rollout will connect 10,000 homes and technology, VNPT will be able to offer customers a full choice of
businesses in the 8 largest provinces of the country. Nokia is speeds up to 10 Gb/s on the existing platform without the need
providing fiber access nodes for the operator’s exchanges and for construction work to lay new fiber. Mr. Dang Anh Son, CEO at
fiber modems for end users’ premises. Fiber broadband is being VNPT Net Corporation, said: “This project is our first step towards
rolled out rapidly in Vietnam. In September 2021, the country’s high-class FTTx services which meet our residential and business
Ministry of Information and Communications launched the customers’ demand for higher bandwidth and service quality using
National Digital Transformation Program with the goal that fiber the latest generation XGS-PON. Next step, VNPT will work with
internet infrastructure should cover 80 percent of households and Nokia to deploy cloud-based network management systems for
100 percent of communes by 2025. According to Global Data’s the XGS-PON and enhance customer experiences through digital
Vietnam Telecom Operators Country Intelligent Report, VNPT is transformation solutions.” Rubén Morón Flores, Head of Market
the market leader with 39.5% of the market in 2022. As well as Unit Vietnam at Nokia, said: “We are proud to have been selected
home internet, the operator offers mobile and pay-tv services. by VNPT for this important milestone of bringing 10G broadband
to the country for the first time. The APAC region is the largest in
the world for fiber broadband. Our multi-gig and multi-PON solution
provides for incredible flexibility and scale. Vietnam has ambitious
plans and we’re delighted to be part of them.” Nokia 7360-FX
Lightspan series access node (OLT) Nokia 7360-FX Lightspan is a
high-capacity access node for massive scale fiber rollouts. Usually
located in telecom central office, it connects thousands of users
via optical fiber, aggregates their broadband traffic and sends it
deeper in the network. The fiber access node supports multiple
fiber technologies including GPON, XGS-PON, 25GS-PON and
Point-to-Point Ethernet to deliver a wide range of services with the
best fit technology.

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