PPC Lights Up Fiber Broadband Connectivity in Greece with Adtran
17 November 2022 - 09:30PM
Business Wire
Largest power utility in Greece builds its
pilot fiber wholesale network with Adtran’s open, disaggregated
fiber access platform and cloud software
Adtran, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation open
networking and subscriber experience solutions, today announced
that Greece’s biggest power utility, Public Power Corporation
(PPC), is leveraging the Adtran end-to-end fiber broadband solution
to launch its pilot high-speed wholesale network in the
municipality of Peristeri, within the region of Attica. When
expanded nationwide, PPC plans to support all local broadband
service providers and connect over three million homes and
businesses with fiber over the next four years.
PPC has approximately six million electricity customers, making
it the leader in the wider market of Southeast Europe. Supporting
the utility’s current sustainability, digitization and growth
initiatives, PPC wanted to deploy a future-proof, nationwide
wholesale fiber network to expand its business opportunities and
help connect its country to higher broadband speeds.
PPC selected the Adtran open, disaggregated, 10G fiber access
platform to deploy its pilot broadband access network
infrastructure. In the first phase of PPC’s fiber deployment, it is
deploying PON technology across its existing power distribution
network infrastructure to deliver wholesale gigabit services.
Later, it can use the same fiber access network to introduce smart
grid and other advanced grid modernization applications to improve
power network efficiency and operations.
“We value Adtran’s experience in working with utilities to help
launch greenfield broadband networks that deliver high-speed
services and help further modernize and optimize the power
distribution network,” said Alexandros Paterakis, Deputy CEO at
Public Power Corporation. “From the beginning, Adtran’s level of
engagement in the deployment process was a differentiator, and
Adtran’s open solutions relieve us from being tied to one vendor.
The platform’s open, disaggregated architecture provides us with
network flexibility and scale.”
“Adtran is helping service providers, utilities and
municipalities of every size and in every region of the world
launch multi-gigabit fiber access services. Our open, disaggregated
broadband access systems are proven to increase service velocity,
lower integration and operations costs, and streamline operations,”
said Stuart Broome, Vice President of Sales, EMEA, at Adtran. “The
fiber access network architecture that PPC is using has rapidly
evolved to encompass the benefits of web-scale data center design
principles, which afford operators efficiency gains in network
buildout, service delivery and overall resource consumption. As a
result, operators are realizing elevated investor value and market
competitiveness.”
About Adtran
Adtran, Inc. is a leading global provider of open, disaggregated
networking and communications solutions that enable voice, data,
video and internet communications across any network
infrastructure. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, Adtran
empowers communications service providers around the world to
manage and scale services that connect people, places and things.
Adtran solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations and millions of individual
users worldwide. Adtran, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN and FSE: QH9). Find more at
Adtran, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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