BT is planning to spend an extra £1 billion on its next generation broadband network to bring superfast broadband to two thirds of UK households by 2015, subject to an acceptable environment for investment.
As one of BT’s strategic partners, Huawei is dedicated to providing BT with professional solutions to fulfil the requirements of BT’s Next Generation Access network. Huawei’s unique SingleFAN (fibre access network) solution is based on an open and unified platform, enabling Openreach to significantly reduce operation and maintenance costs. Huawei’s SingleFAN solution also offers a futureproof platform for communications providers using the Openreach network to roll out multi play services to residential and business customers.
Steve Robertson, Openreach’s CEO said: “BT and Huawei have had a strong relationship for several years; we are pleased to extend this further by choosing Huawei as one of our strategic partners to help us deploy Next-Generation Access on a national scale as part of BT’s £2.5 billion investment in fibre technology. Huawei’s cutting edge optical access and transmission technology will provide our CP customers with the ability to offer more diversified high bandwidth services and an improved broadband experience to their customers.”
Added Chengdong Yu, president of Huawei Europe: “We are proud to contribute to the construction of BT’s pan-UK fibre deployment. Huawei has extensive experience in designing and delivering optical access solutions around the world and we will apply this experience together with our strong innovation abilities, to collaborate with BT in achieving its strategic goals and bringing super-fast broadband to the UK.”
BT and Huawei started FTTx deployment in 2008 resulting in the launch of FTTC superfast broadband services this year.