Pakistani operator Jazz, a major Internet and mobile broadband provider, has signed an agreement with fiber infrastructure and service provider Nayatel through which it will connect all of its mobile towers directly to fiber in Lahore. The Fiber-to-the-Site (FTTS) project is expected to be completed by December 2022.
FTTS enables each cell site to carry up to 10Gbps of traffic with significantly reduced latency and enhances network availability and resiliency. jazz says that upon completion of the project, its subscribers will experience faster download speeds, lag-free online gaming and improved audio and video calling through IP applications.
The infrastructure is expected to pave the way for future technologies, such as 5G and 6G, which require low-latency and high-throughput backhaul to operate.
Jazz said it has invested $560 million in the past two years to focus its strategy on connecting unconnected high-speed Internet and upgrading its 4G infrastructure to meet growing bandwidth demands. It currently has a large fiber-optic network that can carry real-time customer traffic in 26 cities. Further expansion is being planned, with the goal of achieving 70 percent FTTS penetration within the next five years. jazz said the dense fiber-enabled, future-proof network will form the basis for many next-generation services, such as 5G, FTTH, IoT, enterprise networks and Industry 4.0.
