Public Power Corporation (PPC) is launching its pilot high-speed wholesale network in the city of Peristeri in the Attica area using Adtran end-to-end fiber optic broadband solutions. With the national expansion, PPC plans to support all local broadband service providers and connect more than 3 million homes and businesses via fiber over the next four years.
With approximately 6 million electric customers, PPC, as part of its sustainability, digitalization and growth plan, wanted to deploy a future-proof national wholesale fiber network to expand its business opportunities and help connect its country to higher broadband speeds.
PPC selected Adtran's 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 in its existing 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 grid efficiency and operations.
We value Adtran's experience in working with utilities to help launch greenfield broadband networks that provide high-speed services and help further modernize and optimize the distribution network," said Alexandros Paterakis, deputy CEO of Public Power Corporation. From the outset, Adtran's level of involvement in the deployment process was a differentiator, and Adtran's open solution freed us from being tied to one vendor. The platform's open decomposition architecture provides us with network flexibility and scale."
Stuart Broome, vice president of sales for Adtran EMEA, added: "Adtran is helping service providers, utilities and municipalities of all sizes roll out multi-gigabit fiber access services in every region of the world. Our open, disaggregated broadband access systems have proven to increase service speeds, reduce integration and operational costs and simplify operations," said Stuart Broome, vice president of sales for Europe and the Middle East. "The fiber access network architecture being used by PPC has evolved rapidly to encompass the superior principles of network scale data center design, enabling operators to improve efficiency in network construction, service delivery and overall resource consumption. As a result, operators are realizing higher investor value and market competitiveness."
