NEWS & BUSINESS
Telefónica optimises South American fibre access
Telefónica is using software to optimise the performance and service delivery of its
network analysis and recommendations for customer care agents and field technicians. With the GPON Expresse deployment, Telefónica can now utilise ClearView support across both copper and fibre networks. Wi-Fi, the operator could have complete end-to- end management across its access and in-home networks. “Telefónica has deployed ASSIA Expresse and ClearView products to e ectively manage our high speed copper networks while providing exceptional customer care support,” stated Eduardo de Santos, Director of Customer Service Operation. “With the addition of GPON Expresse, we now have a set of unified subscriber care tools that seamlessly support our network transformation to fibre, further enhancing our ability to deliver excellent subscriber care across our entire Telefónica network.” By also incorporating ClearView support for able to access fibre by the end of 2022. Nearly 1.2 million households and businesses are already able to connect to the fibre network, and around one-third of them are using it so far,” remarked Stats NZ business performance senior manager, Daria Kwon. The New Zealand Government is investing around $1.8 billion to bring the benefits of UFB to as many New Zealand inhabitants as possible. In August 2017 the Government announced a new $130 million communications infrastructure package to extend the UFB build to around 190 new towns and fast-track an earlier UFB deployment schedule by two years.
fibre broadband access networks in five South American countries. In Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru the telco will deploy ASSIA’s GPON Expresse solution to manage its Gigabit optical broadband networks with performance-enhancing diagnostics. GPON Expresse is designed to o er a unified software-defined solution applicable to any deployment model, with open interfaces for seamless integration with Operations Support Systems, or with other tools used by customer care, network operations, marketing or field force departments. GPON Expresse adds to the suite of ASSIA software products currently deployed at Telefónica in Latin America: DSL Expresse for diagnostics and optimisation of high speed DSL networks, and ClearView for According to recent figures fromNew Zealand’s national statistics organisation, the number of actively used fibre optic connections in the country reached 397,000 in the year ended June 2017. Stats NZ says this is up 67% from the June 2016 year. Fibre optic connections now make up 21% of all broadband connections in New Zealand, compared with 12% in the June 2016 year. In terms of new connections, there were 159,000 new additions established in the year ended June 2017, compared with 133,000 the previous year. “The Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) programme aims to have 87% percent of New Zealanders
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