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First Mass 'Fiber-to-the-Home' Deployment in France



December 15, 2006 By

Thierry Drilhon, managing director, Cisco France and vice president, Cisco Europe.


Free, a subsidiary of the Iliad Group, the leading triple-play over broadband operator in Europe, is to roll out the first and largest optical fiber network in France based on the Cisco Internet Protocol Next Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture and using Cisco Ethernet fiber-to-the-home (E-FTTH) technology.

According to Free's plan, the first phase of the fiber project will connect more than 2 million people in the city of Paris via the largest fiber network in Europe. Free announced that residents will have access to broadband speeds that could exceed 50 megabits per second1 for 29.99 euros per month, and benefit from advanced services such as high-definition IPTV, video on demand, multimedia communication and Web 2.0 services. The fiber network offers the potential of virtually unlimited symmetrical bandwidths, where upstream and downstream traffic can flow at the same speed, which is currently unique for mass-market broadband services.

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