Eurofiber puts fiber optic network on turbo mode

The community provider of Dutch origin performs additionally in Belgium an more and more necessary function. Beforehand, Eurofiber was allowed to put in fiber optic connections for Delhaize. At the moment, the pace was nonetheless restricted to a most of 40 Gbps. This time, the corporate once more gives a serious improve, to 400 Gbps. Forty occasions as quick because the fiber optic connections that the model at present gives in Belgium, other than particular functions.

Eurofiber reviews that any further one community ring is lively on the talked about pace. This ring highway runs between Brussels South, Charleroi, Mons, Estaimpuis and Kortrijk. Later this month, the corporate plans to fee a hoop highway between Brussels-South, Diegem, Leuven, Hasselt and Liège.

Larger demand after pandemic

The provider claims to be the primary in Belgium to supply this bandwidth. The corporate doesn’t solely implement this improve to win the numbers recreation, it explains. “Because the pandemic, enterprise knowledge site visitors has elevated enormously. Not solely ought to firms be capable to help workers who earn a living from home. Because of the elevated transition to the cloud, firms have a larger want for greater bandwidths and secure connections.”

The rollout of 5G networks additionally performs a job, so to talk. These networks required many occasions extra bandwidth than earlier cellular networks. With the improve, Eurofiber says it could additionally serve prospects extra ‘tailored’. In any case, massive firms have completely different wants than SMEs.

Upgraded Nokia tools

For the improve to 400 Gbps fiber optic networks, Eurofiber makes use of the DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) method on its ONT (Optical Transport Networking) community. The {hardware} that drives every thing comes from the Finnish Nokia. On the finish of 2022, Eurofiber and Nokia introduced a partnership for upgrading the fiber community.

By the way, Eurofiber doesn’t cease at 400 Gbps, it reviews in its press launch. Later it may even improve to 600 Gbps. This requires some further {hardware} elements. That improve will in all probability take some time. By the top of 2024, the whole ‘spine’ of the fiber optic community have to be upgraded.

This improve additionally kicks off community renewals in Germany, France and the Netherlands, the place the networks may also have a most capability of 400 Gbps. Timelines of that aren’t precisely identified at this level.