Numericable First to Deliver Broadband Services across France based on 100Mbps Standard with Cisco IP Next- Generation Network

Numericable First to Deliver Broadband Services across France based on 100Mbps Standard with Cisco IP Next- Generation Network

Cisco® announced today that Numericable, the largest cable operator in France, has started a nationwide upgrade of its network based on the Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture to bring ultra-high-speed (up to 100+ megabits per second*) broadband services to more than 9 million households in France by the end of 2007. The upgrade will allow Numericable to offer customers a set of converged services, such as advanced video, voice and data services, over a single broadband connection.

Philippe Besnier, chief executive officer of Numericable said: “Cisco is making it possible for us to further increase broadband speeds to our customers by another order of magnitude, with the potential for even higher rates in future. This gives us a significant advantage in what is now the most competitive triple-play market in Europe.”

Numericable is deploying fiber to customer’s premises nationwide and is increasing throughput of its existing network by using the Cisco Wideband solution, which applies downstream channel-bonding technology (defined in the CableLabs® DOCSIS® 3.0 specification) to logically combine several radio frequency (RF) channels to achieve theoretical broadband data rates in excess of hundreds of megabits per second. The solution uses the industry-leading Cisco uBR10012 cable modem termination systems (CMTS), and high-density xDQA24 edge quadrature amplitude modulators (QAMs) and EPC2505 Wideband cable modems from Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company.

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