Verdens største netværksproducent, amerikanske Cisco, fremhæver i en international pressemeddelelse et nyt Ethernet-baseret bredbåndsnetværk, som Dansk Bredbånd er ved at rulle ud:

Dansk Bredbaand provides Ethernet to the Home, Voice over IP and Video on Demand to
Danish Customers using Cisco Technology

Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP Provides Long-Distance Intelligent Optical Transport of Gigabit
Ethernet Core between Local City-Based Metro Ethernet Switching Networks

CeBIT, Hannover, March 16, 2004 –– Cisco Systems® today announced that Dansk Bredbaand a/s (DBnet), is building a broadband Metro Ethernet network to deliver the triple play of services (voice, video and 10 Mbit/s data) over an Ethernet to the Home network serving an initial 10,000 residents in Copenhagen and across Denmark. DBnet is implementing the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform to transport the Gigabit Ethernet core over dense wavelengthdivision multiplexing (DWDM). This will link DBnet’s Copenhagen headquarters and regional Metro Ethernet broadband networks, which will cover 13 towns in the near future.

DBnet is focusing on providing Metro Ethernet-based services to residential subscribers and is working with housing associations and local governments to extend its regional city networks - initially in Naestved, Odense, Kolding and Esbjerg. As Denmark joins other Nordic governments in pushing for broadband access as a means of enhancing regional competitiveness, the company has decided that the most effective way to deliver these services is to build a network with an optical transport layer and Cisco Metro Ethernet last-mile access over a Fiber-to-the-Home network.

“Provisioning was a significant factor in our decision to work with Cisco and help us to reduce the costs of getting subscribers up and running on our broadband services,” commented Kim Sonne, CEO of DBnet. “In addition, the DWDM capabilities of the Cisco multiservice optical platform help give us optimum scalable connectivity to provide multiple Gigabit Ethernet links between the four locations in our network.”

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