SEPTEMBER 10, 2008 -- euNetworks (search for euNetworks), European provider of mission-critical data services to large corporations, carriers, and services providers, today announced it has completed an agreement with Dutch Internet Services Provider Concepts ICT. Per the agreement, euNetworks will deploy fiber|nex, a dedicated private fiber service, in Amsterdam to support the rollout of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and further Internet and hosting services in the Dutch capital.
Concepts ICT focuses on providing Internet services to high-end consumers as well as small- and medium-size enterprises and is one of the foremost providers of FTTH services in the Netherlands. Concepts ICT says it required the highest levels of flexibility and reliability in its offering to support its fiber network in Amsterdam.
euNetworks designed and deployed fiber|nex, fully redundant dark fiber to point connections, which form a ring architecture between Concept ICT's main data center locations. Due to the end-to-end ownership of its networks, euNetworks says it can deliver the highest levels of redundancy and single point of contact Service Level Agreements (SLA) in the industry.
"Fiber-to-the-Home is highly superior compared to traditional DSL, let alone dial-in," says Paul Wijngaard, general manager of Concepts ICT. "It is the-next generation network. Therefore, Concepts ICT participates in several large Fiber-to-the-Home projects in The Netherlands, for instance, in Amsterdam, Enschede, and Deventer. A good example is our cooperation with Reggefiber in Deventer, where we experienced enormous growth," he reports. "Forty-five percent of all consumers have chosen a Concepts ICT Fiber-to-the-Home-based subscription for Internet, telephony, and TV during the rollout phase of the network. This emphasizes the enormous potential of this access network technology."
"The reliance on telecommunications continues to accelerate, driving demand for mission critical, high-capacity communications solutions delivered on fiber-optic platforms--the panacea to slow, limited-capacity copper-based networks," adds Barry Nolan, COO of euNetworks. "Frost & Sullivan predicts that fiber-to-the-home networks will reach more than 14 million European households by 2012, and one telecommunications provider after the other spends millions to upgrade their existing infrastructure," he notes. "We were in the unique position to provide Concepts ICT with the required private fiber solution in Amsterdam due to our extensive fiber-optic infrastructure in the Netherlands and in Amsterdam in particular."
According to euNetworks, fiber|nex affords customers their own private fiber network with virtually limitless capacity. The company says it provides clients with the ability to rollout high-capacity broadband services and bandwidth-intensive applications efficiently and securely with built-in network redundancy. euNetworks' metropolitan fiber infrastructure contains an average of six ducts per city with 432 strands of fiber in each duct. The network is designed redundantly in a dense, mesh configuration to provide 100% fail-over, mission-critical reliability, say company representatives.
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