Israel’s leading broadband service provider, Bezeq, is bumping its high-speed Internet offering up to a full 200mbps over DSL in order to support advanced applications for the home, like multichannel IPTV, telemedicine, online gaming and 3D TV.
“Our next generation network is now capable of delivering an experience people never thought possible," said Yuval Keinan, vice president engineering, Bezeq. “It gives Bezeq a major competitive edge, as our subscribers now have access to the fastest broadband speeds in the country to meet all their online requirements."
He added, “It allows us to create services that are not only technologically unmatched in Israel, but also highly affordable for our customers."
Bezeq is using a platform from Nokia Siemens Networks to ratchet up the speed over existing copper cables, dubbed the Very High Speed DSL (VDSL) platform. NSN provided a end-to-end VDSL, encompassing hardware, software and services such as planning and network roll out. The platform comprises Multi Service Access Nodes (MSAN) supporting narrow and broadband services such as POTS, xDSL, and Ethernet. This includes smooth migration of traditional voice customers to Bezeq’s NGN, which will help increase the operator’s voice revenues.
“The new VDSL platform enables fiber optics performance on copper networks," said Eitan Idelson, head of the Israel customer team at NSN. “This technology allows Bezeq to speed up the delivery of very high bandwidth services without waiting to replace the existing physical copper access network with an optical one. We believe the capability we’ve delivered will help the operator maintain its leadership in terms of market share through its technical capabilities and innovation."
Nokia Siemens Networks is currently the main technological vendor in Bezeq’s next-generation network.
