Vodacom in major fibre-to-the-home deal

 ·26 Jan 2015

Vodacom will roll out out a fibre network in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, and Durban to offer mobile, voice, video, and data services to about 150,000 homes and 100,000 business within the next three years.

Alcatel-Lucent announced on 26 January 2015 that it had been selected to build a gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) solution for Vodacom.

Alcatel-Lucent said that it is providing its 7360 ISAM FX for GPON services, as well as Customer Experience Management Platform using Motive Home Device Manager and Network Analyzer Fiber.

The project also includes Professional Services, Operations Support Systems deployment, and Managed Services, Alcatel-Lucent said.

“We first began talking with Alcatel-Lucent about expanding Vodacom’s business into the fixed access market five years ago,” said Vodacom group chief technology officer Andries Delport.

Willem Hendrickx, president of Alcatel-Lucent for Europe, Middle East, and Africa said that this was a significant and bold move from Vodacom.

“[It] allows them to take advantage of new, revenue-generating business models,” Hendrickx said.

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