Malarenergi goes gigabit-to-the-home with PacketFront ASR6000

The ASR6000 units will be deployed over the next 18 months and will upgrade 28,000 ports of the access network in the City of Västerås to support gigabit speed services.

“We are proud of our ability to maintain and operate a large distributed open-access network with a minimum of resources,” said Per Norrthon, CEO of Mälarenergi. “PacketFront’s ASR6000 is a key factor to continue this lean operation as we move to gigabit access. The citizens of Västerås will now enjoy an even wider selection of services and we have a very easy migration process to update the network with the new routers.”

The ASR6000 supports multi-rate operation for both copper and fiber ports, which means that the end-user equipment does not have to be replaced until faster services are purchased. The small form factor of the ASR6000 also allows it to fit into existing installation sites, enabling a “plug’n’play” migration process for Mälarenergi to minimize network down-time when old hardware is replaced, PacketFront says.

“The ASR6000 was designed to make the migration to IPv6 and GTTH [gigabit to the home] as simple as possible, something that Mälarenergi and other customers have stated as a key criteria. We have listened and Mälarenergi’s continued confidence in PacketFront is proof of that fact,” said Johnny Hedlund, CEO of PacketFront Network Products AB.