2022.04.01 – Open Broadband News

Delivering greater interoperability to the broadband industry with YANG

Demand for greater network capacity, especially as more large-scale fiber deployments are undertaken, is increasing. It is imperative that greater interoperability between different network components from varying vendors and an increasing number of technologies is delivered.

Common YANG data models, in conjunction with YANG data models from other SDOs, offer service providers the ability to leverage detailed end-to-end visibility of the performance of every programmable Software-Defined Access Network (SDAN) element to unlock greater levels of capacity, automation, and efficiency. Network flexibility can therefore be maximized without burdening the network automation teams with traditionally large development overhead of bespoke and proprietary data modelling methods.

Demand for greater network capacity, especially as more large-scale fiber deployments are undertaken, is increasing. It is imperative that greater interoperability between different network components from varying vendors and an increasing number of technologies is delivered. Read more on this here.

Fiber to dominate APAC broadband services

Fixed communications service revenue in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is set to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.7 percent to reach $406.2 billion (€364.4bn) in 2026, supported by the growing fixed broadband service adoption, particularly in the emerging markets of the region, forecasts GlobalData, a data and analytics company.

An analysis of GlobalData’s APAC Fixed Communications Forecast Pack reveals that APAC is a moderately developed region in terms of fixed broadband adoption, with fixed broadband account penetration of population reaching 18 percent at year-end 2021.

Kantipudi Pradeepthi, Telecom Analyst at GlobalData, said: “The growth in the APAC fixed broadband market will be led by fiber broadband segment, which will see continued growth in the region. Fiber-optic access lines will account for a share of about 61 percent of the total fixed access lines in the developed APAC region by 2026 while its share in the total fixed lines in the emerging APAC markets will be at a relatively higher 80 percent.”

All villages across Iran will be connected to high-speed internet by 2023

Some 83 percent of villages with more than 20 residing families are currently provided with high-speed internet, Iraj Roohi, an official with the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, said on Wednesday.

By the end of the current Iranian calendar year, all villages will be connected to the national high-speed internet network, Roohi added. Statistics say 3,500 villages are linked with minimum communication services and 4,000 villages are deprived of any internet-based services. Currently, 26 percent of the country’s population lives in villages, around 39,000 villages have more than 20 households and 23,000 villages have less than 20 households.

Therefore, more than 97 percent of the country’s rural population lives in villages with over 20,000 households. Many efforts have been made over the past couple of years by the Government to support villagers and slow down the trend of migration from rural areas to cities. The internet penetration rate in Iran has exceeded 123 percent, according to the latest statistics by the Communications Regulatory Authority, published in January.

CRTC provides $19.5 million to fund broadband projects in 10 Canadian communities 

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is funding seven projects that will benefit 10 communities across B.C. and Alberta. $19.5 million from the Broadband Fund is going towards four companies that must provide mobile wireless services or fixed broadband access. ATG Arrow Technology Group received nearly $16 million to provide five communities in Alberta with download speeds up to 100Mbps and upload speeds up to 50Mbps.

East Shore Internet Society received $1.3 million to provide two B.C. communities with download and upload speeds up to 250Mbps. South Kountry Cable Ltd. received $764,000 to provide download speeds up to 80Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps in the community of Jaffray, B.C.

“Money is now flowing in areas of the country where Canadians do not currently have access to an internet service that meets our universal service objective,” Ian Scott, CRTC’s chairperson, said. The Broadband Fund has committed a total of $206 million to improve broadband services in 170 communities so far.

Austria sees strong increase in high-speed connections in Q3

The demand for fixed broadband connections with high and very high bandwidths is constantly increasing in Austria, according to the internet monitor for Q3 2021 published by regulator RTR. In the third quarter of last year, fixed broadband connections with 30 to 100 Mbps grew by around 26,000 compared to the previous quarter to 1.02 million.

The number of connections with 100+ Mbps speeds rose by around 28,000 to 639,000. “This development clearly shows that low-bit-rate Internet connections are being phased out,” said Klaus M. Steinmaurer, Managing Director of RTR for the Telecommunications and Post department.

The number of connections between 10 Mbps and 30 Mbps speeds decreased by 41,000 to around 604,000 in the third quarter last year. Fewer products with low bandwidths are also being offered. In the medium-term, copper lines will be replaced by fiber-optic connections, Steinmaurer added.