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The growing trend in the region for intelligent cities is expected to fuel deployment of FTTH networks. (AFP)
The UAE is among the leaders in deploying fibre to the home (FTTH) networks in the Middle East, a Swiss cabling company said.
In a statement issued yesterday, Reichle & De-Massari, the Swiss structured cabling specialist, said FTTH networks would also be increasingly deployed in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar over the next five years.
The company said that the growing trend in the region for intelligent cities would fuel increasing deployment of FTTH networks. The demand for FTTH networks would soar especially in view of the requirements for faster bandwidth and transmission technology to enable triple play (voice, video and data) services.
The statement quoted Jean Pierre Labry, Managing Director of R&M Middle East and Africa, as saying: "A high-performance fibre network will be the key infrastructure in the future. Only a robust FTTH infrastructure can offer the speed, security and transmission quality needed to accommodate future bandwidth requirements for triple play in the Middle East."
He said the company expects FTTH networks to become the standard network infrastructure in the region.
"Already we are seeing investment by regional network operators and real estate developers into FTTH networks," Labry added. Many of the modern applications require a pure internet protocol network and bandwidth speeds that cannot be achieved unless deploying a fibre optic network, he said.
More robust and secure than copper, fibre and FTTH networks enable data rates 10 times greater than the fastest rates achievable to date. This is required for running the latest services.
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