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Today, we see the benefit of the accelerating deployment of Fiber-to-the-Home. Gigabit services are rapidly becoming available to more subscribers. Increasingly, these high-capacity services are priced within the normal elastic spend of households for their broadband services. This has favorably impacted service adoption rates, especially over the last two years, where a substantial percentage of the population has been working from home. Faster broadband speeds have been essential in the residential market for the consumption of services for leisure, education, and teleworking, where video conferencing and remote collaboration have become part of everyday life across the globe.
With cost-effective, 10G-capable XGS-PON technology reaching widespread adoption among all types and sizes of broadband service providers, the available speed and capacity have enabled those service providers to offer attractively-priced multi-gigabit services. Marketers are quickly pushing the envelope with service offerings beyond 1 Gbps to differentiate themselves from their competitors. From the United States to Italy, France, and the United Kingdom, XGS-PON enabled, multi-gigabit service offerings are resetting the broadband value point across the developed world's markets in France.
As discussed in previous CTO Insights blogs, these new 10G PON-based offerings are helping to accelerate the market’s abandonment of gigabit limited point-to-point FTTH technologies. Additionally, they are calling into question the role of GPON as a technology with which to light new fiber networks. When services of 5 Gbps and more are available for less than €20 in the European market, it is difficult to successfully argue for new fiber deployments with these legacy FTTH technologies when most new entrant FTTH operators are lev
Adtran discusses how Italy’s Digitization Investment project alongside its Connectivity Voucher Scheme fits in with the Open Disaggregated model of invest as you grow which will allow operators of all sizes to launch gigabit services in any part of Italy be it rural or cities without over investing.
The ultimate goal is to create an interconnected and digitized country, in which private users can take advantage of essential and innovative services, businesses can improve their sustainable productivity and have the opportunity to innovate continuously, and in which society itself can benefit from tools to improve the well-being of all its components.
To achieve this vision, it is necessary to create the conditions for adapting infrastructures throughout the national territory, promoting in particular the laying of the fiber as close as possible to fixed and mobile users; but it is also necessary to continuously stimulate the demand for digital goods and services (market pull), among citizens and businesses.
The latest initiative of the Ministry for Economic Development (MISE), managed by Infratel Italia and active since 1 March last, fits into this context: the connectivity voucher for businesses, dedicated to encouraging the digitization of the production sector throughout the national territory.
This is an economic contribution for businesses (micro, small and medium-sized) ranging from € 300 to € 2500, depending on the characteristics of the internet connection chosen. The contribution can be requested and paid directly by operators through their commercial channels. There are two essential prerequisites to be able to request it:
The emphasis is therefore on connectivity perfo
Adtran racconta come il progetto di investimento in digitalizzazione dell'Italia, insieme al suo voucher per la connettività alle imprese, si adatti alle soluzioni che consentono un investimento scalabile nella connettività, e permetterà agli operatori di tutte le dimensioni di lanciare servizi gigabit in qualsiasi parte dell'Italia, sia essa rurale o cittadina, con investimenti ottimizzati.
L’obiettivo finale è quello di creare un Paese interconnesso e digitalizzato, in cui gli utenti privati possano usufruire di servizi essenziali ed innovativi, le imprese possano migliorare la propria produttività sostenibile ed avere la possibilità di innovare continuamente, e in cui la società stessa possa beneficiare di strumenti per migliorare il benessere di tutti i suoi componenti.
Per arrivare a realizzare questa visione è necessario creare le condizioni per un adeguamento delle infrastrutture su tutto il territorio nazionale, promuovendo in particolare la stesura della fibra il più vicino possibile alle utenze fisse e mobili; ma è anche necessario stimolare continuamente la domanda di beni e servizi digitali (market pull), presso cittadini e imprese. In questo contesto si inserisce l’ultima iniziativa del Ministero per lo Sviluppo Economico (MISE), gestita da Infratel Italia e attiva dal 1° marzo scorso: il voucher connettività per le imprese, dedicato a favorire la digitalizzazione del comparto produttivo su tutto il territorio nazionale.
Si tratta di un contributo economico per le imprese (micro, piccole e medie) che va da 300€ a 2500€, a seconda delle caratteristiche della connessione internet scelta. Il contributo può essere richiesto ed erogato direttamente dagli operatori tramite i loro canali commerciali. Due sono i prerequisiti imprescindibili per poterlo richiedere:
