Frontier Communications, an American provider of voice, internet and video services, has entered a partnership with Nokia to use the latter's XGS-PON technology. The XGS-PON acronym stands for 10-Gigabit Symmetrical Passive Optical Network, and it's "a point-to-multipoint fiber access network that delivers 10 Gb/s in both directions and supports dual rate transmissions".

The technology will allow Frontier to offer speeds of up to 10Gb/s, starting with customers in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas of Texas. From there, the service will expand to the rest of the state, as well as Florida and California. In Nokia's announcement, the company states the Frontier will be able to deploy the new service speeds to its customers using its existent fiver network.

Steve Gable, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Frontier Communications expressed the company's excitement with the partnership:

We are excited to be working with Nokia on solutions that bring multi-Gigabit services to the home and quickly scale to 10 Gigabits and beyond. Nokia's platform will enable us to effectively support xDSL, P2P fiber, GPON and 10Gbps PON requirements and gain the flexibility to seamlessly evolve into future PON technologies. Nokia's solutions will enhance the customer experience by offering a Frontier fiber-powered internet that is as fast as it is reliable.

No plans were mentioned for expansion outside of the three states, so it remains to be seen if and when the rest of the United States will have access to the impressively high speeds. Nokia also says it's partnered with 14 service providers worldwide to deploy its XGS-PON and TWDM-PON networking technologies to customers around the globe, but no further information was provided.

The company recently sold off its Digital Health division as it focuses on forming partnerships and licensing its products. Partnerships like this will probably play a big role in Nokia's vision.

Source: Nokia