Stockholm: 2012-04-17
Dala Energi selects ASR6000 from PacketFront
Dala Energi, an open access network operator, has selected PacketFront’s Gigabit ASR6000 switch for their next round of network expansion. Dala Energi already operates an open access broadband network covering the rural towns of Leksand, Rättvik, Gagnef and Säter in the heart of Sweden.
“A modern infrastructure with high speed Internet and other communications services being offered to businesses and residential customers is a key factor for rural communities such as ours.” says Pär Wikström, Head of Urban Network for Dala Energi.
“The ASR6000 from PacketFront takes us into the Gigabit Age and enables us to provide the wide selection of high performance services that our customers are demanding, and also gives us the benefit of efficient network operations where the ASR6000 is a key element. In order to provide our customers with Gigabit Internet, we just add the ASR6000 to our network topology and then connect customers to it. Migrating to the ASR6000 also enables us to upgrade the core network to 10Gbit/s.”
Today, the Dala Energi open access network already offers services to over 2000 local businesses and residential customers, and provides a network infrastructure for several of the municipalities in the region. More than 20 service providers are currently delivering commercial services to the network.
“The ASR6000 product builds on our experience gained by delivering over one million broadband Ethernet ports, and it contains a wide range of features for reducing operational costs for large, distributed Ethernet networks,“ says Fredrik Nyman, Access Product Manager at PacketFront Network Products AB. “With full IPv6 compliance and the accelerated network processor, the ASR6000 offers market-leading security- and service features in a package that we are delighted to deliver to Dala Energi.”
