Verizon selects Motorola to provide infrastructure and customer premises equipment for video services on Verizon fiber-to-the-premises network

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, Oct 29, 2004

Motorola Inc. and Verizon announced on October 26 that they have signed a multi-year contract for Motorola to provide video network infrastructure and consumer premises equipment related to Verizon's launch of video services on the company's new fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network next year. Motorola will also provide project integration and operational services.

"This exciting new network we're building will lead to a true convergence of voice, data and video services on one network," said Paul Lacouture, president, Network Services Group for Verizon. "We currently deliver voice and high-speed data over this new network, and the available bandwidth that fiber provides makes the addition of video services the next logical step. We're very pleased that Motorola will be working with us to deliver this exciting new service to Verizon customers beginning next year."

Motorola's newly-formed Telecom Access Solutions business will provide Verizon project management and operational and integration services. A part of the company's Broadband Communications Sector, this business enables telecommunication service providers to deliver triple-play services over a variety of network architectures and access platforms, including copper, fiber, and fixed broadband wireless networks.

Motorola has provided the telecom industry with video infrastructure technology for over ten years. The company delivers over 700,000 independent streams of digital video, representing over 90 percent of the North American installed base of xDSL video service.

Verizon has announced it will pass some 1 million homes and businesses with the new FTTP network this year, in parts of nine states. In 2005, the company expects to double its FTTP deployment and launch its first video services over the new network.

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