Nokia has won a contract from Energie AG, Austria-based utility and infrastructure firm, to build an optical transport network across 18 sites.
Energie AG will use the network to backhaul traffic from Fiber to the Home (FTTH) nodes in regional sites to two central sites Upper Austria. Deployment is already underway.

Energie Telekom, a subsidiary of Energie AG, is operating a fiber optic network spanning  more than 7,000 kilometers. Currently, Energie AG’s fiber optic access network creates up to 6.4 Terabits per second of aggregated traffic for the optical transport network to carry. The capacity of the new transport network can be scaled to 10s of Tbs.

Werner Steinecker, CEO Energie AG, said: “Nokia fiber optics solution is proven and technically solid, and will give us the opportunity to grow even further by scaling to our needs as we continue to broaden our customer base.”

Nokia’s broad portfolio of optical networking hardware and software will be used for the upgrade. This includes the Nokia 1830 PSS (Photonic Service Switch) platform, powered by its Photonic Service Engine (PSE) coherent technology, and the Nokia Network Services Platform (NSP) software automation suite.