wiredInUSA April 2017

Fiber spread

Acquiring expertise

Leoni has secured a two-thirds holding in Adaptricity AG. The company will provide software-supported consulting services to the Leoni group. For example, Leoni will be in a position to deploy proprietary software that generates time series-based simulations to optimize power distribution grids by using SmartGrid technologies. Other than expanding Adaptricity’s core business, Leoni aims to establish a close relationship with its international project business. A focal area will be to transfer the acquired Adaptricity’s skills to a range of leading-edge applications and market segments. Leoni will also accumulate additional expertise in the areas of electronics, sensor technology, software and data analysis, all viewed as crucial to offering intelligent cable systems and related services.

Kazakhtelecom’s general director Alim Shukenov has told the news agency Strategy2050.kz that around 60 villages in North Kazakhstan will be connected to a fiber optic network infrastructure by the end of 2017. In total, over 200 settlements in the region will be covered by the firm’s fiber backbone network by 2020. Kazakhtelecom completed work on the final section of an 11,500km fiber- based network, the National Information Superhighway (NISH), in 2008. In November 2014, the telecommunication company presented a plan to parliament for the deployment of fiber optic infrastructure to public buildings in rural areas. Villages and towns with over 250 inhabitants are to be connected to KT’s fiber network, with the operator providing broadband, IPTV and IPVPN services over the infrastructure. Kazakhtelecom is majority-owned by the state.

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