ADTRAN, Inc, a leading provider of next-generation open networking solutions, on July 18 announced the signing of a supply agreement to advance high-speed broadband access to the citizens of Australia. The executed supply agreement covers software, hardware and services, which includes commitments from both companies to support the ongoing nationwide network rollout.

To date, a number of key milestones have already been completed and both companies successfully completed a GPON network interoperability proof-of-concept program of work. 'In addition, ADTRAN IT specialists have been working in a collaborative, agile development process with nbn's IT team to implement ADTRAN's standards-based, multi-vendor DPU management solution, utilizing an open microservices architecture.'

Nbn's Chief Network Deployment Officer, Kathrine Dyer said 'The rollout of the nbn' network is one of the most complex and ambitious telecommunications projects to be undertaken in any market around the world. We look forward to working with ADTRAN on bringing the nbn' network into reality including working together on our world leading Fibre-to-the-Curb (FTTC) network that is set to serve more than one million homes and businesses around the country by 2020.'

ADTRAN's Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) solutions combine modern web-scale technology with open-source platforms to facilitate rapid innovation in multi-technology, multi-vendor environments. SD-Access unlocks control and management functions from the underlying network elements, enabling a more flexible, agile services delivery framework.

Copyright Associated Press, 2017