Nokia & Elisa Trial: A Goal to Deploy Faster Fibre Broadband
Nokia has announced that Elisa, a Finnish market leader in telecommunications and digital services, will deploy its Lightspan MF solution to enhance its existing fibre network.
Aiming to deliver new ultra-broadband services to customers across Finland, Elisa will be the first service provider in Europe to demonstrate 25-gigabit (G), 50G and 100G Passive Optical Network (PON) services over a live commercial network. This will highlight the superior broadband speeds Elisa is capable of delivering across its existing fibre network by leveraging Nokia’s fibre solution.
“We want to offer the best connections for our customers”
The trial with Elisa builds on the telco’s current fibre deployment and demonstrates how different PON technologies can be combined on the same fibre to evolve its broadband offerings.
Boosting broadband across Europe
The live trial, which Nokia and Elisa debuted online, highlights how operators can easily upgrade their fibre networks to meet demand for faster and more reliable connectivity. Currently, Nokia is currently the only vendor supporting all next-generation PON technology options, including 10G, 25G, 50G and future 100G, which allows operators to choose the right strategy for their individual needs and business case.
Nokia and Elisa have been partnered for a number of years:
Nokia’s Lightspan broadband access platform enables Elisa to deliver some of the fastest broadband speeds in Europe. This is up to 10x faster than most fibre networks can deliver.
Likewise, Elisa has deployed Nokia’s Altiplano platform to support 10G XGS-PON deployments to help automate and improve the management, scalability and reliability of its network.
Nokia states that this technology will enable Elisa to meet future bandwidth demands, driven by AI, where Bell Labs is forecasting that total AI traffic is projected to reach 91 EB/month by 2030 in Western Europe alone.
“Nokia’s fibre solution will help us significantly enhance our fibre network to deliver some of the fastest internet speeds in the world. We’re excited to be the first in Europe to show up to 100G PON speeds in a live fibre network trial and demonstrate the world-class capabilities we can deliver to support the next generation of broadband services,” comments Sami Rajamäki, Vice President of Network Services at Elisa.
“By partnering with Nokia, we can showcase our commitment to guaranteeing the best, high-quality services for our customers. History has shown that it is impossible to forecast all the new use cases for greater speeds, i.e. what new 25 to 100G connections will enable in the future, but we know that for example online gaming and industrial users are among the first to benefit from ever faster broadband connections.”
Advancing the next generation of mobile networks
Demand for high-speed internet continues to rise. Particularly across Europe, with the European Commission having set targets to achieve gigabit connectivity for all EU households and 5G coverage across all populated areas by 2030.
“There are definitely more fibre investments needed across Europe … cooperation between companies is needed now more than ever before for future growth.”
The organisation explained in April 2024 that the EU must ensure its network can offer the continent the competitive edge it needs, particularly in terms of transmission speed, to get people better connected.
- 70% of homes in the EU had high-speed internet connection
- 37% of homes in rural areas had high-speed internet
Matthieu Bourguignon, Senior Vice President and Head of Europe for Network Infrastructure Business at Nokia, comments: “We see demand for high-speed internet access surging in Europe with end users and enterprises alike increasingly seeking reliable, secure, high-quality broadband connectivity.”
He adds: “Our Lightspan and Altiplano Access platforms give operators like Elisa the tools they need to increase speed, provide superior performance, automate functions and future-proof its fibre network. Our fibre technology provides the perfect solution for operators that want to quickly increase capacity and flexibly migrate to next-generation fibre technologies.”
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