Mälarenergi Stadsnät AB, a council-owned power company in Västerås, Sweden has entered into a partnership with PacketFront to rollout FTTH connections. In 2000, Västerås was the first municipality in Sweden to form its own commercial company to build and operate an open urban network, and since then the company, Mälarenergi Stadsnät AB, has deregulated the broadband market.
PacketFront’s ASR 4000 broadband routers and its BECS control and provisioning system will be installed in all of Mälarenergi’s new connections. Mälarenergi will eventually be replacing its existing equipment so that in the future it will have only one system, regardless of access technology (fiber, cat 5, VDSL or ADSL), in its network. http://www.packetfront.com
