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ADVA Plays Key Role in COMBO Project
to Create Fixed-Mobile Convergence
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THE INCOMPAS SHOW
B y working closely with its partner orga-
nizations, ADVA Optical Networking
has taken a step towards solving key
challenges of 5G and shaping the infrastruc-
ture of tomorrow.
ADVA announced in late September that it
is playing a role in the Convergence of Fixed
and Mobile Broadband Access/Aggregation
Networks (COMBO) project.
The initiative, funded by the European
Commission, is developing pioneering tech-
nology vital to the success of 5G. Sixteen
partner organizations, including operators,
equipment suppliers and research centers,
are collaborating on COMBO to create new
approaches that will enable full architectural
convergence of fixed and mobile networks.
The project also focuses on integrating
network functionality to enhance security,
simplicity and user experience. The COMBO
consortium’s main outcomes and proofs of
concept were successfully demonstrated at a
showcase in Lannion, France.
“The COMBO project represents a signifi-
cant achievement for Europe and for the tele-
communications industry. By working closely
with the partner organizations, we have been
able to take a concrete step towards solving
some key challenges of 5G and shaping the
infrastructure of tomorrow,” said Christian
Gacon, vice president of wireline and transport
convergent networks, Orange.
“The outcomes of the COMBO project will
redesign fixed and mobile networks towards
more integration, like shared transport infra-
structures,” he said. “This will allow improve-
ments to performance and energy efficiency
that we are targeting for 5G and the Internet
of Things (IoT).”
The new network architecture the COMBO
project designed is based on the concept of
next-generation point of presence (NG-PoP),
which enables network components to be hosted
centrally or at the edge for optimum efficiency.
In this open and intelligent environment,
fixed and mobile infrastructures are inte-
grated in converged broadband access/aggre-
gation networks.
The technology was presented in a public
showcase that followed two and a half years
of close collaboration and seven weeks of
experiments at the Pôle Images & Réseaux in
Lannion, France.
Key transport and functional enablers
of 5G networking were demonstrated, as
well as distributed and centralized NG-POP
scenarios. Video footage of the showcase is
available so the industry can benefit from the
COMBO project’s vision for integrated fixed-
mobile networks.
“Fixed-mobile convergence is essential to 5G
and therefore underpins the growth of the Euro-
pean digital economy. That’s why so many major
vendors, operators and research institutes from
seven European countries have joined forces to
create and evaluate the technology,” said Achim
Autenrieth, director, advanced technology,
ADVA Optical Networking.
“The 5G network will have to cope with a
vast increase in traffic to accommodate users
as well as an enormous range of connected
objects,” Autenrieth continued. “It will also have
to be agile to handle an increasingly diverse
range of services. That’s why it’s essential not
only to integrate Wi-Fi, wireless and fiber access
infrastructure, but also to create functional
convergence. The new automated system of
universal user authentication that ADVA Optical
Networking has been working to integrate
will bring simplicity, enhanced security and a
massive increase in coverage.” p
ADVA is an INCOMPAS Show sponsor. For
more information, go to
U nite Private Networks (UPN), a
provider of high-capacity, fiber-based
communication networks has entered
into partnership with Kansas City-based
employee benefits and insurance brokerage
firm, Bukaty Companies.
UPN is providing Bukaty a point-to-point
solution and dedicated high-speed internet
that connects Bukaty’s headquarters to its
financial services office.
“Bukaty Companies needed a solution
that would ensure their data was transmitted
safely and securely every time,” said Travis
Noble, vice president of Enterprise Sales at
Unite Private Networks. “UPN’s 100 percent
fiber-optic infrastructure offers robust
network protection with enhanced core and
diversity, that assures data transmissions
are accurate, safe and secure.
“We provide a suite of products
including Ethernet services that are scal-
able from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps, wave-
length services, Internet access, as well
as dark fiber, and we continue to help
businesses meet their bandwidth needs in
the region,” Noble added.
“As a benefits consulting agency, we
needed a solution that would transmit confi-
dential information securely,” said Mike
Bukaty, president, chairman and CEO of
Bukaty Companies. “The team at UPN
created a custom solution that not only
allowed us to pass confidential data between
offices, it also increased our bandwidth. We
are very pleased with the new capabilities.”
Bukaty Companies is one of the Kansas
City area’s largest privately owned employee
benefits and insurance brokerage firms.
From its early beginnings as a three-person
office, the business has grown to more than
150 employees representing more than
1,600 health/welfare clients. p
To learn more about Unite Private
Networks, visit booth 315 in the Expo Hall or
go to .
UPN Partners with Bukaty
“Fixed-mobile convergence
is essential to 5G and
therefore underpins
the growth of the European
digital economy.”
– Achim Autenrieth,
ADVA Optical Networking