TIGO - Millicom Accelerates Fiber Deployments with Harmonic | Benzinga
Millicom Leverages Harmonic's Unique Hybrid Fiber-Cable, Node-Based Solution to Offer High-Speed Fiber to the Home Broadband
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) today announced that Millicom (NASDAQ:TIGO), a leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications services in Latin America through the TIGO® brand, has successfully launched XGS-PON fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) with Harmonic's industry-leading cOS® broadband platform. This expands on Millicom's previously announced use of the cOS platform to provide high-speed broadband services across nine countries in Latin America.
"Adding fiber services with the Harmonic fiber solution enables us to ensure faster, reliable broadband experiences that delight our residential subscribers while simultaneously giving us the flexibility to offer ultrahigh-speed fiber broadband for enterprise accounts," said Fabio Mando, Chief Technology Officer at Millicom. "With Harmonic's platform, we simplify management of fiber and cable networks, increase speeds available to our customers and accelerate time to market of broadband services."
Harmonic's Ripple hybrid fiber-cable nodes, powered by the Jetty hardened switch and Fin SFP+ OLT modules, enable Millicom to ...