Unless you live someplace like Chattanooga, TN, the folks in Lafayette, LA, can get faster Internet service than you can. LUS Fiber, the telecommunications division of Lafayette Utilities System, has launched a symmetrical 1-Gbps Internet service over its community-owned fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network.
Like the 1-Gbps service offered in Chattanooga (see “EPB Fiber Optics offers 1 Gigabit broadband in Chattanooga via GPON”), the LUS Fiber offering is targeted more at local businesses than homes.
“We have raised the bar in order to make our community a place where technology companies want to locate,” says Joey Durel, city-parish president of Lafayette.
LUS built is FTTP network after overcoming intense opposition from the incumbent telco and cable operator that extended to the Louisiana Supreme Court (see “FTTH Council joins LUS fight in Supreme Court”). Construction on the network began in 2008 and completed in 2010.
“Gigabit service from LUS Fiber is one of the most robust Internet offerings on the market today,” says Terry Huval, director of Lafayette Utilities System and LUS Fiber. “We built this community network with a promise to the people of Lafayette that we will work hard to provide them with new opportunities through this unique, state-of-the-art fiber technology…and that’s just what we’ve done.”
The Lower Indian Ocean Network 2 (LION2) undersea fiber-optic cable system is now in service, according to France Telecom-Orange. LION2 adds Kenya to the LION network.
The original LION cable system, completed in 2009, links Madagascar to the global broadband network via the Réunion and Mauritius islands. LION2 adds connectivity to Kenya via the island of Mayotte.
The LION2 consortium includes France Telecom-Orange; France Telecom subsidiaries Mauritius Telecom, Orange Madagascar, and Telkom Kenya; and Emtel Ltd. of the Republic of Mauritius and Société Réunionnaise du Radiotéléphone of Réunion Island.
Through its landing station at Kaweni (Mamoudzou), LION2 will provide Mayotte, for the first time, with access to a broadband internet network. In Kenya, the LION2 cable is connected through a new landing station that has been built at Nyali, close to Mombasa.
In addition to providing Internet access to the region, the new cable also provides an alternative route for passing secure broadband transmissions through Europe and Asia for all African countries in which the France Telecom-Orange Group is located, says the consortium member.
The construction of the LION2 cable required about 57 million euros, about 38 million euros of which will come from France Telecom SA and its subsidiaries.
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