Aricent announces a technology partnership with Nokia to design and develop the Nokia FastMile home outdoor modem and indoor router.
Nokia FastMile is a unique approach which overcomes the connectivity gap to bring high-speed broadband to residential customers in rural and sub-urban areas. The end-to-end approach ensures high data rates and a guaranteed minimum throughput, while also providing extended coverage by utilizing advanced antenna topology and interference mitigation technologies.
Aricent has also partnered with other ecosystem partners, including Qualcomm and Foxconn to envision the future of consumer broadband, said the company.
Ilari Salomaa, head of FastMile business, Nokia
Nokia is a pioneer in building connectivity everywhere for everybody. With FastMile we bring home broadband connectivity to residential customers in suburban or rural areas where the Internet connection is slow or missing, as well as give operators an exciting opportunity to leverage their existing networks to reach new customers.
Walid Negm, Aricent's Chief Technology Officer
Nokia FastMile is an example of the type of telecom innovation that's needed to close the digital divide for millions of people without high-speed access.