New 10G fibre network build to reach one million properties in
underserved suburbs and towns

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/10GFTTH?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#10GFTTHlt;/agt;–ADTRAN,
Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), the leading provider of next-generation open
networking and subscriber experience solutions, today announced Zzoomm,
a new fibre network operator, has selected ADTRAN as its technology
partner to build a 10G
FTTH network to serve suburbs and towns across the United Kingdom
(U.K.).

Currently, there are 30 million homes and businesses in the U.K., but
only two million have access to fibre networks and the high-speed
broadband services they deliver. Zzoomm recently announced the official launch
of its full fibre network and will begin construction this summer
with the goal to connect one million of these previously underserved
properties over the next five years. This 10Gbps service-capable network
will afford these communities access to the most advanced residential
and business applications available now and into the foreseeable future.

The operator is specifically targeting its services to suburbs of major
cities, including London, as well as towns and smaller cities across the
U.K. These communities are currently underserved by existing operators
using copper-based infrastructure. Zzoomm will leverage the ADTRAN 10G
fibre access platform with XGS-PON to support a highly-economical,
symmetric 10Gbps service delivery solution at competitive broadband
price-points.

“Zzoomm’s goal is to connect our subscribers with the services needed to
work, learn and play when and where they want. To accomplish that, we
need a technology partner that is keen to understand our business and
what we need to meet our goals,” Zzoomm Chief Executive Matthew Hare
said. “ADTRAN makes us feel like a valued customer, while also providing
the expertise to help us build a strong 10G network foundation that will
support the broadband requirements of these areas now and decades into
the future.”

“ADTRAN is enabling operators across Europe, like Zzoomm, to make
significant progress in connecting homes and businesses to advanced
services that enhance subscriber experience and quality of life,” ADTRAN
Chief Technology Officer for EMEA and APAC Ronan Kelly said. “Our
collaboration with Zzoomm to build a 10Gbps service-capable network is
another proof-point that the market is choosing 10G PON technology over
the previous FTTP solutions deployed over the past decades.”

Next week, ADTRAN and Zzoomm will be attending FTTH
Conference, held March 12-14, 2019, in Amsterdam. To learn more
about this partnership, please visit ADTRAN’s Platinum Sponsor Booth #
P01.

About Zzoomm plc

Zzoomm is designing, building and operating a new full fibre network,
where the fibre runs all the way into the property. Zzoomm is building
out this FTTP (fibre to the premises) network in towns and suburban
areas across the UK where there is no existing access to a full fibre
network.

Zzoomm plc was founded in December 2018 by experienced fibre network
entrepreneur Matthew Hare OBE. Matthew previously founded ultrafast
rural fibre broadband provider Gigaclear in 2010, which was acquired by
Infracapital in 2018 for £270 million.

Zzoomm is headquartered in Oxford and is establishing regional offices
to drive infrastructure planning and build at a local level in its
target market of U.K. towns and suburban areas. For more information,
visit www.zzoomm.com.

About ADTRAN

At ADTRAN, Inc., we believe amazing things happen when people connect.
From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, we help communications
service providers around the world manage and scale services that
connect people, places and things to advance human progress. Whether
rural or urban, domestic or international, telco or cable, enterprise or
residential—ADTRAN solutions optimize existing technology
infrastructures and create new, multi-gigabit platforms that leverage
cloud economics, data analytics, machine learning and open
ecosystems—the future of global networking. Find more at ADTRAN,
LinkedIn
and Twitter.

Contacts

Ashley Schulte
Witz Communications for ADTRAN
919-435-9112
[email protected]

Adrian
Duffield/Kay Larson
Instinctif Partners for Zzoomm
+44 20 7427
1412