Building a unique global network of optical fiber, they learned the perils of debt in a deflationary market.

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Around EUR 6 billion is earmarked for rolling out the broadband infrastructure in the German fixed network with optical fiber and vectoring between 2013 and 2020.

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The prevailing conventional wisdom was that the whole network would have to be replaced with optical fiber to enable video transmission.

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Metro networks have phone gear like digital cross-connects, which manage high-and low-speed traffic, and synchronous optical network (Sonet) systems, which come from fiber-optic phone networks.

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