Cisco Supplies Long Reach Ethernet for Parisian Apartments

Erenis, a start-up carrier backed by the French National Agency for Innovation and the European investment fund Net Partners, and will use Cisco Systems' Catalyst 2950 Long-Reach Ethernet (LRE) Series switches as one of the cornerstones of a network delivering low-cost service based on Very High-Bit Rate DSL (VDSL). Erenis already provides broadband access and traditional telephony services to its tenants over the same infrastructure. The LRE deployment will enable broadband services at speeds ranging from 15 Mbps up to 100 Mbps.



Besides Catalyst 2950 LRE Series switches and Cisco 500 Series LRE Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) devices, Erenis has deployed Cisco 7300 Series routers with Service Selection Gateways for broadband aggregation within its core network.



Erenis has a partnership with SAGI (Societe Anonyme de Gestion Immobiliere), which is one of the three largest landlords in Paris, owning around 35,000 households. To date, Erenis has already rolled out services to 5,000 households in the 12th, 15th, 17th and 20th districts of Paris and the suburb of Asnieres. http://www.cisco.com