VOLTHA: Transforming Broadband Through Open, Disaggregated Access Networks

Summary Signal Adding a new OLT vendor to a live broadband network used to take six months. Deutsche Telekom and Türk Telekom are now doing it in days. Both operators run their disaggregated access networks on VOLTHA (Virtual OLT Hardware Abstraction), the open source project hosted by LF Broadband. Türk Telekom’s own leadership describes theirs as the world’s first and largest live access network built on open source. Deutsche Telekom uses VOLTHA as a building block of its Access 4.0…