Nokia is now going to start out manufacturing the fibre broadband tools at its manufacturing facility in Chennai. The firm made the announcement this week, which implies that Nokia’s Sriperumbudur plant will now be making the fibre broadband gear as nicely.

The firm has confirmed that there’s a huge demand for these tools in India and different nations and Nokia needs to make use of its native setup to make it for India and export as nicely.

“As the momentum in the direction of 5G networks and new hybrid utilization fashions push operators in the direction of more and more distributed community architectures, service suppliers are investing in fibre to construct out and improve their current networks,” said Sandy Motley, President, Fixed Networks at Nokia.

All this demand has been catapulted with the growth in the fibre to the home (FTTH) segment, which continues to be an untapped sector for operators in countries like India and more. But with the advent of 5G and enterprise tech getting a big boost, the fibre broadband category could also get a new lease of life.

The telecom equipment that Nokia plans to make in the country also looks at the demands of the network operators who are busy setting up their 5G base stations across the country. “India is seeing massive demand for fibre connectivity from both fixed and mobile operators. OLT production at our Chennai plant will offer a timely boost to meeting this demand in a timely way,” stated Sanjay Malik, SVP and Head of India Market at Nokia.

Nokia stated its deliberate manufacturing of PON OLTs in India will toughen develop the corporate’s manufacturing base and geographic attain. Nokia has proven its curiosity within the Indian authorities’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme and this growth makes a stronger case for the corporate’s bid to be a part of the initiative.

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