du, the United Arab Emirates main telecommunications service provider, has signed a deal with Ericsson for a gigabit-capable passive optical network (GPON). Hatem Bamatraf, senior vice-president of network development at du said: “The tie-up with Ericsson for GPON complements our state-of-the-art fibre to the home (FTTH) network, which we were the first to deploy in the UAE.

The first phase of its Optical Transport Network (OTN) expansion has been offically announced by du.  he integrated telecom service provider offers a number of pay-TV options across the UAE including IPTV which will receive a huge boost from the enhance capability of the OTN.