Verizon uses DirecTV for MDUs
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Verizon Communications will partner with DirecTV to deliver video service to customers in multidwelling units (MDUs), the carrier announced today.
Verizon will team up with MDU Communications International, a DirecTV partner, to jointly sell DirecTV video service to MDUs within the footprint of its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployment.
The move mimics AT&T’s partnership with EchoStar to provide its DISH Network satellite video service to customers of its fiber-to-the-node broadband offering.
In March, Verizon announced having brought fiber to about 57,000 MDUs as part of its FTTP deployment. For small MDUs, those with two to 10 units, Verizon had been deploying the same customer premises equipment it uses for single-family homes. But for larger MDUs, the carrier began using MDU-specific gear developed by Tellabs and other vendors.
Though Verizon is deploying fiber-to-the-home, the architecture of these MDU broadband access networks resembles fiber-to-the-curb. Tellabs’ MDU box sits in a building's basement and connects to customers using existing wires: twisted copper pairs for voice and VDSL data (or 10/100 Ethernet if the wiring's available) and coaxial cable for video.
About a fifth of Verizon’s customers live in MDUs, the company has said.
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