Vecima Networks and MARA Technologies recently announced that the first units of Vecima’s Entra SF-4X Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) have been produced at MARA’s facility in Holly, Michigan. This milestone was celebrated with an official visit on 28th August by Alan Davidson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Vecima’s decision to expand its manufacturing operations into the United States for certain products within its Entra portfolio aligns with the proposed Build America, Buy America (BABA) requirements under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Programme, part of the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act.
“The MARA team is thrilled to deliver Vecima’s first SF-4X Fiber products manufactured in the U.S.,” said Paul LaCroix, CEO of Invotek. “Our production facility is fully operational, and with the addition of our new distribution warehouse, we will provide more value-added services while increasing overall capacity. We expect to add up to 100 highly skilled jobs in our state-of-the-art Holly, Michigan facility to support the Vecima program.”
The BEAD Programme, with a budget of $42.45 billion, provides funding to states, territories, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for broadband adoption, deployment, and upgrade projects, aiming to extend high-speed Internet access to underserved and unserved communities across the U.S. The manufacturing expansion of Vecima’s Entra Fibre Access OLTs in the U.S. presents service providers with a trusted OLT option for their fibre broadband network buildouts under this programme.
Vecima’s portfolio of 10G PON products has seen significant market uptake, with the company being named the global market share leader in both Remote MACPHY and Remote OLT Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) solutions by the Dell’Oro Group in March 2023.
“Our customers can now deploy Vecima’s Entra SF-4X as part of their efforts to deliver high-speed fiber broadband to all communities,” said Clay McCreery, Chief Operating Officer of Vecima. “The Entra SF-4X is the global Remote OLT market share leader and a proven solution for operators building high-speed broadband networks for all Americans.”
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