MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 20, 2026--
Adtran today announced that it has been selected by FiberCop, Italy’s leading wholesale-only fiber operator, as one of the technology partners to provide optical transport for a nationwide metro rollout. Built to support high-capacity open-access connectivity, the network will bring enhanced scalability and flexibility to Italy’s digital infrastructure. FiberCop selected Adtran for its open optical transport technology, Mosaic Network Controller management software and coherent 100ZR pluggable optics, which deliver compact, economical and power-efficient 100Gbit/s connectivity across metro locations. The decision also reflects more than 20 years of trusted collaboration and a shared commitment to building open networking platforms.
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“This metro transport rollout is a critical part of FiberCop’s strategy to deliver open-access connectivity at scale across the country,” said Christoph Glingener, CTO of Adtran. “Our technology provides the performance, space efficiency and automation capabilities FiberCop needs to accelerate deployment and streamline operations. The close working relationship between our teams has contributed to many of our most successful projects in recent years. This strong foundation will enable FiberCop to scale more quickly and seamlessly integrate new services, partners and platforms as they continue to expand and modernize their network.”
The new network will be built using Adtran’s FSP 3000 open optical transport platform, including AccessFlex™ and M-Flex800™ terminals supporting a range of metro node configurations. It will leverage open line system solutions optimized for specific network requirements: FSP 3000 Core OLS for ROADM-based transport and Edge OLS for flexible aggregation at the edge. This enables 100Gbit/s and 400Gbit/s DWDM connectivity, delivering the scalability and efficiency needed for FiberCop’s evolving service model. Compact coherent 100ZR pluggables will also be deployed to enable high-density 100Gbit/s metro links with lower space and power demands. What’s more, centralized management and control will be provided by Adtran’s Mosaic Network Controller, paving the way for seamless automation.
“This deployment showcases the power of our open optical and software platforms to meet national-scale challenges,” commented Stuart Broome, GM of EMEA and APAC sales at Adtran. “FiberCop required a solution combining high capacity with space and power efficiency, while also supporting automation and future growth. With our FSP 3000 platform, 100ZR pluggables and Mosaic Network Controller, we’re enabling a flexible transport network that’s ready to scale with demand. This project highlights the close working relationship between our teams and our shared commitment to accelerating open-access connectivity across Italy.”
About Adtran
ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN and FSE: QH9) is the parent company of Adtran, Inc., a leading global provider of open, disaggregated networking and communications solutions that enable voice, data, video and internet communications across any network infrastructure. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, Adtran empowers communications service providers around the world to manage and scale services that connect people, places and things. Adtran solutions are used by service providers, private enterprises, government organizations and millions of individual users worldwide. ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. is also the majority shareholder of Adtran Networks SE, formerly ADVA Optical Networking SE. Find more at Adtran, LinkedIn and X.
Adtran’s technology is helping FiberCop roll out a national open-access network.
PARIS (AP) — While Europe is pushing back publicly against U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland, the language appears softer behind the scenes.
Trump published a text message on Tuesday that he received from French President Emmanuel Macron, confirmed as genuine by Macron's office.
Starting with “My friend,” Macron’s tone was more deferential than the criticism that France and some of its European partner nations are openly voicing against Trump’s push to wrest Greenland from NATO ally Denmark.
Before broaching the Greenland dispute, Macron opted in his message to first talk about other issues where he and Trump seem to be roughly on the same page.
“We are totally in line on Syria. We can do great things on Iran,” the French leader wrote in English.
Then, he added: “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” immediately followed by: “Let us try to build great things.”
That was the only mention that Macron made of the semi-autonomous Danish territory that Trump covets in the two sections of message that Trump published. It wasn't immediately clear from Trump's post when he received the message.
World leaders’ private messages to each other rarely make it verbatim into the public domain — enabling them to project one face publicly and another to each other.
But Trump — as is his wont across multiple domains — is casting traditions and diplomatic niceties to the wind and, in the process, lifting back the curtain on goings-on that usually aren't seen.
Trump also published a flattering message from Mark Rutte, secretary general of NATO, which the alliance also confirmed as authentic.
“I am committed to finding a way forward on Greenland,” Rutte wrote. “Can't wait to see you. Yours, Mark.”
Rutte has declined to speak publicly about Greenland despite growing concern about Trump’s threats to “acquire” the island and what that would mean for the territorial integrity of NATO ally Denmark. Pressed last week about Trump’s designs on Greenland and warnings from Denmark that any U.S. military action might mean the end of NATO, Rutte said: “I can never comment on that. That’s impossible in public.”
Macron likes to say that he can get Trump on the phone any time he wants. He proved it last September by making a show of calling up the president from a street in New York, to tell Trump that police officers were blocking him to let a VIP motorcade pass.
“Guess what? I’m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you!” Macron said as cameras filmed the scene.
It's a safe bet that Macron must know by now — a year into Trump's second term in office — that there's always a risk that a private message to Trump could be made public.
An official close to Macron said that his message to Trump “shows that the French President, both in public and in private, takes the same views."
The official added that on Greenland, France considers respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states is “non-negotiable." They spoke anonymously in line with the French presidency customary practices.
Still, the difference between Macron’s public and private personas in the message that Trump published was striking.
Most remarkably, the French leader told Trump in his message that he would be willing to invite representatives from both Ukraine and Russia to a meeting later this week in Paris — an idea that Macron has not voiced publicly.
The Russians could be hosted “in the margins,” Macron suggested, hinting at the potential awkwardness of inviting Moscow representatives while France is also backing Ukraine with military and other support against Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion.
Macron wrote that the meeting could also include “the danish, the syrians” and the G7 nations — which include the United States.
The French president added: “let us have a dinner together in Paris together on thursday before you go back to the us."
He then signed off simply with “Emmanuel.”
Lorne Cook in Brussels and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed.
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech as he visits the Istres military air force base, southern France, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Philippe Magoni, Pool)
FILE - President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
