AMSTERDAM -- International Broadcasting Convention -- Cisco Systems today announced that Lyse Tele is offering the triple play of voice, video and from 2 to 10Mbps data access to residential customers in the Stavanger region of Norway across a Cisco Metro Ethernet network. Using the existing fiber backbone and infrastructure of its parent company, Lyse Energy, a multi-utility company serving the Stavanger region of Norway, Lyse Tele is building a fiber network direct to subscribers to provide homes with next-generation broadband connectivity and services.Lyse has connected 500 subscribers in the initial phase of the network rollout and is offering flat rate voice over IP (VoIP) packages, video on demand, access to 40 channels of broadcast TV over a single IP-based Ethernet network. The simplicity and manageability of Ethernet over fiber as a broadband access technology is helping enable Lyse Tele to offer high-capacity first mile access to subscribers. "Norwegian consumers are discerning purchasers of broadband access services, so being able to offer significantly improved access speeds from 2 to 10 Mbps in the first mile clearly differentiates our service offerings," commented Eirik Gundegjerde, Product Manager Broadband Services with Lyse Tele. "But the key consideration was our desire to offer revenue-generating advanced services on top of the basic Ethernet connectivity, which made the Cisco Metro Ethernet solution with features such as IP multicast for video delivery a strategic choice."Cisco Systems Inc.