Tele Columbus AG/WTC with its PŸUR brand, one of Germany's leading fibre network operators, has joined forces to form a partnership with SBV, Flensburg's largest housing association, and regional utilities provider Stadtwerke Flensburg to provide the town with innovative multimedia technology. SBV has extended its existing agreements with Tele Columbus Group and is modernising its cable network in order to provide multimedia services and a reliable and extensive TV service to the 7,500 apartments in its portfolio. The future deployment of the new DOCSIS 3.1 standard means that data speeds will be significantly higher moving forward. A state-of-the-art fibre-optic infrastructure is also set to be established in the northern German town over the coming years. As part of its partnership with Stadtwerke Flensburg, PŸUR uses dark fibre connections at network layer 3 to bring the high-speed internet directly into residents' homes. Once complete, the Tele Columbus FTTH network will also allow Stadtwerke to provide their own IP products to SBV apartments. Stadtwerke has already connected more than half of the districts in Flensburg, and therefore many SBV buildings too, to its expanded fibre-optic network. As part of the new partnership between SBV, Stadtwerke and P?UR, internal fibre-optic networks are now being installed into each apartment.