WP1 Baseline and Planning Field study on dark fibre acquisition

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WP1 Baseline and PlanningField study on dark
fibre acquisition
Jorge-A. Sanchez-P. WP1 Leader Greek Research
Technology Network sanchez at grnet.gr www.grnet.g
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WP1 Objectives (as in TA)

• Delivering a detailed database of available dark
  fibre in SE European countries as well as the
  necessary information to identify interconnection
  requirements based on exchange points with the
  rest of Europe
• Help in identifying the most feasible
  cross-border connections based on (dark) fibre
  and determining which ones should be established
  for seamless interconnection
• Assessing and describing, by means of selected
  case studies, the status of (NREN) owned national
  connectivity in SE Europe
• Producing an initial view on the steps needed to
  transform (parts of) the SEE NREN infrastructure
  to owned or leased fibres.
• Providing input to the reports of WP3 concerning
  the feasibility and penetration possibilities of
  dark fibre deployment in SEE NRENs in view of the
  possibility of a regional infrastructure to
  become integrated with the pan-European network
  infrastructure for research and education
  (GÉANT2).

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WP1 Objectives (to work on)

• Deliver a database of available (dark) fibre (and
  planting projects) in SEE that will assist
  SEE-NRENs in their National and International
  fibre acquisition roadmaps
• Identify (dark) fibre interconnection points and
  cross-border connections in SEE (and determine
  which ones should be established for seamless
  interconnection) that will assist SEE-NRENs in
  National and International interconnectivity
  plans
• Produce a report on the status of SEE NRENs that
  will assist SEE NRENs in benchmarking their
  progress and update their sustainability plans
• Describe and assess the status of (all) SEE NRENs
  owned national connectivity and related
  acquisition projects that will accelerate (via
  best practices) SEE NRENs fibre acquisition plans

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WP1 Tasks (Leaders)

• Task 1.1 Deliver the SEE (dark) fibre footprint
  database
• GRNET/Jorge
• Task 1.2 Report SEE NRENs (dark) fibre
  acquisition experiences
• GRNET/Nikos

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WP1 Timeline - Milestones
update
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WP1 Deliverables (Editors)

• D1.1 - SEE (dark) fibre footprint database
• M05 (GRNET/Jorge)
• D1.2 - SEE NRENs (dark) fibre acquisition
  experiences
• M06 (GRNET/Nikos)

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WP1 Effort
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WP1 Approach T1.1
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T1.1 discussions/decisions

• Dark Fibre Footprint Template/Data base records
  fields Need to agree on the data that we will be
  recording (template) in the database.
• ALL partners, but specially WP2, WP3 and WP4
  leaders and DANTE, CESNET, NIIFI, AMREJ, MARNET,
  DANTE, ANTELOPE, to provide the data they
  consider significant for recording.
• Copy the related text from Annex 1 fibre type
  and vendor, capacities, transmission reliability,
  expiration date (term of reservation), ownership
  of the dark fibre, exact end-to-end fibre length,
  installed in-line equipment, measured
  attenuation, value of chromatic dispersion,
  route, maintenance arrangements.
• The data should be categorized and should be easy
  to be included in excel.
• To agree on the data 15/4/2005
• Request of Information
• Should be attractive to recipients (a business
  behind it)
• List of recipients of the RFI. To be produced
  with
• the internal intelligence of all SEE NRENs
• information available at TERENA, DANTE and
• government agencies
• equipment and fibre vendors
• fibre maintenance companies
• public sites and reports
• To finalize the list by 22/4/2005.
• To send the RFi by 29/4/2005.

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T1.1 discussions/decisions

• Market research reports Plan to acquire a couple
  of market research reports from companies
  specialised in providing market intelligence on
  optical networking (availability of fibre) in
  SEE.
• Jorge to search around and propose buying one or
  two (total budget 10k) (e.g. KMI,
  telegeographics)
• Local visits Plan to organize local visits to
  the targeted countries to meet with known owners
  of fibre or to identify others
• visits to be combined with other activities in
  the project (e.g. WP3)
• To be organized around June-July with Claire and
  the local hosts
• Input from finished or running projects the only
  relevant input seems to be from GN2/DANTE
• Jorge to sign ASAP NDA with GN2/DANTE
• How to handle the information (sensitivity)
• Jorge to be the central point of the process
  (signing also the NDAs wherever required)
• All data to be shared also with Valentino/TERENA
  and Dai/DANTE under NDA
• A countrys data and international cross borders
  to be shared with one person in that countrys
  NREN
• An article to be included in the consortium
  agreement to cover the consortium organizations.
• Area covered
• Countries Albania, FYR of Macedonia, Bulgaria,
  Romania, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Cross-borders above and with Greece, Italy,
  Croatia,Hungary

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WP1 Approach T1.2
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T1.2 discussions/decisions

• Section A of Deliverable 1.2 - Status of SEE
  NRENs (status indicators)
• Plan to update the related sections of similar
  SEEREN and SEEGRID deliverables (without sending
  out new questionnaires). Start working on the
  update of the related sections of the
  abovementioned deliverables. CESNET will not be
  included.
• All confirm filled in the TERENA compendium 2005
  (http//www.terena.nl/compendium/)
• Section B of Deliverable 1.2 Dark fiber
  acquisition experiences/examples (case studies)
  of DF deployment in SEE NRENs and other world
  regions.
• No separation between SEE and other regions
• Known cases in Serbia-Montenegro, FYR of
  Macedonia, Greece, Hungary,
• To include also Czech Rep, Slovenia, Croatia,
  Poland
• No cases in Albania, Bulgaria, Romania,
  Bosnia-Herzegovina
• All above countries/NRENs to provide provide a
  report/description.
• Jorge to circulate a template
• WP1 will provide only a first level analysis of
  the collected data related to fiber availability
  and dark fiber acquisitions