About EICTA

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Moving Towards a Very High Speed Europe Eicta
Position on Next Generation Access (NGA) I2010
meeting Brdo May 13th 14th 2008 Jean Pierre
Lartigue - EICTA on
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1. Predictions for the Future 2. Importance
of NGA 3. Political push for a Very High Speed
Europe 4. Removing Obstacles to Investment
Civil works and passive infrastructure sharing
5. Digital divide, Avoiding the gap Public
policy actions
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1. Predictions for the Future
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Consumers Growing Needs Require a Bold Approach
to Very High Speed Broadband Access
Future broadband - Policy approach to next
generation access - OFCOM Sept 2007
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2. Importance of NGA
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Starting point for FTTx The Bandwidth Equation
VDSL CO 50 Mbps
ADSL - CO 12 Mbps
FTTH - SDU 100 Mbps
FTTH - MDU 100 Mbps
FTTN - VDSL 50 Mbps
FTTB - VDSL 100 Mbps
Drivers upfront CAPEX, competition,
time-to-market
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Two Resulting Paths to Mass Market Fibre
Copper-Centric
Fibre-centric
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100
Fixed Wireless
Fixed Wireless
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85
DSLAM(ADSL)
DSLAM(ADSL)
VDSL2
50 Mbps
ADSL2
FTTH/B
FTTH/B
ADSL2
3-5 Mbps
3-5 Mbps
25 Mbps
25 Mbps
Coverage
Coverage
gt100 Mbps
gt100 Mbps
Rehab
Rehab
Greenfield
Greenfield
2005
2010
2015
2005
2010
2015
VDSL2 30 Mlines in 06 ? 120 Mlines in 11
FTTH 12 Mlines in 06 ? 50 Mlines in 11
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Various Strategies Observed to Mix VDSL and FTTH
FTTH FTTN
CO VDSL2 FTTH
FTTH
Greenfield


VDSL2
FTTN VDSL2
FTTH
FTTH only
FTTB/VDSL2 FTTH
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3. Political Push for a Very High Speed
Europe The Cases of UK and France
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Example of National Initiative UK Very High
Speed Broadband Projects

• Case Analysis South Yorkshire Digital Region
• Four local UK authorities in South Yorkshire
  region created Digital Region project
• Create BB infrastructure to spur economic
  regeneration and bridge Digital Divide
• The project will sell wholesale access to ISPs
  using FTTC with speeds up to 50MBit/s
• Provide NGA to 600 000 homes (i.e 1.3M citizens)
  and 40 000 businesses across region
• Case Analysis BT and Ebbsfleet trial
• BT Openreach fibre local access at Ebbsfleet
  Valley in North Kent in a new build zone
• The trial is intended to gauge what demand exists
  for very high speed broadband
• Connect 10 000 homes, 6M feet of commercial space
  and 3 M ft of retail, leisure and community
  facilities with speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s
• This will be offered on a wholesale basis to all
  UK Communications providers

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Example of National initiative French Very High
Speed Forum Recommendations

• Aim 4M subscribers by 2012 with measures to
  reduce costs
• 1.  Reduce the cost of wiring buildings
• Measure 1 Ensure the pre-wiring of new buildings
• Measure 2 Facilitate operators access to
  existing buildings
• Measure 3 Ensure that  in-building  wiring is
  shared among between operators
• 2.  Reduce civil engineering costs
• Measure 4 Regulate duct offers
• Measure 5 Facilitate operator access to
  existing ducts (electricity, telecoms, sewers)
• Measure 6 Promote VHS BB for businesses with the
  creation of a Very high-speed business area
  label
• Measure 7 Allow favorable (public domain) fees
  for empty or shared ducts
• Measure 8 Improve knowledge of existing ducts by
  public domain managers
• 3 - Ensure access for all
• Measure 9 Ensure that part of the digital
  dividend benefits to rural areas
• 4 - Reinforce RD and the development of usages
• Measure 10 Reinforce RD and development of
  innovative VHS BB service with competitive
  clusters

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4. Removing Obstacles to Investment
Improving cost of civil works and Passive
infrastructure sharing
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A Mix of Market and Policy approaches will be
needed
POLICY DRIVEN Underserved BB area High
cost/subscriber No private FTTH
MARKET DRIVEN Fast service take rate Mass market
dense area Natural competition
SUBURB-1
SUBURB-1 Risky business case
CAPITAL Positive business case
RURAL-1 No business case
URBAN
URBAN
RURAL-2
RURAL-3
Alternative private fibre networks in many
European Capitals Open community networks
required in underserved areas
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Public funding is key to achieve 100 coverage
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Retail, Service applications, Network
Private Sector
Retail, service applications Network IP
Wholesale
Retail, Service applications, Network, infra
resources
OptionalIP Wholesale Dark fiber roll-out and
renting Labeling / Pre-cabling Build of Primary
infra
Investment ()
Optional Dark fiber roll-out

Public Sector
Labeling / Pre-cabling Access to
public infrastructure
Access to public infrastructure
Area types
Market Driven e.g. Tier 1 cities
Risk Driven e.g. Tier 2 suburban
Policy Driven e.g. rural
Civil work
600 /subs
1200/subs
4000 /subs
Total Pay back
4 years
8 years
gt 20 years
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Several practices of sharing in progress
Market Driven
Policy Driven
Sharing Dark Fiber in the Building
Local community as IP Wholesaler
SPx
SP2
SP1
Wholesaler
CO
Fiber Flexibility Point Building
Private
Private
Building owners

Public
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National public coordination must be promotedAnd
already active in several Member States
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Need to Reduce Passive Infrastructure Costs
Passives Total 50
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20
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Trench Sharing Ducting Aerial
Local Coherence Investors Coverage
Optimised Civil Engineering
Reference Agenda Civil Works
IMPACT FACTORS
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5. Digital Divide Avoiding the Gap Public
Policy Actions
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Recommendations on Public Policy Actions

• European institutions should invite Member States
  to adopt pro-active policies aimed at spurring
  NGA investment and preventing the Digital Divide
  through
• 1- Creation of Next Generation Access Forums
• Must address deployment in suburban and rural
  areas
• 2- Establishment of national Very High Speed
  Broadband Strategies
• Need broadband coverage to 30 European
  population by 2010 and 40 European population
  with Very High Speed by 2012
• 3- Close involvement of local communities in the
  definition of Very High Speed broadband
  strategies
• Public Funds should be encouraged to support
  local investment in ICT infrastructure open to
  all players

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Recommendations on Public Policy Actions cont

• 4- Confirmation of technology and architectural
  neutrality
• Fibre paradigm is different from copper and need
  flexible approaches according to investment
  requirements
• 5- European institutions need to play an active
  role by supporting local communities in above
  mentioned actions
• EICTA invites them to create public forums
  addressing best practices for NGA deployment in
  urban, sub-urban and rural areas

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