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FTTH Council EuropeAnnual Report April 2010 – April 2011

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ContentWelcome ___________________________________ 4

Findings ___________________________________ 5

Europe on the move at last? ___________________ 6

What will fill the pipes? ________________________ 8

Financing FTTH networks: how to get it right? __ 10

On the road to innovation ____________________ 12

A wind of change ___________________________ 14

Communications ________________________ 15

FTTH Conference 2011 ______________________ 16

FTTH Middle East Conference 2010 ___________ 18

Spreading the word _________________________ 20

People ____________________________________ 22

Board of Directors ___________________________ 24

Contracted Team ____________________________ 26

Working Committees ________________________ 28

Resources and Publications ___________ 30

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This Annual Report presents the results of a very successful working year 2010/11. The FTTH Council Europe has made a huge step forward on many topics:• Membership exceeded 150 members.• The FTTH Conference in Milan was a ground-breaking

success with more than 3,000 participants.• The FTTH Council Europe Middle East Group was devel-

oped into an independent FTTH Council Middle East & North Africa.

• The FTTH Council Europe positioned itself as an important player towards the European Commission, the regulators and the European organisations of telecom operators.

• The Digital Agenda Document and the recommendation on NGA regulation include several important positions which were developed and supported by the FTTH Council Eu-rope in the last years.

• External Communications to media, press and stakeholders was further ex-tended and the FTTH Council Europe has become a recognised and valuable source of information on FTTH topics.

• We have continued to enhance the benefits formemberswithadditionalopportunities including extending the Milan conference to enable members to organise pre-conference work-shops, presentations at member eventsandmanyotherbenefits.

These impressive achievements were

FINDINGS

Hartwig TauberChris Holden

A word from Chris Holden

and Hartwig TauberPresident, FTTH Council Europe

Director General, FTTH Council Europeonly possible through a strong support fromourmembership,theefficientworkof the volunteers in our working com-mittees, the outstanding commitment of the Committee Chairs and Board Mem-bers and the dedication and hard work of our contracted team.

We would like to take the chance to thank you personally for your support for what we believe is the only, future-proof broadband solution that truly has the power to change lives.

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At the start of 2010, FTTH stakeholders were expressing

their concern about the slow deployment of FTTH in Europe,

particularly with regards to its large economies. Although this

is no time for complacency, there are signs that calls to speed

up European deployment are being heeded, with many new

projects reaching fruition in the second half of 2010, a trend

that looks set to continue through 2011.

The Council’s latest FTTH European Ranking covering the full-

year 2010, showed that there are now 3.9 million fibre access

subscribers across the continent, 8.1 million if Russia is included.

Data published by the FTTH Council Europe indicates that growth

in fibre access deployment is at last picking up speed across

the continent, although large discrepancies remain between

countries.

Lithuania retained the top European spot,

followed by early pace setters Sweden,

Norway, Slovenia and Slovakia. Turkey

entered the Ranking for the first time,

with Portugal and Latvia also showing

strong growth. Russia demonstrated its

huge potential with the highest growth in

absolute numbers.

“The Baltic Countries as well as Russia

continue to focus on fibre networks,”

said Chris Holden, President of the FTTH

Council Europe. “Portugal is a showcase

of a South European country moving

forward very quickly on fibre roll outs,

even leaving The Netherlands, Finland

and France behind them. However, these

positive examples can’t fully compensate

for the fact that countries like Germany,

UK or Spain have yet to show real

progress. Europe has still a long way to

go.”

The FTTH European Ranking is part of

the Council’s ongoing Market Panorama

study, carried out by analysts at research

firm IDATE, and showing the percentage

of households that receive broadband

services over optical fibre connected

directly to their home or building.

Europe on the move at last?The latest FTTH Global Ranking, which

incorporates data from the FTTH Councils

of Asia Pacific and North America,

contained further surprises.

The United Arab Emirates is a new

entrant to the Global Ranking, which now

numbers 26 economies that meet the

qualifying requirement of at least 1% of

households connected by FTTH or FTTB.

The UAE dramatically jump started into

the Ranking in fourth overall place, ahead

of all European and North American

economies and only behind South Korea,

Japan and Hong Kong, which retain their

status as world leaders.

Figures from consulting firm Heavy

Reading, commissioned by the FTTH

Council, forecast which economies are

set to lead the market in the future.

The FTTH Forecast research looked in

detail at 21 countries, briefly reviewing

17 further ones, between them covering

over 290 million households, 195

million of which are in the EU. Heavy

Reading predicted that the strong drive

to FTTB in Eastern Europe will continue,

and that commitment to FTTH among

municipalities in France, Netherlands,

Germany and Switzerland will also grow.

Heavy Reading’s Race to Fibre Maturity slide, reproduced above, shows that of

the European countries considered in the

research, only the UK looks set to fall

short of ‘fibre maturity’ by 2020, defined

as 20% of households penetrated by

FTTH or FTTB.

As the market matures the message for

the coming year is less about “Why

fibre?” and more about “How fibre?”,”

said Chris Holden, President of the FTTH

Council Europe.

Jan Schindler, Chair of the FTTH

Council Europe’s Market Intelligence Committee, the body responsible for

the FTTH Rankings and Forecast, says the prospects for fibre

access appear generally encouraging.

He said the Committee has spent the last year not only

generating findings, but using those findings to encourage

further deployment of FTTH: “We’ve conducted a number of

webinars to help expose the results to as many interested

people as possible,” he says. “This has proven a great idea.

We’re continuing with major research projects, working with

independent bodies like IDATE and Heavy Reading. We’re also

building up a database of successful deployments, to show

people what can be done.”

But despite encouraging signs, there remains much work to be

done before Europe can hold its head up alongside leading Asian

economies, says Neelie Kroes, the European Commission Vice-

President responsible for Europe’s ambitious Digital Agenda.

“We must now implement the Digital Agenda, and build a better

future for Europe together,” she said, speaking at the FTTH

Conference in Milan. “At the heart of the Digital Agenda is

ensuring that Europeans can get all the advantages and benefits

that come from access to superfast broadband. Succeeding in

this ambition is key to our economic future, and the role of fibre

is central here.”

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Fibre is the only technology that removes all bandwidth bottle-necks, and the only one that genuinely supports new types of services and applications, like teleworking, video communi-cation, eHealth and 3D entertainment. Innovative companies have already developed applications that work much better overfibre,asevidencedbythefollowingexamples.

eHealth, remote care for the elderly and dependant peopleIn the context of Europe’s aging population, applications dedicated to home care or support to the elderly are key to ensuringtoplevelservicewhilstcontrollingfinancialanden-

Although no “killer application” has yet emerged, it is clear that a

combination of advanced services and applications are increasingly

filling the available bandwidth into homes and businesses.

vironmental costs. Several live demos of such services were presented at the FTTH Conference in Milan, including Link Care Services, a French company that provides remote video monitoring for patients with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive diseases, as well as for the elderly and dependant people living at home or in a care facility.

“Our role is to help those who care for others,” says Chief Technology Offi-

cerThomasChiroux. “Theyoftenfindit hard to go out because they spend so much time with the person they are caring for. We support the carer by putting cameras in the home, sending a video stream to be analysed by an agent, checking there hasn’t been a fall or looking out for other risks.”

Chiroux says that over 600 implementations of the technology exist in France, most of which are at present connected by DSL, which puts a huge restriction on the system implementation. “The bandwidth limitations of DSL mean that we can only install two cameras per home,” he says. “With FTTH, you can monitor all the rooms in the patient’s home.” High quality video feeds are also

What will fill the pipes?

“On FairPlay Interactive TV, you can vote for music clips and an engine learns what your taste is,” explains Alexander Hay-ward, Marketing Director for FairPlay. “Content can be per-sonalised easily. It’s fully interactive, all controlled by a stan-dard remote control, and comes through a set top box, not a PC. There’s therefore no need for a complicated interface, or for any browsing. You just lean back on your couch and enjoy it as you would with ordinary TV.”

Hayward explains that the service requires one stream per viewer, which is only possible on high bandwidth networks: “With FTTH, we can be absolutely certain that customers will get what they want,” he says. “With DSL, there is no certainty. Themorefibrethereis,thebetterforus.”

Fibre-enabled interactive TV, he says, is also great for the Internet service providers, as it helps to justify the cost of service bundles: “For the network operator, it showcases the benefitoffibre,and itenhances thestickinessofparticularchannels.”

“There are a lot of services you can launch over FTTH,” said ToreKristoffersen,ChiefTechnologyOfficerofNorwegianISPAltibox, which has launched a number of next-generation ser-vices over its FTTH network, including interactive TV, alarm and energy monitors, and mobile phone off-load. Some next-generation services will be always-on; others will be accessed simultaneously by different members of the same household. Theanswertothequestion:“whatserviceswillfillthefatpipe?”is “all of them”.

Spreading the message on these issues is the responsibility of the FTTH Council Europe’s new Content and Applica-tions Committee, and non-member participation in its activi-ties is currently being welcomed.

aid that offers a platform for teachers to create a rich media path and share it with pupils in the classroom or the home. Each path created is unique and made up of multiple streams of informa-tion from text to audio and video. Pu-pils can pursue the programme at their own pace, interacting as they go. The application is also designed to be col-laborative, promoting online community participation and exchange of informa-tion.

“Belearner offers pupils the chance to experience multiple points of view on a subject,” says Damien Roucou, Execu-tive Director of Erdenet. “With an ordi-naryDSLconnection,it’sverydifficulttoadd rich media – video, sounds, maps. This is a tool that calls out for a fibreconnection, directly linking this rich me-dia to the pupil.”

Next-generation TV Examples include the Microsoft Media-room TV delivery platform and FairPlay Interactive TV, with new ways to per-sonalise TV content.

on his wish list – when an alarm is raised, the agent on duty needs a good image in order to check whether the patient really has a problem.

The potential of remote healthcare was also shown by Portugal Telecom, which has developed the MediGraf Telecon-sultation Solution, a system that allows healthcare professionals to cooperate with each other on a diagnosis, using video conferencing, data sharing and other collaborative online tools.

“We enable real-time remote consulta-tions so that doctors can make the right decisions about patient care,” says Filipa Calado, PT Inovação Sales and Marketing Director. “It is important that thedoctorshavefullconfidence in thelive images they are seeing, otherwise it could lead to mis-diagnosis with poten-tial disastrous impact on the patients, and also on their career. Hence this ap-plication requires high bandwidth, and FTTH is a key contributor to a success-ful remote consultation.”

Interactive e-Learning coursesErdenet is another pioneering French company that has developed www.belearner.com, an interactive learning


The investors’ point of viewInvestingsuccessfullyinfibreaccess,inacompetitivemar-ket already well served with other broadband options, is a real challenge, according to Joost Goderie, Fund Director with Rabo Bouwfonds, and head of its Communication In-frastructure Fund (CIF), speaking at the FTTH Conference in Milan.

CIF has attracted investment from several pension funds, en-ablingittoput€750mintohybridfibrecoax(HFC)infrastruc-

The business argument for FTTH projects, and the raising

of finance to support them, was much on the minds of FTTH

stakeholders this year.

ture in the Netherlands. The investors were attracted to fibre as a long-termplaywithstablecashflows,wellalignedwith their own need for long-term growth overshort-termprofit.

Rolling out additional infrastructure in a market already well served by cable makes sense, explained Goderie, where the strategy is to provide an up-

grade path for that existing infrastruc-ture, not simply replace it.

Long-term thinking and low risk invest-mentisalsobehindanotherhighprofileDutch fibre success story, much dis-cussed at the Milan event. Pioneering network operator Reggefiber has re-ceived investment of €285m from the European Investment Bank and fivecommercial banks for its FTTH deploy-ment, set to achieve returns over a 10 year period.

Among the key tests that the project had to pass were technical soundness,

Financing FTTH networks: how to get it right?

financial viability, an acceptable eco-nomic return and compliance with envi-ronmental protection and procurement regulation. FTTH was proven to tick all these boxes.

“This 10-year loan is crucial for Regge-fiber to reach its ambitions,” said JanvanRooijen,Reggefiber’sFinancialDi-rector, speaking in Milan. “It enhances the scale of FTTH we can provide in the Netherlands. Providing consumers and businesses with some of the fastest broadband speeds in the world sets the pace for European economic growth based on digital innovation. Our open

model will encourage greater competi-tion in the Dutch broadband market. It is also an excellent example of how the European Investment Bank and the European Commission can work ef-fectively together to stimulate private sector investment in areas of strategic importance for Europe’s future.“

FTTH Business Guide V2When the FTTH Business Guide was firstlaunchedatthebeginningof2010,it offered for the first time clear guid-ance on how to develop a sound busi-nesscaseforfibreaccessdeployment.

The idea is to give operators, whether from a traditional telco background or not, guidance on how to put their roll-out plans into action more speedily and with a lower risk of costly error, based on success stories, case studies and experience of other operators across Europe.

The Business Committee has now made available an update of the Busi-ness Guide, available as a free down-load on the Council’s website: “In the latest version, we have added a lot of

new content, and improved the graphics and layout,” says Karin Ahl, Chair of the Business Committee. “We have put the focusevenmoreon thefinancingofnewdeployments,and also on regulatory issues. This is particularly important with the EU’s new Digital Agenda”

WithmoreplayersgettingactiveontheFTTHfield,interestisgrowinginthepracticalfinancingissues,coveredinthesemi-nars, presentations and workshops that the Business Com-mittee has been running, but also in the FTTH Wiki, where people are invited to give feedback.External parties and non-members are welcome to take part in the activities of the Business Committee, including work on enriching the Business Guide.

What makes a successful FTTH project? To help answer this question, the FTTH Council Europe has begun to assemble a series of FTTH case studies, available for download on our website. The stories selected include projects from different countries, different business models, and from different stakeholders in the FTTH ecosystem. The aim is to illustrate the wide variety of different approaches to FTTH deployment as well as any common themes.

Successisnotonlydefinedbyfinancialfigures-theperiodofreturn on investment is very different in the projects and also depends on the approach of the operators. Other examples of success might include evidence of socio-economic ben-efits for the community, or new applications developed forand enabled by the high-speed network.

From left to right: Wolfgang Fischer,

Member; Karin Ahl, Chair of the Business

Committee; Natascha Weinstabl, Project

Coordinator; Edgar Aker, Member; Jouni

Heinonen, Member

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The FTTH Council Europe’s Deployment & Operations Commit-

tee has the task of keeping up with the latest technologies and

encouraging technical innovation. “We continue to focus on the

technical aspects of deploying and operating a fibre access

network,” says Natascha Weinstabl, Project Coordinator of the

FTTH Council Europe.

The D&O Committee is responsible for producing the FTTH

Handbook, now in its fourth edition: “It now deals with

both active and passive networks, with new input on new

technologies and new ways of doing things,” says Wein-

It is now widely recognised that FTTH is the only future-proof

access solution. Even though the argument for FTTH is cast iron,

the quest for innovation on how it is deployed goes on unabated.

stabl. “In it we consider all the new

techniques that have been developed

for all sorts of networks. We have also

worked to synchronise the Handbook

more closely with the Business Guide,

and achieve a coordinated approach

between the two publications.”

Over the next year, the D&O Commit-

tee will be translating the Handbook into

other languages than just English, she

says, as there’s demand now for an edi-

tion in a number of local languages.

She says the Committee has also con-

ducted webinars on various technical

topics: “We would like to request further

input on what people think are interes-

ting subjects,” she says. “We’d also like

volunteer speakers for events.”

“What made our webinars so successful

is that they were well attended by peo-

ple from outside the Council, interested

in specific topics like network planning,”

says Hartwig Tauber, the FTTH Council Eu-

rope’s Director General. “We hosted work-

shops too, helping to spread information

on new technologies and solutions.”

On the road to innovation FTTH Innovation Awards 2011The FTTH Conference 2011 in Milan

concluded, as is now traditional, with

the presentation of the FTTH Innovation

Awards.

Selected not by the Council but by an

independent panel of experts from the

academic world, the Innovation Awards

recognise companies and organisations

whose creativity has in some way driven

forward the FTTH industry. This year the

Awards were made in two categories:

• deployment&operations

• technical&technology

The award for deployment and operati-

ons went to Portugal Telecom for its I5

strategy, an integral part of its impres-

sive FTTH implementation plan that has

seen over one million homes connected

over the last year.

I5 stands for the five pillars of inno-

vation needed for a successful FTTH

transformation, namely: network de-

ployment and operations, service delivery, service conver-

gence, business transformation and an eco-system of part-

nerships.

Portugal Telecom’s holistic approach has demonstrably paid

off, enabling it to capture approximately 30% of the country’s

pay TV market since services launched in April 2008.

“Portugal Telecom has always positioned itself at the forefront

of the development and rollout of leading-edge technologies,”

said Portugal Telecom CEO Zeinal Bava, receiving the award:

“For us, the investment in fibre was not a question of ‘if’, but

of ‘when’, as we believe it is the only future-proof technology

to provide ultra-broadband services to our enterprise and re-

sidential customers.”

Bava said the company’s aggressive FTTH roll-out is a core part

of its cloud offer and pay TV strategy, underpinning the whole

transformation of its business model.

“This award recognises teamwork of the highest calibre, and

the success of a strategy focused on innovation, operational

execution and partnership with industry leaders to deliver

best-in-class services to our customers,” added Bava.

The winner in the technical category was Nokia Siemens Net-

works for its ultra-dense WDM-PON system utilizing coherent

detection technology.

This experimental system has been designed to deliver sus-

tained symmetric data rates at 1.2 Gbps per subscriber, long

reach up to 100 km, and high channel count of up to 1000

channels per fibre. Such a system is capable of supporting

residential, enterprise, as well as mobile backhaul customers

within the same optical distribution network.

From left to right:

Chris Holden with Sylvia

Smolorz & Joao Picoito from

Nokia Siemens Networks


COMMUNICATIONS

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In May 2010, the European Commission set out its long awaited

Digital Agenda, with the aim of speeding up the deployment of

high speed broadband across the continent and spurring the

region’s economic recovery in the process.

The EC wants a borderless online environment where attractive

online services are available to all, over a fast broadband

connection. Specifically, the target is that by 2020 internet

speeds of 30Mbit/s or above are available to all European

citizens, with half of households enjoying connections of

100Mbit/s or higher.

”The FTTH Council Europe has been pushing since 2004 for

a definition of broadband that clarifies the need for high

The last year has seen important regulatory developments that

support the case for FTTH.

connection speeds,” says Hartwig

Tauber, Director General of the FTTH

Council Europe. “It is now clear that

2Mbps download speeds are not enough.

The Digital Agenda is a big step forward,

and a success for us, as only fibre can

achieve all that is demanded by the

Digital Agenda.”

Speaking at the FTTH Conference in

Milan, Neelie Kroes, Vice President of

the European Commission and European

Digital Agenda Commissioner, talked

of the role of fibre access as ‘central’

to making the Agenda happen. “It is

not possible to maximise access while

failing on fibre,” she said. “The current

rate of new [European] connections –

now down to 25,000 a day – is simply

not enough to meet our 2020 targets.

We have to intensify our efforts and get

higher investments on the ground.”

To this end, one of Kroes’s first actions

as Digital Agenda Commissioner was the

adoption of an NGA Recommendation,

which brings more clarity for both

regulators and investors. “The NGA

Recommendation defines how next

generation networks should be

regulated,” says Tauber. “Again the

Council’s views have been taken into

account in the framework. We’re going

to continue to follow up in the coming

months with the national regulators to

ensure an implementation of the NGA

recommendation, in the EU member

states, that is in favour of FTTH.”

A wind of change

For the first time ever, ETNO, ECTA, BEREC and FTTH Council Europe spoke in a sequence at the same event at the FTTH Conference 2011 in Milan.From left to right: Luigi Gambardella, Executive Board Chairman of ETNO; Hartwig Tauber, Director General of the FTTH Council Europe; Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner; Tom Ruhan, Chairman of ECTA; Dr. Leonidas Kanellos, Vice Chair of BEREC; Chris Holden, President of the FTTH Council Europe


The largest FTTH event in the world!

More than 3,000 participants from 80 countries

130 Media Representatives from 18 countries

s Closing Speech by Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner

Opening Speech by Dr. Letizia Moratti, Mayor of the City of Milan

Keynote speech by Carlota Perez, author of Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: the Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

100 exhibitors showing the latest FTTH solutions. FTTH Conference 2011 raises “green donation” for Italian environmental associa-tion Pro Natura.

New : Pre-Conference Workshops 125Speakersincludinghigh-levelopinionleaders,forinstancefinancerssuchastheEuropean Investment Bank and the Communication Infrastructure Fund

FTTH Conference 2011

9 & 10 February 2011, MilanCreating a Brighter Future

Hristo Stoykov, European Investment Bank


Creation of FTTH Middle East Council: Initially gathered in a regional working group of the FTTH Council Europe, members with interest in the Middle East Region are in the process of officially creating the FTTH Council Middle East & North

Africa in 2011, based in Dubai.

The announcement of the United Arab Emirates’s entry into the prestigious FTTH Global Ranking was made at the conference, showing that FTTH is already an important market in the Region.

Opening speech by HE Eng. Charbel Nahas, Minister of Post and Telecommunications of the Republic of Lebanon, patron of the conference

The second edition of the FTTH Middle East Conference

gathered close to 300 participants from 30 countries

in Lebanon’s capital city, Beirut.

FTTH Middle EastConference 2010

Keynote speech by Dr. Imad Hoballah, Acting Chairman and CEO, telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Lebanon

PARA DIVULGAÇÃO IMEDIATA

Portugal na linha da frente no Ranking Europeu da fibra óptica em 2010 reforça posição de

liderança e afirma-se como principal motor de desenvolvimento e mudança do sector na Europa

Líderes do Ranking europeu de fibra óptica dão as boas vindas à Turquia

Última actualização dos dados relativos aos Rankings do FTTH revela que Letónia, Portugal e Turquia

são os principais motores de desenvolvimento e os grandes impulsionadores do sector na Europa.

Conferência FTTH - Milão 9 de Fevereiro de 2011 – O FTTH Council Europe, no âmbito da sua 8ª

Conferência Anual, a decorrer em Milão até amanhã, anuncia hoje em exclusivo para a imprensa, os

resultados do seu mais recente Estudo sobre o estado da fibra óptica até casa do utilizador,

apresentando os dados relativos ao ano de 2010, e o Ranking dos países líderes neste relevante

segmento de mercado. Em apenas seis meses verificou-se um aumento de 18% do número de

subscritores ligados, 3.9 milhões (número que aumenta até aos 8.1 milhões incluindo a Rússia) no

final de 2010.

Os dados hoje apresentados assinalam também quais os países que até ao final do ano passado

lideraram o crescimento da penetração do número de subscritores/assinantes de FTTH na Europa.

Apesar de terem sido fortemente disputados durante 2010, os primeiros cinco lugares do Ranking

Europeu de FTTH continuam a ser ocupados pelos mesmos países, com a Lituânia no topo, logo

seguida pela Suécia, pela Noruega, pela Eslovénia e pela Eslováquia. Durante o segundo semestre de 2010 a Turquia entrou pela primeira vez no Ranking europeu da

fiber-to-the-home, tendo-se revelado como um dos mercados mais dinâmicos. A SuperOnline, uma

subsidiária pertencente ao maior operador de comunicações móveis do país - a Turkcell, lançou os

serviços de FTTH no final de 2009 e só no primeiro ano angariou cerca de 200.000

subscritores/assinantes. O objectivo deste operador até ao final de 2011 é chegar com a sua rede de

FTTH até 1 milhão de casas/subscritores/assinantes. Portugal e a Letónia também reforçaram a sua posição no Ranking. O número de subscritores de

FTTH na Letónia quase triplicou em 2010, graças ao programa do operador incumbente Lattelecom,

cuja rede cobre agora mais de um terço dos edifícios do país. O reforço da posição de Portugal no

Ranking resultou do trabalho desenvolvido por três operadores, que aumentaram significativamente

a angariação de subscritores/assinantes de FTTH, nomeadamente: o incumbente Portugal Telecom,

cuja rede passa agora 1 milhão de casas, o operador alternativo Sonaecom e a empresa de cabo ZON

Multimedia.

A Rússia continua a ser um mercado específico, tendo-se confirmado o seu enorme potencial. Este

país registou as maiores taxas de crescimento do ano de 2010 em número absolutos, ao aumentar

para mais 895.000 o número de subscritores/assinantes em apenas seis meses.

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كوابلاأللياف الضوئية إلى العقار

و

%30.8بلغ يناالمبفي نهاية سبتمبر

وعلى الصعيد الع. 2010

المي، سجلت اليابان وكوريا الجنوبية وهونج كونج فقط معدالت أعلى في انتشار شبكة توصيلكوابل

األلياف الضوئية إلى العقار. يناالمباو

وسوف يتم كشف الستار عن التصنيف العالمي الكامل لتوصيل األلياف الضوئية إلى العقار، بما في ذلك اإلمارات العربية المتحدة في مؤتمر تو

صيل األلياف الضوئية إلى العقار في مدينة ميالنو في .2011فبراير

ويرجع النمو الهائل والسريع لعمليات نشر تقنية توصيلل

كوابل األلياف الضوئية

إلى العقار في اإلمارات العربية المتحدةعدة إلى

منها اسبابمشروعات التشييد

و البناءالكبيرة في المنطقة، حيث تعد تقنية تو

كوابلصيلاأللياف الضوئية إلى العقار بمثابة قيمة

مضافة إلىعمليات تنمية المساكن الجديدة

.وذلك، حيث تسعى شركة االتصاالت القائمة

لجعل أبوظبي " اتصاالت"المشروع على أول مدينة في العالم تتم تغطيتها بالكامل بخدمة توصيل األلياف الضوئية إلى العقار قبل نهاية

2010 .كما قامت شركة االتصاالت

" دو"األخرى

بتوصيل الخدمة إلى المناطق السكنية الرئيسية الجديدة في دبي

.وصرح مدير المجلس األوروبي لتوصيل

كوابلاأللياف الضوئية للعقار

)FTTH (كريس هولدن قائالً

"تعد دولة اإلمارات العربية المتحدة متقدمة جًدا عن غيرها من الدول بشكل واض

ح، وذلك بفضل مشاركة كل من شركة " اتصاالت"

القائمة على المشروع وشركة

" دو"المنافس الرئيسي لها

"وأضاف ."

تعتبر شركات االتصاالت الموفرة لهذه التقنية في الشرق األوسط أن توصيل

األلياف كوابل

الضوئية إلى العقاربيناالمباو

مثابة ميزة فعلية يمكن أن تساعدهتتمتعة التي كيالديناميعلى إثبات ا

بها على الساحة الدولية، وقد جذبت اإلمارات بالفعل األنظار إليها بهذا القفزة الديناميكية التي حققتها للدخول في التصنيف العالمي

". ووفقًا لبانوراما سوق توصيلكوابل

األلياف الضوئية إلى العقار، المنفذة لصالح مجموعة الشرق األوسط التابعة للمجلس األوروبي كوابللتوصيلاأللياف الضوئية للعقار

)FTTH (التي قامت بها شركة

IDATE

البحثية، فتعد الدول األخرى بالمنطقة أقل تقدًما من حيث أسواق توصيل األلياف الضوئية للعقار، حيث تمثل اإل

مارات العربية المتحدة بالفعل 96%

من عدد المشتركين في تقنية توصيل األلياف الضوئية إلى العقار

% 76ويناالمباو من إجمالي المنازل التي قامت بالتوصيل في

منطقة.الشرق األوسط

ومن جانبه صرح رئيس مجموعة عمل الشرق األوسط التابعة للمجلس األوروبي لتوصيل األلياف الضوئ

فارس ) FTTH(ية للعقار

"عورتاني بأنه على الرغم من أن تقنية توصيل

كوابلاأللياف الضوئية إلى العقار

منطقة افي ينالمباو الشرق األوسط ال تزال في مهدها، فإن شركات االتصاالت يمكنها توقع اإلمك

انات المحتملة لنشر هذه التقنية.

فلقد رأينا إعالنات تشجيعية في ع ونتوق2010 دخول المزيد من دول الشرق األوسط في التصنيف في غضون السنوات القليلة المقبلة

".

Eiropas šķiedras tir

gus līderiem pievien

ojas Turcija

FTTH ranga

tabulas jaunākie da

ti ierindo Latviju,

Portugāli un Turciju

starp līderiem

FTTH KONFE

RENCE, MILĀNA, 2011.

gada 9. februāris -- Ekskluzīvā

prezentācijā žurnāl

istiem

FTTH konferencē Milā

nā FTTH Council Euro

pe atklāja, ka 2010.

gada otrā puse bija

FTTH tīklu

strauja pieauguma laiks gan

apgūto ēku, gan piev

ienoto abonentu skai

ta ziņā. Kopumā, tag

ad

Eiropā ir gandrīz 3,

9 miljoni FTTH abone

ntu (8,1 miljons ies

kaitot Krieviju) un

tikai 6

mēnešu laikā ir noti

cis pieaugumspar 18 pro

centiem.

Šie dati p

arāda arī to, kuras

valstis 2010. gada b

eigās ieņem vadošo p

ozīciju FTTH abonent

u

skaita ziņā. Notika

sīva sacensība par p

irmajām piecām vietā

m Eiropas FTTH rangu

tabulā,

tomēr tās palika nem

ainīgas. Lietuva sag

labāja pirmo vietu,

un tai sekoja Zviedr

ija,

Norvēģija, Slovēnija

un Slovākija.

Turcija pa

rādījās FTTH rangu t

abulā 2010. gada otr

ajā pusē un bija vie

ns no pašiem

dinamiskākajiem tirg

iem. SuperOnline, va

lsts lielākā mobilā

operatora Turkcell m

eitas

uzņēmums, 2009. gada

beigās sāka piedāvā

t FTTH pakalpojumus

un pirmā gada laikā

piesaistīja

aptuveni 200 000 abo

nentus. Šis operator

s ir apņēmies līdz 2

011. gada beigām nod

rošināt FTTH

tīklu 1 miljonam māj

u.

Rangu tabu

lā ir uzlabojušās ar

ī Portugāles un Latvijas p

ozīcijas. FTTH abome

ntu skaits

Latvijā ir gandrīz t

rīskāršojies, pateic

oties atjauninājumu

programmai, ko nodro

šina

oficiālais operators

Lattelecom, kura tī

kls aptver vairāk ne

kā vienu trešdaļu no

visām

valsts mājsaimniecīb

ām. Portugālē FTTH a

bonentus aktīvi piev

ieno trīs operatori:

oficiālais

Portugal Telecom, ku

ra tīkls aptver 1 mi

ljonu māju, alternat

īvais operators Sona

ecom un

kabeļsakaru uzņēmums

ZON Multimedia.

Krievija v

ēl arvien ir specifi

sks tirgus. Tagad ir

apstiprinājies Krie

vijas milzīgais

potenciāls un valstī

ir visaugstākais pi

eaugums absolūtajos

skaitļos un 6 mēnešu

laikā

pievienojušies vēl 8

95 000 abonentu.

"Optiskā š

ķiedra mājās ir kļuv

usi par patiesi star

ptautisku fenomenu,"

paziņoja Chris

Holden, FTTH Council

Europe prezidents.

"2010. gada otrajā p

usē Turcija kļuva pa

r

18. valsti, kas pievieno

jās FTTH Eiropas ran

gu tabulai. Jaunie t

irgi ir ļoti dinamiski un

bieži vien rangu tab

ulā ieņem augstāku p

ozīciju, apsteidzot

daudz vecākos Ziemeļ

eiropas un

Rietumeiropas tirgus

. Kļūst arvien skaidrā

k redzams, ka tādām

ievērojamām ekonomis

kajām

sistēmām kā Vācijā,

Spānijā un AK ir jād

arbojas aktīvāk, jo

citādi tās var atpal

ikt."

Lai skatīt

u jaunāko informācij

u no pasākuma vietas

, apmeklējiet

http://www.ftthconfe

rence.eu.

Avots: FTT

H Council Europe

Autors: Na

dia Babaali, Tālruni

s: +33-6-20-88-72-3

8

Pressemitte

ilung

Europäische Marktführer

im Bereich Glasfasertech

nik begrüßen die

Türkei in ihren Reihen

Lettland, Portugal und die Türkei s

ind bei der jüngsten

Aktualisierung des FTTH-Ranking

s tonangebend

FTTH CONFERENCE, MAILA

ND, 9 Februar 2011 Das

zweite Halbjahr 2010 war eine Pe

riode

beschleunigten Wachstu

ms bei FTTH-Netzwerken

, sowohl in punkto anschließbarer Gebäude als

auch angeschlossener Teilne

hmer. Dies gab das FTTH Council Europe bei

einer exklusiven

Präsentation Journalis

ten gegenüber auf der FTTH-Ko

nferenz in Mailand bek

annt. Insgesamt

gibt es nunmehr fast 3

,9 Millionen FTTH-Teil

nehmer in Europa (8,1 Millionen e

inschließlich

Russlands)- dies bedeut

et einen Anstieg um 18 Prozent

in nur sechs Monaten.

Die Daten zeigen auch,

welche Länder in Sach

en FTTH-Teilnehmerdurc

hdringung Ende 2010

führend sind. Die ersten fünf Ränge bei Europas FTTH-Rankin

g waren heiß umkämpft, b

lieben

jedoch unverändert. Litauen beh

ielt die Spitzenpositi

on, gefolgt von Schwed

en, Norwegen,

Slowenien und der Slow

akei.

Die Türkei hat im zwei

ten Halbjahr 2010 Einz

ug ins FTTH-Ranking gehalten und war ein

er der

dynamischsten Märkte.

SuperOnline, eine Tochte

rgesellschaft des land

esweit größten

Mobilfunkbetreibers Turkcell, führte Ende

2009 FTTH-Dienste ein

und konnteim ersten J

ahr

rund 200.000 Teilnehmergewinnen. Der Betreib

er zielt darauf ab, bi

s Ende 2011 eine Million

Haushalte durch seinFTTH-Netzwe

rk abzudecken.

Auch Portugal und Lettland konnten ihre Positi

on im Ranking verbesse

rn. Die Zahl der FTTH-

Teilnehmer in Lettland

hat sich dank des Upg

rade-Programms des eta

blierten Betreibers

Lattelecom,dessen Netz

werk mittlerweile mehr als ei

n Drittel der Haushalt

e im Land abdeckt,

fast verdreifacht. In

Portugal sind drei Bet

reiber im Begriff, FTT

H-Teilnehmer hinzuzufü

gen:

der etablierte Betreiber Portugal Te

lecom, dessen Netzwerk

mittlerweile 1 Million Haushalte

übersteigt, der Altern

ativbetreiber Sonaecom

und das Kabelunternehmen Z

ON Multimedia.

Russland bleibt ein be

sonderer Markt. Russlands riesi

ges Potential ist nun

bestätigt, und

das Land hat mit 895.0

00 zusätzlichen Teilne

hmern in sechs Monaten

das höchste absolute

Wachstum.

„Glasfasertechnologie

für zu Hause wird ein wahrlich internation

ales Phänomen“, erklär

te

Chris Holden, Präsiden

t des FTTH Council Europe. „

Im zweiten Halbjahr 20

10 wurde die Türkei

das 18. Land, das ins Europäische

Ranking von FTTH Einz

ug gehalten hat. Schwellenlä

nder sind

sehr dynamisch und beg

innen das Ranking häufig auf

hohen Positionen, oberhalb der reiferen

Märkte Nord- und Westeur

opas.

Es wird zunehmend offe

nsichtlich, dass sich

große Volkswirtschafte

n wie Deutschland, Spa

nien

und das Vereinigte Königreich

beeilen müssen oder Gefahr lau

fen, abgehängt zu werd

en.“

Neues und Aktuelles zu

m Event finden Sie unter http:

//www.ftthconference.e

u.

Quelle: FTTH Council E

urope

Name: Nadia Babaali, T

elefon: +33-6-20-88-7

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Avrupa’nın fiber liderleri Türkiye’yi klasmanlarına davet ediyor

Litvanya, Portekiz ve Türkiye, yeni güncellenen FTTH Sıralaması’nda önderler arasında yer alıyor.

FTTH CONFERENCE, MILANO, 9 Şubat 2011 – FTTH Council Europe, Milano’da gerçekleştirilen

Conference’da gazetecilere, fiber bağlantısı yapılan konutlar ile kullanıcıların sayısındaki artışla FTTH

(Fiber Ağ Bağlantılı Konut) ağlarındaki büyümenin hızlandığı bir dönem olan 2010 ikinci yarısı

hakkında kapsamlı bir sunum gerçekleştirdi. Avrupa’da son altı ayda yüzde 18’lik artışla FTTH abone

sayısı yaklaşık 3,9 milyon aboneye ulaştı. Rusya fiber kullanıcıları da dahil edildiğinde FTTH abone

sayısı 8,1 milyonu buluyor. FTTH Council Europe’un FTTH Ranking (FTTH Sıralaması) kapsamında sunduğu araştırma verisi, 2010

sonu itibarıyla FTTH abone penetrasyonunda ülkeler bazındaki gelişmeyi de yansıtıyor. FTTH

Sıralaması’nda ilk beşi oluşturan Avrupa ülkeleri bu alanda rekabetlerine devam ederken yerlerini

korumayı başardı. Zirvedeki Litvanya’yı İsveç, Norveç, Slovenya ve Slovakya izliyor.

Türkiye de FTTH Sıralaması’na en dinamik pazarlardan biri olarak 2010’un ikinci yarısında katıldı.

Ülkenin en büyük mobil operatörü Turkcell’in bir iştiraki olan SuperOnline, 2009 sonunda FTTH

servislerini başlattı ve ilk yılında yaklaşık 200 bin civarında abone sayısına erişti. Operatör, 2011

yılının sonuna kadar FTTH ağına dahil etmek üzere yaklaşık 1 milyon konuta erişmeyi amaçlıyor.

Portekiz ve Litvanya da sıralamadaki konumunu geliştirmeye devam ediyor. Litvanya’daki FTTH

aboneleri, kamuya ait operatör Lattelecom’un da etkisiyle üçe katlanırken, bu operatörün fiber

altyapısı şu anda ülkedeki hanelerin üçte birinden fazlasına hizmet veriyor. Portekiz’de üç operatör,

kamuya ait telekom şirketi Portugal Telecom, alternatif operatör Sonaecom ve kablo şirketi ZON

Multimedia, FTTH abonelerinin sayısını artırmak için yoğun bir şekilde çalışırken, Portugal

Telecom’un fiber ağı şu anda 1 milyondan fazla eve hizmet götürüyor.

Rusya kendine özgü bir pazar olmaya devam ediyor. Rusya’nın şu andaki devasa potansiyeli biliniyor

ve altı ayda 895 bin aboneyi fiber ağlarına ekleme başarısı gösteren ülke mutlak rakamlarla en

yüksek penetrasyon sayısına sahip. FTTH Council Europe Başkanı Chris Holden, “Evlere fiber bağlantısı, güçlü bir uluslararası olgu haline

geliyor” diyerek şu yorumu yaptı: “Türkiye, 2010 yılının ikinci yarısında katıldığı FTTH Avrupa

Sıralaması’nda 18. ülke oldu. Gelişen pazarlar, dinamik olma özellikleriye bu Sıralama’ya sık sık,

Kuzey ve Batı Avrupa’nın doygun pazarlarının da üstünde yüksek konumlardan girebiliyor. Ayrıca,

Almanya, İspanya ve İngiltere gibi büyük ekonomilerde fiber ortamında hızlanma ve riskleri geride

bırakma gibi gelişmelere ihtiyaç duyuyor”.

COMUNICADOLos líderes europeos de fibra dan la bienvenida a Turquía a su ranking.

Letonia, Portugal y Turquía son los promotores y afectados de la última actualización

del ranking de la FTTHFTTH CONFERENCE, MILÁN, 9 de febrero de 2011 -La segunda mitad de 2010 fue

un período de crecimiento acelerado en las redes de FTTH, tanto en términos de

construcciones aprobadas como suscriptores conectados, reveló el FTTH Council

Europe (Consejo Europeo FTTH) en una presentación exclusiva a periodistas en la

Conferencia de la FTTH en Milán. En total hay casi 3,9 millones de suscritos a la FTTH

en Europa (8,1 millones incluyendo Rusia), un aumento del 18 por ciento en sólo seis

meses.

Los datos también muestran qué países estaban liderando el camino en términos de

penetración de suscritos en la FTTH a finales de 2010. Los cinco países principales en

el ranking FTTH en Europa fueron fuertemente cuestionados, pero siguieron sin

cambios. Lituania mantuvo la primera posición, seguida por Suecia, Noruega, Eslovenia

y Eslovaquia.

Turquía se unió al ranking FTTH en la segunda mitad de 2010 y fue uno de los

mercados más dinámicos. SuperOnline, una filial de la mayor operadora móvil del país

Turkcell, lanzó servicios de FTTH a finales de 2009, y ha recogido en torno a 200.000

suscriptores durante el primer año. El operador pretende que el alcance de la FTTH

llegue a un millón de hogares para finales de 2011.Portugal y Letonia también mejoraron su posición en el Ranking. El número de

suscriptores de la FTTH en Letonia casi se triplicó, gracias al programa de

modernización del operador titular Lattelecom, cuya red cubre ahora más de un tercio

de los hogares del país. En Portugal, tres operadores están ocupados añadiendo

suscriptores a la FTTH: Portugal Telecom, cuya red supera ahora un millón de hogares,

el operador alternativo Sonaecom y la compañía de cable ZON Multimedia.Rusia sigue siendo un mercado específico. El enorme potencial de Rusia está ahora

confirmado y el país tuvo el mayor crecimiento en números absolutos, con unos

895.000 suscriptores adicionales en seis meses. "La fibra para el hogar se está convirtiendo en un fenómeno verdaderamente

internacional", declaró Chris Holden, director general del FTTH Council Europe. "En la

segunda mitad de 2010 Turquía se convirtió en el decimoctavo país en unirse en el

Ranquin Europeo FTTH. Los mercados emergentes son muy dinámicos y a menudo

entran en el ranking ya en situaciones altas, por encima de los mercados más maduros

de Europa del norte y Europa occidental. Cada vez es más obvio que las grandes

economías como Alemania, España y el Reino Unido, necesiten agilizarse, del contrario

corren el riesgo de quedarse atrás".

Les leaders européens des réseaux en fibre optique accueillent la Turquie

dans leurs rangs La Lettonie, le Portugal et la Turquie sont les pays les plus influents,

selon la dernière mise à jour des classements FTTH FTTH CONFERENCE, MILAN, le 9 février 2011-- Le second trimestre de l’année 2010 a connu une période

de croissance accélérée au sein des réseaux FTTH, à la fois en termes de bâtiments équipés et

d’abonnés connectés. C’est ce qu’a révélé le FTTH Council Europe lors d’une présentation exclusive

aux journalistes, pendant la FTTH Conference de Milan. Globalement, l’Europe compte aujourd’hui

près de 3,9 millions d’abonnés FTTH (8,1 millions en incluant la Russie), soit une hausse de 18% en

seulement six mois.

Les données indiquent également les pays qui sont en tête en termes d’intégration d’abonnés FTTH à

la fin de l’année 2010. Les cinq premières places au sein de la classification européenne FTTH ont

été âprement disputées mais demeurent identiques. La Lituanie conserve la tête, suivie par la

Suède, la Norvège, la Slovénie et la Slovaquie.La Turquie a rejoint le classement FTTH pendant le second trimestre de l’année 2010 et constituait

l’un des marchés les plus dynamiques. SuperOnline, une filiale de Turkcell, l’opérateur mobile le

plus important du pays, a lancé ses services FTTH à la fin de l’année 2009 et a gagné environ 200

000 abonnées durant la première année. L’opérateur entend inclure 1 million de foyers au sein de

son réseau FTTH d’ici à la fin 2011.Le Portugal et la Lettonie ont également amélioré leur position dans le classement. Le nombre

d’abonnés FTTH en Lettonie a presque triplé, grâce au programme d’amélioration de l’opérateur

historique Lattelecom, dont le réseau couvre aujourd’hui plus d’un tiers des foyers du pays. Au

Portugal, trois opérateurs s’efforcent d’ajouter des abonnés FTTH : l’opérateur historique Portugal

Telecom, dont le réseau couvre désormais 1 million de foyers, l’opérateur alternatif Sonaecom et la

société de câble ZON Multimedia.La Russie demeure un marché spécifique. Son énorme potentiel est aujourd’hui confirmé et le pays a

connu la croissance la plus élevée en nombres absolus, comptant 895 000 abonnés supplémentaires en

six mois.

« La fibre optique à domicile est devenue un phénomène véritablement international », a déclaré

Chris Holden, Président du FTTH Council Europe. « Au cours du second trimestre 2010, la Turquie est

devenue le 18ème pays à rejoindre le classement européen FTTH. Les marchés émergeants sont très

dynamiques et font souvent leur entrée au classement à des positions élevées, dépassant les marchés

plus matures de l’Europe du Nord et de l’Ouest.

Il semble de plus en plus évident que les économies majeures, comme l’Allemagne, l’Espagne et le

Royaume-Uni, doivent accélérer au risque de se laisser distancer. »Pour consulter les actualités et mises à jour de l’évènement, rendez-vous sur

http://www.ftthconference.eu.

Source : FTTH Council EuropeContact : Nadia Babaali, Tél. : +33-6-20-88-72-38

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

European fibre leaders welcome Turkey to their ranks

Latvia, Portugal and Turkey are the movers and shakers in the latest update to the FTTH Rankings.

FTTH CONFERENCE, MILAN, 9 February 2011 – The second half of 2010 was a period of accelerated

growth in FTTH networks, both in terms of buildings passed and subscribers connected, the FTTH

Council Europe revealed in an exclusive presentation to journalists at the FTTH Conference in Milan.

Overall there are now nearly 3.9 million FTTH subscribers in Europe (8.1 million including Russia), an

increase of 18 percent in just six months.

The data also show which countries are leading the way in terms of FTTH subscriber penetration at

the end of 2010. The top five places in Europe’s FTTH Ranking were hotly contested but remained

unchanged. Lithuania retained the top spot, followed by Sweden, Norway, Slovenia and Slovakia.

Turkey joined the FTTH Ranking in the second half of 2010 and was one of the most dynamic

markets. SuperOnline, a subsidiary of the country’s largest mobile operator Turkcell, launched FTTH

services at the end of 2009, and has collected around 200,000 subscribers during the first year. The

operator aims to bring 1 million homes within reach of its FTTH network by the end of 2011.

Portugal and Latvia also enhanced their position in the Ranking. The number of FTTH subscribers in

Latvia nearly tripled, thanks to the upgrade program of incumbent operator Lattelecom, whose

network now covers more than one third of households in the country. In Portugal, three operators

are busy adding FTTH subscribers: the incumbent Portugal Telecom, whose network now passes 1

million homes, alternative operator Sonaecom and cable company ZON Multimedia.

Russia remains a specific market. Russia's huge potential is now confirmed and the country had the

highest growth in absolute numbers, with an additional 895,000 subscribers in six months.

“Fibre to the home is becoming a truly international phenomenon,” declared Chris Holden, President

of the FTTH Council Europe. “In the second half of 2010 Turkey became the 18th country to join the

FTTH European Ranking. Emerging markets are very dynamic and often enter the Ranking in high

positions, above the more mature markets of Northern and Western Europe. It is becoming

increasingly obvious that major economies like Germany, Spain and the UK need to speed up or risk

getting left behind.”


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FIBRE HORIZONSA newsletter of the FTTH Council EuropeVol. 2, Issue 1 - Thursday, 20 January 2011FIBRE HORIZONS is a monthly newsletter published by the FTTH Council Europeand distributed to readers interested in fibre to the home networks and theactivities of the Council.

Did You Hear?

“Fibre is not new to us; we have been doing fibre for more than tenyears. But we are moving from thousands of connections with fibreto millions of connections – this is a totally new paradigm.”

Luis Alveirinho, director of network planning and implementation at PortugalTelecom.

In the Spotlight:Understanding what makes a success

Fibre to the home is a global initiative to replace the existing copper telephone network withfibre-optic cables, which can provide internet access at much faster speeds. For incumbentoperators, who are the guardians of the copper access network, this may require significantchanges in the way they do business even though they are experienced in deploying telecomsnetworks.

The scale of the transformation, which will be rolled out worldwide, has created an opportunity fornew players to enter the market. These new entrants include competitive telecoms operators,utility companies, housing associations and property developers, national and local government,and community groups. The end result is a variety of different business models and approachesto the deployment of FTTH networks, and the absence of a “one size fits all” solution.

To help discover what contributes to a successful FTTH deployment, and identify common themes,the FTTH Council Europe has begun to assemble a series of case studies from different countries,different types of organisation and different project sizes. We define success in the broadestsense, not just financially. In any case most FTTH projects are long-term investments wherepayback on the original investment can be expected to take many years.

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FIBRE HORIZONSA newsletter of the FTTH Council EuropeVol. 2, Issue 2 - Thursday, 24 February 2011FIBRE HORIZONS is a monthly newsletter published by the FTTH Council Europeand distributed to readers interested in fibre to the home networks and theactivities of the Council.

Did You Hear?

“It is not possible to maximise access while failing on fibre. That ishow seriously we take your issues.”

Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the European Commission responsible for theDigital Agenda, speaking to delegates at the FTTH Conference in Milan.

In the Spotlight:What Services Will Fill the Fat Pipe?

A question we often get asked in the Council is why anyone needs the abundant bandwidth ofFTTH. Can we name a service that not only benefits from FTTH, but demands it? We can see thatmore bandwidth will be needed by extrapolating past bandwidth requirements into the future, butthis doesn’t really answer the original question. Another possible answer is “applications thathaven’t been thought of yet”, but this is hardly convincing either. In any case, we don’t believe itis correct. Innovative companies have already developed applications that work much better overfibre.

Take Link Care Services, for example, one of several application provider companies presenting atthe FTTH Conference in Milan earlier this month. Link Care Services provides remote videomonitoring for patients with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive diseases. Today all of its customersare behind DSL lines, which puts a huge restriction on the system implementation. Each videofeed needs 300 kbps, which means that it is only possible to upload two simultaneous feeds tothe control centre. “The most important thing for us is to be able to install more than twocameras in a home, so we can monitor all the rooms in the patient’s home,” explained chiefexecutive Richard Saccone. High quality video feeds are also on his wish list – when an alarm israised, the agent on duty needs a good image in order to check whether the patient really has aproblem.

The FTTH Services Showroom at the conference in Milan provided a unique opportunity to gethands-on experience of next-generation applications, including those from Link Care Services.

External events33 speakers at external events in 23 countriesNew: Booth at CeBIT in March 2011 New: Corporate clip

188 interviews with media in 21 countries4 press conferences in Milan (2), Paris and Beirut:

51 press releases in various languages: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish

139 press clippings in various languages including key national media

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Σάββατο 19 Φεβρουαρίου 2011

Συνέντευξη

Hartwig Tauber

Υποδομές

Ο ΕΠΙΚΕΦΑΛΗΣ ΤΟΥ FTTH COUNCIL EUROPE ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΙΣ ΝΕΕΣ ΠΡΟΚΛΗΣΕΙΣ ΣΤΙΣ ΤΗΛΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΕΣ

ΑΠΟ ΤH ΡΟΗ ΧΑΪΚΟΥ

[email protected]

Τ ο δίκτυο οπτι-

κών ινών στα

σπίτια (Fiber to

the Home) ή στα κτίρια (Fiber

to the Building) είναι ίσως το

μεγαλύτερο αναπτυξιακό έργο

στις τηλεπικοινωνίες που επι-

θυμεί να εφαρμόσει η ελληνι-

κή κυβέρνηση, αλλά είναι μάλ-

λον αδύνατον να ξεκινήσει η

κατασκευή του πριν από τα

τέλη του 2012, με βάση τα

ισχύοντα χρονοδιαγράμματα.

Ένα έργο που, αν και απαι-

τεί σημαντικές επενδύσεις, δί-

νει αναπτυξιακή πνοή όχι μόνο

στα αστικά κέντρα αλλά και την

περιφέρεια, όπως δείχνει η

εμπειρία από άλλες ευρωπα-

ϊκές χώρες, αναφέρει στο «Κ»

ο κ. Hartwig Tauber, γενι-

κός διευθυντής του Ευρω-

παϊκού Συμβουλίου FTTH.

Η ανάπτυξη δικτύων οπτι-

κών ινών στα σπίτια απαιτεί

σημαντικά κεφάλαια. Μια Ευ-

ρώπη με κρίση χρέους μπορεί

να τα χρηματοδοτήσει;

Από τις επαφές που έχουμε

«Θα πρέπει η

Ελλάδα να δει

την ευκαιρία και

η κυβέρνηση

να προχωρήσει

σε τέτοιες

επενδύσεις, aν

θέλει να ενισχύσει

την οικονομία»

Ευρωπαϊκή Τράπεζα Επεν-

δύσεων κοιτάζει πώς θα

συμμετέχει σε τέτοια έργα

πιο δυναμικά, ενώ και το ενδι-

αφέρον ιδιωτικών κεφαλαίων

και επενδυτών είναι μεγάλο,

γιατί αυτά τα δίκτυα θεωρού-

νται ασφαλείς τοποθετήσεις.

Να σας πω μόνο ότι πρόσφα-

τα η ΕTΕπ διέθεσε 100 εκατ.

ευρώ σε ολλανδικό πάροχο

για έργο FTTH, ενώ υπάρχει

και ειδικό fund της ολλανδικής

τράπεζας Rabobank για επεν-

δύσεις στην ευρυζωνικότητα.

Στην Ελλάδα έχει γίνει πο-

λύς λόγος για το FTTH και τα

2,2 δισ. ευρώ που αρχικά εί-

χαν προϋπολογιστεί.

Για την Ελλάδα γνωρίζουμε

ότι υπήρχε ένα σχέδιο ύψους 2

δισ. ευρώ, αλλά ουσιαστικά η

νέα κυβέρνηση το επανασχε-

διάζει και υπάρχει ένα είδος

«θολού τοπίου».

Θα πρέπει η χώρα σας να

δει την ευκαιρία και η κυβέρ-

νηση να προχωρήσει σε τέτοιες

επενδύσεις, αν θέλει να ενι-

σχύσει την οικονομία –και οι

τηλεπικοινωνίες είναι μοχλός

ανάπτυξης–, και φυσικά να μη

μείνει πίσω στην Ευρώπη. Κα-

θώς, δε, απαιτείται χρόνος για

να κατασκευαστεί ένα τέτοιο δί-

κτυο, δεν θα πρέπει να υπάρ-

ξουν άλλες καθυστερήσεις.

Για να σκάψει κανείς ολό-

κληρη τη χώρα και να εγκα-

ταστήσει τις υποδομές, τα

2 δισ. ευρώ δεν φτάνουν.

Όμως, η κυβέρνηση μπορεί

να επιμερίσει το κόστος, δίνο-

ντας στον ιδιωτικό τομέα ενερ-

γό ρόλο σε ένα project ουσια-

Ο ρόλος του FTTH Council Europe

Το FTTH Council Europe είναι ένας αναγνωρισμέ-

νος οργανισμός με αποστολή την επιτάχυνση της ανά-

πτυξης ευρυζωνικών δικτύων υψηλών ταχυτήτων σε

καταναλωτές και επιχειρήσεις. Αποτελείται από 150

εταιρείες και φορείς-μέλη από τον κλάδο των τηλεπι-

κοινωνιών παγκοσμίως, με ειδίκευση στην ανάπτυξη ευ-

ρυζωνικών δικτύων, εξοπλισμού και υπηρεσιών. Μεταξύ

των μελών του συγκαταλέγονται οι εταιρείες Alcatel-Lu-

cent, BKtel Communications, ΒΤ-ΑΤ, Cisco Systems,

Ericsson, Huawei, Motorola, ZTE κ.ά. Από ελληνικής

πλευράς μετέχει το Athens Information Technology του

ιδρύματος Κόκκαλη.

Εκ του μηδενός ανασχεδίασε η κυβέρνηση

το μεγάλο σχέδιο για το FTTH, με τον τε-

χνικοοικονομικό σύμβουλο να εισηγείται

προϋπολογισμούς, έκταση έργου ώστε αυτό να εί-

ναι βιώσιμο κ.λπ.

Οι καθυστερήσεις είναι πολύμηνες, αφού στό-

χος της αρμόδιας επιτροπής του υπουργείου Μετα-

φορών ήταν να αναδειχθεί ο σύμβουλος μέχρι το

τέλος του 2010, ώστε στο πρώτο τρίμηνο του 2011

να είχε το πρώτο παραδοτέο με τα οικονομικά και

το εύρος του δικτύου.

Στην πρώτη φάση του σχετικού διαγωνισμού,

για την αξιολόγηση της τεχνικής προσφοράς, η Ευ-

ρωσύμβουλοι σημείωσε την υψηλότερη βαθ-

μολογία, ακολουθούμενη από τις εταιρείες

Accenture και Planet.

Στη δεύτερη φάση –όπου βρισκόμαστε τώρα–

αξιολογούνται και οι οικονομικές προσφορές που

έχουν κατατεθεί, ώστε να επιλεγεί ο σύμβουλος.

Πλέον, εκτιμάται ότι ίσως καταφέρει η ελληνική

πλευρά να υποβάλει

μέχρι το καλοκαίρι

το σχέδιο του FTTH προς την Κο-

μισιόν για έγκριση κρατικής ενίσχυσης. Η δι-

αδικασία αυτή εκτιμάται ότι θα διαρκέσει περίπου

6-7 μήνες. Παράλληλα, στο εσωτερικό θα αποφα-

σιστεί από τη διυπουργική η επιπλέον χρηματο-

δότηση του έργου με ΣΔΙΤ, συμβάσεις παραχώ-

ρησης ή και συνδυασμό τους. Αυτός ο δεύτερος

πυλώνας αναμένεται να... τραβήξει έναν χρόνο.

ΜΕΣΑ ΣΤΟ 2012 ΤΟ ΦΙΛΟΔΟΞΟ ΣΕΝΑΡΙΟ ΓΙΑ ΕΝΑΡΞΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΩΝ

στικά εθνικής εμβέλειας.

Ποια χώρα θεωρείτε ως

case study, την εμπειρία της

οποίας θα μπορούσε να αξιο-

ποιήσει η Ελλάδα;

Αναγνωρίζουμε σίγουρα τις

δυσκολίες που προκαλεί το γε-

ωγραφικό ανάγλυφο της Ελλά-

δας, με τις πολλές οροσειρές

και τα νησιά. Θα έλεγα ότι η

Πορτογαλία είναι ένα καλό

παράδειγμα και αυτό γιατί η

πολιτεία και οι πάροχοι δού-

λεψαν μαζί για να δημιουργή-

σουν το FTTH.

Πρακτικά, τα οφέλη από το

FTTH ποια είναι;

Θα σας πω ότι στόχος της

Κομισιόν είναι οι ταχύτητες

σύνδεσης στην Ευρώπη να

φτάσουν τα 200 Mbps το 2020

και είναι επιτεύξιμος. Δεν μπο-

ρούμε να μιλάμε για μια σειρά

νέων υπηρεσιών και δυνατοτή-

των επιχειρηματικότητας από

απόσταση, τηλε-εκπαίδευσης,

τηλε-ιατρικής κ.λπ. χωρίς αυ-

τές τις ταχύτητες και η οπτική

ίνα μπορεί να τις προσφέρει.

όλο αυτό το διάστημα βλέπου-

με ότι οι πολιτικοί και οι φο-

ρείς αντιμετωπίζουν όλο και

πιο σοβαρά την ανάπτυξη της

ευρυζωνικότητας και τη δημι-

ουργία δικτύων FTTH. Και

μπορεί σήμερα λιγότεροι από 4

εκατ. Ευρωπαίοι να είναι συν-

δρομητές σε αυτές τις υπηρε-

σίες, όμως έχει γίνει σαφές ότι

η τεχνολογία και το FTTH

μπορούν να συνδράμουν

την έξοδο από την κρίση.

Το να χτίζεις υποδομές είναι

πρόκληση, πάντα ήταν, και ιδι-

αίτερα όταν χώρες όπως η Ελ-

λάδα αντιμετωπίζουν οικονομι-

κά προβλήματα. Γι’ αυτό και η

Ο Hartwig Tauber συνιστά στην Ελλάδα να ακολουθήσει το παράδειγμα της Πορτογαλίας.

Δεν φτάνουν 2 δισ. ευρώ για να έχει

δίκτυο οπτικών ινών όλη η Ελλάδα

Όλα από την αρχή για το ελληνικό δίκτυο οπτικών ινών

Λιθουανία

Σουηδία

Νορβηγία

Σλοβακία

Σλοβενία

Ρωσία

∆ανία

Λετονία

Εσθονία

Βουλγαρία

Πορτογαλία

Φινλανδία

Ολλανδία

Γαλλία

Ρουµανία

Τσεχία

Ιταλία

Τουρκία

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Συνδροµητές FTTH

∆εκεµβρίου 2010

Συνδροµητές Fiber

to the Building/LAN

Η διείσδυση του FTTH στην Ευρώπη

ΠΗΓΗ: FTTH CounCil EuropE

New: Fibre Horizons

New: FTTH Council Europe in social media

9 issues of the monthly newsletter, launched in May 2010, featuring:• “Did you hear”: quote of the month • “In the spotlight”: focus of the month

3 national media campaigns in Germany, UK and Italy

Press relations

PEOPLE



Inside the FTTH Council Europe – how does it work?

Partnerships to join forcesThe FTTH Council Europe has signed Memorandums of Understanding with a selected number of partners. These formal partnerships allow the FTTH Council Europe to join forces with organisations that have similar objectives and to multiply the impact of the activities of the FTTH Council Europe. In 2010-2011, three new partnerships were signed.

CredoFounded in 1993, CREDO is a French organisation whose objective is to promote the use of fibre technology inbroadband infrastructure. This includes technical solutions aswellasservicesthatcanbedeliveredonfibrebroadband.CREDO defines itself as a “forum” for their members toexchange experience and expertise. www.cercle-credo.com

Fiber Optics ValleyFiber Optics Valley is an organisation working to turn Sweden into the world leader in the development of products andservicesbasedonfibreoptics.Theircorebusiness isto assist the growth of global and local companies. This is achievedthroughresearch,training,financing,contactsandbusiness development support, combined with a unique environment for technical tests and behavioural science studies.www.fiberopticvalley.com

SAMENA Telecommunications Council:SAMENA Telecommunications Council aims to be the ultimate promoter of telecom innovations in its member regions and a facilitator for collaboration and knowledge-sharing between regional telecom entities. Such cooperation between operators, vendors, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, educators, R&D experts, and regulators aims to contribute to solving technical, economical, and legal issues in regions where tough economic and regulatory environments prevail. www.samenacouncil.org

Organisational Structure

AccountingSecretariat

ProjectCoordinator

Contracted Teammanaged by

Director General

CommunicationsDirector

Policy and Regulation

Expert Group

Content &ApplicationsCommittee

Deployment & Operations Committee

Working Groups(volunteers from

member companies)

Board of Directors -elected by members

(President is Chairman of the Board)

Membership Base

Business Committee

Market IntelligenceCommittee

CommunicationsFellow

The members of the FTTH Council Europe are at the core of all activities.

The Board of Directors elects the Chairman of the Board who is at the same time the President of the FTTH Council Europe

The contracted team ensures that the activities of the FTTH Council Europe are implemented on a day-to-day basis.

Chris HoldenCorning

President

Sophie PautonnierMitsubishi Treasurer& Member of the Board

Peleg ErlichECI Telecom

Member of the BoardUntil January 2011

Paul SchwartzPacketFront

Member of the Board

Richard ThomasPrysmian

Member of the Board

Pastora ValeroCisco

Member of the Board

Eric FestraetsAlcatel-Lucent

Member of the Board

Albert GrootenDraka CommunicationsMember of the Board

Rolf JohanssonEricsson

Member of the BoardFrom October 2010

Matthias NassECI Telecom

Member of the BoardFrom January 2011

Martin HatasEricsson

Member of the BoardUntil October 2010

The members elect the 9 members of the Board of Directors at the spring General Assemblies

5 Working Committees work on different topics to support the mission of the FTTH Council Europe and to achieve the objectives of the strategy of the Council

Board of Directors

Global CooperationThe three independant Councils in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America are working closely together in the International Advisory Group.


Team


ProjectCoordinator

Director General



The team consists of the Director General who is responsible for the management

of the FTTH Council Europe, the Communications Director who organises

the marketing and communication of the organisation with the support of the

Communications Fellow, the Project Coordinator who supports and coordinates

the work of the committees, and Secretariat and Accounting support.


ProjectCoordinator


Director General



Expert Group



member companies)



Membership Base

Business Committee




Sonja Kamhuber

Secretariat

Marie-Alix Lebrun

Accounting

Natascha Weinstabl

Project Coordinator

Nadia Babaali

Communications Director

Sally Van den bemden

Communications Fellow

Hartwig Tauber

Director General


Committees Business CommitteeThe Business Committee has a strong

focus on the questions about the

business case of fibre networks.

This includes planning, financing,

implementing and operating those

networks. The Business Committee is

responsible for the “FTTH Business

Guide”.

Deployment & Operations CommitteeThis committee discusses all technical

aspects of fibre networks. This

includes the passive and active part

of the network as well as deployment

methods, network architectures and new

fibre technologies. The Deployment &

Operations Committee is responsible for

the “FTTH Handbook”.

ChairKarin AhlRala Infratech

ChairPierre PigaglioP&T Consulting

Market Intelligence CommitteeThe objective of the Market Intelligence

Committee is to provide information

about the latest market data and market

developments to the FTTH Council Europe.

This includes topics like pricing of fibre

networks, the use of bandwidth or the

strategic service portfolio for operators.

The Market Intelligence Committee is res-

ponsible for the FTTH market panorama,

including the FTTH European Ranking, and

the FTTH market forecast.

Chair Jan SchindlerDraka Com-munications

Chair Hartwig TauberDirector GeneralFTTH Council Europe

Policy & Regulation Expert GroupThe Policy & Regulation Expert Group

has a clear focus on the regulatory and

policy framework for fibre network.

This includes contacts to European

Commission and regulators as well as

workshops and inputs for national and

regional policy makers.

Chair Paul SchwartzPacketFront

Content & Applications CommitteeWhat new content, applications and

services are enhanced or enabled by fibre

networks? The Content & Applications

Committee is working on projects to give

an answer to this question. By doing so,

it also brings together the technical side

of the FTTH networks with the content

and service industry.


Expert Group


Business Committee



ProjectCoordinator


Director General



member companies)



Membership Base




New Publications:• FTTHBusinessGuide–Secondedition

• FTTHTechnicalHandbook–Fourthedition

• FibreHorizons-monthlynewsletter

Website: www.ftthcouncil.eu

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