Data tools for_sustainable_ftth_projects

Data & Tools for Sustainable FTTH ProjectsPresented by:

Carl Denis : GiSmartware

Anders Flodin: DIGPRO

Alexi Gekht: ACOME

Alain Meller: SETICS

Bertrand Rondeau : SOFRECOM

Data & Tools for Sustainable FTTH Projects

What do we put into that subject ? What do we mean by sustainable ?

• Speaking about a sustainable network we mean one which will be in operation for 20-

30 years providing adequate services to its users.

• It means, we should take into account the “landscape” in 30 years, which would cover

the demographic, economic, social and others factors of the area where the network

would be built.

FTTH Network : a really difficult object to build

• Need for serious approaches regarding handling data over time

• Extremely key to have the right tools

FTTX deployment proves tedious and expensive

• Infrastructure (passive network) works means billions of $ of investment

• E.g. $300 billion for Europe only

• Mistakes on planning phases translate into huge waste of money on the building phases

• Most incumbent telcos or other builders have not deployed physical networks to

subs since the time of the copper lines many years ago (> 30 y)

• Skills and tools have been lost

• Network design mostly manual

• Consequences are numerous:

• Wrong investment decisions

• Underestimation of deployment costs

• Delays on construction and commercialization

• Ill-designed and not consistent network engineering

• Uncontrolled spending on construction works

FTTH is a major challenge for Operators

The rollout of FTTH network is more than a technical

project:

• requires full alignment with marketing and other

Business Units

• It requires mastering the playground

• Requires amount of compromise in a complex

environment

• In a Corporate environment requires full alignment

with affiliates

• But requires to play by the local specificities rules

Operator stakes and approach

Scrupulously follow a sequential methodology is a key success factor to meet the KPI

Network

Planning

& Engineering

Strategic

studies

THINK

Project

& Roll-out

Management

Acceptance

CommissioningRFI, RFQ

BUILD

Operation &

Maintenance

RUN

Optimization

The Agenda

Workshop Program

• 13H00 – 14H30

– Workshop introduction

– Data & Tools in the planning/design phaseMain Speakers:

Alexi Gekht: ACOME



• 14H30 - 15H00 Coffee Break

• 15H00 – 15H45

– Data & Tools in the building phaseMain Speakers:

Carl Denis : Gismartware

Alexi Gekht: ACOME


• 15H45 – 16H30

Data & Tools in Operation and Maintenance

Trends on handling data & tools usage

Final wrap-up

Main Speakers:




The presenters

ACOME is major manufacturer of passive infrastructure for telecommunication networks. With sales offices in France, Germany, Italy and China and factories in France, Tunisia and China ACOME supply its global customers worldwide.

Digpro is the maker of dpCom, a PNI (or NIS, NLM..) that stretch from planning, operation to maintenance. Sister products of dpCom include dpPower, dpGas, dpHeating and dpWater. Digproalso make dpWholesale, a market place for the trade of capacity and dark fiber services

GiSmartware is a software development firm specialized in Geographic Information Systems(GIS). We develop the PNI (Physical Network Inventory) NETGEO and its web portal NETGEO ONLINE to help hundreds of network’s owner and operator to operate their infrastructures.

Setics is a consulting and project management company in High Broadband Infrastructure as wellas a software editor with Setics Sttar the FTTx Design Automation Software. Setics has offices in France and Germany.

Sofrecom, an Orange subsidiary, has developed over 45 years a unique know-how about operator businesses, making it a world leading specialist in telecommunications consultancy and engineering.

Definition and scope: FTTH, FTTx

What do we mean by FTTH, FTTx in this workshop ?

• In the course of this

workshop

• FTTx or FTTH

encompasse : FTTC,

FTTDp (FTTla),

FTTB, FTTH

Key questions arise for FTTH

• What are the services to be delivered to the market (B2C, B2B)?

• What will be the high level marketing mix ( Product, price, promotion,

place) and expected revenue?

• Will the strategy be wholesale or retail only?

• What is the relevant Broadband business case ?

• What would be the priorities for such a deployment (Countries, cities,

areas…)?

• Which possible partners could be identified: fund providers, construction

companies (in order to lay cables or equip new buildings), other

operators in order to share risks…?

Key questions arise for FTTH

• Which access network infrastructure shall be chosen : FTTCab,

FTTBuilding, FTTHome ?

• Which IP End to end architecture shall be specified: key factor of

success to master QoS and Customer Experience satisfaction

• Which contractual model shall I choose ?

• Which IT solution shall I chose to master inventory management

and Customer care

• Which Home Network strategy shall be develop to differentiate

Customer Experience to challengers

• How to define engineering rules and ITU standards to be applied

What Data ? What Tools ?

Data

• Data are given as inputs and constraints

• Data are produced in the course of network

lifecycle

• Data are coming from different sources with

different format

• Data is often scattered and not referenced

• Data around FTTx network extremely abundant

Gr@ceTHD has defined > 500 entities and >

3000 properties to represent all valuable data

that must be exchanged between

stakeholders, one time or another, along the

lifecycle of an FTTx network … and is said to

be still not complete.

Tools

• Tools are used to around data to :

elaborate them from other data,

manage them

Share them,

analyse and make decisions

Data is an asset but need tools to deliver their value

Definition and Scope: Software tools (main ones)

What we mean with the different terms ?

• CAD Software

– Software for supporting the manual sketching of spatial plans

– Very mature category: AUTOCAD being the dominant vendor

• GIS Software

– Software for creating and managing geo-localized objects (points, lines, polylines, polygones etc…) withattributes

– Comes as Desktop software as well as back-end database systems

• Design Automation Software

– Create a network based on input data, engineering rules and other constraints

– Based on GIS engines

– Emerging Category used in the planning phases

• PNI: Physical Network Inventory Systems

– Create & Manage all assets in the field, is, in most of the case including a GIS function to view objects on a map

– Mature Category with utilities (electricity, gas, water) made is way in telecom (copper, cable, fibre)

Questions about Data and Tools

• In the course of the workshop we will address the following questions in the various

phases:

• What is it ? (what data or tool)

• Why is it important ? (why this data and tool is important)

• When it is important ? (in which phase this is important)

• What to do in case, I do not have the right data at hand or I do not have the

expected quality?

The Agenda

Workshop Program

• 13H00 – 14H30



Alexi Gekht: ACOME




• 15H00 – 15H45



Alexi Gekht: ACOME


• 15H45 – 16H30



Final wrap-up

Main Speakers:




The Design/Planning Phase

Why a planning phase ?

• Marketing

– Get tangible and relevant scenarios and business cases

– Validate cost structure for equipment & infrastructure sourcing

– Define Customer target, services portfolio and pricing

– Build mass market deployment strategic roadmap

• Technical

– Ease FTTH project integration in operator Network Master Plan– To ensure that ITU standards will be respected– To define engineering rules to protect the operator’s best interests

• Implementation

– Build Tools, Methods and Procedures to insure contractual commitments with expected time, costs, scope and quality

– Geographical, inventory, network&service cross view databases– Provisioning tools & resourcesallocation– after-sales support tools for Customer Care-SMC

– Set up Operating and Maintenance process and to insure Customersatisfaction

Marketing

TechnicalImplementation

The different phase of network design/planning

Detailed Design

Inclusion of physical constraints as their acquisition progresses – New generation of the network –Computation of cables, splices and connection boxes - Export towards other systems

High-Level Design

Integration of more accurate data and engineering parameters – Generation of more focused paths –More precise cost estimation – List of materials – Better control on invitations to tender for civil work

Strategic Design Phase - Preliminary Studies

Preliminary data – First physical network planning and estimation of costs – Scenarios – Accelerates decision-making on business plan, on project scope and on priority of deployments

More often done in theBuilding phase

Input/Output Data in the Planning phaseIn

pu

t d

ata

Marketing

Consumer expectations

Geo-marketing

Financial

Revenue assumptions

Costs

Engineering

Architecture choices

Engineering rules

GeoDataEndpoints

Potentialpathways

Ou

tpu

t d

ata

Economical Business Plan, CAPEX/OPEX

Admin Right of ways

Technical

Architecturechoices

Engineering rules

BOQ

GeoData

Network routes

Cable/equipmentlayout

Optical routes

Methods & Data used in early costing

How do you evaluate de cost of a global FTTH roll-out in the early phase of a network project ?

• Statistical Methods

– Need few data : population density

– Based on geotypes: not easy to define

– Average cost per HP

– Lack of « great numbers » behind statistics

– Greenfield

– Highly country dependent

• Realistic Modeling

– Designing a realistic network

– Made possible by Design Automation Tools

– Based on GIS data

– Informative

– Garbage in / Garbage out

Methods comparison

GIS data accuracy(endpoints, pathways…)

Lower Greater

Result Reliability

Statistical Methods

?

Top-down Bottom-up

Network Model Evolution : planning phase

Accuracy of design

Accuracyof input

data

To BuildPlans

CAD Software

PNIGIS Desktop App

Design Automation

Software

Strategic Design Detailed Design

Planning Phase

High-level Design

Building Phase

High LevelDesign

HLD: Engineering with Constraints and Cost mastering

FTTH Network design

Geo Data, infrastructure,

equipments

Engineering Rules

Economic Data

What data is needed to build a design?

Geo Data : Endpoints, how to get them?

• Existing commercial database, post office

• Open sources : google, bing, openstreetmap

• Governemental sources : tax office, administration

• Utilities

• Site surveys, manual positionning

• Sometime crossing different database in necessary (location and #

dwelling)

• DB ARE OFTEN PHOTOS OF THE PAST !!

Main architectures of FTTH Network

SPLITTER

SPLITTER

Point – to – MultipointsPassive Optical Network

Point – to – Point

Active Optical Network

Data for Choice of Technical Solutions (STRATEGIC)

– Targeted customers• Consumers only

Simple architecture is enough• Consumers & Business customers

Better QOS required Redundancy in the network High quality Active equipment Additional services

– Targeted area• Cherry picking

One solution may be used• Global Coverage

Solution (s) for each area : urban, residential, rural…

– Targeted deployment rate• Slow

No problem with qualified workforce, technically complex solutions • Fast mass deployment

Shortage of qualified installers, simple solutions required Use as much as possible of pre-terminated products (Plug and play)

Data for Choice of Technical Solutions (CLIMATIC)

– Operational temperatures The components should cover all the range The cables should be stronger if required to withstand ice High UV resistance in sunny areas Active equipment might need a cooling in tropical areas

– Natural catastrophe risk In seismic areas opt for aerial solution In the areas of strong wind buried cables are better protected In potentially flooded area all components must have higher level of watertightness

Data for Choice of Technical Solutions (REGULATORY)

– Aesthetic Facades

Aerial Street Cabinets

– Network sharing Central office

POP Building

– Access to infrastructure Ducts

Pols Builduing

Technical Solutions

– Cable Infrastructure

– Fiber Concentration Points

– Street cabinets

Directly buried Ducts Aerial Façade

Street cabinets Sheltered racks Poleor underground closures

Data Flow

EngineeringGeomarketing

Sites surveySuplly chain

TechnicalDatabase

Area Example

Ducts, Overhead Lines, Road network

- Sources ?

- Raster or vector ?

Ducts, Overhead Lines, Road network

Design Automation results

Example of what data are created

Cables layout

Comparison of financials

Reusing Ducts

Not reusing Ducts

Case: Oise territory; rural and semi-rural greenfield

Mutltiple Potential Infrastructure to reuse

In red the territory of the OiseTHD FTTH network

~800 000 inhabitants, 6000 km2 (1/5 of Belgium size)

40

Design automation made possible to study multiple scenarios

45 Central Offices

25 Central Offices

Scenarios

25 Central Offices

From large territory to small areas with the same precision

Timeline of the project & use of tools

Works Track

Operator

Track

2013 2014 2015Fev 2013

RFP issued

Nov 2013

Supplier selected

Fev 2015

First SuscriberDec 2013

Operator selected

Design automation

PNI

Assistance to owner

Network Builder

Operator

Take away using design automation tool

• Using a Design Automation tool during the project brought the following benefits:

• Ability to test different scenarios with accuracy and on a short timeframe

• Accuracy on BOM and quantities

• Far less « guestimates » in the overall process

• Reuse of 5 infrastructure will not have been possible without the tool

• Time & resources spent on pre-studies reduced significantly (60% less)

• 30% decrease in planned costs for entire project (proven by agreement on fix price)

• Higher level benefits includes:

• The tool allowed to very early convince all stakeholders that realistic solutions were possible.

• The tool became the tool around which a trust was established among the stakeholders and became a vehicle for a

common understanding

• Different partners are responsible for part of the project creating a risk of divergence; the tool being able to design an

end-to-end network, maintained the overall coherency of the project

• Very convincing basis for financing bodies, leading to a better ease in obtaining the financing commitments.

• Prerequisites

• High-Level design should be seen has an investment not a cost !

• Investment in data should be made earlier than traditionally done to allow a precise decision-making

Planning phase what’s next ?

Failing to plan is programmed to fail

Geomarketing must be

the 1 st element of site

selection decision

process

Reliability of ground scale

population dataObtaining competitors

network positioning

Economic and administrative

characteristics of local areas

and development projects

identification

Customer potential within

marketing targets

(15 yo +)

+

Simulating access node

layout with its theoretical

coverage zone for potential

customers

Investments and ROI prediction

Sites rollout prioritization according

to budget capacity

Network dimensioning

according to traffic data




Alexi Gekht: ACOME



The Agenda

• Workhop Program

• 13H00 – 14H30

Workshop introduction

Data & Tools in the planning/design phase

Main Speakers:

Alexi Gekht: ACOME




• 15H00 – 15H45

Data & Tools in the building phase

Main Speakers:


Alexi Gekht: ACOME


• 15H45 – 16H30



Final wrap-up

Main Speakers:




The Building Phase

The Problem

Full

Assessment FTTH

Engineering

rules

Master

planning

Survey

and High

Level

Design

Gap analysis &

Recommendation

HLD

Acceptance

Low

Level

Design

Review

LLD

Acceptance

Acceptance

tests

Network

Acceptance

Friendly

User Test

Final

HLD

Final

BoQFinal

LLD

Installation

Customers connection

Specifications

BoQIP Network &

Services

assessment

• From strategic maps to as built maps – what are & where are the differences ?

• How the processes and data’s life circles are changing according to the needs

Building phase key stakes and challenges

• Have the right strategy to deploy quickly and with the most cost efficient

model is very important due to the high Capex investment

• Be sure that the FTTH network will be installed with a strong level of

commitment Quality, Cost and Time wise

• Requires full alignment with marketing and other business units both within

operator and outside : service providers, vendors, government regulatory

and other authorities…

• How to find the right balance between business demand, fast rollout and

quality rollout?

• Which authorizations are required to lay cables into the streets?

Planning is done, BUT… real life begins

Network design : tangible “as build” is key factor of success

• Extra-cost, rollout delay, non conformity with standards can be anticipated and minimized during the

Network Design phase.

• The value added of network design will be to identify all potential issues impacting operator’s objectives and

to proactively anticipate solutions to minimize there impact on the overall FTTH project.

• Benefits of a network design :

• Secure quality of Build Vendors Design delivery: no extra cost during conception

• Savings on CAPEX :

Optimized Bill of Quantity and Bill of Material with full integrity

no extra cost during rollout

blocking point are anticipated and solved during design phase

• Savings on OPEX : operating stakes are taken into account in design

PROCESS & ACTORS

“as build” are also about Quality Assurance and compromise in real the world

• As a world wide best practice, Low level Designs are used as input and output to

• obtain work permits

• raised potential rollout blocking points due to on field context

• anticipate network re-arrangement (as copper network removal, pipes subducting)

• fine tuned engineering rules (splitters and cable splicing locations)

• The following iteration process described the two mains iterations loops between Sofrecom, Build vendors and

work permit authorities

LowLow LevelLevel

DesignDesignLowLow LevelLevel

DesignDesignWorkWork

PermitPermit

High High LevelLevel DesignDesign

Bill Of Bill Of MaterialMaterial

CostCost EstimationEstimation

On siteOn site

SurveySurveyWork PermitWork Permit

authoritiesauthorities

-- CostCost

-- StandardsStandards

-- PlanningPlanning

-- networknetwork

rere--arrangementarrangement

NO

ImplementationImplementation

NO

OPERATOR OPERATORBUILDER ASSETS OWNERS

BUILDER

Building Phase data landscape

PNI

CAD filesExcel files

GIS files Inventory base

CAD Tools & Excel’s sheetsPlanning & designing tools

BOM Invoices

Deploymentmaps

Detailed design documents

As Builtdocuments

Validation

Capture or import

Capture or import

Building Phase – Advantages & Drawbacks

Every builders have Excel and CAD tools

Time to market long after the end of construction

“Tunnel effect” on validation of the project

Coordination of several builders on the network

Data experts for checking and importing the documents produced

Building Phase

PNI


Inventory base


BOM

GIS files

Invoices

Deploymentmaps


Data exchange models

As BuiltdocumentsGIS files

import

Validation

Capture or import


Every builders have Excel and CAD tools

Data are imported rather than captured by hand

“Tunnel effect” on validation of the project

Coordination of several builders on the network

Exchange formats must be defined before

Building Phase

PNI


Inventory base


BOM Invoices

Deploymentmaps


As Builtdocuments

GIS files

Validation

Capture or import

Building Phase

PNI


Inventory base


BOM Invoices

Deploymentmaps


As Builtdocuments

Validation


No tunnel effectData are ready to be

exploded as soon as the build phase is over

Building phase coordinated

Builders must connect and populate the PNI

Building phase : focus on Customer experience

Deployment

1Building

commitment

2

Connection

3

Sales

4Customer

Installation

5

Customer care

6

Create KeepGet Buildings Get Subscribers

Architecture definition & field trial

Fiber deployment in the street and creation of potential addressable customer.

Direct real estate owner agreement or purchase to a 3rd party operator of the access right to a building with the real estate agreement.

Connection to its own internal fiber infrastructure in the building or installed by an alternative operator.

End user offers creation and sales

End user premises installation and services activation

End users loyalty development

Addressable housing Connectable housing Home-PassedEnd user contract

signatureEnd user

connectedCustomer database

data is accessible to Customer => real time processing data is key factor of differentiation

Building phase, what’s next ?

CRM All acquisition channels

FT

TH

Netw

ork

Managem

ent

FTTH Network Provisioning

Prov. Logistics

Order

Management

Workforce

Management

Elig

ibility

FT

TH

FTTH

Network

Land register

Building & owner

Network inventory

Capacity available /

used

Deployment plan

FTTH network

Customer’s

address

Whole

sale

Offe

r

FTTH Sales Strategy

Potential customers

management Inhabitants database

Building administrators

database

Building / flat

database

Buildings /

flatsVAS

FTTH

Authentication

FTTH

Map of

FTTH network

OLT /

DHCP




Alexi Gekht: ACOME



The Agenda

• Workhop Program

• 13H00 – 14H30

Workshop introduction

Data & Tools in the planning/design phase

Main Speakers:

Alexi Gekht: ACOME




• 15H00 – 15H45

Data & Tools in the building phase

Main Speakers:


Alexi Gekht: ACOME


• 15H45 – 16H30

Data & Tools in Operation and

Maintenance

Trends on handling data & tools

usage

Final wrap-up

Main Speakers:




Stakeholders & interests

Goals in Operation

phase

Customer satisfaction

Efficiency

Regulators

Reputation

Players in the value chain

User

Corporate customer

ISP

Operator of active network

Access network owner Contractor

Systems used in operation phase

Player

PNI (a.k.a. GIS/NIS/NLM/NI…)

OSS BSS Customer Support CRM Project mgm. Finance

Use case: Cut cable case

Detect the fault

Pinpoint the fault

Analyze the impact

Prioritize the repair

Verify reestablished operation


Detect the fault

• Calls from customers, alarm in OSS/monitoring system, report from field…

Pinpoint the fault

Analyze the impact




Detect the fault

Pinpoint the fault

Analyze the impact



A small, radial network

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As seen in an IP topology view

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Connections are lost

































Lost connections in the cable topology



Highlighting


Detect the fault

Pinpoint the fault

Analyze the impact



Direct Customers

• The direct

customers are

normally easy to

find

• In an FTTH project

the majority are

probably Consumer

customers

What is happening on each fiber

1

P2P SDU

Internet,

IPTV

2

Dark Fiber

Local Government

Hospital connection

3

P2P SDU

Internet

4

Uplink MDU

12 ports

SLA3

5

Dark Fiber

B2B ISP

SLA1

6

Dark Fiber

Mobile Operator

SLA1

7

P2P SDU

Internet

8

P2P SDU

Health monitoring

SLA2

Internet


Detect the fault

Pinpoint the fault

Analyze the impact



Cut cable case: Repairing

Prioritize the connections based on information in the whole chain

For higher level SLA, execute redundancy

options

Reprioritize the repairs after redundancy

options

Communicate across the whole

chain


Detect the fault

Pinpoint the fault

Analyze the impact



• Use the active network

• Direct contact with customers

Example: Swedish PTSFS 2015:2

•Assets

•Connectivity

•Connections, services, customers…

Network must be correctly documented

•Classified according to – what is the impact if this asset breaks?

•How many customers (and what kind of customers) depend on this asset

(Impact) classification ofnetwork assets (cables,

switches, connections…)

•Defined processes (work flow, management, organisation…) for restoring service

•Plans for regular quality inspections and other QA mechanisms

•Redundancy and fault tolerance (also including UPS etc.)

•Vulnerability and risk analysis

Asset classes and asset categories leads to

Aggregation of classifications (1)

Class A

Class BClass C

Class C Class CClass B

Class CClass C

Class C

Class DClass D

Class BClass B

Class B

Class D

Class CClass D

Aggregation of classifications (2)

Splicepoint

Conclusions

The network owner operates in a

complex value chain

Many end users are users of customers

of customers

The information needed to make good decisions resides in many

systems

And not necessarily in the same kind of system throughout

the value chain

Total system integration will never

be feasable

But information must be shared one

way or another

Fiber networks are, and will be treated

as, chriticalinfrastructure and chritical services

Regulation bodies will be more active

and will have requirements

The Agenda

Workshop Program

• 13H00 – 14H30



Alexi Gekht: ACOME




• 15H00 – 15H45



Alexi Gekht: ACOME


• 15H45 – 16H30



Final wrap-up

Main Speakers:




Trends on tools usages

• GIS-based systems over CAD-systems

• PNI used earlier than befoire in late design and building phases

• Raise of the design automation software category

• Site survey tools coupled with PNI

Trends on handling data

Sharing data along the project lifecycle and among the stakeholders: difficulties

How to deal with multi sourced data (vendors, installers, municipality, infrastructure provider (other

operator?) :

GIS standards ? Library ? Nomenclature? Process as ITOM?

how to avoid doubloon? Mismatch database ?

- an example the Gr@ceTHD attempt to normalise data

- Existing « standard in other domain e.g. utilities)

Final Wrap-up

•Q/A

• Thank you

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