Data tools for_sustainable_ftth_projects

Data & Tools for Sustainable FTTH Projects
Presented 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
Commissioning
RFI, RFQ
BUILD
Operation &
Maintenance
RUN
Optimization

The Agenda
Workshop Program
• 13H00 – 14H30
– Workshop introduction
– Data & Tools in the planning/design phase
Main Speakers:
Alexi Gekht: ACOME
• 14H30 - 15H00 Coffee Break
• 15H00 – 15H45
– Data & Tools in the building phase
Main 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. Digpro
also 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 well
as 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…) with
attributes
– 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?

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 Customer
satisfaction
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 the
Building phase

Input/Output Data in the Planning phase
Inputdata
Marketing
Consumer
expectations
Geo-marketing
Financial
Revenue
assumptions
Costs
Engineering
Architecture
choices
Engineering rules
GeoData
Endpoints
Potential
pathways
Outputdata
Economical Business Plan,
CAPEX/OPEX
Admin Right of ways
Technical
Architecture
choices
Engineering rules
BOQ
GeoData
Network routes
Cable/equipment
layout
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
Accuracy
of input
data
To Build
Plans
CAD Software
PNIGIS Desktop
App
Design
Automation
Software
Strategic Design Detailed Design
Planning Phase
High-level Design
Building Phase
High Level
Design

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 – Multipoints
Passive 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
Engineering
Geomarketing
Sites survey
Suplly chain
Technical
Database

Ducts, Overhead Lines, Road network
- Sources ?
- Raster or vector ?

Ducts, Overhead Lines, Road network

Example of what data are created

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 2015
Fev 2013
RFP issued
Nov 2013
Supplier selected
Fev 2015
First Suscriber
Dec 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 data
Obtaining 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

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:

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
BoQ
Final
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
DesignDesign
WorkWork
PermitPermit
HighHigh LevelLevel DesignDesign
Bill OfBill Of MaterialMaterial
CostCost EstimationEstimation
On siteOn site
SurveySurvey
Work PermitWork Permit
authoritiesauthorities
-- CostCost
-- StandardsStandards
-- PlanningPlanning
-- networknetwork
rere--arrangementarrangement
NO
ImplementationImplementation
NO
OPERATOR OPERATORBUILDER ASSETS
OWNERS
BUILDER

Building Phase data landscape
PNI
CAD files
Excel
files
GIS files Inventory
base
CAD Tools & Excel’s sheetsPlanning & designing tools
BOM Invoices
Deployment
maps
Detailed design
documents
As Built
documents
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
CAD files
Excel
files
Inventory
base
BOM
GIS files
Invoices
Deployment
maps
Detailed design
documents
Data
exchange
models
As Built
documentsGIS 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
CAD files
Excel
files
Inventory
base
BOM Invoices
Deployment
maps
Detailed design
documents
As Built
documents
GIS files
Validation
Capture or import

Building Phase
PNI
CAD files
Excel
files
Inventory
base
BOM Invoices
Deployment
maps
Detailed design
documents
As Built
documents
Validation

No tunnel effect
Data 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
1
Building
commitment
2
Connection
3
Sales
4
Customer
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-Passed
End user contract
signature
End user
connected
Customer
database
 data is accessible to Customer => real time processing data is key factor of differentiation

Building phase, what’s next ?
CRM
All acquisition channels
FTTHNetworkManagement
FTTH Network Provisioning
Prov. Logistics
Order
Management
Workforce
Management
Eligibility
FTTH
FTTH
Network
Land register
Building & owner
Network inventory
Capacity available /
used
Deployment plan
FTTH network
Customer’s
address
Wholesale
Offer
FTTH Sales Strategy
Potential customers
management Inhabitants database
Building administrators
database
Building / flat
database
Buildings /
flats
VAS
FTTH
Authentication
FTTH
Map of
FTTH network
OLT /
DHCP

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

As seen in an IP topology view

Lost connections in the cable topology

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

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 of
network 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 B
Class C
Class C Class C
Class B
Class C
Class C
Class C
Class D
Class D
Class B
Class B
Class B
Class D
Class CClass D

Aggregation of classifications (2)
Splice
point

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, chritical
infrastructure and
chritical services
Regulation bodies
will be more active
and will have
requirements

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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