1. Municipality of Oberhausen an der Donau (Germany)
Best practice on FttH infrastructure
for rural areas in Central Europe
Juan Martin, Managing Director of sacoin Süd GmbH
Hong Kong, 18Th. May 2012
2. Initial Position
• Municipality has 1.264 households of which 770
households had no xDSL at all
• Deutsche Telekom & Kabel Deutschland offered
broadband connections of 0.3 to max. 6 Mbit/s
• Deutsche Telekom & Kabel Deutschland declined
to further invest
• Feasibility study in spring 2009 sponsored by
municipality Oberhausen recommended to invest
in FttH
• In summer 2009 the municipal council decided to
build its own broadband infrastructure based on
FttH and issued an European - wide tender
3. Key elements of the European-wide tender
• All inhabitants of Oberhausen will have 50 Mbit/s
(up and download) connections
• The FttH network will be future-compliant and able
to offer open access to 3rd party service providers
• The municipality requested to become an equity
holder in the investment
The project was awarded in February 2010 to
sacoin company holding
4. 16+ Manufacturers: One unique FFTH solution
Status as of November 2011.
Logos for ilustration purpose only.
Trademarks belonging to them
Compact -Tube
Technology
5. FTTH for rural areas: Principal
Headend
(TV & Radio)
Internet
Point of Presence (PoP)
Voice
Each household gets 2 fibres
50 Mbit/s, 100 Mbit/s, 1 Gbit/s & up to
10Gbit/s possible
6. Key element of the FTTH solution
1. Guaranteed bandwidth vs. „up to XY Mbit/s“
2. Symmetrical bandwidth for Download und Upload is the key
• for all advanced services as of today &
• in future indispensable
3. Active „switched“ Ethernet technology vs. shared
passive (x)PON technology and/or xDSL
4. Investment protection a customer premise equipment
(CPE; 1Gbits shipping) for FTHH solution built especially for
this purpose
5. Solution backed by a strong multi-vendor association
6. Solution scales and is a profitable business case
7. All existing devices@home are being supported !
CPE for FTTH: Investment protection & speed
IP: up to 1GBit/s synchron
Telefon: analogue / digital (ISDN)
TV & Radio: DVB-S / DVB-C /
& analogue
8. Technical data of the project
• 12+ Different permissions (right of way to cross roads,
Donau, private ground….) needed
• 62.5 km of fibre optical cable laid down
• 55+ km of civil and underground engineering
• 11.5 km backbone to connect Oberhausen
with a long distance carrier, including crossing
the Donau
• 100+ km ducts and 70+ access & joining chambers
• Own POP (Point of Presence) for the housing of all active
& passive components
9. • 70+ volunteers (2.000+ working hours) helped to
acquire the end-user contracts
• First customer went live on June 3rd 2011.
Currently 778 (out of 885) are connected; hereof 400+
users changed over to their „partly-owned“
rural service provider
• Investment of 4’0 mio € financed by Raiffeisenbank
Ehekirchen-Oberhausen – a local saving bank
• Project did not receive any federal government grant
because the long term business case is profitable
Key data of the project
10. Private Public Partnership
Municipality has a
stake in
Rural
service provider
(Public Private Partnership)
Rural Service Provider
offers
triple play services to
residential users and
enterprises
Backbone
Long distance carrier
Municipality owns
the FTTH infrastructure
Rural service
provider
11. Public Private Partnership: Financial scheme
• Figures in € w/o VAT
• Figures are per
user/month
• Figures are for the
residential part of the
business only
• Offering for enterprises
not included in the chart
Revenue Cost Cost Cost Payment Profit(Loss)
re-finance
the FTTH
network
12. Oberhausen: „Live“ since 3rd June 2011
German TV (BR 3):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXIrXQIljk&feature=player_embedded#at=12
Press:
http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/neuburg/Viele-wollen-es-Oberhausen-hat-
es id15371831.html
Homepage
http://www.oberhausen-donau.de/Gewerbe/Glasfaser-in-Oberhausen
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5TOB9zgEE
