IT STARTS WITH OPTICAL FIBRE Short Introduction Eurofiber May 21 st, 2014 Erwin Louwers Product Manager
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HISTORY OPTICAL FIBRE 90 s - 00 s: Backbones Trunk connections Carriers, ISP s, Mobile operators Telehouses 00 s: Aggregation / distribution City rings Regional roll out to city districts 00 s - 10 s: Access networks Fiber to the Home Fiber to the Office Fiber to the Site Objects (Smart Grid, CCTV, Sensors) Q1 2014 / Pagina 3
FUNDAMENT FOR - Office to Office connections - Server- & Data centralisation - Storage Networking - UMTS & 4G (LTE) - Cloud Computing - Big Data - Internet- & VoIP access Q1 2014 / Pagina 4
NETHERLANDS & BELGIUM Maarssen (HQ), Heerlen and Brussels Q1 2013 / Pagina 5
IN A NUT SHELL - Biggest independent supplier of fibre optic based corporate connectivity - Founded in 2000 - Totally owned fibre optic infrastructure Nationwide coverage - ~150 FTE, in Maarssen (near Utrecht), Heerlen and Brussels - Corporate market only plus utilities and wholesale - Open and transparent telecoms infrastructure - 2013: acquisition of Unet and Isilinx / Isiconnexion Q1 2014 / Pagina 6
FIBRE OPTIC NETWORK Totally owned fibre optic network - Carrier neutral, open - 16.000+ km - Accurately administrated - 5000+ connections Q1 2014 / Pagina 7
COCON DEMO Eurofiber s fibre inventory system Q1 2014 / Pagina 8
DATA CENTER Open Datacenter - Tier-3 around the corner - 2000 m2, 4MW IT - Collocation only - Modulair, distributed model Q1 2014 / Pagina 9
PRODUCTS & SERVICES Dark Fiber - Manage your own bandwidth (up to 100 Gbps) - One or more unique fibre routes - Availability 99.9% - 99.99% Optical Transmission Services (OTS) - Bandwidth: 1 Gbps up until 40 Gbps - Multiple protocols and services via one DWDM connection Ethernet - Basic/Advanced/Premium - 10 Mbps until 1 Gbps - Internet access, Voice over IP, data transport en data storage Collocation - First data center in region Utrecht Q1 2014 / Pagina 10
UNIQUE APROACH Under the surface SLA < 8 hours Low Latency Availability Eurofiber Hand-Hole 60 cm Q1 2013 / Pagina 11
MARKETS Q1 2014 / Pagina 12
MARKETS Corporate FttO Business Parks Multi tenant buildings Wholesale Mobile operators: Fiber to the Site Utilities: energy locations, bridges, water locks, etc. Carriers & ISP Datacenters, Collocation sites (MDF, FttH) Q1 2014 / Pagina 13
HORIZONTAL APPROACH End customer (corporates/ utilities / telcos) Services IP / IT Infra Transport Dark Fiber OTS Ethernet Datacenter Q1 2013 / Pagina 14
CORPORATE MARKET Qty automated workspaces/segment % Fiber connected? 857.529 6.300 90% 50 AWP + Aprox. 57.000 796.031 5 < 50 AWP 40% 51.000 1.200.000 MRC < 250,- <5% Approx. 830.000 26-5-2014 15 / Pagina
Market need? DWDM 4.434 Dark 4.434 Fiber Datacenter 4.434 50 AWP + Multi 4.434 Site LAN-WAN 4.434 4.434 Internet 5 < 50 AWP 1 4.434 stop shop 4.434 Voice MRC < 250,- Differentiator: Generic or Mission Critical Use 26-5-2014 16 / Pagina
MARKET GROWTH CORPORATE FIBER 26-5-2014 17 / Pagina
TECHNOLOGY & ROLL OUT Q1 2014 / Pagina 18
OPTICAL FIBRE WITHIN TELECOMMUNICATIONS - Optical data transport via laser light over very thin optical fibre (core diameter = 8 µm) - The light is catched whitin the fibre It is bounced via the edges It can travel around curves 26-5-2014 / Pagina 19
FIBRE VERSUS COPPER Fiber: - Optical laser light - Almost no signal loss during transport Copper: - Electric - Loss through resistance and noise Therefor: Therefor: - Almost no bandwidth limitations - Large distances - Symetrical : No compromise in up- and download speeds - Limited bandwidth - Limited reach (locally) - Not symetrical: Lower upload speed then download speed 26-5-2014 20 / Pagina
HOW IS THE NETWORK BUILD? 288 fiber cable Miniducts Trench Ducts 26-5-2014 21 / Pagina
Where are fiber routes build? - Main routes contain multiple cables Lots of capacity between European main cities Nowadays also widely spread within countries Multiple parties (KPN, cable operators, Eurofiber) - All major cities have fiber city rings - Less then 25% of corporate locations have a fiber connection 26-5-2014 / Pagina 22
Why is the Last Mile so difficult? Network hierarchy in the NL Backbone: ca. 5.000km Rings: ca. 10.000km Last Mile: ca.100.000km 2. Cityring 3 Last Mile 1.Backbone 26-5-2014 / Pagina 23
Expansion Strategies - Individual - Demand bundling (i.e. business parks) - Area roll-out - M&A 26-5-2014 / Pagina 24
Individual - New fiber connection is created by digging towards the nearest cable entry point (hand hole) Digging distance between 50 and 500 meters Rather expensive Civil works, drilling, etc. Suitable for higher bandwidths Eurofiber, KPN, Tele2, Cable Operators 26-5-2014 / Pagina 25
Demand Bundling - Geographically concentrated group of corporates Shared costs of local ring Lower digging distance towards each location Lower fees because of shared costs overall Depends on participation of customers and operators Eurofiber, KPN and other local initiatives 26-5-2014 / Pagina 26
Area Roll-out (FttH) - Operator builds a local network towards houses and enterprises (under conditions) Shared cost per location and dependancy on participation % Digging distance less then 10 meters per location Costs per fiber connection less then 1000 Euro Succes depends on: Sufficient participants Participation operators acting on consumer market Financiering KPN/Reggefiber, some local initiatives 26-5-2014 / Pagina 27
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NETWORK DEMO 13:30-15:00 4 GROUPS OF APPROX. 5 PERSONS AND 20 MINUTES PER GROUP Q1 2014 / Pagina 29
www.eurofiber.com Q1 2014 / Pagina 30