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

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

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

16+ Manufacturers: One unique FFTH solution

Status as of November 2011.

Logos for ilustration purpose only.

Trademarks belonging to them

Compact -Tube

Technology

FTTH for rural areas: Principal

Headend

(TV & Radio)

Internet

Point of Presence (PoP)

VoiceEach household gets 2 fibres

50 Mbit/s, 100 Mbit/s, 1 Gbit/s & up to

10Gbit/s possible

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

Homepagehttp://www.oberhausen-donau.de/Gewerbe/Glasfaser-in-Oberhausen

YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5TOB9zgEE