The Swiss Way of Fiber to the Home
(FTTH)

Dienstag, 20. September 2011                                 
Palexpo Geneva

Europa steht an der Schwelle zum Glasfaser-Zeitalter. Die Schweiz geht mit gutem Beispiel voran. Immer mehr Standorte verabschieden sich vom alten Telefondraht aus Kupfer. Nur die Glasfaser kann auf Dauer mit Ultrabreitband-Internet und digitalen Mehrwertdiensten versorgen. Ein leistungsfähiges Glasfasernetz zählt heute zur Schlüsselinfrastruktur jeder Gemeinde.

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Symposia - Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011
Opening by Bruno Schöllkopf, Chair

Network structures, topologies and architectures

The Swiss way of FTTH - quick look behind the scenes
Alexander R.Etter, Innoveritas

Presentation of the current market situation and introduction to the amazing multi-fiber FTTH model. Summary of the key market drivers and possible scenarios for the further development.

SIG - FTTH a real project in the State of Geneva
Olivier Gudet, Responsable de l'Activité Télécom, SIG - Services Industriels de Genève

FTTH in Geneva, why now? Building a network in cooperation with your main competitor, is that a schizophrenic approach? Could you deploy a network for 240'000 units with 5 people?

Fibre Suisse - The partnership way of FTTH
Peter Kempf, Swisscom

Swisscom is rolling out FTTH in over 20 cities, in nine places of these with a cooperation partner. To support different business models of the partners, each household is connected point-to-point via multiple fibers. This multi-fiber model is embraced by regulator and stakeholders.

FTTH – One Europe, many solutions?
Hartwig Tauber, Director, FTTH Council Europe

The objective of this presentation is to give an overview on the various business and cooperation models of fibre networks in Europe on a national and regional basis. Topics include the analysis of the European FTTH market as well as the role of governments, regulators, networks operators and other stakeholders.

Lunch and free visit of the exhibition
ECOC is the largest European optical communications event and the meeting place for everyone in the fibreoptic communication technology industry. If you are a manufacturer, supplier or service provider of optical comms' products and services, you are guaranteed to meet and interact with your most active prospects at ECOC 2011.

Interconnections in the City of Zurich
Dr. Jacques Robadey, Head of Strategy & Business Development, EWZ Telecom, Zurich

The Zurich city FTTH Project including goals, open access business model and construction partnership between legacy operator and power utility is described. The main challenge is a full coverage rollout and minimizing construction costs. Interconnecting legacy operator and power utility networks opens the door to synergies, but also to complexity. Interconnecting the city of Zurich with Partner cities opens new opportunities for service providers and end customers.

Solution H & S
Aleksandar Opacic, Standardisation Manager, Huber+Suhner AG, Herisau

The main problem for the fibre optic component manufacturer is to develop products complying with particular requirements of network provider, subscriber and international standards. Fiber optic products considering reliability, cleanliness and safety with reduced complexity as well as realised in the system plug and play solution for homes and central offices are expected in the current and future FTTH deployment.

FTTH complexity as a challenge
Martin Kellenberger, Reichle & De-Massari AG, Wetzikon

The network operators need new ideas for efficient and flexible development and management for future oriented fiber optic infrastructures. The R&M Fox's system enables network operators to combine and expand architectures and technologies from today and tomorrow. A modular, flexible design, multi-functional components, fast and time-saving installation are key factors for security with no limits.

If everything depends on fiber - installation and damage prevention scenarios
Andrea Sigel, Diamond SA, Zürich

Technical and commercial comparison of three different FTTH in-house installation technologies. Is one of them the best? The whole multimedia world at home depends on this investment. By an interruption of the installation, no phone, no TV and no Internet anymore. How can this worst-case be averted?