Monday, September 5, 2011

Berlin: fiber optic network for the Gropiusstadt

Berlin: fiber optic network for the Gropiusstadt

In Berlin, around 4300 Gropiusstadt households will be connected to a fiber optic network by summer 2012. The project, which was unveiled in Berlin on Monday to work together for the satellite town in the south of the capital charge Degewo Housing Corporation, the energy company Vattenfall, the network equipment maker Ericsson and the network service provider QSC. While the network partners will gain experience with the open-access network model. The fiber network will be open to third-party applications to selected households between different service providers in the network can choose.

The cost of the project are the details of the project partners according to some 4 million euros. Contributes mainly to the energy company Vattenfall, the telecommunications subsidiary in Germany, operates a fiber optic backbone and acts as lead investor. Public funding should not be. Construction and operation of the access network in Gropiusstadt Ericsson takes over. That would release the fiber optic cables as part of ongoing renovation work laid the residential buildings of Degewo, said a spokesman for the Housing Corporation. For the installation work as the supply lines could be used in the buildings.


View over the city Gropius.
 
Bernard Ladenthin / Wikimedia Commons provides for the integration of different service providers on the net, the QSC Cologne. "The task is to make commercial use of fiber optic connectors for all involved easier and more efficient," says QSC Chief Executive Arnold Stender. The network access based on bitstream can meet the requirements of service providers to be adjusted. Give concrete plans so far with 1 & 1, said a spokeswoman, QSC, but stressed the Open Access principle: Everyone wants to can, on the net. With other providers, the company has already held talks.

The first apartments will be ready, according to the Degewo, in some weeks. Among the first plants to go to the grid, the house belonged to the high-Joachim Gottschalk-way, said the spokesman. In about one year should be the entire housing stock of Degewo Wutzkyallee between Zwickau and dam must be connected. This approximately 2,700 households will receive a fiber optic connection directly to the home (FTTH), the remaining more than 1,500 homes are connected via a connector building (FTTB) and internal copper wiring.

The connection is included in the cost of housing. Additional costs are for tenants only if they enter into contracts with a service provider. As part of the fiber optic project Gropiusstadt first tenants can choose between the band widths of 50 or 100 Mbit / s download on each of 10 Mbit / s (up). Technically, other bandwidths are feasible, the availability depends on the range of service providers.

The town is a bedroom community Gropius settlement on the southern border town in the Berlin district of Neukölln. The projected by the architect Walter Gropius residential complex with 18,500 apartments were built in 1962-1970 and is now one of the deprived areas of the capital. With the publication of a series of articles in the magazine Stern and the book "We Children from Bahnhof Zoo" in 1978 the settlement was known as the residence of the protagonist Christiane F. over the Berlin city limits.

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