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South-East Europe Fibre Infrastructure for
Research and Education
Valentino Cavalli SEEFIRE Project
Manager TERENA cavalli_at_terena.nl
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Content

• SEEFIRE Overview
• Partners
• background
• Objectives
• Main (expected) results
• Current fibre deployments in SEE

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SEEFIRE Overview

• Specific Support Actions (SSA) project funded by
  the EC (6th FP)
• Start date 1 March 2005
• End date 28 February 2006
• Project budget 416,273 - EC contribution
  350,000
• SEEFIRE builds on the results of previous IST
  projects (SEEREN, SERENATE and GN1)
• Main goal
• To produce studies on the options available for
  acquiring an optical fibre network infrastructure
  and strategies for the development of research
  and education networking in southeast Europe,
  with a specific emphasis on Western Balkan
  countries.

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Partners

• 11 Partners
• TERENA (NL)
• Claire Milne (Antelope Consulting/TERENA)
• GRNET (GR)
• CESNET (CZ)
• NIIF/HUNGARNET (HU)
• AMREJ (CS)
• DANTE (UK)
• RoEduNet (RO)
• ISTF (BG)
• INIMA (AL)
• BIHARNET (BH)
• MARNET (MK)

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Background

• There is a significant digital divide in Europe
  which affects many countries in southeast Europe
• The SEEREN initiative helped in providing
  international connectivity to countries in the
  region
• However, longer-term, cost-effective solutions
  are needed in the future
• SERENATE recommended the acquisition of dark
  fibre by NRENs as a way of decreasing the digital
  divide in a cost-effective way
• There are dark-fibre deployment experiences in
  the region, which should be sustained and
  supported
• Southeast European countries are entering the
  eInfrastructures community
• Long-term vision to create a southeast European
  fibre backbone fostering collaboration of
  researchers and students

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Objectives

• To provide a benchmark of existing and
  potentially available optical fibre for NRENs in
  the southeast European region
• To analyse the technical options available for
  the deployment of dark fibre and the management
  of optical transmission by NRENs in the region
• To study regulatory and legal issues
• To develop an economic model for the acquisition
  and operation of own network connectivity by
  NRENs
• To disseminate information and increase awareness
  about dark-fibre deployment both at technical and
  policy-making levels

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Timeline / Milestones
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Study on (dark) fibre acquisition

• July 05, Dark Fibre database to identify the
  fibre availability in the SE region
• Deliver a database of available (dark) fibre (and
  planting projects) in SEE that will assist
  SEE-NRENs in their National and International
  fibre acquisition roadmaps
• Identify (dark) fibre interconnection points and
  cross-border connections in SEE (and determine
  which ones should be established for seamless
  interconnection) that will assist SEE-NRENs in
  National and International interconnectivity
  plans
• Aug 05, Report on the status of owned national
  connectivity in SEE
• Report on the status of SEE NRENs that will
  assist SEE NRENs in benchmarking their progress
  and update their sustainability plans
• Describe and assess the status of (all) SEE NRENs
  owned national connectivity and related
  acquisition projects that will accelerate (via
  best practices) SEE NRENs fibre acquisition plans

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Transmission technology study

• Oct 05, Report on NREN-empowered dark-fibre
  transmission technologies
• focus on available technologies and equipment for
  enabling a dark-fibre infrastructure at different
  levels metro, national, regional and
  international.
• evaluate a multiplicity of approaches and
  technological options in terms of equipment for
  lighting dark fibre and creating point-to-point
  lambdas.
• provide detailed information on technical
  specifications of equipment
• provide technical and financial aspects of
  deployment alternatives.
• Dec 05, Guidelines for support of deployment of
  NREN-empowered fibre infrastructure
• Guidelines for future deployment of own fibre
  infrastructure by NRENs, transition from
  telco-SDH services to a dark-fibre based network,
  gradually upgrade transfer rate on heavy-traffic
  lines
• Examples of documents and specifications
  successfully used for procurement of DF and
  transmission equipment
• Describe SEE NRENs experience about equipment
  functionality, installation principles,
  redundancy and protection issues

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Regulatory and economic study

• Nov 05, Study on the regulatory and legal
  framework
• Current regulatory status and plans for adopting
  the EU communication package
• Status of competition to supply dark fibre in the
  country price dependency
• Procedures and costs for obtaining permissions
  for civil works (also about cross-border links)
• Strength and independence of the regulatory body
• Etc.
• Feb 06, Economical model for the acquisition and
  operation of dark fibre networks in SE Europe
• Cost Categories
• -Fibre (basis for acquisition)
• -Hardware Granularity of Costs
• -Management and Maintenance
• -Housing costs
• Demand Analysis

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Workshops and white paper

• 14-15 July 05, SEEFIRE Technical Workshop (Sofia,
  Bulgaria) to discuss technical aspect of dark
  fibre deployment
• Jan 06, SEEFIRE Policy workshop
• Feb 06, White paper strategic report on SEE
  Fibre Infrastructure for NRENs

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Serbia and Montenegro 1/4

• Existing intercity dark-fibre topology
• Contract with Telekom Srbija signed in Q3 of
  2003
• Telekom Srbija is establishing lines extremely
  slowly (they are late more then a year) because
  almost everywhere optical local loops have to be
  built
• Novi Sad Subotica CWDM (4 lambdas) over 110km
  of G.652
• All permissions obtained for cross-border
  connections to Hungary
• Agreement with Hungarnet agreed, to be signed
  very soon
• Agreed also connection to Zvornik (Bosnia and
  Herzegovina)

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Serbia and Montenegro 2/4

• All intercity DF lines which are under the
  Contract
• On some lines Telekom doesnt have sufficient DF
  capacity in the cable at the moment ( Novi Sad
  Zrenjanin, Beograd - Nis)
• Electric Power company of Serbia has considerable
  amount of intercity DF on the north of the
  country, but is unwilling to lease fibers at the
  moment.
• Other companies (railways and gas companies) have
  small, almost negligible amount of intercity DF
• No DF or contract for DF in Montenegro part of
  the NREN at the moment
• Telekom Crne Gore (Montenegro) changed owner
  recently and their position on DF lease is
  unknown at the moment

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Serbia and Montenegro 3/4

• Dark Fibre in Cities
• In Belgrade 6 important nodes are connected in
  MAN. More then 30 institutions in Belgrade are
  under the same contract with Telekom Srbija.
  Expected to be connected by the end of 2005.
• In Nis, Kragujevac and Novi Sad almost all
  institutions are already connected by DF (4 nodes
  in Novi Sad, 3 in Kragujevac and 3 in Nis). In
  Nis 2 institutions still dont have DF local
  loops
• All lines are 1Gbps Ethernet

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Serbia and Montenegro 4/4
Institute for physics
Existing dark fibre in Belgrade
UoB rectorate and several faculties
RCUB central node UoB technical faculties
Ministry of science
UoB school of medecine
Institute for nuclear sciences Vinca
UoB Faculty of management
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FYR of Macedonia 1/3
Macedonian RailwaysPlanned corridors for
installing optics
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FYR of Macedonia 2/3
Electric Power Company MEPSO Existing Optics
over Power Lines
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FYR of Macedonia 3/3
MARNet Metro Optical Network in Skopje
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Romania 1/2

• SN Telecomunicatii CFR SA
• Red lines existing fibre
• Blue lines planned

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Romania 2/2
CN Transelectrica SA
SC Romanian Data System
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Albania 1/2

• ALBTELECOM National Network
• 97 km 34 Mb/s
• 246 km 155 Mb/s
• 539 km land lines
• 594 km submarine (intern.) lines 622 Mb/s

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Albania 2/2

• ALBTELECOM International Network
• 2 projects
• Trans Balkan Line (TBL) East-West
• ADRIA 1 North-South
• Both with STM-4 (622Mb/s) FO
• Montenegro FO Scutari-Murriqan (border)
• Kosovo MW Tirana-Cvilen

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Bosnia and Herzegovina