1. The future is here! Erik de Vries Senior Technical Consultant

2. Content The Network The Technology The Organisation

3. IP over….. Lower Cost, Complexity, and Overhead IP ATM Optical B-ISDNIP over ATM IP over SONET/SDH IP Optical IP over Optical IP SONET/SDH Optical ATM SONET/SDH IP Optical Multiplexing, Protection, and Management at Every Layer

5. The Network

7. History 1997 1998 1999 2000 Construction started Loop 1 live Loop 2 live 3200 km National networks in Belgium and France National networks in UK and Germany 10.300 km Extensions to Switserland and Italy 14.000 km

8. Facts & Figures Pan European Backbone Network (Ulysses) more than 14.000 km of fibre in 13 countries connecting 16 major metropolitan networks with redundant connections to US (Gemini)

9. Facts & Figures (2) Terrestrial fibres up to 196 fibres per cable Armoured undersea cables Duct sharing / Fibre lease / Capacity lease

10. The Technology Fibre-only network SDH tech. for fast protection DWDM tech. for high capacity 32 x 10 Gbps on a single fibre

11. SDH STM-1 STM-4 STM-16 STM-1 STM-4 STM-16 10 Gbps ring 4-fibre protection ADM

12. 10 Gbps N x10 Gbps dwdm 10 Gbps Todays network: Input rate is 10 Gbps, N = 32 Tomorrows network:Input rate is 40 Gbps, N = 128 DWDM

13. The Organisation INOCCField OpsEng. Support

14. Real-Time Surveillance Network Control Point Quality Of Service SME Backbone SME Metro SME DACCS Int. Scheduled Maintenance ISO 9002 registered INOCC

15. Field Ops 24 x 7 support 2 hours to site Spare parts management Cable protection

16. terrestrial cable repair sea cable repair through NSCMA

17. Eng. Support 3rd line support of the network 3rd line support of the management systems vendor contacts and escalations

18. Thanks for your attention! Any Questions?