Transcript ITU-T Study Group 6 Outside Plant and related indoor installation Summary of Results Study Period 2005-2008 Francesco Montalti.

ITU-T Study Group 6
Outside Plant and related indoor installation
Summary of Results
Study Period 2005-2008
Francesco Montalti
Contents
Terms of reference
Highlights of achievements / Projects /
FGs
Future work
Supplemental slides
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Terms of reference
Study Group 6 is responsible for studies related to:
Construction of all types of terrestrial cable for public
telecommunications, including marinized terrestrial cables and the
associated hardware (closures, connectors, cabinets, poles, etc.);
Construction and maintenance of the telecommunication
infrastructure. This includes interoffice, access and related
building and home cable and hardware installations;
Installation, jointing and termination of cables;
Protection of the environment from the deployment of
telecommunication related cable, hardware and equipment in the
outside plant;
Protection from corrosion and others forms of damage from
environment impact, except electromagnetic processes, of cables
for public telecommunications and associated structures.;
Protection against fire of telecommunication buildings and outside
plant;
Procedures for the safety of personnel.
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Highlights of achievements (I)
In this study period SG 6 addressed under a global umbrella
(products, planning, deployment and maintenance) the items
related to the cost effective introduction of optical fibres in the
access network for FTTX technologies with the following
Recommendation:
– L.65 Optical fibre distribution of access networks
– L.66 Optical fibre cable maintenance criteria for in-service fibre
testing in access networks
– L.67 Small count optical fibre cables for indoor applications
– L.72 Databases for optical access network infrastructure
– L.77 Installation of cables in sewer ducts
– L.79 Optical fibre cable elements for micro-duct blowinginstallation application
In particular L.66 provides the new standard of the monitoring
wavelength at 1650 nm.
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Highlights of achievements (II)
Study Group 6 initiated within ITU-T the studies related to the
application of RFID technologies for the surveillance and
maintenance of outside plant elements:
- L.64 “ID tag requirements for infrastructure and network
elements management”
- L.69 “Personal digital assistant requirements and relevant data
structure for infrastructure and network elements management”
- L.80 “Operations support system requirements for infrastructure
and network elements management using ID technology”
This set of Recommendations provide guidance on:
1. the use of RFID devices to monitor the performances of the
installed products,
2. the characteristics of PDA for the collection of the data in the field
3. The required features of the OSS to manage the collected data
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Highlights of achievements (III)
The existing copper network is an important asset for
Telecommunication Operators: the techniques for its improvement
and its best use with the emerging XDSL technologies are
addressed in:
-L.71 “Design, construction, and installation of copper networks
for broadband access including copper networks connected to
optical fibre networks”
-L.75 “Test, acceptance and maintenance methods of copper
subscriber pairs”
-L.76 “Copper loop requirements for various technologies
including indoor and structured cabling”
The sinergy with IEC SC86B was further enhanced by the revision
of L.12 “Optical fibre splices” and L.36 “Single mode fibre optic
connectors”in order not to duplicate work and to produce
technically aligned standards.
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Future Work (I)
In the last years Telecom operators have started a massive
introduction of optical fibre in the access network, in order to
provide FTTX solution. This trend, that will continue in exponential
way in the following years, has led fibre manufacturers to
investigate production techniques that are able to overcome the
installation problems that prevented fibres to be easily installed
inside customer premises, improving in particular the mechanical
characteristics and the resistance to multiple bending.
In this framework, Study Group 6 will take care (addressing also
reliability and security aspects) of the entire set of fibres and
cable performance, field deployment and integrity of installations
The activity on the construction of infrastructures will address the
investigation and standardization of all the new techniques that
allow faster, cost effective and safer cable installation, taking also
into account the social issues such as the reduction of excavation,
the problem for traffic, and the generation of noise.
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Future Work (II)
Maintenance and physical infrastructure management will be
addressed, taking into account the possibilities given by the use of
emerging technologies, such as RFID and ubiquitous sensor
networks. Studies will take into account new OTDRs and fibre
identification technologies for optical fibre monitoring systems
developed for the Passive Optical Networks (PON).
Study Group 6 will also continue to take care of the aspects
related to the deployment of new services on existing copper
network such as co-existence of different services from different
providers in the same cable, including also the need of providing
performance requirements of new copper pair cables designed to
support higher bandwidth.
This activity is strictly related to the continuation of studies on the
Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) with the scope to provide all the
correct technical solutions needed to assure the network integrity
and interoperability, the easy use of equipment and access
security in a context where operators can interact without
affecting the Quality of Service defined by regulatory and
administrative issues.
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Future Work (III)
As a result of climate change, the interest on environmental
issues is growing in areas including life cycle analysis of products
and processes, environmentally friendly materials and waste
disposal.
It is foreseen to perform the work in a strong partnership with
Study Group 15 and in cooperation with IEC TCs 20, 46, 86 and
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25.
Study Group 6 wishes to continue in this new study period all the
activities of support to Developing Countries, with the
organization of SG meetings and Workshops in the ITU Regions, in
co-operation with the local entities. A further involvement of ITU
Regions is envisaged with the cooperation of any Regional
Working Groups with the aim to highlight specific needs and to
submit contributions to Study Group 6.
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Supplemental Slides
Management team
Structure
Statistics
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Management Team
Chair
Francesco Montalti
(I)
Vice-Chairs:
Carlos Lauria
(B)
Alexandre Tsym
(RUS)
Alexandre Tsym
(RUS)
Atílio Reggiani
(B)
WP Chairs:
TSB
Greg Jones
Emmanuelle Labare
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Study Group 6 Structure
WP1 Infrastructures and Environment
Environmental and safety procedures for external
plant, infrastructure and installation techniques,
infrastructure support systems
WP2 Application of Products
access cabling, fibre connection, fibre network
maintenance, cable construction, joint closures,
termination and distribution frames, outdoor
enclosures and passive components
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Statistics (I)
0 Rapporteurs meetings held
54 contributions received
6 SG meetings held
Max/Min/Average SG participants:
48/34/41
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Statistics (II)
21 New/Revised Recommendations
approved
9 Questions assigned by WTSA-04
0 new or revised Questions during study
period
10 Questions proposed for next period
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Workshops
“Fibre and cable infrastructure technologies for the NGN and
FTTH deployment”
Wuhan, China 14 April 2008
Aim of the workshop: to review the state of the art of the worldwide
deployment of fibre in the access network, present new products
and emerging installation techniques and discuss the pro and cons
of the different FFTX solutions.
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Thank you!
Dr. Montalti received the Laurea degree with honours in
Physics from the Rome University “La Sapienza” in
1976. After some years spent at the ITT Face Standard
Laboratory as researcher, in 1985 he joined SIP, now
Telecom Italia, working on the Industrialization of New
Technologies and as responsible for the specifications of
cables and the associate hardware used in the whole
Telecom Italia network, participating in the activities of
several standardization bodies. At present he is in
charge of Outside Plant Engineering in the Telecom Italia
Open Access Division.
Francesco has successfully chaired ITU-T Study Group 6
(Outside Plant and related indoor installation) since
2001. Under his leadership Study Group 6 developed
Recommendations and Handbooks in its core
competency areas giving useful advice and expertise
especially to the developing countries.
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