Amsterdam is forging ahead with plans to connecting all 450,000 homes, businesses and organizations in the city with a fiberoptic access-network. The Municipal Executive has declared that it strives for that open and universal infrastructure to reach every Amsterdam household, business and institution by 2010. The local authority will not be supplying those connections, but will entrust that task to an intended development company, Citynet Amsterdam (www.citynet.nl).
Amsterdam City Council will establish a qualitatively superior, future-proof, fiber-optic, communications network in the municipality of Amsterdam. This will be a communications network which is accessible to all service providers subject to the same favorable conditions, while ensuring that no vertical integration or undesirable monopolies emerge. With regard to the services, the underlying principle is that at least three basic types will be offered via this network: TV, telephone services and Internet data transmission(‘triple play’) plus services using low cost high bandwidth Intranet-type data transmission (Citynet) within the network.
Cibernet Fiber Amsterdam will be the owner and financier of the passive infrastructure. The passive component of this infrastructure will then be let to a wholesale network operator for an agreed period of time (10 years) and the latter will operate the network subject to certain terms and conditions. This operator will be responsible for putting the network into service.
Last Thursday, I visited the Q&A meeting in Amsterdam to see which parties are interested in tendering. On every potential network operator there are at leat five suppliers. This underlines the statement of Dirk van der Woude (senior advisor City of Amsterdam) that large players don't make much rumour.
Network operator
- BT Global Services
- COLT Telecom
- MCI
- KPN
- UPC
Supplier
- Arcadis
- Broadband Solutions TKF
- Cisco
- Corning Cable Systems
- Draka Comteq
- Ericsson
- EuroFiber
- Fixed Access Networks
- Foundry Networks B.V.
- Genexis B.V.
- Getronics Nederland B.V.
- GTI Infra
- Imtech Telecom B.V.
- Isolectra bv
- Lucent Technologies
- Nacap Telecom UK
- Nijkerk Computer Solutions
- NKM Netwerken Veenendaal
- Optaxx
- Packetfront
- Schuuring Communicatie Netwerk
- Siemens Nederland N.V.
- Stam & Co Kommunikatie-Systemen BV
- Telindus
- UNET
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