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The German Infrastructure Atlas

Steffen Schmitt – Project Director Infrastructure Atlas Federal Network Agency

Planning Broadband InvestmentsWorkshop Brussels, 7th March 2011

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Infrastructure Atlas

What is the Infrastructure Atlas?

Database, operated by the Federal Network Agency,

containing geoinformation of infrastructure in Germany, that may be shared while broadband networks are expanded.

Background: The Federal Government‘s Broadband Strategy, Status: February 2009

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The Federal Government‘s Broadband Strategy

Measure 2: Compile an infrastructure atlas

The German Federal Network Agency will start work soon on an infrastructure atlas, in association with the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Where possible, the agency will include the conceptual groundwork already completed by industry and broadband initiatives from the Länder. It is hoped that the first edition will be available by Autumn 2009.

The Federal Network Agency, as a highly trustworthy top-level Federal Authority, will be assigned the task, while maintaining and guaranteeing maximum confidentiality, of ensuring that only infrastructure components that are actually suitable for pooling are included in the atlas. To achieve the required confidentiality, it will be necessary to differentiate between information that is either publicly available or only to selected users and information that should only be provided by the infrastructure providers themselves.

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Infrastructure Atlas

The aim:

Up to 70 per cent of the costs of developing broadband infrastructure in the fixed-line network are excavation costs. These costs may be reduced significantly if the various infrastructure providers become more open to collaboration and allowing third-party access to their own systems. This openness would create many win-win situations for businesses,while reducing costs for the economy as a whole.

The more efficiently existing infrastructure is pooled, the faster high-speed networks can be developed and remote areas connected to broadband Internet.

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Infrastructure Atlas

What sort of data is in the infrastructure atlas?

Optical fiber

Ducts, conduits

Main distribution frames, street cabinets

Masts, antennas, towers

Other infrastructures (e.g. buildings)

Source: About 130 infrastructure owners on a voluntary basis

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Implementation in three stages

First stage

BNetzA hands out information about type, owner and contact person of

infrastructure manually

Second Stage

In addition information about the geographical location

Third Stage

Web-GIS application

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Infrastructure Atlas – Some technical details

Infrastructure Atlas currently (first and second stage) is based on

Geographic Information System for infrastructure

Files containing these data

Free software as well as commercial software

ArcGIS, Spatial Commander and Feature Manipulation Engine licences in detail

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Infrastructure Atlas – Some technical details

In the future (third stage):

Web-GIS application based on

Oracle technology in general

Oracle Spatial database replacing the file system

Three level client-server architecture separating the application server from the

web server

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Who may use the Infrastructure Atlas?

Administrative units

Network operators

Consultancy firms

=> Information is only provided project-related

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Infrastructure Atlas – Application form

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Infrastructure Atlas – Application form

Stadt FreudenstadtMax Mustermann

registered beneficiary

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Infrastructure Atlas – Application form

contact details

Max MustermannStadt Freud

Peter MusterGemeinde Wittlensweiler

freudenstadt@fiktiveDaten.de

11111 Freudenstadt01234 / 567890

Mustermannstraße 1

Machbarkeitsstudie

project name

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Infrastructure Atlas – Application form

location

11112 Wittlensweiler11112 Dietersweiler11112 Aach

Peter MusterGemeinde Wittlensweiler

Freudenstadt@fiktiveDa

11111 Freudenstadt1234/ 567890

Mustermannstraße 1

Machbarkeitsstudie

Stadt FreudeMax Musterm

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Infrastructure Atlas – Application form

Freudenstadt@fiktiveDa

signatures

Max MustermStadt Freude

Peter MusterGemeinde Wittlensweiler

11111 Freudenstadt1234/ 567890

Mustermannstraße 1

Machbarkeitsstudie

11112 Wittlensweiler11112 Dietersweiler11112 Aach

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Areas that filed an application (about 330)

Equivalent to about 12.5 Million citizens

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Second Stage (prospective):

An example with fictitious data

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Area filing an application:Freudenstadt

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Bundesweiter Infrastrukturatlas

project area

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project area with infrastructure overlayed

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pdf-file

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Infrastructure Atlas – some keywords

Confidentiality

Company and business secrets demand high safety measures

Completeness

Get all relevant information

Intersectoral

Pool different industry sectors

Usability

Should be easy to use

Transparency

Deliver relevant information to where it is needed

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Thank you for your attention