Global expert in cables and cabling systems Thierry Roucher

1Telecom Press Trip – Brussels 2005

Global expert in cables and cabling systems

Thierry Roucher


A worldwide leader

• 4.9 Billion Euro sales in 2004 (est. results)

• The most complete range of telecom and energy cables and cabling systems

Sales by activity*

Sales by destination*

* Based on sales at constant metal prices

Winding Wires24 %

Telecom 14 %

Energy62 %

Europe73 %

North of America17%Asia

5 %

RoW5 %


More than 100 years of experience

• 1897 Société Française des Câbles Electriques

• 1917 Becomes Compagnie Générale des Câbles de Lyon

• 1925 Merger with Compagnie Générale d’Electricité

• 1986 Part of Alcatel: Alcatel Cable

• 2000 Creation of Nexans

• 2001 First listing on Euronext (Paris)

•Continuous growth and acquisitions: Société Industrielle des Téléphones, Thomson-Jeumont Câbles,

Kabelmetal Elektro (Germany), Berk Tek (United States), Kukdong (South Korea), Furukawa cabos de Energia SA (Brazil), Liban cables (Lebanon), …


• Plants in 29 countries and commercial activities in 65 countries

• 20,000 local experts

• Mastery of national and international standards

Global presence


Expertise dedicated to 3 key markets

Industry

Infrastructure

Building


Cable solutions for railway networks security

Fire performance cables

Radiating cables

WAN/MAN/LAN Catenaries Station range cables

Energy and feeder cables

Connectivityaccessories

Poweraccessories

ODFs &closures

Multi-pair hybrid energy/telecom cables

Axle counter & balise cables

Fiber accessrouting technology

Trunk line & radio system optical fiber cables


Global cable solutions for oil & gas

Copper/fiber LAN

Remote OperatedVehicles Marine fiber

backbones Heating cablesOptical fiberbackbones

LV, MV, HV cables

Instrumentation cables

Fire-performance & mud-resistant cables

Umbilicals

ROV dynamic umbilicals

Maritime LAN

Data acquisitioncables

Accessories & custom software

Transfer lines


Turnkey cable solutions for windpark infrastructure

Fiber Optic data cables

Medium Voltage cables

Fiber opticaccessories

Local AreaNetworks

Auxiliary equipmentand systems

Cable installationsoftware

Special laying vessels,Capjet trenchers & Spider dredger

OffshoreHV cables

All MV & HVaccessories

OnshoreHV cables

Overhead MV &HV conductors


State of the art technologies

The thinnest cable: diameter of 12 microns

The most powerful cable: 550,000 Volts

The longest cable: 125 km

The deepest undersea cable: 2,300 m water depth

The heaviest cable: 123 kg per meter

The most resistant cable: up to 1,000°C


At the core of advanced technological achievements

Horns Rev: the biggest offshorewindfarm worldwide

Queen Mary II: the biggest cruise ship in the world Transrapid: first magnetic

levitation train in Shanghai

Petronas Towers: 2 super skyscrapers in Malaysia

Airbus A380: new generation of passenger aircraft


Building the future through innovation

• 1 international research center

• 9 competence centers

• 450 researchers, engineers and technicians

• 420 families of patents registered

• An average of 2 new products per week

Leading position in advanced technologies :

• High data transmission capacity

• Insulation material

• Plastic Optical Fiber

• Superconductors

• Safety: fire behaviour of cables


A new generation of xDSL and FTTx cables

Véronique Stappers

Nexans aids telecom operators and their equipment suppliers to deploy strategies for high-performance

broadband


17,12%

1,10%

30,00%

3,36%17,78%

28,22%

1,01%

North America Western EuropeAsia Pacific South & East AsiaLatin America & Carib Middle East & AfricaEastern Europe

DSL Subscribers by Area (in M & by%) Dec 2004

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DSL reaches 85 Million subscribers

half a million choose DSL every week


FTTx

FTTx in Europe :

Today 550 00 Subscribers

About 100 Players (Municipalities/ Power Utilities, Housing companies, Competitive Local Exchange carriers, Incumbent Operators)

About 135 projects recorded

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HDTV

TELEVISION (VoD, MultiTV Channels)

FAST INTERNET

ANALOG VOICE / VoIP / Visio

QoS

ARPU increase

Market share

capture

Customer fidelity

Triple Play

FAST INTERNET

ANALOG VOICE QoS

ARPU compensation & Market

share capture in

Unbundling Contents

ANALOG VOICE

Public Service

availability

Wireless & Wireline , Voice, Data, Image

Convergence

Quadruple Play

20-25 €

25 -30 €

30– 50 €

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Telecom Market Key Trends


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ASSOCIATED FREQUENCY PLAN

34 KHz

0 to 1.1 MHz 0 to 2.2 MHz

0 to 12

MHz

Copper cable infrastructure to deliver POTS & aDSL up to 5.5kmPOTS/ aDSL

Copper cable infrastructure max up to 2.5kmFiber Optic cable infrastructureADSL2+/

Remote aDSL

Copper cable infrastructure max up to

300mFiber Optic cable infrastructureVDSL

G 992.1 : ADSL G 992.3 :

ADSL 2G 992.5 : ADSL 2+

G 998 : VDSLITU-T

BANDWIDTH /TRAFFIC SPEED REQUIRED

64 KBits/

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APPLICATION POTS

ANALOG VOICESERVICES

2000 2003 2004 2007

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Central Office

Subscriber

Premises

1 MBits/

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2 MBits/

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ADSL ADSL2

VOICE +DATA + VIDEO (MPEG2)

Why should the Telecom infrastructure evolve?

0 to 30

MHz

>MBits/s

VDSL 2

8 MBits/

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ADSL2+

VOICE +DATA + VIDEO &

HDTV(MPEG4)

22 MBits/

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VDSL

FULL TRIPPLE

PLAY

128 KBits/s

512 KBits/

s

ADSL/ ISDN

ADSL

VOICE + FAST INTERNET


INCUMBENT LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIER CENTRAL OFFICE SUBSCRIBER

MDF*

SWITCH

PSTN*

MDF* : Main Distribution framePSTN* : Public Switch Telephony Network

PHASE 1 :

OPERATOR OFFERING ANALOG TELEPHONY SERVICE ON HIS COPPER INFRASTRUCTURE

CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE :INDOOR SWITCHING COPPER CABLESOUTDOOR COPPER CABLES

Operator’s strategic development


INCUMBENT LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIER CENTRAL OFFICE

SUBSCRIBER

MDF

SWITCH

DSLAMPHASE 2 :

OPERATOR DEPLOYING xDSL BROADBAND SERVICES SUPPORTED BY HIS COPPER INFRASTRUCTURE

PSTN

CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE :INDOOR xDSL COPPER CABLESOUTDOOR COPPER CABLES

Operator’s strategic development to address broadband deployments


SUBSCRIBER

PHASE 3 :

OPERATOR DEPLOYING NEW SERVICES (Triple

Play) AND EXTANDED COVERAGE

CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE : MICRO FIBER OPTIC CABLESOUTDOOR COPPER CABLES

INDOOR xDSL COPPER CABLES

INCUMBENT LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIER CENTRAL OFFICE

MDF

SWITCH

DSLAM

PSTN

Operator’s strategic development to address Triple Play


xDSL copper cable strategy

Copper Enhanced xDSL cable

Because so much of your Performances run through cables


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Distance from the

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Longer reach = More subscribers

Higher rate = More services


Nexans helps the Operators & their DSLAM equipment suppliers to deploy their strategy of a

performing Broadband offer


POTS cables vs. Enhanced s xDSL cablesRATE and REACH for ADSL1 and ADSL2+ transmission

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Enhanced xDSL cables enable a performing Broadband offer :

Longer reachHigher Bit Rate


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POTS Cable infrastructure (Indoor & Outdoor)

Enhanced xDSL Cable infrastructure (Indoor & Outdoor)




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+ 50% rate = More services


Higher Bit Rate, Higher speed , additional contents, new services Better QoS to the Subscriber

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Availability of Broadband to more Subscribers





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POTS cables vs.Enhanced xDSL cables Influence of the indoor cables (aDSL DSLAM equipment

cable)


Enhanced xDSL Indoor Cable & POTS outdoor cable infrastructure

Enhanced xDSL Indoor cables enable a reduced discrepancy between Subscribers and all of them become elligible to Triple

Play



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Enhanced xDSL Indoor cables enable a reduced discrepancy between Subscribers and all of them become elligible to Triple

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POTS cables vs.Enhanced xDSL cables Influence of the indoor cables (aDSL 2+DSLAM equipment

cable) POTS Cable infrastructure (Indoor & Outdoor)

Enhanced xDSL Indoor Cable & POTS outdoor cable infrastructure



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BANDWIDTH /TRAFFIC SPEED REQUIRED

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APPLICATION ADSL ADSL2+

VDSL 2

2003 2004 2005 2007

FTTx outdoor fiber optic cables road

map

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CA

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Central Office

Subscriber

Premises

Copper cable infras. up to 600m

Fiber Optic cable infrastructure

Copper cable infrastructure to deliver POTS & aDSL up to 5.5km

G 992.1 : ADSL

G 992.5 : ADSL 2+

G 998 : VDSL VDSL2

ITU-T

FTTx (Fibre to the X)

FTTCO Central Office

FTTNNode

Fiber Optic cable infrastructure for Multidwelling & home

VOICE + FAST INTERNET

V +D+ VIDEO &

HDTV(MPEG4)

FULL TRIPPLE

PLAY

SERVICES

10 to 100 MBits/s

Gigabit Ethernet / Fast Ethernet / IEEE 802.3

G 984 GPON

G 983: BPON

or or

FTTPPremises

FULL TRIPPLE PLAY (eLEARNING, eHEALTH…)


FTTx fiber optic cable strategy

François LeveugleMarketing Manager


Infrastructure layout optimization

Micro duct

7272

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Traditional cable Loose Tube

µ Blown cables B-Lite

Difficulties to install another cable if one is already in place.

Cables can be installed easily on demand (one per micro duct)


Blowing speed (m/min)

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Blowing distance (m)

500 1000 250020001500

2003 quality Black

First kilometer within 30 minutes

2004 First kilometer within 15 minutes

B-lite-> (quality Blue) Competition

Consistent references (>100 000 Km of µ fiber optic cable deployed in Western Europe)

B-Lite enables faster installation (velocity performance)

B-Lite provides better performances in difficult layout

What makes the difference

2005 Four kms /Hour on 1850m

B-lite-> (quality Green)


Nexans micro cable product rangeIEC 60794

7.4 mm (max)3.3 mmCABLE DIAMETER

10/12mm5.5/7 mmMICRO DUCT DIAMETER (Inner & Outer)

Up to 96Up to 12FIBER COUNT

Central Strengh MemberPeripheric Element :

Micro bundle with up to 8 or 12 fibersWaterblocking elementCompounding

Aramid yarnOuter PE jaket

Central Tube with a single mini tube of 12 fibers max

Waterblocking gelAramid yarnOuter PE Jacket

CABLE STRUCTURE

CABLE TYPE MBUB

FTTx micro cable solution


Nexans micro cable solution

Micro cablesInterconnect solution

Mechanical sealing on micro jacketEasy & fast installationNetwork life service reliability Re-accessibility for fiber touring & maintenanceFiberart™ inside for enhanced fiber management



Nexans interconnect solution product range

Including

optical distribution frame,

splicing closure,

subscribers boxes

active customer premises equipment



Adjusted CAPEX to RPU

Traditional cable µ Blown cables B-Lite

Fixed Costs

Time

CAPEX

Time

CAPEX Fixed Costs

Var Costs

Infrastructure, Cable layout

Var Costs Var Costs



Infrastructure Layout phasing

Blowing of micro ducts and µduct loop installation

Ducting layout or use of existing ducting

Blowing of Nexans micro cables

Cable aperture

Micro duct removal

Fiber connection

Bundle selection


JUST IN TIME DEPLOYMENT

KEY BENEFITS

Use of existing ducting infrastructure

Optimization of ducting occupation

rate

Progressive Capex according to

progressive Annual Rate Per User

Fiber deployed on demand & fiber

count fitted to the exact customer needs

Short term return on investment

Faster time to market based on faster

cable installation

Total network reliability



Blowing test loop for cable blowing performance demonstration



Blowing CablesMicroducts and cables

Installation

B-Lite Green Cables


Duct Installation

Duct

Manhole

• Duct installation


Microduct Installation

Duct

Microducts

• Microduct installation

Manhole



Microducts Optimization

External microduct Diameter

Fiber count 5 mm 7 mm 10 mm 12 mm

2-4

6

12

24

48 - 72

96

Duct

Microducts

10 mm7mm

Mixed structure

Existing cables


Microduct Installation

Project

• MET (Ministry of Economy and transportation)

• Interconnection of different economical areas

• 2 companies Jacobs and JacobsYvan Paque

• 3 stepsManholes and 50mm ductsMicroduct blowingMicro cables blowing

7mm

Tomorrow’s Demonstration

• 10 Microduct of 7 mm

• 500 Meters


Micro duct Connections

Connectors


• Microduct preparation



Cable Installation


• Microduct preparation

• Cable installation



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Blowing Cable Demos

Blowing site

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Duct structure around the plant

Different types of microducts


Blowing Cable Demos

Blowing site

Tomorrow’s Demonstration

• 3 Blowing demos

• 3 different micro cables

• 8 fibers / 7mm• 48 fibers / 10 mm• 72 fibers / 10 mm

• 25 minutes

00 0061 50 M

Speed: 4km/h


March 9th, 2005 - agenda

• Timetable

8:20 Departure from the Hotel9:30 Welcome Coffee9:40 Opticable Presentation10:00 Factory tour and B-Lite Green

demonstration12:00 Lunch14:00 Microduct installation16:00 Departure to Brussels


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