BoR (11) 06b BEREC report NGA Country Cases - IRG

Italy
1 Market developments
1.1 Incumbent
1.1.1 Actual roll-out
BoR (11) 06b
� Illustrate the current status of NGA roll-out in your country. Consider the following aspects
- name of the operator and applied technology (e.g. FTTH GPON, FTTH P2P, FTTB,
VDSL, Cable);
NGAN rollout plans of Telecom ITALIA (Italian incumbent) are based on a FTTH-GPON
model (as reported in the following figure).
The GPON architecture implemented by Telecom Italy involves two levels of splitting, the
first placed in a street manhole and the second placed at the base of the building within a
box called OTB (Optical Termination Box). From each optical fiber, in the local exchange,
stems a GPON tree that can theoretically serve up to 128 housing units.
- current coverage of the network and number of NGA lines (passed/connected). Please
provide figures as of June 30 2010;
According to Telecom Italia plans, submitted to NRA in compliance with the Undertaking
n. 6, the number NGA passed households at the end of 2010 will be 519,600. The
incumbent has planned to cover 1.300.000 housing units by 2012.
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