Paris is
going to connect fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) to more than 86
municipalities around Paris.
The SEQUANTIC network is a point-to-multipoint
network started by the SIPPEREC public consortium, which represents the
electricity and telecommunications interests of approximately 1.7m
residential, commercial and industrial customers located in 86
municipalities around Paris.
SEQUANTIC will provide external and
internal connectivity to all buildings in more than 147 business areas,
which together comprise more than 6500 enterprises.
It will be the
first public based fibre-to-the-user open-access network dedicated to
business areas in the Paris region.
The network will be based on Wave7
Optics' Trident7 Optical Access Platform, an FTTP platform. This is based on
standard interfaces that allows multiple service providers and network
operators to deliver a variety of services without interfering with one
another.
The network will be running by October 2007.