2 December 2020 09:30-11:00 Session

Introduction and opening comments by Dr. Hui Cao, Head of EU Policy and Strategy, Huawei Technologies. 

We welcome Benedict Gromann, Breko to discuss "Fibre networks and digital technologies for sustainable development in Germany and Europe". 

Followed by Tom Bambury, Fujikura, presenting a summary of findings from a paper published by the Fiber Broadband Association in June 2020. The paper compares OpEx of FTTH networks with both HFC networks and DSL networks in North America and concludes that FTTH networks provide an opportunity to significantly reduce OpEx. Energy consumption is a key element of network OpEx and FTTH is found to enables significant reduction of same

Rounding off our session we bring you Sebastian Helleberg, Fachhochschule Südwestfalen, to discuss how energy efficiency is a key challenge for telecommunication networks, notably with a view to deploying efficient and effective 5G infrastructure which will need to cope with increasing requests for network use and energy consumption. A study commissioned by Europacable Member Company Prysmian Group  clearly shows the superior power efficiency of fibre-based networks. The study results are presented by the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen (University of Applied Sciences) who conducted the survey and shows the technological impact of the different access technologies on the actual infrastructure and the derived power consumption.