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Fiber optics in Miesbach: Telekom wants to connect 100 companies - if enough participate

2021-09-06T07:36:55.140Z


Telekom wants to expand its gigabit high-speed network in the north industrial area in Miesbach - but only if there are enough companies involved. The city hopes that many will strike.


Telekom wants to expand its gigabit high-speed network in the north industrial area in Miesbach - but only if there are enough companies involved.

The city hopes that many will strike.

Miesbach

- For many a private person who is still waiting for fast Internet, it sounds like winning the lottery: 100 households are connected to the fiber optic network free of charge if at least 30 percent of them choose a Telekom connection. But there is a catch: private individuals unfortunately do not benefit from this offer, only companies in the north industrial area in Miesbach. Telekom wants to expand its gigabit high-speed network for them. And even with a new laying process including shorter construction times, as the company reports.

Miesbach's mayor Gerhard Braunmiller knows about Telekom's plans. And he welcomes the fact that the company is now starting its own broadband expansion in the industrial park. He therefore advises the 100 or so companies that (depending on the contract) will be able to send up to 100 GBit per second through the line in the future to absolutely accept the offer, emphasizes Braunmiller. "We can only recommend it. The higher the bandwidth, the better. ”Especially in a commercial area.

The last expansion stage at Am Windfeld was not that long ago.

Since the Free State's first funding process was completed in 2018, companies have been able to use transmission speeds of an average of 50 Mbit per second.

There were therefore no chances of a further increase for the time being.

Until now, Deutsche Telekom has signaled that it would be active in fiber optics itself.

“The future is glass,” says Jean-Pascal Roux, Head of Housing and Broadband Expansion for Business Customers at Telekom.

Comprehensive broadband coverage is the basis for economic and innovative strength.

A high-performance fiber optic connection is as naturally a part of every house and every business as the telephone connection used to be.

At least with the subsidized expansion, however, in recent years many communities have had the impression that Telekom is traveling at a snail's pace. Measures that had long been commissioned were sometimes on hold for months because the group could not find any construction companies to lay the cables. At least in the northern industrial area in Miesbach, this risk has now apparently been averted. As Deutsche Telekom reports, "alternative laying methods" are used here. "They are time-saving, sustainable and cost-efficient in their expansion, lead to shorter construction times and thus less burdens for the residents," writes the company.

A look at Telekom's online blog shows what exactly this is all about. Even the planning today is largely digital. Cars equipped with cameras and laser technology drive through the development area and record every detail along the route. From the data obtained in this way, the optimal route is then recorded virtually and planned largely automatically in the “fiber optic factory”. In order to expand the bottleneck in civil engineering, Telekom is now using a milling process. The road is only opened for a narrow slot and immediately closed again after inserting the cable at a depth of only 30 to 40 instead of 60 centimeters.

Although the procedure has "proven itself" in Germany and worldwide, many municipalities still have concerns about warranty and possible consequential damage.

Telekom emphasizes that these worries can all be refuted.

This is now to be proven again in the Miesbacher industrial area north.

But only when the said 30 percent of the companies located there have decided in favor of the fiber optic connection.

The deadline for this is November 17th.

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Source: merkur

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