Presentation by Andre Stelzner, CIO, City of Cape Town on the City's Broadband Optic fibre project & commercial model. Presented at the Western Cape Government briefing to ICT industry stakeholders on the Western Cape Broadband Programme (March 2012), President Hotel, Bantry Bay, Cape Town

1. City of Cape Town
Broadband Optic Fiber Project &
Commercial Model
Andre Stelzner
Leon van Wyk

2. Broadband Infrastructure Project
Phase 1
Construction complete
Core ring and local routes of 270km of optic fibre cable
Five switching centres housing transmission equipment
70 municipal facilities connected,
Telecoms Operations Centre established

4. Broadband Infrastructure Project
Phase 2
Planned and in progress
Includes Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha and Atlantis
185km core route, 136 City buildings, 15 switching
centres / rooms
45 Western Cape Government buildings
Planned completion by end of 2015 (current funding)

6. Broadband Infrastructure Project
Phase 3
In planning
Includes Simonstown, Fish Hoek, Hout Bay.
Bellville to Somerset West redundancy via Kuilsriver
and Stellenbosch
Yzerfontein

9. Metro Area Network
Metro Area Network providing min of 1Gbps (x3000 faster that
previous average Metro Area Network speed) to connected
municipal buildings.
DWDM technology inherited from the 2012 FIFA World Cup
has increase the capacity of fibre infrastructure.
This spare capacity will help enable the Provincial Telecoms
Strategy in the Metro.
The City does however have spare capacity which could be
make availably commercially.

10. The Commercial model
It is however not the City’s intention to be a provider of
telecommunication services to private sector end-users,
but rather to lease dark fibre and related infrastructure to
licenced service providers.

11. The Current Status of Commercial Services
Procedures and standard contracts are being put in place to
support tariff based services
Tariffs will be advertised as part of the City’s Budget process
for public comment during March – April 2012 and public
hearings thereafter.
These tariffs make provision for:
Rental of unlit Telecommunication Fibre
Rental of Switching Centre Rack Space
Metro Short-haul Circuits: 100Mbs, 1Gbs, 10Gbs

12. In Closing:
 The city has establish and is operating the first phase of its
metro optic fibre network for own use.
 Spare capacity will be available.
 Please use the public participation process to comment on
proposed tariffs for leasing of optic fibre infrastructure.
Thank you