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GEOSPATIAL BE Award Winner PROJECT OVERVIEW Ring of Fiber Fiber-optic network delivers broadband services to metro areas in southern Netherlands Fiber Optics Zuid-Limburg—Isilinx Organization Nacap Telecom BV BE Awards Category Geospatial Communications Project Objective Design and install a 5.5 million euro ﬁber-optic network in the Netherlands M so with two engineers using Bentley. We were able to do more work with less human capacity, signiﬁcantly reducing human capital.” The project began in May 2005 at the initiative of the Heerlen municipality, Leeuwenborgh Opleidingen polytechnic school, Licom training academy, Zuyd University, and Arcus College. As part of a movement to improve the region’s image as an innovation center, they formed Isidoor to build the technology infrastructure that would provide a better business climate and bring broadband communications to local government. The goal of this project was to provide the managed, dark-ﬁber network that could be provisioned to deliver integrated high-speed Internet, digital telephone, and cable television service in a regional service area. The ﬁber-optic ring network was designed based on the open network provisioning model, which allows new members to join the network and sign on for just the services they Backbone - overzicht need. The initial backbone ring was routed to link the three metropolitan BB - Parkstad areas in south Limburg, and subrings in each city were routed to connect new BB – Geleen/Sittard participants in the Isidoor initiative. Completed in May 2006, the ﬁrst phase connected 56 members to the Isilinx network. Since then, more than 50 new sites have been connected. As the customer base expanded, designing ﬂexibility into the ring network remained paramount. Nacap Telecom used Bentley solutions to automate the BB - Valkenburg design and production process, delivering exceptional efﬁciency and superior BB – Maastricht quality control. To ensure a high quality Backbone Zuid-Limburg Copyright Design Nacap B.V. 4 of service throughout the network, the v Five ﬁrms collaborated to provide a managed, dark-ﬁber network provisioned to deliver design minimized the distance of conintegrated high-speed Internet, digital telephone, and cable television service nector locations from the main ring. This was accomplished by using a spread facility level in combination with a spread of hand holes near con“We started using Bentley during the project of managed ﬁber in nector sites and at other strategic locations. Zuid-Limburg and I can easily see the results,” said Julien Beenakkers, Nacap Telecom also has been awarded the ﬁve-year contract to manager of operations for Nacap Telecom. “Instead of designing a manage and maintain the network. “We see to it that the network network with 10 engineers not using Bentley, we were able to do unicipal, educational, and nonproﬁt institutions in the southern-most part of the Netherlands have joined together to deliver broadband services through an innovative business model. Incorporated as Stichting Isidoor, ﬁve participants commissioned the design and installation of a 145-kilometer ﬁber-optic ring network connecting the cities of Heerlen, Sittard-Geleen, and Maastricht in Zuid Limburg. The 5.5 million euro Isilinx network already serves more than 100 members—including city governments, colleges, hospitals, police, and ﬁre departments—and that number is growing. Nacap Telecom, a Dutch company specializing in the rollout of broadband services in cooperation with regional development agencies, designed and installed the Isilinx network in about a year using Bentley’s MicroStation, Bentley Fiber, and ProjectWise Connector for Oracle. The application was a ﬁrst for the company, which is a business unit of managing contractor Nacap, employing 3,000 people worldwide. Volume 4, Issue 4 | BE MAGAZINE 31

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BE Magazine - Volume 4, issue 4 Contents The Drive To Innovate News BE Newsletter Highlights Converging on the Market Bytes and Bricks Generative Components Building Courting Success Remodeling an Icon Structural Integration Building News From Bentley Civil Greenfield Airport Takes Flight Good Neighbors Collaborative Innovation Civil News From Bentley Advertisers Index Geospatial Ring of Fiber Revolutionizing Integrity Management Port City Transformation In Conversation With Greg Bentley Geospatial News From Bentley Plant Single-Source Service Committed to Cleaner Air Expediting Expansion Plant News From Bentley Strength in Numbers The Art of Visualization A Winning Legacy Zero Change Culture: Further Definition A Remarkable Collaboration With a Forward-Thinking Community

BE Magazine - Volume 4, Issue 4

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