To achieve the goals of the national broadband strategy “Broadband Austria 2020”, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology announced to invest up to EUR 1 billion as subsidies for the roll-out of broadband networks. The strategy aims to achieve almost 100%-coverage of ultrafast-broadband for all households in Austria until 2020. rmDATA is one of the leading IT service providers for surveying , geoinformation and geodata management in the German-speaking region. rmDATA is exclusive vendor of network planning systems for reputable communication providers in Austria. axmann geoinformation as member of the rmDATA group is responsible for geodata management tasks inside the company and authorized FME VAR and Safe (Gold) Partner since 1999. axmann geoinformation used FME to create routes inside the existing and intended network of the provider’s infrastructure to calculate costs for a potential roll-out of the NGA-network for each access-area. The network provider used the results to decide where a development of the NGA-infrastructure meets the concern’s strategic objectives and which projects should be submitted for tender within the Broadband-2020-Initiative. For determined projects FME was used to create 100m x 100m raster cells overlaying the project-area to show the approximated bandwidth inside each raster cell after the network upgrade.

1. Cost Calculations for Broadband
Network Expansion
and Mapping of Bandwidth-
Coverage in FME
Thomas Galka

2. Thomas Galka
• Service Engineer and Technology
Manager at axmann geoinformation
since 2009
• Project Management and
Implementation in several GIS-Projects
• Product Manager checkgeodata.net
(quality insurance based on FME-
technology)
• 8 years hands-on experience in FME
and more than 100 training sessions
and workshops as FME Trainer

3. axmann geoinformation
rmDATA
• founded 1999
• services for geodatenmanagement
• Safe Gold Partner
• 5 employees and 3 freelancers
• more than 120 customers and
• number one competence centre for
FME-technology in the region.
• founded 1985
• 70 employees
• austrian number one software provider for surveying
software (rmGEO, GeoMapper)
• Leading austrian provider for GIS (GeoDesktop,
GeoWeb)
• rmDATA applications are used for infrastructure, local
authority management and engineering consulting.

4. 1.000.000.000 €of governmental funds
for an austrian-wide Broad-Band internet acces
till 2020

5. Broadband Austria 2020
• Based on the national broadband strategy 2020 the austrian
department of transport and technology initiated the national grant
program Breitband Austria 2020
• Promotion of broadband network development all over Austria
(specially rural and underdeveloped areas)
• Goal: austrian-wide ultrafast (>100Mbit/sec) internet access till
2020
• 1 Billion Euro (from LTE license sales and EU funds)
• 1 goal – 3 programmes – 3 stages

6. Stage 1 – applied
programmes
• BBA2020 Access
spatial extension of existing NGA networks
with the goal to increase the coverage of
highspeed internet access.
• BBA2020 Backhaul
enhance of access networks and
connection of stand-alone solutions to the
core network.
• BBA2020 Empty Conduits
better coordination in laying empty pipes
during communal civil engineering works.

7. 1.000.000.000 €of governmental funds …
… let’s use FME to grab them!

8. Workflow
1. Planning of new ARUs (Access
Remote Unit = DSLAM) within
existing access networks using a
Software for automatic network
calculations (SARU)
2. Evaluation of planned ARUs for
eligibility
3. Cost Calculations for new
infrastructure (iterative process)
4. Visualiziation of planned network
Visualization of estimated
coverage after final network
extension plan

9. 1. Planning of new ARUs (SARU)
access networks and counties

10. 2. Evaluation of planned ARUs (FME)
eligible areas

11. 2. Evaluation of planned ARUs (FME)
Egilibility of planned ARUs

12. 2. Evaluation of planned ARUs (FME)
Database joins (planned ARUs, supported customer sites, locations, potential
units, technical information v.a loss, ARU technology)

13. 2. Evaluation of planned ARUs (FME)
County and eligible areas Overlay (Number of customer sites and locations per
ARU within processed county)

14. 2. Evaluation of planned ARUs (FME)
County and eligible areas Overlay (Number of customer sites and locations per
ARU within processed county)

15. 2. Evaluation of planned ARUs (FME)
Result

16. 3. Cost calculation for planned
infrastructure (FME)
Iterative process depended on decided treshold
(max. 3 iterations)

17. 3. Cost calculation (FME)
Creating spatial objects and database joins

18. 3. Cost calculation (FME)
Line objects and topology cleaning

19. 3. Cost calculation (FME)
Line objects and topology cleaning

20. 3. Cost calculation (FME)
Connections (cross join)

21. 3. Cost calculation (FME)
Generating routes

22. 3. Cost calculation (FME)
Routes

23. 3. Cost calculation (FME)
Costs

24. 3. Cost calculation (FME)
3 iterations; threshold: € 500.000

25. 4. Estimated bandwith (FME)
KML + TXT

26. 4. Estimated bandwith (FME)
Filtering of affected 100m x 100m raster cells

27. 4. Estimated bandwith (FME)
Overlaying raster cells with locations (calculating estimated BW per location)
Creating output-files

28. Mapping of Bandwidth-Coverage
Final KML-Files including BW-coverage, FO-infrastructure, affected counties

29. FME Works
1. Evaluation of eligible ARUs
2. Cost calculations for
planned network
3. Mapping of BW-Coverage
Conclusion
Contact:
Thomas.Galka@axmann.at
FME the perfect tool for ground
based calculations – even as a
basis for decission-making in
crucial strategic forecasts.
Thank You!