Providing Milla Digital with cutting-edge telecommunications is one of the objectives pursued by the Milla Digital project. Thanks to these telecommunications, the aim is to provide coverage to the most innovative services both for citizens and for companies, and thus convert Milla Digital into a test for the City of the Future.
The Milla Digital communications network will have the following characteristics:
- Fibre optics to the homes
- 100 megabits per second for all residential users
- Domotics control and distribution centre and residential gateway in all homes
- Domotic features as regards protection and warning system, energy control, domestic comfort and multimedia systems
- 10-gigabit per second backbone fibre optics network
- Minimum service of 50 megabits per second per employee in company places
- Installation of intelligent urban furniture, multimedia kiosks and advanced display devices in the public space
- Domotic management of common services, such as surveillance, access, energy saving and information for all buildings
The urban planning projects have defined the cutting-edge telecommunications infrastructures that must be provided to be able to cover innovative telecommunications services, destined for use by people and by businesses, and foreseen by the Telecommunications operators and the Zaragoza City Council in Milla Digital.
The urban planning projects cover the needs of the Telecommunications operators and the Zaragoza City Council, so they can be divided into two groups:
- The needs of private operators that require infrastructures to serve homes and businesses situated in the neighbourhood buildings. These infrastructures are basically the physical paths of the cables established through wiring and subways. Thus, some infrastructures have been defined that have fully integrated the needs of the different actors (wiring, CPDs, subways) making use of innovative solutions.
- The needs of the City Council to be able to offer services in the whole public space of the neighbourhood so a publicly-owned Ethernet metropolitan network (MetroEthernet) has been defined, Multiservice and Multimedia, which provides service to the whole public space through an end-to-end fibre optic access by means of EPON technology, and an access by Wi-Fi MESH.
Some data of the infrastructures designed are:
- 5.604 metres of wiring for private networks
- 4.400 metres of 245-fibre PKP cable for the municipal network
- 4.000 metres of 64-fibre PKP cable for the municipal network
- 45.000 metres of 4-fibre PKP cable for the municipal network
- 48 boxes and inspection chambers
- External distribution frames:
- 339 fibre optic cable splice units
- 24 outdoor fibre optic distribution boxes
- Internal distribution frames:
- 12 fibre optic cable splice units
- 6 outdoor fibre optic distribution boxes
- 300 4-optical fibre cable splice units in terminal box
- 60 reflectometry, attenuation and power optical measurement execution and documentation units
- Wi-Fi network:
- 70 omnidirectional antennas for outdoors, used for coverage in open places
- 40 directional antennas for outdoors, used for coverage in narrow streets
- 90 directional antennas for communication between the APs
