GIPPa: a joint innovation

platform for FttH roll-out

• Joeri van Bogaert (WCS Fiber Optic BV /

Steering board)

• Timber Haaker (Novay / Knowledge

institute)

GIPPa:

Creating innovation in FTTH roll-out

through cooperation!

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The Challenge for joint innovation in

FTTH rollout

“The demand for broadband is growing. The Netherlands now

face a massive operation: connecting every single household to

high-speed fiberglass networks. On average, yearly 200

thousand homes get Fiber to the Home. The goal is to increase

the capacity to 500 thousand new connections per year. But

how do you optimize construction? Which innovative building

methods are available? How can certain bottlenecks in the

current logistics be overcome? These questions are to be

answered by GIPPa, a joint innovation platform that started

earlier this year”

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GIPPa Partners

Contractors

BAM - Van den Bergh

Fiber-4-all

Gebr. Van der Donk

Hako

a.Hak Telecom

Koning & Hartman

Van Gelder Telecom

Volker Wessels

Suppliers

Draka

Emtelle

Euromicron

Twentse Kabel

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GIPPa: concept and aim

GIPPA is an innovation platform initiated

by Reggefiber aimed at cooperation and

innovation in the ftth roll-out value chain

Reggefiber Bouwers

Leveranciers Suppliers

Leveranciers Suppliers

Bouwers Contractors

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• Include innovation in PVE :

• Reduced costs

• Increased quality

• Improved transparency

• Standardisation

• Focus on ‘Added value’:

• Reward innovation

• Awarding of contracts not

solely decided on pricing

What’s in it for me?

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Contractors

Possibility to realize

more volume with

the same amount of

resources.

Innovative and

aligned processes

result in more

efficiency and

transparency in

project management

Reggefiber

Faster Time to

Market and

important growth of

subscribers

The connection of

the customer to FttH

services becomes

quicker and more

predictable

Cost price

optimization to fit the

business plan values

Suppliers

Smarter solutions

enabling savings on

labor are sourced to

a higher price tag

Higher product

volumes generate

efficiency in

production costs

optimizing profits

GIPPA design: guiding principles

Transparancy

• Clarity in advance on profit-

sharing

• Open attitude, focused on

sharing

Measurability

• Valuing contributions to

innovation and sharing

• Clear agreements and

performance indicators

Acceptance

• Joint agenda

• Working together

Win-win

• Strive for a fair distribution of

benefits and burdens

• Think in added value

Continuity

• Target the 'certainty' of money in

the long term

• Important role for Reggefiber

Timing

• Working on tomorrow’s solutions

• Growing confidence as a basis for

more complex cooperation

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GIPPA design: funnel structure

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consultation &

agenda

innovative

tendering

workplace

Steering

board

&

Theme

develop

-ment

Case

studies &

sharing

Practices

Consultation & agenda

Innovative Tenders

Innovative tendering

Knowledge

projects

Innovation

projects

Innovatie

from

outside

Workplace

GIPPa design: structure and activities

c c c

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Thematic workgroup examples

Joint development of Program of Requirements (PoR)

• Developing a structural process for developing new version

of PoR in collaboration with contractors and suppliers

Fiber deployment in high-rise buildings

• Identification of solutions for notorious bottlenecks in the

process of fiber rollout in high-rise buildings

Predictability of home connection

• Finding ways to improve the predictability of the date of the

home connections to home-owners and service providers

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Activities

Steering board

Innovationpartners Reggefiber

Steeringboard

Thematic work groups

Work place Tendering

GIPPa: organisation

Contractors Suppliers

Independent chairman

Novay

Knowledge

institutes

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Some conclusions on GIPPa

• All partners are actively involved and cooperative

• Working groups have produced project initiation documents

• Worked out innovation ideas for pilot projects, changes in processes,

• Informal discussion between Reggefiber, contractors and suppliers

is Much valued by all parties and has led to immediate

improvements

• GIPPa partners are also competitors; however, fruitful cooperation

is working when the ‘win-win’ is clear and transparent principles are

followed

• Reggefiber has a special role, and must work the hardest of all, to

ensure trust, cooperation and fair division of benefits

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GIPPa

Creating innovation in FTTH roll-out through

cooperation!