After long negotiations, the government and Orange have just agreed on an action plan to improve the quality of service of the copper network. Indeed, even if the deployment of optical fibre is progressing rapidly, the 22 million French people who still have an active line based on this network must not be overlooked.

The plan therefore provides for an additional 10 million euros to be committed to 17 priority territories, as well as 123 new posts in departments under pressure and a 30% increase in national crisis response staff.

The incumbent operator will have to provide a back-up solution within a maximum of 24 hours from the time the incident is reported, provided there is mobile coverage. If the mobile network is not sufficient, a satellite connection will be made available from the town halls.

Local consultation committees will be set up to improve consultation between Orange and elected representatives. A national consultation committee will also include representatives of the Commission Supérieure du Numérique et des Postes (CSNP), representatives of associations of local authorities and government departments.

It should be remembered that the total dismantling of the copper network will begin in 2023 and will extend until 2030, as fibre optic coverage of the territory progresses.

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Source : 01net

Following complaints about service degradation, two years ago the Arcep gave the incumbent operator formal notice to meet its commitments in 2019. While clear progress was made in 2019, the situation is less satisfactory in the first half of 2020, which is marked in particular by the health crisis. The telecoms gendarme is waiting with bated breath for the improvement promised by the incumbent operator in the second half of the year.

"The health protection measures remain in force and bring constraints during interventions that reduce the productivity of Orange's resources," Orange pleaded in a press release last July.

As a reminder, at the end of 2017, the incumbent operator was charged with providing a fixed-line telephone offer to all French citizens at an affordable price for a period of three years. It is subject to a dozen service quality indicators listed in the specifications, which include annual numerical thresholds controlled by Arcep.

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Source : 01net

On May 5th, a massive Internet outage occurred for companies and employees confined to the south of Paris following acts of sabotage on the Orange fibre network. This was a major blow at a time when more than 100,000 of the operator's customers are teleworking.

In addition to teleworkers, entire corporate networks are being badly affected. And this act of sabotage is likely to have a major impact on the services of other operators. A ZDNet reader and system and network administrator for a company operating two data centers in the Paris region, Justin reveals that the incident began yesterday at 9:30 am: "Despite the redundancy of our 10 BGP fibers, we were heavily impacted. At our level, we had 6 fibres out of 8 cut, with the operators Iliad, Zayo, Sypartech and partially Jaguar". At 10:00 am this morning, he reported that he still had "one fiber in default between his two datacenters".

10 cables were severed at the dismantling machine in the communes of Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry-sur-Seine yesterday. Orange's internet and telephone network is therefore severely disrupted in the Val-de-Marne and part of the city of Paris.

After noting the damage, the operator dispatched technicians to the site to carry out the necessary repairs. Orange estimates that 34,000 Internet customers and 12,000 business customers are potentially affected by the outage. Orange Ile-de-France's communications department said: "The priority customers identified are being restored as a matter of priority, the technicians will be taking turns and work will continue throughout the night for a gradual recovery and an end to the recovery is planned for Thursday night for Ivry-sur-Seine and is currently being assessed for Vitry-sur-Seine".

The operator filed a complaint and the department's judicial police was seized.

According to franceinfo, a note from the territorial intelligence services mentions a clear upsurge in acts of "degradation" and "sabotage" throughout the territory. 27 incidents have been recorded since the end of March. While these facts are not claimed, the majority of territorial intelligence agents favour the ultra-left route.

At the beginning of April, two relay antennae were set fire to in a small commune in the Jura for an estimated loss of one million euros. A fibre-optic cable was cut in the Gard department, depriving more than 23,000 subscribers of telephone and Internet access for 12 hours. Damage to base stations was also reported in Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

According to this note from territorial intelligence, the authors would seek to destabilise economic activities and teleworking through such sabotage.

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Source : ZDNet

Since 2009, Voxity is a Service Operator that designs, installs and maintains Telecoms solutions for the demanding professions (Private networks, Internet, Fiber optics and IP Telephony). Voxity is also the editor of Octopus, an innovative solution of enterprise Telephony and Unified Communication.

"We chose to join LyonIX in order to offer to our customers and partners the connectivity as resilient as possible. It also allows us to be as close as possible to the main actors of the region." - says Jean-Pierre Ramoul, a Voxity director.

Voxity is present at the LyonIX 3A rack

ASN : AS57103

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At the same time a telecom operator, Internet service provider and operator of hosted services, AVM Up chose the cloud to resolve the problems that affect professional telephony, e-mail, SMS, fax but also the processing of the multi-channel flow of incoming documents.

"Recognized and experienced Expert, our areas of activity group together 3 fields:

software,  telephony for business and network."

 AVM Up is at the same time the expertise, commitment and quality! AVM is a human-sized independent 100% French company.

"This proximity allows us to exchange our know-how (Commercial, Customer service, R&D, Operator service and Networks (NOC), Administrative, etc.) and to bring a true support to our customers, with a high quality level, a high availability and a closely monitored security."

Why LyonIX?

• The effort to improve the quality of Internet speed and the reduction in cost associated with the bandwidth.
• As Internet operator, it is also interesting to be able to reach the market place allowing to sell and to buy Internet transit and/or all types of IP services.
• LyonIX also allows to interconnect directly to our customers to be as close as possible to them and guarantee them a higher level of security by the implementation of an additional path towards the platform.
• LyonIX is also a perspective to reach other IXP: France-IX, Equinix … whose future potential customers can become members.
• Finally, LyonIX can also be interconnected with other country, the United Kingdom in particular.

AVM Up is present at the LyonIX 2D rack

ASN: AS201246

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Since more than 25 years, C'PRO has been proposing solutions to companies centered around 3 sectors: printing and dematerialisation solutions, information technology and hosting, operator and telephony. Indeed, data are at the heart of the organisation. Intended to produce, sell or manage, they are essential for it to function correctly. Digital or physical, paper or voice, e-mail or video conference, these data represent a growing importance that needs to be managed, and they are derived from multiple channels...

 "OUR 3 COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES allow us to accompany our customers in the optimisation of their data flow in order to increase their capacity to manage this growing volume of data."

The C'PRO Telecom infrastructure is: 99.99% of availability of service, 11 core network nodes, 10 Gbps per node of interconnection, Internet transit and the ARBOR protection against DDoS.

"In order to constantly improve our availability and our connectivity, it seemed obvious to us that we needed to  connect ourselves to LyonIX, who is the main IX of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. This connection enables us to strengthen our offer, at the height of the leading actors of Internet".

C'PRO in some figures:

620 employees
20000 customers
31 agencies
130 M€ CA

3 datacenters 11 Operators Points of Presence (PoP) in France and abroad

C'PRO is présent at the LyonIX 2B rack

ASN : AS197033

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The Libre Software Professional Meeting (RPLL) will take place on July 4th & 5th, 2017 from 9am to 18pm in Saint-Étienne at the Usine des Forces Motrices. The RPLL is oranized by Ploss-ra which brings together more than 40 open software companies of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Program:

- 20 professional exhibitors & associative village

- 4 plenary conferences, RPLL & RMLL workshops

- 2 events in synergie

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In 1990, no way to correctly receive television at Ferrette: the hertzian waves don't pass, they bounce. Three friends fond of technics set-up their cables: it was the birth of the local network, named Kbleu... and television reached Ferette!

Kbleu chooses to operate as a municipal or inter-municipal local authority structure.

In 2015, this authority manages the TV, Internet and telephony distribution infrastructures for the citizens of both municipalities. The friends are still there: energetic volunteers and experts, they practice sharing for the benefit of all. Proponents of open-source software and its spirit, they provide an alternative to the market-based model. And refuse to give-up and bend before the leading market operators...

Kbleu animates the local channel and distributes television, telephony and Internet, for all residents of Ferrette and Vieux Ferrette. Saying "Kbleu" means a cable (we are located in the south of Alsace...). It is a simple play on words of the malicious inventors.

Kbleu is present at EuroGIX, rack 1B02.

ASN : 50547

 What Kbleu appreciates:

• Simplicity: clear offer of services
• Quality: professional expert technicians
• Public service: no shareholders, the net income is used entirely for network improvement
• Reduced Costs: volunteers invest themselves for you!
• Integration of inhabitants: multicultural programs
• Investment in local life: KbleuTV, hosting of Internet sites for associations, partnerships with small and medium-sized enterprises, Internet filter for schools
• Reactivity: a whish? Kbleu is listening to you... and does its best!
• Challenges: Kbleu is successful in meeting all its goals!

  Kbleu today is:

• A unique TV subscription of more than 130 programs including a pack of pay-TV channels
• The 120 world's radio stations streamed over the network
• A standard Internet subscription (25 Mbits) and THD option (100 Mbits)
• A telephone subscription

More information on the Kbleu website...