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New transatlantic cable in Bordeaux

on Friday, 01 October 2021 Posted in News Rezopole

New transatlantic cable in Bordeaux

One of the main transatlantic cable projects concerning France has just "landed" on a beach at Porge, near Bordeaux. The project was initiated by Facebook and built by Alcatel Submarine Networks. Orange, partner for the French part, was responsible for the operation. This required horizontal drilling 20 metres below the beach and the dune, in order to limit the impact on the environment and in particular the forest.

Named "Amitié", this cable links Massachusetts in the United States to Porge in France and Bude in England. It is 6,800 km long and carries a total of 16 pairs of optical fibres. It is scheduled to come into service in early 2022.

 

The French incumbent will benefit from two fibre pairs on this cable and will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the "landing station". Orange will provide the terrestrial links from this station to Bordeaux, then Paris and Lyon, and finally the rest of Europe. It also states that the cable will enable new data centres to be set up in the Bordeaux area.

 

Another transatlantic cable, "Dunant", was recently commissioned in the Vendée by Google. With traffic between Europe and North America doubling on average every two years, investment in new infrastructure is needed to absorb the increase. Between them, "Dunant" and "Amitié" will have more capacity than any previous transatlantic cable.

 

 

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No Huawei 5G network cores in Italy

on Friday, 30 October 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

No Huawei 5G network cores in Italy

The Italian government has just vetoed, for the first time, the signature of an agreement between the operator Fastweb and Huawei for the supply of 5G network cores. This decision suggests that Italy may reconsider its position regarding the presence of Huawei equipment on its 5G network.

Huawei had been selected by Fastweb, the Italian division of Swisscom, as the sole supplier of the core network. A fact that undoubtedly led the government to veto the project.

 

While other countries such as the United Kingdom and France have already taken decisions to eventually ban Huawei's access to 5G networks, Italy had not yet taken a decision to do so. However, some people close to the government or actors in the industrial world claim that Rome is in fact taking a pro-American line on 5G. Companies using Huawei equipment for their 5G network are subject to restrictions on remote interventions to solve technical problems and an extremely high security threshold.

 

In order to be able to withdraw if Rome imposes too costly conditions in exchange for its green light, Italian telecom companies have included exit clauses in their contracts with Huawei on 5G. Telecom Italia (TIM) even went so far as to exclude Huawei from a tender for its 5G core network. The Italian government could therefore review its position regarding Huawei's role in 5G and in particular for the core network part.

 

 

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No undifferentiated collection of login data

on Friday, 09 October 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

No undifferentiated collection of login data

The connection data makes it possible to identify anyone who has contributed to the creation of content, such as their IP address, geolocation, telephone records or the numbers of their frequently called contacts. This personal information is very useful during an investigation and can be used to identify the perpetrator of an offence or to gather evidence.

 

However, the Court of Justice of the European Union has just ruled that Member States are not entitled to impose on operators a general and indiscriminate obligation to transmit and store the connection data of Internet users.

 

The law of 24 July 2015 offers French intelligence services the possibility of having the connection data of a person identified as a threat transmitted to them in real time. This is an obligation that weighs on operators and worries many associations about the powers conferred on the intelligence services. This is why the Quadrature du Net referred the matter to the Council of State, which considered that French legislation was in breach of European law.

 

The Court of Justice of the European Union was asked by the court responsible for investigative powers in the United Kingdom, the Council of State and the Belgian Constitutional Court to examine the validity of the data retention regime in the light of European law.

And this new decision only confirms the principles already laid down in April 2014 in its Tele2 Sverige AB ruling. "The Directive of 12 July 2002 [...] precludes national legislation which, for the purposes of combating crime, provides for the general and indiscriminate retention of all traffic and location data of all subscribers and registered users relating to all means of electronic communication," the Court of Justice ruled.

These obligations of generalised and undifferentiated transmission and storage constitute "particularly serious interference with the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Charter" such as the right to respect for private life.

 

In short, the judicial and intelligence authorities can no longer request the transmission of connection data to electronic communications service providers, with a few exceptions. Indeed, in the case of a "serious threat to national security" or "terrorist activities", States may require operators to retain connection data.

Nevertheless, two conditions are laid down: "The decision providing for this injunction, for a period temporarily limited to what is strictly necessary, must be subject to effective control, either by a court or by an independent administrative entity," the court ruled. The body in charge of the control will have to verify "the existence of one of these situations as well as the respect of the conditions and guarantees provided".

 

A decision with very important consequences for the judicial and intelligence services, in particular on ongoing proceedings that could be stopped dead in their tracks or their acts declared null and void.

 

 

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Bouygues to withdraw 3,000 Huawei antennas

on Friday, 28 August 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Bouygues to withdraw 3,000 Huawei antennas

Olivier Roussat, deputy managing director of the Bouygues group, announced that the telecom operator will gradually withdraw cell phone relay antennas manufactured by Huawei. Located in dense areas in France, 3,000 antennas will be affected by 2028. A decision taken at the request of the French government for security reasons of the 5G network.

 

ndeed, the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (Anssi) will grant authorizations to telecom operators to use 5G equipment, including those manufactured by Huawei, for a maximum period of 8 years. When they expire, authorizations to operate Huawei equipment are not expected to be renewed.

As a result, by 2028, the Chinese giant could be completely squeezed out of the French 5G networks.

 

To anticipate this decision, Bouygues is starting today to withdraw and replace the antennas manufactured by Huawei. This also enables it to limit the financial impact of this decision. Bouygues did not specify which company would replace Huawei.

 

Olivier Roussat also indicated that discussions were underway with the French authorities to compensate for the ban on Huawei equipment, which is very costly for the French operator. But without saying more. However, he specified that the group had launched several parallel legal proceedings against the French State.

 

 

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Actions dismissed against the 5G frequencies

on Friday, 06 March 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Actions dismissed against the 5G frequencies

The appeals lodged by Priartem and Agir pour l'environnement have just been rejected by the Council of State. The administrative judge considers that the character of urgency is not fulfilled and will rule on the merits of the case in the summer of 2020.

 

Four appeals had been filed in mid-February 2020 in which the two associations requested the immediate suspension of the decree setting the conditions for the allocation of 5G frequencies and the decree organising the tender procedure. They criticized the lack of an environmental assessment prior to deployment and its environmental and health consequences.

 

The National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses) made similar criticisms in its preliminary report published at the end of February 2020. It explained that it regretted the lack of statistical data on the health effects of exposure to certain frequencies used by 5G.

 

 

 

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A business model for 5G

on Thursday, 23 May 2019 Posted in Archives Rezopole, Archives GrenoblIX, Archives LyonIX

A business model for 5G

During the Viva Tech exhibition, Cisco explains to the Digital Factory the "5G rural first" project carried out in the United Kingdom. Led by the American company, this consortium of 29 players aims to find a business model to deploy 5G in rural areas and enable operators to make it profitable.

"To start investing in 5G, it is not possible to rely on the consumer demand of the general public, a large part of which is connected in 4G. 5G investments are very important and people are not willing to pay more for their subscriptions", says Cisco's director of innovation, Guillaume de Saint Marc. It has to be said that we must therefore turn to BtoB and rely on the digitalization of the various industrial sectors.

The principle is to multiply the pilots and experiments with 5G, 4G or WiFi. To this end, four industrial sectors, developed outside cities, were explored: AgriTech, transport, energy and tourism.

The fields of energy and tourism have been explored in the north of Scotland. On the tourism side, ferries were connected throughout their journeys, allowing connectivity to all passengers and a constant link between ferries and captains.

On the energy side, this territory has three offshore wind farms. It is necessary to connect them in order to "anticipate and understand the production level at a given moment and be able to absorb the energy produced by these wind turbines in real time", explains Guillaume de Saint Marc.

In the agricultural sector, the start-up Afimilk offers connected collars to monitor the temperature, rumination cycle, heart rate of cows...

In parallel, a project to identify soil quality by drone was carried out. "This is not new, but 5G is accelerating the deployment of these technologies", said Cisco's Director of Innovation.

But that's not all, since there are many uses: connect a salmon farm, monitor the water in some schools to detect legionella, test broadcast via 5G.  The aim is always to minimize the cost of its development by multiplying these uses.

 

 

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