Orange continues the deployment of broadband in 2024 on the South island in Sète

Le déploiement de la fibre sur Sète va se poursuivre sur le quartier des quatre-ponts. DR

Nine cabinets should soon be installed. More than 5000 customers to connect.

Fiber continues to be deployed in Sète. To date, 39,521 households are eligible, an increase of 21% compared to 2014, the year when the industrial operator responsible for deployment, Orange, won the Call for Demonstrations from # Investment intention (AMII). To date, more than 5,000 customers still need to be equipped in the town so that they can access high-speed internet service using fiberglass (1 gigabit per second). To do this, the industrial operator installs, in consultation with municipal services, in the public domain, cabinets, otherwise called zone pooling points, connected by fiber to the two telephone exchanges of Sète). Each potentially serves between 300 to 500 customers, all operators combined. Once the cabinets are in place (cupboards which measure 1.80 m high by 1.60 m wide), they must connect& nbsp; via the fiberglass network to homes via boxes called optical connection points). 

Nearly 700 homes connected in 2023

In 2022, 3,451 people were newly connected to the service in the municipality by the industrial operator. There were still 18 cabinets to be installed in the predefined sectors upstream with the municipality, after the 86 already in place. In 2023, only three could be implemented. One on the southern tip of the Quatre-Ponts district (South island), on the side of rue Romain Rolland. The other two at the level of the district known as Entrée Est Rive Sud, on the side of Avenue Gilbert Martelli. This represented 683 homes connected last year. For January 2024, 132 homes will be added to this count in the same sector of the East South Shore Entrance, already equipped with wardrobes. "There is a re-acceleration of deployment in 2024", indicates Pierre Sanavio, the new director of relations with local authorities of l'Hérault. 

Liquefy files

However, there are still 15 cabinets to install, fourteen of which allocated to the four-deck sector. A complex area because it is protected in terms of town planning by the status of remarkable heritage site (SPR) and which requires numerous procedures and authorizations from the town's town planning services and Buildings of France. "This can sometimes take three to four round trips. Sometimes the Bâtiments de France just ask us to change the color of the wardrobe which requires us to repeat our request to the town planning services and that creates an additional delay, specifies Pierre Sanavio (read below). "Since July, a commitment has been made to streamline the processing of files between Orange, the City which has a digital manager and Bâtiments de France, we want to finalize the deployment in as soon as possible", continues the director. Coordination work which bore fruit with the unblocking of nine of the 14 cabinets in question. "We will be able to start the work", adds Pierre Savanio. Four safes are awaiting validation and two are still under study. As for the missing 15th cabinet, it will be installed in the future parking lot under Place Aristide Briand, to serve 102 housing units, for commissioning not before 2025.

How fiber is deployed into homes

Once the cabinet is installed and connected to the municipality's telephone exchange, which is called phase D1, it remains for Orange technicians to connect customers to these cabinets. For this, optical connection points (PBO) are installed at each of the buildings and attached to the network which most often follows the same route as the telephone network in the basement. This is phase D2. If the building has fewer than four dwellings, the connection is made on the front via a small beige box. If the group of homes is larger, the device is installed inside the collective building. In these cases, the operator turns to the owner or trustee who gives authorization to install the fiber and creates the equipment necessary for the operation of the PBO then set up by the operator. ;operator. In the event of damage to the network, commercial operators call on the company Orange Wholesale France which coordinates the after-sales service intervention teams.

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