Link off plan
link off plan
Description
What happens after the contract term ?
- The Service Provider will pay only O&M portion on the owned asset.
- Operations and Maintenance fees at 11% of last MRC of the contract period, or an agreed equivalent in the event that the Customer pays Present Value of the required annuity upfront.
- The Service Provider is obliged to continue with O&M services from Link Africa or dispose of the asset back to LA at a mutually agreed price.
link off plan
Key Value Proposition
1
Sewer and Storm Water implementation offers different and lower risk profile to service availability of the link.
2
Ownership of the assets (strands used) vests with the Service Provider.
3
Predictable and deterministic operational costs allowing for excellent returns in the right precinct.
4
Churn in the last-mile will have no effect on the costs.
5
Bandwidth limited only by the physical characteristics of optical fibre and distance.
6
SP benefits from the owners cost per fibre port as only one such product will be sold on any cable section.
link off plan
Technical Parameters
Demarcation
Demarcated by the Outside Plant (OSP) Fibre Distribution Point(s) (FDP) as spliced at the aggregation (splitter) point(s) and any terminated fibre strand per circuit in the same Precinct. The Customer must provide the splicing plan for the precinct.
Specification
ITU-T G.652.D or G657a2
Monitoring
Fiber cable will be monitored across the Link Africa Core Network and any connected Access Ring. Isolated Island networks may not be monitored. Monitoring by LA cannot be done where LA have not terminated the cable on an ODF accessible to LA.
Service Naming
Precinct AAAA strand xx YYYY where ‘AAAA’ represents the Precinct codes and xx is a numeric code representing the strand used and YYYY represents the end user termination point.