The project FTTX-PLAN aims at the development of innovative methods and tools for planning broadband access networks based on mathematical models. These tools should enable network operators to decide upon planning and design issues by providing specifically tailored analyses.

Research carried out at ZIB comprises the development of mathematical models and methods for the design of such networks. In particular, various aspects of the problem shall be taken into account, such as technical and economic factors, where currently available tools include only single aspects.

• atesio GmbH
• Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich Hertz Institute
• VPIsystems GmbH
• DFG Research Center Matheon "Mathematics for key technologies",
  project B21: Optical Access Networks