FR2864359A1 - Street furniture for housing telecommunication equipment, has housing to receive telecommunication equipments and having doors on its front face, where housing permits to connect equipments to telecommunication and electric networks - Google Patents

Abstract

The furniture has a housing (2) fixed under display panel (11) around a base (4) to receive telecommunication equipments (3). An antenna (8) is fixed on an upper part of the furniture and connected to a telecommunication network. The housing permits the equipments to be connected to the telecommunication network and an electric network. The housing has doors (20) on its front face and passages at its wall for cables (61, 71). An independent claim is also included for a method of connecting street furniture to an underground telecommunication network.

Description

The invention relates to street furniture housing equipment for

telecommunications.

  The invention applies to the field of telecommunications and more particularly to cockpits intended to house telecommunications equipment.

  Telecommunications equipment refers to equipment connected to a telecommunications network and physically located between a telecommunications center and customer equipment.

  The invention is suitable for active equipment, that is to say equipment connected to a telecommunications network and which requires a supply of electrical energy. These devices are located in the local network (also called local loop) of telecommunications between the telephone exchanges and the homes of the customers.

  The invention is particularly suitable for network equipment offering broadband and very high speed services. This is typically equipment related to xDSL technologies (acronym for x Digital Susbcriber Line) including in particular Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) and VDSL (Very High Bandwidth Digital Subscriber Line).

  In these networks the equipment is deported near the residential areas of the customers by means of fiber optic cables. Optical signals carried by optical fibers are transformed and split into electrical signals carried by the copper wires. This electro-optical transition consumes energy and requires a supply of electrical energy.

  So far, attempts have been made to adapt the interiors used as sub-distributors for networks using copper-conductor cables.

  0138-FT 04900 In the case of a local copper-conductor network, these cockpits are usually located on sidewalks. However the volumes of these cockpits are relatively important and the local authorities (town halls) refuse more and more authorizations for such settlements. The trend is therefore to install these interiors in buildings that can pose problems of access and generates sometimes significant rental costs.

  Another solution is to install this equipment in the telecommunications chambers that are located under the sidewalks or the traffic lanes. In addition to the problems related to the difficulties of access already mentioned, it is more necessary in this case that the cockpits are planned to ensure an opening and interventions.

The present disadvantages.

  The invention more particularly relates to street furniture mainly characterized in that it constitutes a cabin support for telecommunications equipment and for their connection to a telecommunications network.

  In a first embodiment, the furniture 25 comprises a frame and the passenger compartment is housed in said frame.

  In a second embodiment, the passenger compartment is fixed outside the frame.

  According to another characteristic, the passenger compartment has access to the outside allowing the installation of telecommunications equipment inside and the connection with the telecommunications network.

  According to another characteristic, the passenger compartment comprises a volume for a box adapted to the hosting of equipment for providing xDSL services and associated equipment, and a volume for a box adapted to the remote power supply equipment.

  perfect sealing while allowing the closure of the passenger compartment for invention aims to remedy these The cabinets are provided with sealed passages for cables, the passages being made by means of cable glands.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, the street furniture constitutes the support of sensor-type equipment and / or antennas and / or solar panels, connected to the telecommunications network through the telecommunications equipment located in the passenger compartment.

  According to another characteristic, in the case where the street furniture comprises a display panel and a control interface of the display, this interface can be connected to the telecommunications network through the telecommunications equipment and their connection with this network of telecommunications. to display information provided by the network.

  The invention also relates to a method of connecting a street furniture to an underground telecommunication network according to which the routing of the underground cables is carried out by a micro trench pre-tubed by means of one or more tubes in which are installed the cables.

  Other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from reading the following description which is given by way of illustrative and non-limiting example with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1 shows the diagram of a furniture urban housing telecommunications equipment according to one embodiment of the invention; Figure 2 shows the diagram of a street furniture housing telecommunications equipment according to a second embodiment of the invention, Figure 3 shows the diagram of a passenger compartment to receive telecommunications equipment; FIGS. 4A, 4B, 4C represent the diagrams of the front view, the bottom view and the profile view, respectively, of street furniture housing a USAM VDSL box and the associated equipment; FIGS. 4D and 4E respectively represent a box according to a front view and a side view; Figures 4F and 4G respectively show a box in a view from below and a rear view; Figures 5A, 5B, 5C respectively show a front view of street furniture showing a second box, the top view and side view; Figure 5D illustrates the second cabinet in a front view; Figures 5E and 5F, respectively a bottom view and a rear view of the cabinet.

  The street furniture 1 taken as an example in the appended figures correspond to billboards 11 mounted on a foot 4 fixed to the ground on a sidewalk 5.

  It is understood that the invention can be implemented on other types of street furniture having the ability to receive a cabin or to integrate the cabin chassis. For example, bus shelters or poles or benches may be used to house telecommunications equipment.

  The proposed street furniture becomes, according to the invention, a support provided with means for interfacing and exchanging information between a telecommunications network and the environment by capturing information coming from outside and / or providing information. network outside. According to the invention the street furniture has a cockpit 2 is integrated in its chassis or attached to the latter to house a telecommunications equipment 3, the input cables 61 and signal output, the cable 71 of power supply, this cabin being in communication with a cable duct respectively 6, 7 giving access to the telecommunications and energy network outside the furniture.

  The furniture can be the equipment support for broadband services and also for radio telecommunications equipment (WIFI for example), antennas 8 will then be fixed on an upper part of the furniture and connected to the telecommunications network through the equipment placed in the passenger compartment and its connection with said network.

  This furniture can also be the support various sensors 9 fixed to the frame of the furniture (temperature, video camera, solar panels) and connected to the telecommunication network so as to provide information through this network to an operating center (not shown on the figures).

  In the case where the furniture comprises a display panel 11 and a control interface 12 of this display, this interface can be connected to the telecommunications network through the telecommunications equipment and their connection with this network. In this way street furniture will make it possible to display information provided by the network.

  Figures 1 and 2 illustrate the two modes of integration of a telecommunications equipment in the case of a display panel 11.

  In Figure 1, the cabin 2 for receiving telecommunications equipment 3 is fixed under the panel around the foot 4. This embodiment is suitable for integration on existing furniture.

  In FIG. 2, the passenger compartment 2 is integrated in the chassis 10, this example illustrates an embodiment suitable for future manufacture.

  In both cases, the cabin 2 includes outward access allowing the installation of the equipment inside and all connections to the telecommunications network and the electrical network. These accesses are in the form of one or more doors 20 on the front face and one or more passages 60,70 of conduits 6,7 for cables 61, 71 on the walls of the passenger compartment.

  Figure 3 illustrates in more detail the cabin 2. This cabin is designed to meet all the constraints on the equipment it houses. The cabin is here in the form of two independent envelopes separated by the foot 4 of the panel.

  According to another embodiment, the cabin could be in the form of a sealed envelope comprising two accommodation volumes separated by the foot.

  The boxes 21 and 22 placed inside the envelopes and envelopes sheltering them and have dimensions in length and width, substantially identical to those of the panel to respect the floor area occupied by the original panel.

  More specifically, in the case of the installation of 32-channel VDSL equipment (USAM from ECI Telecom), the constraints are constraints on volumes, sealing, cable entries, interior layout and dissipation. energy.

  For this, the boxes made allow to receive equipment whose volumes may be different and therefore allow their installation without risk (easy attachment and connection).

  These enclosures are watertight according to the IP 68 standard permanently (NF EN 60529: degrees of protection provided by the IP Code envelopes). The enclosures allow the penetration of the copper and optical cables necessary for the connection of the network. interior allows the installation and attachment of all necessary equipment, eg ECI Telecom's MiniRam VDSL, copper transport and distribution pairs, remote power supply unit, optical expansion cassette and optical connections .

  The cabinets ensure the dissipation of energy namely a dissipation of 100W released by a 32-way equipment.

  FIGS. 4A to 4G illustrate a box 21 for the USAM VDSL equipment item 310 in the figures, the optical cassette 311, the two optical fibers 313 (for data and management) which reach the enclosure of the box through a cable gland 315 as well as the copper cable 312 (64 pairs) and the power cable 314, the 4 connection heads 316 (8 copper pairs) for the cables coming from the SR (voice service) and the heat sink 317 consisting of a plate mounted on the rear face of the cabinet.

  FIGS. 4D and 4E illustrate in more detail the box 21. The three cable glands 315 seal the passages of the copper cables (64 pairs), the two optical fibers and the remote power cable, as well as their mechanical protection.

  The optical cassette 311 and the heads 316 are removably mounted on the cabinet in order to be extracted during an intervention.

  The heatsink 317 is visible in the rear view of the cabinet Figure 4G and in the bottom view Figure 4F.

  FIGS. 5A to 5C illustrate the panel provided with a second box 22 intended to receive the power supply equipment 320 for the USAM and the heat sink 327 consisting of a plate mounted on the rear face of the box.

  FIG. 5D illustrates the remote power supply equipment and the cable glands 322 for a remote power cable extension 321 and a remote power cable feeder 323. This equipment is mounted on the box removably to facilitate any intervention.

  Figures 5E and 5F show in more detail the heat sink 327.

  The passage 60 of the cables leaving the street furniture can be placed in communication with the network of telecommunication lines, for example at the level of a telecommunications chamber or a SR, by means of one or more tubes 6 in which are installed the cables in the form of 8-pair plies for example, these tubes being arranged in micro trenches which connect the telecommunication equipment room and the furniture. The micro-trenching technique carried out a few centimeters deep has the advantage of being able to be implemented at lower cost either before the installation of the street furniture or after its installation at the time of the installation of the telecommunications equipment. and this after possible radiography of the soil to determine its path.

Claims (9)

  1. Urban furniture (1), characterized in that it constitutes a cockpit support (2) for telecommunications equipment (3) and for their connection (6) to a telecommunications network.   2. Urban furniture according to claim 1, characterized in that the furniture (1) comprises a frame (10) and in that the passenger compartment (2) is housed in said frame.   3. Urban furniture according to claim 1, characterized in that the passenger compartment (2) is attached to the outside of the frame.   4. Urban furniture according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the passenger compartment (2) comprises outwardly sealed ports (20, 60) for the establishment of telecommunication equipment and connection with the telecommunications network.   5. Street furniture according to any of the   preceding claims, characterized in that   the cockpit (2) comprises a volume for a box (21) adapted for hosting equipment for providing xDSL services and associated equipment, and a volume for a box (22) adapted to the equipment of remote power supply.   6. Urban furniture according to claim 5, characterized in that the boxes (21, 22) are provided with passages for the cables made by means of cable glands (315, 322).   7. Urban furniture according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it constitutes the support of equipment (8, 9) sensors and / or antennas and / or solar panels, connected to the telecommunications network through telecommunications equipment in the passenger compartment.   8. Urban furniture according to any one of the preceding claims comprising a display panel (11) and a control interface of the display (12), characterized in that the interface (12) is connected to the telecommunications network through the telecommunications equipment (21, 22) and their link (6) with the network to display information provided by the network.   9. A method of connecting street furniture according to any one of the preceding claims to an underground telecommunications network characterized in that the routing of underground cables (61) is performed by a micro-trench pre-cased by means of one or more tubes (6) in which the cables are installed.