TurnKey 91
The TurnKey 91 (also: Turn Key '91 , Turn-Key '91 ) was a state-initiated telecommunications development program in the course of the reunification of Germany . It was part of the overarching development program Telekom 2000 as the first comprehensive telecommunications infrastructure concept for the new federal states and East Berlin.
project goal
The development program of what was then Deutsche Bundespost Telekom was started in January 1991 after German reunification . The aim of this program was to quickly connect the residents and businesses of the acceding areas to the telecommunications infrastructure. In addition, the telecommunications and IT infrastructure had to be fundamentally modernized in the construction of the East .
frame
For the purpose of the very ambitious success and switch-on maintenance, the usual planning procedure for these building measures was shortened. The simplified plan approval procedure according to § 7 Telegraphenwegegesetz (TWG), which was also used in the old Federal Republic for small building projects, was operated.
The main actors in the project were the telecommunications offices in the districts of the former GDR as well as the large electronics groups in the West with telecommunications and switching center expertise, in particular:
- Siemens AG, Berlin / Munich
- Standard electrical system Lorenz or Alcatel SEL , Stuttgart
- Philips Communication Industry AG, Nuremberg
- DeTeWe , Berlin
- German long-distance cable company , Rastatt
After these companies, known as general contractors , numerous small companies from the telecommunications, civil engineering and assembly sectors from the old federal states , but also companies spun off from former VEBs from the new federal states were involved.
Project progress
It started in January 1991, and planning for the first local networks began in February in all of the accession areas .
Each general contractor had been allocated areas for switching facilities according to its share of the delivery quotas achieved in the old federal states through the annual price competition. The general contractors opened numerous construction offices in their expansion areas.
The first local networks had to be completed by September 1991, which was largely achieved.
There were delays in local networks in large cities , as the documentation from the GDR era was in a very poor condition. This mainly affected old buildings. In addition, systems were often very old.
There were also delays in the area of barracks, state security and national defense facilities and armaments-important companies, as plans were only available in blackened form or even with deliberately incorrect entries.
Follow-up projects
In the following year TurnKey 91 was continued as TurnKey 92 ; another continuation took place in 1993.
From this, in turn, a Telekom TurnKey was continued, in which the continued employment of the many employees from the telecommunications offices of the former GDR was the focus.
At the same time, the OPAL development program developed . With OPAL, the telecommunications and television infrastructure with optical fibers from single-mode fibers was to be expanded. Glass fibers should be laid from the switching device to the optical network unit as a subscriber connection.
Individual evidence
- ↑ computerwoche.de: Private telecommunications providers help Telekom in the east out of an emergency
- ↑ a b BT-Drs. 12/6854 of February 8, 1994, pp. 158ff.
- ↑ See e.g. B. BT-Drs. 12/285 of March 20, 1991, p. 7.