Palapa Ring (2)

PII and IA-ITB have organized a one-day seminar on Next Generation Enterprise Network under a brand-name "Telecommunication Partnership Forum" (ShangriLa Hotel, 26th February 2008). This event was also supported by the Palapa-Ring consortium and by the government i.e. the Ministry of Communication and Information.

Several issues are revealed in this forum, especially those which are related to the Palapa Ring Project:

• The RFP is delayed possibly till the 3rd week of march.
• The consortium will build 3 rings connecting 32 places in eastern Indonesia. However the topology differs than that originally proposed by TT-Tel (compare two pics on the right! - the above pic is an artwork -- not official!)
• Length : 9,350 km undersea; 1,860 km inland
• CAPEX : approx. USD 260 mn
• Cable : 2 FP (undersea with repeater - 16/2.5 or 16/10?); 12 FP (inland / undersea repeaterless)
• Capacity : 9 lambdas lit (either 20 Gbps or 90 Gbps?), 16 potential;
• Capacity/Company : Telkom/4 , Indosat/1, BTEL/1, XL/1, Powertek/1, Infokom/0.44
• RFS : late 2009 / early 2010