Surabaya Hong Kong | Submarine Cable Asia Network - SCAN

Thanks for the hints, I've just post too early. This morning I found tens of media reports about this. I would like to congratulate NEC Submarine for the award, and also for updating the news section in their website! :-D

FIC (Dahlan Iskan, Linggar Mulyono)

PT. Fangbian Iskan Corporindo is a new venture founded by Mr. Dahlan Iskan, Chairman and CEO of Jawa Pos Group2 engaging in Telecommunications, Computer, and Information Technology businesses. Jawa Pos Group is the largest media group in Indonesia delivering quality content to the Indonesian community.

TPI (Hady Hartanto - Indonesian name, but HK citizen)

Telemedia Pacific Incorporation is a new telecommunications infrastructure operator in Asia with a focus to provide quality and reliable network services to connect the fast growing emerging markets within the region.

ASEAN China Super Corridor

Have you heard this "ASEAN China Super Corridor" ? As I follow it, Mr. M Nuh has used this term several times this month. It seems that this is named following a malaysian initiative "MSC". But what is it actually? Anybody knows ?

It is said several times, that this corridor shall be ready in 2012. To my opinion, it is unlikely that it a completely new cable project (partially could be), since it currently so many unused capacity in the existing, just installed or in the system currently under construction i.e. EAC-C2C, TGN-IA, AAG or Unity. These systems at least provide direct connection between Hong Kong and Singapore. Connections from mainland China to Hong Kong is not an issue.

ERNET

Objectives:

• Set up and run a nationwide Academic and Research Network.
• Undertake and promote R&D in the area of computer networking
• Human Resource Development in the area of computer networking.
• Content hosting relating to education and research.
• Registrar for domains- edu.in, res.in & ac.in

Education and Research Network of India (ERNET):

• ERNET operates through Point of Presence (POP) located at premier educational & research institutes
• 15 PoPs at various cities of India
• 400 Mbps of Aggregate Internet bandwidth
• 100 Mbps connectivity to global research network through GEANT 2
• ERNET Network- GARUDA Network (GRID)
• National Knowledge Network (NKN)

Surabaya Hong Kong Cable ?

What do you think ? It's real or just another rumor ? I've heard this several times and till I read the news snippet below, I believed that was a rumor!

"Artinya, kita melihat kondisi penyedia jasa internet terlebih dahulu dan mempelajari aspek mana saja yang bisa diturunkan. Kita tidak bisa menetapkan prosentasenya secara sepihak," jelasnya di sela penandatanganan kerjasama FIC Indonesia-TPI Hongkong dengan NEC Japan Deployment of Submarine Cable Asia Network, Surabaya-Hong Kong, di Surabaya, Sabtu (28/3/2009).

Should we believe this news? :-)

International Teletraffic: Internet Dominance

Trans-Atlantic submarine cable route (2008) :

• Lit capacity : 9.3 Tbps
• Purchased capacity: 7.9 Tbps
• Used capacity : 3.1 Tbps
  

JGN, JGN2, & JGN2plus

Japan Gigabit Network (JGN) is High Speed Advanced Testbed Network for Research and Development (R&D), which is operated by National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT). JGN is promoted with cooperation among government, industry and academia, and also collaborated with communal and international networks.

On 1999, JGN started operation of domestic optical fiber network. From 2004, As JGN2, We added domestic and international access point, increased network bandwidth, stared IPv6 routing and installed optical switches. Moreover, From 2008, As JGN2plus, ''Service Platform Architecture Research Center''(SPARC) is operating testbed network which is providing various services for research and development of next generation network.

CERNET, CNGI, & CERNET2

CERNET

• CERNET project was started in 1993. It is the first nationwide TCP/IP backbone and the 3rd largest ISP in China.
• CERNET owns its own transport network : 30,000KM darkfiber, 800G DWDM system.
• CERNET has PoPs in 73 cities, covering all the provinces.
• There are about 2,000 universities, schools and research institutes connected.
• The end users reaches 25M : There are 320M students/school kids in China

CSTNET, CNGI & CSTNET2

I just tracked RE networking in China. China shall have at least two main RENs : CSTNet and CERNET, cmiiw!

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China Science and Technology Network (CSTNet) is one of the earliest internet networks in China, and is extended upon the base of Chinese Academy of Sciences Network (CASNet). In April 1994, CSTNet opened the first official Internet link in China. Since then, CSTNet has been responsible for operation and management for the top domain of China (.cn).

ThaiREN : UniNet, UniNet2

To be honest, when I was in Europe several years ago, I never thought that RE networking in ASEAN (except Singapore) could be that as what I see right now. Thailand is currently in a very good track; Malaysia, Vietnam will follow it shortly. Indonesia ?? ... still needs much works!

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UniNet/ThaiREN:

• The Project of Inter-University Network (UniNet) is established by notification of Ministry of University in 1996. This year the project is 12-year- in operating and serving for universities and institutions.
• UniNet has provided hi-speed information network linked to universities, institutes, and campuses 180 sites over the country. Linking with foreign countries research network enables Thai universities/institutes to manage virtual classrooms with universities/institutes abroad.
• This project improves Thai education to be comparable to other countries. And now UniNet is developing particular research network which enables members to reach the source effectively.

PT. Singleterra : A Napinfo's Bandwidth Reseller

Napinfo has a new partner for selling their bandwidth product: PT. Singleterra, previously PT. Singer Indonesia Tbk. Yes, offcourse :-D , "Singer" was/is a famous strong-branded international company, but not for bandwidth-related things ... PT. Singer Indonesia was a sewing-machine distributor.

SINET3

It seems that this is a GMPLS-Playground. *Work-in-progress :-D *

SINET3 is the new Japanese academic backbone network launched in April 2007 for more than 700 universities and research institutions. It has 63 edge and 12 core nodes and deploys Japan’s first 40 Gbps lines between Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka.

SINET3 emphasizes four service aspects: transfer layer, virtual private network (VPN), quality-of-service (QoS), and bandwidth on demand. It provides all services on a single network platform, and users can freely choose the best transfer layer services for their applications.

Telkom + TM

Several times ago, I asked my friend (affan basalamah - he is one of the VIPs :-D ) why our connection to TEIN3 happens via direct link to Hong Kong. He said, this link is provided by PT. Telkom. Previously, we always connect through Singapore. My guess was, that this is due to policy or maybe some technical reasons from DANTE or other partners. But one or two days ago, I read some reports that PT. Telkom and Telekom Malaysia (TM) have signed the agreement to intensify cooperation in particular to reach international market (this is offcourse for PT. Telkom) and seems that they will better utilize their DMCS, which is upto now still far from fully occupied. I honestly, doubt if the cost to HK is cheaper than that to SG. I am even more not sure about that, since the link JKT-HK is jointly provided by Telkom and TM, because Telkom currently doesn't have any cable to HK ... :-D ... So why? It should be at least one reason! TEIN3 currently opens a new PoP at Global Switch in SG and uses some brand-new gigabit Juniper routers there: it is technically and financially more efficient to connect to SG than to HK!! any contra opinions ??

TWAREN & TANet

TWAREN stands for "TaiWan Advanced Research and Education Network", while TANet "Taiwan Academic NETwork".

TWAREN :

• A physical network serves multiple purposes and logical networks : TANet, connects to commodity Internet; TWAREN research network; experiment, testbed, special research
• Provisioning services on multiple layers : L1 Lightpaths; L2 VLAN, VPLS VPN; L3 IPv4, IPv6, Multicast ; SSL VPN

AJC (2)

Design Capacity of AJC
At least 32 x 10Gbit/s on each of 2 fibre pair = 320G+320G which can be configured as:

• 320G Protected
• or 640G Non Preemptible Unprotected
• or 320G Protected + 320G Preemptible Unprotected

Initially Equipped Capacity of AJC

• 40G+40G capable of mix of Protected plus Non Preemptible Unprotected plus Preemptible Unprotected.

Submarine Cable Capacity - A Hutch's View

Below is a short summary of HGC's talk at PTC.

There are over 20 new cables in 2008/2009 around the globe!
New cable builds in the APAC region:

• Long haul --> TPE (Ph1), AAG, TGN-IA
• Short haul --> Matrix, Hokkaido-Sakhalin CS
• Upgrades --> SMW3, APCN2, JUS, PC-1
• Coming soon --> Unity, TPE (Ph2)
• In the pipeline --> SJC
  

Hong Kong Connectivity

I'm not a Hutch's people, but I think we can see Hong Kong connectivity by HGC's HutchConnect services (see the picture below).

It is claimed that HGC :

• has the whole Hong Kong connectivity!
• has several cable landings in HK
• connect to different cables
• offers bandwidth on demand
• has backhaul diversity
• offers multilayer services
  

Any contra opinions ??

Matrix : Napinfo Downstream

Now, I understood why I didn't see any involvement of Matrixnetworks (AS17886) for Napinfo connectivity! :-D ... It is definitely that Matrix is a downstream of Napinfo! Their homepage is also host under Napinfo's domain.

AJC - Australia Japan Cable

Network summary (AJC/ATUG):

• 12,700km collapsed ring configuration cable Australia-Guam-Japan.
• Two cable stations per country each with own landing.
• Network Operations Centre in Melbourne with backup in Sydney.
• Design Capacity 32 protected 10Gbit/s wavelengths (320+320G)
• Initially equipped 4 protected 10Gbit/s wavelengths (40+40G).
• ITU-T G.841 Network Protection using MS SPRING (span/ring)
• One Traffic Affecting Fault since Dec 2001 to Sept 2006

PGASCOM (Not PGASKOM)

Source pgascom.net

I just found the official webpage of PT. PGAS Telekomunikasi Nusantara, which is previously (in many reports) called "PGASKOM". But now, it seems that the company enters the market with the brand "PGASCOM".

Unfortunately, the site provides very limited information and is host by third party (i.e. BiZNET). Below are some statements quoted from the site:

OADM BU

I noticed that several times, Pipe guys have addressed this "OADM BU" issue installed in their PPC-1 system. What is special in it ? How reliable is this kind of BU ? How much budget can we save compared to "normal BU" deployment ? ... Any idea ?!?

Exploring CBN

CBN has also 2 ASes : AS4787 and AS38158. Connection from AS4787 is a bit diverse than that can be found for Telkom or XL network. Upstreams for CBNnet (AS4787):

• AS24203 NAPXLNET-AS-ID PT Excelcomindo Pratama (Network Access Provider)
• AS38158 CBN-NETWORKS-AS-ID Network Access Provider
• AS4761 Indosat

InterPlaNet (IPN) : Interplanetary Internet

(Almost) Everybody knows Vint Cerf. Yes ? If no, try find him virtually via (or physically at) Google ... :-D ... He was and is one of the VIPs behind the development of the Internet.

But as he mentioned "Interplanetary Internet", I was thinking, that he probably was talking about the far future; or maybe he did some kinds of "futurist jokes". But slowly I realized that he addressed something real! I didn't check it entirely, but the logic is: NASA, ESA, JAXA or other bodies currently in the state that they have to communicate with their equipment sent to the far space. And the current trend is, every communication shall be in IP way, right ?

TEIN3

Yes, TEIN2 is retired! It's replaced by TEIN3. Well, in the networking world, naming convention is (still) more conservative than, say, in the Linux world .. :-D .. The successor of TEIN3 shall be named TEIN4 in place of e.g. TEIN "Potato" or TEIN "Reloaded" ... :-D

SPIN

SPIN stands for South Pacific Islands Network. It's a regional initiative supported by: Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, French Government, Government of French Polynesia, and Government of New-Caledonia.

SPIN shall provide faster and cheaper bandwidth to Pacific Islands countries and territories:

• Interconnect the 3 French territories of New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna and French Polynesia
• Connect Pacific Islands countries currently relying on satellite
• Open a new transpacific route Sydney - Hawaii

Palapa Ring (10)

I just want to quote and share two points which are addressed in this local media report :

• "Harga kabel jadi makin mahal. Padahal, lima puluh persen biaya operasional ditentukan harga submarine cable," keluh Ketua Konsorsium Palapa Ring, Tonda Priyanto kepada detikINET, Jumat (20/3/2009). Menurutnya, konsorsium keberatan dengan harga yang ditawarkan oleh vendor kabel optik peserta tender proyek. Tiga vendor NEC Corporation, NSW Fujitsu, dan Alcatel-Lucent, menawarkan harga US$ 50 ribu untuk harga serat optik per kilometer. Sedangkan konsorsium cuma menganggarkan dana US$ 20 ribu.

• Menkominfo Mohammad Nuh sebelumnya pernah mengatakan bakal mencari jalan keluar untuk masalah ini. Salah satunya, adalah dengan meminta bantuan dari negara lain. Kabar terakhir, menteri coba melobi Korea Selatan untuk menarik kabel laut dari Negeri Ginseng ke Sulawesi

Telikom PNG's View of PPC-1

The most valuable role of the PPC-1 for Telikom PNG (TPNG) is probably to provide back up of its international link for via APNG-2 cable system (see below).

TPNG involvement in PPC-1:

• Capacity: 1 x 10 Gbps Madang (PNG) to Guam; 1 x 10Gbps Madang to Sydney
• 2 FP spur link
• 2 BU (BU4 – Madang, BU3 – Alotau - future)
• OADM Bus are the key as only a few wavelengths are required, not fibre pair capacity
• Does not require Sydney Guam traffic to route via Madang
• Without OADM BU, new cable would have needed which would have been prohibitively expensive

Carrier Collaboration

In many opportunities, PACNET's CEO Bill Barney has "campaigned" for collaboration. He said "Colloboration is the catalist for growth!". Agree?? Why do we need to collaborate ? Below are several noticeable things he mentioned.

FLAG + FALCON + FLAG NGN

These cable systems are currently owned by Reliance.

FLAG (Fiber-optic Link Around the Globe):

• RFPA: 1997
• Length: 27,000Km
• Capacity: 10’s of Gbps
• Landing Sites: 15, 2 of which are in Egypt
• Technology: Optical Amplifier WDM

Internet Statistics

Some Internet statistics as of June 2008 (Source Vint Cerf/Google - InternetWorldStats.com ?):

• Region | Internet Population | Penetration
• Asia | 578.5 mn | 15.3 %
• Europe | 384.6 mn | 48.1 %
• North Am. | 248.2 mn | 73.6 %
• LATAM/C | 139.0 mn | 24.1 %
• Mid-East | 41.9 mn | 21.3 %
• Oceania | 20.2 mn | 59.5 %
• Africa | 51.0 mn | 5.3 %
• TOTAL | 1,463.6 mn | 21.9 %

IMEWE (India - Middle East - Western Europe)

IMEWE shall be a cable system connecting India - Middle East and Western Europe.

IMEWE Cable System:

• RFPA: 2009 (Plan)
• Length: 13,000Km
• Capacity: 3.84 Tbps
• Landing Sites: 9, 2 of which are in Egypt

EIG (Europe India Gateway)

The name "EIG" reminds me to that of the AAG. Both are using "Gateway" :-D ...

Europe India Gateway (EIG) :

• RFPA: 2010 (Plan)
• Length: 15,000Km
• Capacity: 3.84 Tbps
• Landing Sites: 11, 2 of which are in Egypt
• Technology: Optical Amplifier DWDM

Exploring FirstMedia

PT. First Media Tbk. (AS23700) is formerly known as PT. Broadband Multimedia, which provides cable TV and Internet services (currently only in the greater Jakarta area and Surabaya) under brand-name "FastNet"

It is claimed that the company has totally 3.5 Gbps bandwidth (but it is unclear, whether this is international + domestic peering, or solely international bandwidth). They expect to increase this to 5 Gbps by the end of this year. As of now, FirstMedia has served around 122 th. customers in those mentioned areas.

International Traffic Growth

What can happen in 10 years ? yupe, many things! I just want to share what Alan Mauldin has presented in the last PTC conference regarding how international teletraffic has grown unprecedented. Using the same metric and the same methodology we could then calculate when would the ocean space fully occupied with the "reds"! :-D

Internet Captivity and De-Peering Menace

Source Brown/Renesys

Have you seen this one ? :-D ... No? Then, you should go to the newest NANOG movies! It's interresting and somehow a bit funny!

As you might already guessed, the Renesys guys addressed some de-peering cases esp. the latest one between Sprint and (as usual) Cogent. But I won't tamper with that issue. Just a minor thing : they used the term DFZ (Default-Free Zone) replacing the usual "Tier-1" term. I'm not sure whether they indeed introduced that term or maybe they just used it because somebody previously has introduced that ?! somebody knows?

Telkom Java Backbone Network

PT. Telkom has renewed their long distance transmission infrastructure in Java island since 2004. The project was called "Telkom Java Backbone Network" - at least it was the name their supplier (ZTE) called :-D

• May 2004, ZTE Corporation was awarded the contract to build the Telkom Java backbone transmission network, which covered all major cities in Java Island;
• Jun. 2005, ZTE Corporation won the contract of Phase I capacity expansion project of Telkom Java backbone network;
• Dec. 2006, ZTE was awarded the contract to undertake the JDCS submarine cable DWDM TK project. As the extension to Java backbone network, the network covered all major cities in Java Island and Bali Island, the most thickly populated islands in Indonesia;
• Mar. 2007, ZTE won the contract of Phase II capacity expansion project of Telkom Java backbone network;
• Oct. 2007, ZTE won the upgrade and reconstruction project of Telkom Java backbone network;
• Nov. 2007, ZTE inked contract of RMJ SDH backbone network TK project to build SDH backbone network in Sumatra Island and deliver turnkey integrated solution to OSP. Once deployed, the network will cover 9 major cities in Sumatra Island.

Factors Boosting Bandwidth Demand Growth

Still citing Telegeography, the following are factors accelerating bandwidth demand growth:

• Increased adoption of high-speed broadband access (more than 400 mn broadband subscribers worldwide at 2008E)
• (Illicit) P2P usage --> case TPB
• Legal video content --> skyrocketing!!

Hulu had 9 million unique viewers in October 2008, rumored to be going international soon
Most sporting events are broadcast online to a global audience in increasingly high quality
Beijing Olympics:100 million online viewers in China according to CCTV; The BBC served 40 million streams

Beyond P2P : P4P ?

Know P4P already ? I've just known it yesterday as I skimmed some new PTC material. Here are some quotes taken from Alan Mauldin's talk:

DMCS (2)

Just found the official DMCS website couple times ago. It's host under Telkom's domain.

Dumai-Melaka Cable System (DMCS) represent the project of fiber optic communications cable title under sea to accommodate growth of high communications traffic among Indonesia and Malaysia

PT Telkom and Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) develop System Communications Cable Go out to sea Dumai-Melaka as long as 150 km with investment 9,3 million US dollar represent strategic step

DANTE

DANTE stands for Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe Ltd , a not for profit limited company, UK-registered. Its shareholders are Europe’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). Till early 2008, they operate pan-Europe GÉANT2 serving >30M users on 34 NREN national networks. Additionally:

• Their annual telecoms spends c 30 - 40M Euro, all tendered
• We also manage R&E regional networks outside Europe: North Africa and Middle East (EUMEDCONNECT), Latin America (ALICE), Asia (TEIN)

TEIN : TEIN1, TEIN2 & TEIN3

The first TEIN (TEIN1) linked Korea and France (2 Mbps) in 2001.

TEIN2 network started Jan 2006, connected:

• 30M researchers and students
• 4000 institutions
• 10 countries

TEIN2:

VinaREN

VinaREN (VIetNAm Research and Education Network) is currently coordinated by NACESTI (National Centre for Scientific and Technological Information).

VinaREN as of 03/2009 :

• Total 7 NOCs: NOC (VNNOC; NOC-HN; NOC-TN; NOC-DN; NOC-HUE; NOC-HCM; NOC-CT) and 02 POP (POP-VAST; POP-WRU). To be expanded more POP in some City.
• 53 Members (Universities and Institutes in whole country) connected directly to the backbone and manage about 200 Km fiber optic cable.
• Conneted 11 provinces and major Cities in Vietnam

MYREN, & MYREN2

Malaysian Research & Education Network (MYREN):

• officially launched in March 2005
• spearheaded by the Ministry of Energy, Water & Communications (MEWC)
  
• a network linking 17 universities and research organisations throughout Malaysia
• centered at the MSC Malaysia Innovation Centre in Cyberjaya(the country’s first intelligent city)

First generation (MYREN):

• Telco managed network
• Connection speed range from 1Mbps to 8 Mbps.
• 5 universities have 34 Mbps but rate-limited to 8 Mbps :

• University Malaya (UM)
• National University of Malaysia (UKM)
• University PutraMalaysia (UPM)
• University of Science Malaysia (USM)
• UniverisityTechnology Malaysia (UTM)

MYREN2:

SingAREN

singaren.net.sg
Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN) is a non-profit organisation. We are Singapore’s national research and education network (REN) and part of the Internet2 community. We started as a national project funded by the government to take on the challenge of ensuring that Singapore’s Research and Education community is connected to the international community.

SingAREN maintains close working relationship with the Next Generation Internet community such as Internet2, APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Network), and RENs in various countries.

Exploring Asiakomnet

Does anybody know whether this company has any relationship with Pacnet (formerly Asia Netcom - ANC) ? I heard that Pacnet also sells capacity from/to Jakarta. The name "Asiakomnet" is also just a "local and reshuffled" version of the previous company name of Pacnet (Asia Netcom) :-D And if we look at the network connectivity, it seems that Pacnet is also their main upstream. Any contra argument? :-D

Upstream of Asiakomnet (AS18052):

• AS10026 ANC Asia Netcom Corporation --> Pacnet
  
• AS703 UUNET - MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business

Japan - US Cable

• Suppliers/Contractors: Alcatel, Fujitsu, KDD and NEC
• Customers : AT&T, BT, C&W, Japan Telecom, KDD,Qwest, SBC, Level 3 Communication, Sprint, Worldcom, NTTWN
• Length : 22,700 km
• Capacity : 640 Gbps (4 FP x 16 wl @ 10 Gbps)
• RFS : 2001

China - US Cable

• Suppliers/Contractors: Alcatel, Fujitsu,KDD, NEC & Tyco
• Customers : World Com Inc., Concert CommunicationsCorp., China Telecom, KDD Corp, Teleglobe Inc & Others (as of now??)
  
• Length : 27,000 km
• Capacity : 80 Gbps (4 fp x 8 wl @ 2.5 Gbps)
• RFS : 2000

Telkomsel

Telkomsel:

• CAPEX 2009 : USD 1.5 bn; purposes --> coverage, network capacity & quality increase, new services (mobile wallet, mobile broadband, content)
• 2008E : 27,000 BTSs (6,000 of those were built in 2008); covers 95% of the country population
• Target : 10 - 15 mn new customers in 2009 (from expected 20 - 30 mn total new customers nationwide); most of them shall be outside Java --> govt's USO programme!
  
• Target in Pamasuka (Papua, Maluku, Sulawesi, Kalimantan) : 3 mn new customers
• 02E/2009 --> Pamasuka : 15.2 mn cust. (9.75 mn Simpati, 5.16 mn Kartu AS, and 287 th. Kartu Hallo
• 2008E --> Pamasuka : 14.2 mn cust.; 2007E --> 10.76 mn cust.
  

Telkom : DSL (Speedy)

I've put some stats for Telkom's Speedy, somewhere. Well, honestly, I guess that I begin having troubles with content management :-D ... Perhaps, I have to fix the structure and spend more time for that ... ob es sich loehnt?! ob ich dazu Lust habe?! ... :-D

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Speedy at Borneo (Kalimantan-Divre VI)

• 93 Switches are DSL ready!
• 67,000 lines capacity (25,000 of those in East Kalimantan)
• Investment value IDR 32 bn
  
• Services are (claimed) available island-wide, including Entikong and Sebatik at the border with Malaysia
• Target customers - long term: 400 th. (3 mn wireline-connected from around 13 mn population)
  
• Target customers - 2009 : 110 th.
  
• Current customers : 45,800 (60% of those in East Kalimantan)

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SEA-ME-WE 3 (SMW3)

This will be updated soon :-D

• Suppliers/Contractors: Alcatel, Fujitsu & KDD
• Customers : Consortium (more than 90 Customers)
• Length : 39 000 km
• Capacity : 40 Gbps (2 FP x 8 wl x 2.5 Gbps)
• RFS : 1999

SEA-ME-WE 4 (SMW4)

• Suppliers/Contractors : Alcatel & Fujitsu
• Customer : Consortium
• Length : 20 000 km
• Capacity : 1,280 Gbps (2 FP x 64 wl @ 10 Gbit/s)
• RFS : 2005

Southern Cross

Southern Cross Cable:

• Contractors/Suppliers: Alcatel & Fujitsu
• Owners : Optus, WorldCom, Telecom New-Zealand
• Length : 28,800 km
• Capacity : 480 Gbps (3 x 16 wl @ 10 Gbps)
• RFS : 2000

Exploring Napinfo

How is the relationship between Napinfo and Matrix ? Is is "Napinfo = Matrix Indonesia" ? or "Matrix = Napinfo Singapore" ? However, it seems that Matrix doesn't involve anything for connecting Napinfo to the "world" :-D ...

Exploring Moratelindo

Moratelindo (PT. Mora Telematika Indonesia) offers Internet services using "CepatNet" brand. Whether CepatNet is a separate company inside the same group is for me rather unclear .. :-D. However, Moratel's Internet connections happen through CEPATNET (AS23947). The following ASes are upstream peers from Moratel/CepatNet network (CIDR):

• AS10217 NTT-NET-ID-AS PT. NTT Indonesia
• AS4761 INDOSAT-INP-AP INDOSAT Internet Network Provider
• AS3491 BTN-ASN - Beyond The Network America, Inc.
• AS3320 DTAG Deutsche Telekom AG
• AS7473 SINGTEL-AS-AP Singapore Telecommunications Ltd

Telic-Phil

Telic Phil (?)

• Owners : Telecommunications Infrastructure Corporation of the Philippines (PLDT?)
  
• Length : 1,314 km
• Capacity : 15 Gbps (6 FP x 1 wl @ 2.5 Gbps)
• RFS : 1997

Palapa Ring (9)

This post is dedicated for Palapa Ring fans :-D . Project's current state based on this report (12/03/2009) - citing the consortium's VIP Tonda Priyanto :

Typical Fiber Attenuation Figure

Some times ago, I've been asked about this! I know that for an installed system, this shall be measured! If I can't do that but people still demand me to answer, what kind of attenuation/loss figures would you suggest me ?? Say that the system uses 1500 nm window and ITU-T G.652 fibers.

Telkomsel's JFOB

JFOB stands for Jakarta Fiber Optic Backbone. It was supplied / constructed by Alcatel Lucent (?) and shall already be upgraded at least twice. It is/was originally STM-64 based transmission metro backbone. Please don't ask more, since I can't answer it either :-D ... But I do hope that someone someday will find this post and make some public advise :-D thanks!

Telkom's MSOAN

MSOAN shall be a Telkom's project following a similar concept with BT's 21CN! It stands for Multi-Service Optical Access Network (?? - why access? it should actually be core!). How, where is it implemented, what is special in it, who was involved, how much did it cost .... are some open issues, at least for me right now. As usual, comments and advise are welcome! :-D

Exploring Telkomsel

According to CIDR the following ASes are upstream of Telkomsel (AS23693):

• AS7473 SINGTEL-AS-AP Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
• AS3320 DTAG Deutsche Telekom AG

However, it seems that this time CIDR's data (retrieved at 3/3/09) aren't complete ! cmiiw! Several times ago, I captured some robtex views of Telkomsel's network. The following ASes might act as upstream for Telkomsel network:

• AS7713
  
• AS7473
• AS1239
  

Exploring Indosat

According to CIDR, the following ASes are Indosat's upstream peers:

• AS4657 STARHUBINTERNET-AS Starhub Internet, Singapore
• AS7474 OPTUSCOM-AS01-AU SingTel Optus Pty Ltd
• AS1239 SPRINTLINK - Sprint
• AS2687 ASATTCA AT&T Global Network Services - AP
• AS3320 DTAG Deutsche Telekom AG
• AS3491 BTN-ASN - Beyond The Network America, Inc.
• AS4637 REACH Reach Network Border AS
• AS4766 KIXS-AS-KR Korea Telecom
• AS6453 GLOBEINTERNET TATA Communications
• AS7473 SINGTEL-AS-AP Singapore Telecommunications Ltd

However, Robtex has seen the following additional upstreams : AS3549 Global Crossing (?), AS2914 NTT/Verio (?), AS9304 Hutch (?), AS5511 Opentransit (?)

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Exploring XL / Excelcomindo

XL/Excelcomindo has at least 2 ASes : AS24203 and AS17885. It seems that they have a similar configuration as Telkom. The following ASes are upstream peers from XL network:

• AS4788 TMNET-AS-AP TM Net, Internet Service Provider
• AS4761 INDOSAT-INP-AP INDOSAT Internet Network Provider
• AS7473 SINGTEL-AS-AP Singapore Telecommunications Ltd

Collocation & Data Center in Singapore

I've read somewhere that Tata will build a data center in Singapore. Somebody knows which data center / collocation center / "carrier hotel" operated where in Singapore ?? Please advise ... :-D

• Equinix SGP 87,553 m2 (the new or old one??)
• Equinix SGW2 28,548 m2 (the new or old one??)
• Global Switch
• KDDI's Telehouse
• SingTel's STIX
• Tata's ??
• Other ??
  

It seems that STIX houses Telkom's and Indosat's , while Eqx houses Telkom's and Excelcomindo's PoP equipment ... cmiiw!

Traffic Trends

Comparing the latest Ipoque's Internet-Study to previous traffic composition published e.g. by Telegeography; I see only a minor difference: P2P is still the king but video traffic has an increasingly dominant portion.

Traffic trends according to A. Oon (Equinix) at Menog :

• Accelerated growth in broadband services in Asia
• Major content providers & CDN deployment in Asia: Yahoo, Google, Akamai, Limelight
• Localized content growth
• 10G exchange deployments
• Continued exponential growth in P2P Traffic
• HD streaming video and VoIP
• Mass market gaming