Malaysia : Broadband Infrastructure

I just found a picture illustrating transmission infrastructure in Malaysia. However, it might be outdated, since it was the condition in 2004. But, we can see some statistics:

Global Networks : Another Ochre Services ?

Thanks to Meneer for the pointer. I was thinking that Ochre Services was the only one, who has interest in wiring Singapore-Jakarta-Perth. I'm honestly still not sure whether these systems (Ochre and GN) will come into reality: whether they has secured how the projects will be financed? But let's see it. Previously I was not sure also about Surabaya - Hong Kong cable project, but it has been indeed executed. If one or more troubles come, I think, it is also possible that those companies collaborate ... something that happened like Pacnet's initiative and Unity cable. However, at a glance, it seems that Global Networks has a solid plan to enter the business in SG, AUS, and ID ...

First Media | FastNet : Over-Booking Ratio

Recently, Dicky Moechtar, director of PT First Media, said that the company has totally 3.5 Gbps bandwidth serving 122 th. customers. He also claimed that FastNet allows users to have external download rate 18 kBps (average I guess), which is according to him, three times faster than the usual external download rate offered by other operators.

If we take the numbers given by Dicky, then it seems that FastNet using an over-booking figure of around 1:5 (corresponds to 'simultaneous factor' of 0.2 for accessing service at the highest allowable rate - note: this is for external traffic!)

Over-Booking vs. Over-Provisioning

We might already be heard these terms, in particular if we are inside or at least talk about network-related-things in an ISP / NSP. Overbooking is "a term used to describe the sale of access to a service which exceeds the capacity of the service" (Wikipedia). Over-provisioning is exactly the opposite i.e. a term used to describe how much excess/free capacity are available compared to used-capacity. In the networking world, overbooked system, sometimes, is also called over-subscribed system.

Users/customers of a provider will not have anything against Over-Provisioning, right? :-D ... But the provider does! Why ? You know this already I think, it's more-or-less about trade-off between Quality for customers' side vs. cost for providers' side.

Bandwidth Price (4)

I just want to comment this local report. This is written by Arif Pitoyo (Bisnis) citing Galumbang Menak (CEO Gema Lintas Benua - a local Internet Service Provider). Below, I would use "GM|AP" to refer to this report. Summary of the report + my comments:

Bandwidth Price Points

According to Telegeography Research (2009B):

• Prices are declining due to growing supply, greater competition, liberalizing markets, and technological advancements
• Prices for higher-capacity products are dropping faster than lower-capacity products
• The more you buy, the less you pay per Mbps
• High capacity means high revenue
• Prices change in large steps
• Prices vary by geography, carrier, customer

Facebook Infrastructure Needs

Facebook has experienced a phenomenal growth. According to datacenterknowledge.com (03/2009):

• Facebook has been adding more than 600,000 new users a day in recent months; it just surpassed 200 mn users
  
• More than 24 percent of U.S. Internet users have Facebook accounts, as do 43 percent of the online audience in the UK
• The company may be spending as much as $1 million a month on electricity to power its servers and data center space
• Facebook hosts more than 10 billion photos posted by users

This all adds up to an enormous amount of data to store, manage and move across the Internet. And this is why Facebook needs more data center space.

Links & Resources

Here in this page, I'll put some useful links and resources. Keep watching :-D

Contact | About

About Me :: @Work

• Institut Teknologi Bandung | 2006-Present


• Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg | 2002-2006


• PT. Multimedia Nusantara | 1997

About Me :: Formal Education

• Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) - Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany - 2006


• M.Sc. - Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany - 2001


• S.T. (B.Sc.) - Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia - 1997

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