Telkom's Backbone

Several times ago, I mentioned Telkom's national backbone in this post. According to records published by KOMINFO, as of Q4/2005 Telkom owns 10,816 km fiber optic cable. The backbone network is distributed as follows:

• Surabaya-Banjarmasin-Makassar : 2,088 km (constructed in 2000)
• Trans-Java : 2,605 km (2000)
• Jakarta-Medan-Batam: 2,990 km (2004)
• Batam-Singapore-Bangkok: 1,043 km (2004)
• Dumai-Melaka: 161 km (2005)
• Banjarmasin-Balikpapan : 955 km (2005)
• Makassar-Palu: 974 km (2005)

Palapa Ring (6)

Below are some updates for the Palapa Ring project as of September 2008. It seems that there are some route adjustments; and that now the project schedule is more realistic, taking into account current market situations.

• 2 FP for repeatered system
• 12 FP for inland and repeaterless system
• Construction begin on April 2009;
  
• RFS final (all segments) on September 2011
• Section 1 Mataram - Parigi
  
• Section 2 Palu-Sorong
  
• Section 3 Makassar-Sorong
  
• Section 4 Makassar-Mataram/Kupang
  
• Section 5 Sorong-Jayapura
  
• Section 6 Fakfak-Merauke
  

Intra-Asia & Transpacific Cables

According to Byron Clatterbuck (Tata), current supply for transpacific connection is as follows:

TGN-Pacific

• Capacity: 8 FP; 96 channels at 10 Gbps each; 1.4 Tbps lit; 7.8 Tbps design
• Owner: Tata/TGN

JUSCN

• Capacity: 4 FP; 1.28 Tbps lit & design (full occupied) ??
• Owner: Consortium

PC-1

• Capacity: 4 FP; 320 Gbps lit; 1.28 Tbps design
• Owner: (same owner as Southern Cross??)

How about intra-Asia segments? There are also many alternatives. This includes EAC-C2C (Pacnet), IAC, TIC, Flag (FNAL). There might be also several other systems.

Jakarta (IP) Bandwidth Price

I followed some traces left by Pak Meneer and was delivered to his records at Opisboy. This is claimed to be an "Informal ISP Technical ( dir-pji-like :p )" forum. Comments ? :-D Well, for non-local readers, "dir-pji" could be understood as "indonesian ISP Executives/VIPs" or as the forum of ISPs' owners/high-rank officials. It is "dir-pji-like" ? Personally, I would say "better-than-dir-pji" :-D Reasons? he..he..he. Don't take it seriously or even start thinking about that!! :-D

Back to bandwidth. According to Pak Meneer, the condition is as follows:

A (Possibly) New Competitor for Matrix and Jakabare

A competitor or a friend ? :-) It could actually be a potential partner if you want to connect to Western Australia!

I don't remember precisely how, but yesterday my Firefox browser took me to Ochre's website. Honestly, I've never heard Ochre before, so I was a bit surprised; similar to the moment where I read about the MCS project for the first time.