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 ...

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.

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.

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
  

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 ??

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 ?!?

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 ?

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 %

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?

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:

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

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