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Evolution of transoceanic lambdas A GLIF capacity supplier perspective

23th APAN meeting Manila, January 22-26th 2007

Yves Poppe, Director Business development, IP Services


VSNL International | Member of the Tata Group

Tata Group

125-year old largest private sector group

$17.6 billion in revenues

Acquired VSNL in February 2002 VSNL acquired Tyco in Nov 2004 VSNL acquired Teleglobe in Feb

2006

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Asia’s largest software &

systems integration services company

33 countries across 5 continents Key player in high-growth

international markets

VSNL Tata Teleservices

46% 100%

VSNL International

100%


Global Lambda Integrated Facility - Pacific

Source: http://www.glif.is/

VSNL GTS

VSNL

GTS

VSNL

GTS

VSNL

GTS


Global Lambda Integrated Facility – Atlantic

VSNL

GTS

VSNL

GTS

VSNL GTS

VSNL GTS

VSNL

GTS

Source: http://www.glif.is/


VSNL International : historical lambda provider to the R&E

Feb 1995: Teleglobe provides the first NGI connection for the Brussels G7 Summit:: 155mb Teleglobe donates the capacity for two years to Canarie and co-represents Canada in the

GIBN (Global Interopability of Broadband Networks) As member of the Canarie technical advisory Council, Teleglobe encourages the creation of

Starlight in Chicago. 2001: Teleglobe sets up the first transoceanic lambda linking Surfnet to Starlight at 2.5 gbps

First lambdagrid workshop in Amsterdam 2002: iGrid2002 Amsterdam, Tyco provides a 10gig connection between Netherlight and

Abilene in NY through the IEEAF foundation. Level3 provides the second transatlantic link. 2003: creation of GLIF at the third lambdagrid workshop in Reykjavik. Tyco provides the

Pacific and Atlantic connectivity for «little Gloriad». Teleglobe had provided the predecessor project Naukanet.

November 2004: VSNL acquires Tyco cable networks (GTS) 2005: Gloriad expands with a Tyco/VSNL 10 gbps link between Korea and the US February 2006: VSNL acquires Teleglobe


Turn of the century Atlantic capacity battle

Design, lit capacity and RFS design(Gb) lit RFS AC-1 180 180 may 98 Level 3/GC (Project Yellow) 1,280 640 Sep00 TAT-14 (Club) 640 640 Apr01 Hibernia (360networks, Inc.) 2,560 160 Jun01 FLAG Atlantic-1 (FLAG/GTS) 2,400 320 Sep01 Atlantic Crossing -2 (Global Crossing) ** 2,560 1Q01 VSNL transatlantic *** 2,560 460 Jun02 Apollo (C&W) 3,200 640 Feb03 Total 12,820Gbps!

** Cancelled, AC-2 joining Level 3*** originally Tyco Atlantic, sold to VSNL nov 2004

Lit capacity 2006: 3,020Gb up around 210gig over last 12 months (source: Telegeography 2006)


Miami

London (x2)

Hunmanby

Highbridge (x2)

New York (x2)

Wall Township (x2)

ToSanta Clara

ToLos Angeles

4 Fiber Pairs per cable; 2 Cables Supports 64 10Gb/s waves per fiber

pair

LisbonMadrid

Bilbao

ParisFrankfurt (x2)

Amsterdam

Groningen

VSNL Atlantic


Turn of the century Trans- Pacific capacity build-out

Design, lit capacity and RFS design(Gb) lit RFS TPC-5 (club) 20 20 jan 97 Southern Cross 480 240 Nov 00 China-US (club) 80 80 Jan 00 PC-1 (Global Crossing & Marubeni) 640 180 jan 00 Japan-US (club) 640 400 sep 01 VSNL Pacific ** 7,680 640 Jan 03 FP-1 FLAG Pacific *** 5,120 2Q02 360 Pacific *** 4,800 3Q02 Total 9,540Gbps

** = april 01: Tycom joins FLAG aug 01: FLAG withdraws, Tycom continues alone nov 03 : up for sale; nov 04: bought by VSNL ***= project dropped

Lit capacity 2006: 1,560 Gb 400 gig lit in last 12 months (Telegeography 2006)


8 Fiber Pairs Cable Supports 96 10Gb/s

waves per fiber pairHillsboro (x2)

Los Angeles (x2)

Seattle

Portland

Tokyo (x2) Emi

Toyohashi

Guam

8 Fiber Pairs Per Cable Ring Supports 64 10Gb/s waves per fiber pair City-to-City Connectivity to:

PortlandSeattleLos AngelesSanta ClaraTokyo

8 Fiber Pairs Cable Supports 96 10Gb/s

waves per fiber pair

VSNL Pacific

Maruyama

Santa Clara(x2)

ToNew York


New trans-pacific gold rush? 3 major announcements in recent weeks

Dec 18th 2006; TransPacific Express (TPE): First China –US cable agreement signed by China Telecom, China Unicom, China Netcom, Chunghwa, Verizon and Korea Telecom US-Qindao and US-Shanghai, branches to Korea and Taiwan 5.12Tb design capacity; 1.28Tb lit initially; 500 million US$, RFS end 2008

Dec 29th 2006: Reliance announces Flag NGN with 4 cables System 1: Asia - India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Hong-Kong System 2: Africa - Kenya, Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mauritius System 3: Mediterranean - Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Malta, Libya, Lebanon System 4: Trans-Pacific - US West Coast, Japan, China and Hong Kong (2009) To be built over next 36 months; 1.28Tb, 1.5 billion $

Jan 15th 2007: Asia Netcom announces EAC Pacific Japan-US Northern route and Philippines-US via Guam and Hawai as Southern route Philippines-Japan to close the ring; 2.56Tb design capacity (4 fiber pairs) ; 636 million $ committed, RFS july 2008

These 3 projects will more than double transpacific capacity when completed!


Remarkable Central Asian build-out

April 2002: RFS for i2i; 8.12Tb capacity; 160Gb lit, 50% Bharti 50% Singtel owned Feb 2004: VSNL and Asia Netcom announce their Tata Indicom cable (TIC) between

Chennai and Singapore cable ; RFS was nov 2004 with an initial lit capacity of 320gbps and a design capacity of 5.12Tbps; connects into EAC and on to North America.

Oct 2005: BSNL announces India-Sri Lanka cable Dec 2005: Seamewe-4 operational; Sept 2006: Falcon operational March 2006: BSNL and MSNL announce new India-Singapore cable August 2006: VSNL announces new multi-terabit India-Europe cable, RFS mid 2008,

named IMEWE and new intra-Asia cable (Singapore-HK-Japan) RFS Q3 2007

« Indian operators now control more than a third of the global undersea

cable systems in the world with VSNL being among the top three »

The Hindu Business Line, March 6th

2006


Segment 3

ALCATEL FUJITSU

ALCATEL AND FUJITSU

Segment 1Segment 2Segment 4

VSNL Network Administrator 16-member Consortium Hosts Mumbai-based network operating center 1.28 Tera bits per second design capacity Connecting 3 continents over 20,000km Initially equipped with 160 Giga bits bandwidth (DWDM

technology) 640 Gigabits matrix Digital Cross Connect in every station

SMW- 4 | Asia to Europe


ChandigarhAmbala

Karnal

GhaziabadDelhiGurgaon

JaipurAgra

Gwalior

Itarsi

Bhopal

NagpurJalgaon

Vadodra

Bhavnagar

Nadiad

Surat

Nasik

Kalyan

Aurangabad

MUMBAI

HYDERABADKolhapur

Panaji

Guntur

Rajahmundry

Hubli

CHENNAI

MysoreSalemErode

ThrissurERNAKULAM

TRIVENDRUMQuilon

KottayamAlappuzha

Madurai

TrichyThanjavur

VelloreMANGALORE

Kannur

Kozhikode

AmritsarJalandhar

Ludhiana

HissarRohtak

Bhatinda

Mehsana

Ajmer

Udaipur

Karwar

TuticorinTirunelvelli

Belgaum

Vizag

Patiala

Virudhunagar

Lucknow

Bareilly

Kanpur

Allahabad

Fatehpur

Patna

Varanasi

Arrah

Ranchi Kolkata

Cuddalore

Rajkot

Ahmedabad

Nellore

VijayawadaEluru

Satara

Sholapur

Jamnagar

Junagarh

Pune

Valsad

Bharuch

Raipur

Jaunpur

Kachipuram

Nagercoil

Chapra

CuttackBhubaneshwar

Kharaghpur

ChittoorKolar

COIMBATORE

BiaoraUjjain

Dewas

Krishnagiri

Hassan

Medikeri

TirupatiRenigunt

aSMW-3

Karaikkudi

Davangere

Shimoga

Chickmagalore

Tumkur

SrikakulamWarrangal

Karimnagar

Chandrapur

Raipur

Jabalpur

Bhandara

Narsinghpur

Seoni

BalaghatBilaspur

Mandla

Akola

Edalabad

Khandwa

Indore

Vidisha Damoh

Ambala

Karnal

Ludhiana

Rohtak

Patiala

PathankotHoshiarpur

Patna

Varanasi

Arrah Chapra

Meerut

Jhansi

Chattarpur

PannaRewa

TonkBhilwara

Rewari Faridabad

Shivpuri

Guna

Ratlam

Banswara

Godhra

Dhule Buldana

ParbhaniNanded

Nizamabad

Ahmednagar

Osmanabad

Gulbarga

Bidar

BellaryRaichur

Mehboobnagar

Sangareddy

Anantpur

BANGALORE

Pondicherry

PaliJodhpur

JammuUdhampur

Srinagar

Shimla

Sriganganagar

Sikar

Churu

MuzzanagarSaharanpur

Dehradun

Farakka

SiliguriBongaigaon

Shillong

Guwahati

Misa

Tejpur

Itanagar

Kohima

Imphal

AizawalAgartala

Surendranagar

Palanpur

RaigarhRourkela

Jamshedpur

Chittorgarh

Owns more than 25,000 route Km of fiber Connecting 200+ cities in India Lighting up multi lambda capacity

SDH Routes

DWDM Routes

Other Carriers

VSNL National Indian Fibre Network


Some final thoughts

Back in 1994-1995, the thought of multiple 10 gig waves was distant future. The brand new Cantat-3 cable, lit in october 1994 with 5 gbps design capacity doubled the transatlantic

capacity and was supposed to take 17 years to fill! Then came internet! A prediction of cable builds with 1000 times that capacity 5 years later would have been met with ridicule

DWDM and unrealistic growth forecasts contributed to the big telecom crash. Major shift in cable-ownership: Asia owns most of the intra-Asia and Transpacific capacity.

Current capacity enough for big science projects? Commercial applications for end-to end user controlled light paths? A lambda divide on top of a digital divide?

Who would predict it will take 17 years to fill current and currently planned capacity? The next 10 years are bound to bring their share of major surprises. Soliton technology?

Petabit level cable capacity?

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