Transcript Evolution of the Middle Eastern subsea cable capacity

Evolution of the Middle Eastern and
North African subsea cable capacity
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E-age 2013
Tunis, Tunisia
December 12-13th 2013
Yves Poppe
Director Bus. Dev. & Strategy
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Interconnecting Arab States National R&E Networks
• Regional connectivity of Arab NREN’s is essential to future growth
• An optimal and most cost efficient topology rests on two or three regional
hubs congruent with the location of the most/best populated cable landing
stations and facilities .
• Fujairah, Alexandria and Jeddah are the main hub locations to consider.
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CORPORATE
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New Submarine cables entering service 2011-2014
Recent wave of build-out in Mediterranean and Middle-East is over.
Optimal network topologies have to be planned accordingly.
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Source: Telegeography
Incremental lit capacity per region
Gradual transition from 10 to 100Gbps technology could multiply the
amount of lit capacity to maybe five times the 2012 levels at the end
of the 2013-2018 period without many major new cable builds.
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Cable status as of december 2013
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SMW-4, operational since 2005, had 3.59TBps lit at the end of 2012;
upgrades have increased potential capacity to 6.48Tbps
IMEWE in service since december 2010 had 3.66Tbps lit capacity at the end
of 2012 and potential capacity of 9.6Tbps.
TGN-EA Mumbai – Marseille in service since end 2011. 480gbps lit capacity,
8Tbps potential capacity.
TGN-Gulf in service since february 2012; lit capacity of 760gbps, potential
capacity of 2.56Tbps
GBI in service since february 2012; 1Tbps lit capacity, potential capacity of 5
Tbps.
FLAG FALCON operational since 2006 now has 520 gbps lit capacity and
6Tbps potential capacity.
EIG : Egypt part completed in january 2012, 700gbps lit capacity, 2.88Tbps
potential capacity
MENA: RFS was sheduled for Q4 2012 but still waiting for completion of
Egypt crossing. Initial lit capacity 160gbps, potential capacity of 4.8Tbps
RCN and JADI: still delayed due to Syria conflict.
EPEG: RFS december 2012. 540gbps lit capacity, 3.2Tbps potential capacity
Cable status as of december 2013
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Loukkos: Morocco-Spain, RFS april 2012. Lit capacity of 80gbps, potential
capacity of 1.28Tbps.
Jonah: Israel-Italy: RFS January 2012. Potential capacity 12.8Tbps. Lit
capacity not announced
Silphium: Libya-Greece: RFS january 2013. 70gbps lit capacity, 1.2Tbps
potential capacity.
Planned for 2014 and 2015
• Didon: Tunisia – Italy: announced in May 2013 by Orange Tunisie and
Tunisia. Anticipated RFS may 2014. Has 32Tbps potential capacity.
• Alasia: Syria – Cyprus. Planned RFS Q1 2014.
Potential capacity of 25.6 Tbps. Will connect to Alexandros cable
• Europa: Lebanon- Cyprus, Planned RFS Q2 2015. Will connect to
Alexandros and IMEWE. Potential capacity of 25.6Tbps.
• Algeria – Spain : Algerie Telecom. RFS early 2014? Capacity?
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To watch in the coming years: RCN, Seamewe-5, AAE-1, BBG, MEETS
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Newest Mediterranean cables
ALASIA
DIDON
EUROPA
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SILPHIUM
LOUKKOS
ALGERIA-SPAIN
JONAH
Maps: Telegeography
SMW-4
EIG
TGN EA/SEACOM
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MENA
IMEWE
Maps: Telegeography
GBI
FALCON
OMRAN
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TGN-Gulf
Maps: Telegeography
Telecommunications arteries converging on Fujairah
RCN - JADI
EIG
FALCON
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TGN GULF
TGN EA
Gulf Light in Fujairah
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…….and the Etisalat Fujairah Smarthub
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Smarthub News, November 2013 issue
Taj-Gloriad lambda R&E network
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ANA-100 at the Terena conference in june 2013
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Thank You
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The time has come to make
Arab States NREN connectivity
a reality