back to basics in cross-sector infrastructure sharing

Back to basics in cross-sector

infrastructure sharing

ESCAP Consultation

United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok

October 14, 2014

Abu Saeed Khan (abu@lirneasia.net)

Senior Policy Fellow

LIRNEasia

Ten Key Attributes for Cloud Readiness

Source: Bernie Trudel, Chairman, Asia Cloud Computing Association.

Cloud Readiness Index 2014Source: Asia Cloud Computing Association

Infrastructure 40%

Regulation 60%

Data Center Risk Index 2013: Cushman &

Wakefield, hurleypalmerflatt and Source8

Composition of DCR Index

It’s all about

infrastructure.

Infrastructure is all about right-of-way

• Yesterday:

– Telegraph lines aerially passed along the train tracks and

highways

– High Frequency radio links required no seamless ROW

• Today:

– Securing orbital slots remains critical for satellites

– Spectrum is the ROW for microwave transmission

– Highways are favorite ROW for optical fiber transmission

• Optical fiber has democratized infrastructure

– Undersea transmission, railway signaling and SCADA.

• Submarine cables always need permission to enter national

maritime boundary.

Infrastructure was unified in 1901

Infrastructure is segregated today

ESCAP-ITU terrestrial map in progress

Hybrid network of TTK:

World’s largest Rail + Road + Sea

Terrestrial length: >76,000 km. Capacity: >1.6 Tbps

Peering: PLIX (Warsaw), NIX.CZ (Prague), Espanix (Madrid),

MIX (Milan), France-IX (Paris), LINX (London), DE-CIX

(Frankfurt), AMS-IX (Amsterdam)

India: Powertel network

• OPGW (Optical Ground

Wire) of 25,000 km.

Adding 33,000 km.

• Overhead. Immune to:

fiber cuts, sabotage,

vandalism.

• Coverage over 200

cities and towns.

• Reliability: 99.99% SLA

• Multiple self resilient

rings of complete

redundancy in

backbone as well as

intra-city access

networks.

Powertel Sans Frontières

India buys IP transit from Bangladesh

From bandwidth to transit

BSNL should be using Powertel network

• National Long

Distance

• (NLD) license.

• ISP Category ‘A’

license

• to provide internet.

• IP-I To provide

Telecom

• Infrastructure

Exploiting ROW of Highway, Railway and Power transmission

Connecting 32 Eurasian countries with EU through 141,000 km of standardized roadways.