Nextgen Generation Connectivity For The North West

SEAAOC August 2014

• Nextgen Group Overview

• Benefits of high capacity communications to remote

locations

• Case study – Nextgen’s North West Cable System : delivering

capital city quality connectivity to remote facilities offshore

Contents

Strengthening cloud portfolio with multiple petabytes of storage under management and 99% availability on all virtual infrastructure

Shareholders include Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) and Leighton Holdings • OTPP investment - $619.5m (2013) - 70% ownership • Leighton Holdings ( ASX Top 30) – 30% ownership

Strong heritage in high speed networking founded on building and managing approximately 20,000km’s of national fibre network; Australia’s second largest national fibre network

Operate 9 data centres with 25,000sqm & 32MW capacity. Nextgen employ market leading Bladeroom technology

Who are the Nextgen Group

The Nextgen Network

• 19,000 km of fibre & 9 Data Centres

• Multiple diverse paths plus options for global connectivity

via international carriers from Perth or Sydney

• Most people now conduct their daily lives on line

• Fast reliable on line access now essential not optional

• Reliable and uncapped communications services - workforce retention - workforce health and safety and well being (staying in touch) .

• Business Applications : remote operations, remote control, video surveillance, video conferencing, real time video fault finding, crisis management, risk mitigation, operational health and safety……….

Who would have predicted the numerous applications made possible by the “on line and always connected environment” over the last few years ………..possibilities ??

Reliable & Fast Comms ……Enabling Productivity and Cost Benefit Today and Tomorrow

Its About Fibre

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3520GB/S

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23000GB/S Bits per second • Capacity on a fibre pair has increased significantly • 40G switches now common place in Data Centres • 10G is the new “vanilla”

Source Alcatel-Lucent

Submarine Networks

• In 1872, Australia was linked by cable to Bombay via Singapore and China and in 1876, the cable linked the British Empire from London to New Zealand.

• There many amplified submarine cables in operation today • Long haul amplified cables are an established technology

Unrepeatered connectivity

Trans-oceanic or Regional connectivity

Offshore connectivity

Submarine Cable Configurations

• Connectivity to Oil and Gas Assets – no system ‘power feeding’ required from Asset

Case Study – Nextgen’s The North West Cable System

• 2000 km Darwin to Port Hedland

• Approximately 22 repeaters

• Branching units need to be installed to allow connection to facilities

• DC power feed to power the undersea repeaters

• Hi capacity transmission 40G DWDM up to 80 wavelengths upgradeable to 100G.

• Fully diverse services providing high reliability

North West Cable System

Passive Cable

Universal Joint CTA

Amplified Cable : 2000 V DC

Darwin Cable Landing Station

• Spur Cables approx 5 - 30 km long and have no power or amplifiers

• Connect to platform via stub cable and universal joint connected to riser.

• Connect to Platform via subsea connectional terminal and use wet-mate connectors to connect to Customer’s UTH via jumper cable

• Fully independent diverse service connections for high reliability

Customer Connection Cables

Connecting To the North West Cable System

• FORJ

• Wet Mate Connectors

• CTA

Some Challenges for FLNG

• Permitting in place

• Marine survey underway (she sailed from Darwin yesterday )

• Design locked down mid November 2014

• Cable manufacture schedule for 2015

• Cable Install late 2015/early 2016

• In service Q3/Q4 2016

Progress with the Project to date

Thankyou