Subsea Cables & Internet Infrastructure

 IEX is a consortium consisting of Jio Reliance and China Mobile with other, undisclosed member as well. It connects Mumbai to Marseille, but makes the mistake of traversing the Red Sea and Egypt to reach the Mediterranean. The path makes it quite clear that it will be low latency, but traverses within spitting distance of other high capacity transcontinental cables. The cable lands in Oman, Djibouti, Saudia Arabia, and Egypt as well as France, Greece, and Italy. A branch to Marseille was added to the project after this map was published. Retelit lands the cable at Savona near Genoa. Both Genoa and Milano are on-net. The cable uses spatial division multiplexing to achieve 13 fibre pairs. The subsea network is likely to exceed a quarter of a petabit in aggregate transmission capacity. 

Lisbon/Lagos is 77 ms RTD. My best estimate to date.  Shortest latency of all subsea cables between Lisbon and South Africa: 130 ms RTD. Also the most reliable and least expensive. Equiano lands not just in Portugal, Nigeria, and South Africa, but also Togo and Namibia. Any sufficiently large ISP in those four African countries should be on the system. Feel free to ping me for a quote. ☺ Deepest buried African subsea cable: averages 2 meters.

Landing late Monday in Lisbon. Departing Friday. Attending Atlantic Convergence at the Pátio da Galé in the City Centre.  Contact Details: Mobile 00-36-70-6055144. Work Email: roderick.beck@networksourcing.net. Also @roderickbeck on Telegram. And finally, via IM at https://www.linkedin.com/in/roderick-beck-94868948/.   Look forward to conversations and deal making.  Hot topics:  1. A half terabit of Equiano capacity available with LS1, OADC, and CT1 as the hand off data centres.  2. Inexpensive Lagos metro connectivity between OADC, MDXI, and Rack Centre.  3. Route Protected 100Gs CT1/JB2 at $8250 MRC. One year contract. 

 Layer 1 100G OTN wavelength.  A point: Marseille Interxion 1, 2 or 3. Z point: SG1, SG3. Term: 3 Years. Subsea Cable: AAE1.  Latency: Non-express path.  NRC: $0. Customer orders cross connects. 

The six fibre pair APG subsea cable went live October 28, 2016 with initial design capacity of 54.8 Tbps using standard high performance coherent optics. NEC was the system supplier. Consortium members include China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile, Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan PTT), Telekom Malaysia, Korea Telecom (PTT), NTT Communications, Facebook, and a few others. Because APG was designed as a 100G backbone, I believe the cable's ultimate capacity will be at least 75 Tbps.  APG's main trunk connects Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand to Toyo with branching units to reach Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, and South Korea. The Singapore/Japan latency is low: 64 ms RTD. About a half millisecond higher than ASE, which is the lowest latency cable for that route. It is hence a good complement to ASE as a back up path for those placing a premium on speed. The cable is also good value. A 10G Singapore to Tokyo (SG1/TY2) is only $3,250 per month on a two year term.  The Vietnam bran

Singapore/Tokyo; APG; 64 ms RTD; $1050 MRC. Milano/Thessaloniki; 100G; Ionian cable; 3 Years; 6K€ MRC; Moscow/Frankfurt; 100G; 1 Year; 4,750€ MRC; 2 Years.  Frankfurt/Tokyo; 100G; Overland; $38K MRC; 3 Years.  Singapore/Tokyo; 10G; APG Cable; $3,200 MRC; 65 ms RTD.  Sao Paulo/NY4; 100G; $8,500 MRC; 3 Years; 108 ms RTD.  HK/Singapore; 100G; $10,250 MRC; 1 Year Only.  London/Paris; 1 fibre pair; $1.7 million 15 Year IRU; new cable RFS 2025.  Lisbon/Lagos; 100G; Equiano; $20K MRC; 3 Years.  Tokyo/Seattle; 100G; Faster; $17,500 MRC; 3 Years.  Mumbai Equinix/Singapore Equinix; 100G; $20K MRC; 2 Year.  Dallas Equinix/Ashburn Equinix; 100G; $2200 MRC; 3 Years.  NY4/Ashburn Equinix; 100G; $1400 MRC; 3 Years.  LA Coresite 2/Dallas Equinix; 100G; $2250 MRC; 3 Years. 

This interesting project will connect Miami, Florida via a West Florida landing to carrier neutral sites in Panama, Columbia, and Ecuador. Telconet, an Ecuador infrastructure operator is the owner. It is highly unusual for a regional South American network operator to build a cable to the US. It takes a lot of money. There is inevitably more FCC, State Department, and NSA scrutiny.  We know relatively little regarding the project. ASN will construct and deploy the 4500 kilometer cable. The technology is spatial division multiplexing implying at least 12 fibre pairs.  According to a Telconet press release earlier today, all the major subsea and terrestrial segments have been finished. There are three branching units for future expansion: one for Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. It has become customary to deploy branching units to countries even in the absence of commercial landing agreements or partners. My guess is that the Telxius cable landing on Mexico's East Coast dampened im