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Biznet (PT Supra Primatama Nusantara) 2008-10-05 04:03:32 Biznet was founded 8 years ago. It has focused initially on providing Internet access for corporates and enterprises, mainly at central business districts in Jakarta. Meanwhile, Biznet offers a wide range of other networking services. Looking at several aspects, it seems that this company belongs to the bests in the business, even though it is likely run as a "Kusma" family-business ??,
Peering Wars 2008-10-03 19:05:55 This was actually a quite old story issued by Renesys several months ago and it was also presented at NANOG 43 (June 2008). The story took a case of network-depeering and the actors were Cogent and Telia. At that time, both Cogent and Telia are considered as "near" Tier-1 providers. Why "near"?
Cogent gets (got?) transit from NTT (formerly Verio) to reach AOL (ATDN?).Telia appe
Palapa Ring (7) 2008-11-03 15:59:29 *Update*
According to some local news at the end of October, Powertek Utama Internusa has indeed withdrawn its membership from the consortium. This is based on some statements quoted from the consortium spokesperson Rakhmat Junaedi. But what a bit strange is that the company (Powertek) has stated that "it should not be finalized yet" !!
"PT Powertek Utama Internusa akhirnya memutusk
Intra-Asia Cables (2) 2008-10-22 03:39:43 This shall be a try to give different looks for submarine fiber optic cables in Asia
. It seems very crowded, in particular in the East Asia region and that around Singapore :-D
Submarine Optical Cables in Asia - 1 (Source/Courtesy Tata/LirneASIA/D. Goswami)
Submarine Optical Cables in Asia - 2 (Source/Courtesy Telegeography)
Submarine Optical Cables in Asia - 3 (Source/Courtesy Tata)
IAC =
Main One 2008-10-21 03:25:40 MAIN One is a private cable system currently under construction; owned by Main Street Technologies: "led by Ms. Funke Opeke, who worked as an executive at Verizon, as the chief technology officer at MTN, and as chief operating officer of Nitel from late-2006 to early-2007".
Branched system from Portugal to AngolaContractors/Suppliers : Tyco; contract awarded on April 2008CAPEX: USD 300 m
EASSy 2008-10-21 02:39:57 East African Submarine cable System (EASSy) was proposed by a consortium of regional (east African) operators.
CAPEX : USD 265 mn; Financing from Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) including World Bank/IFC, EIB, ADB, AFD, KfWRfS: 2009Contractors: ASNLength: approx. 10,000 km
Capacity: 1.4 Tbps design (after contract revisions); lit ?
Linking eight countries from Sudan to South Africa, via
TEAMS 2008-10-21 01:45:32 TEAMS (The East African Marine System) is a point-to-point system connecting Mombasa, Kenya and Fujairah, UAE. It was initially proposed by Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) in 2006.
Supply contract awarded to ASN in October, 2007CAPEX : USD 82 mnRevised ownership, as of 2008: Gov’t. of Kenya (20%); UAE incumbent Etisalat (15%); Earmark for “Private Telecommunications Operators” (65%
Intra-Asia Cables 2008-10-19 19:36:49 Some times ago, I'd tried to find out more about Pacnet's EAC-C2C cables. It was not easy since both EAC and C2C are mature systems that operated since more than 6 years ago and that the ownership was changed several times. I found an interresting talk given by Yves Poppe at APAN meeting oneday in 2006: i.e. he addressed 3 "east Asia
n telecommunication aortas" :
EAC (East Asia Crossing)
EUMEDCONNECT 2008-10-18 18:02:29 EC has also pioneered investment to connect mediterranean countries (North Africa and Middle East) to support research and education networking between them internally and between them and Europe as well : the EUMEDCONNECT. The role of the governments and/or mediterranean NRENs to support this project and their national networks has contributed to the success of the initiative: user community
TEIN2 2008-10-17 17:48:18 TEIN stands for Trans-Eurasia Information Network. It was "one of the new initiatives endorsed by ASEM III (October 2000, Seoul, Korea) to connect research networks between Asia and Europe by linking EU's GEANT, the pan-European gigabit research network, with Asia's research networks such as the APII Testbeds in order to promote information exchanges in research and development and education
Exploring BiZNET 2008-11-10 19:06:20 BGP could (sometimes) be very interesting! Agree ? Disagree ? :-D Well, okay, at least for some people, communities (Opisboy-ers, heh ?? :-D )
I'm currently not a BGP expert, but it's quite fun to to see what we can do with it. So here I just want to share a case I've dealed with yesterday : BiZNET (yes, PT. Supra ...). If you do expertise in BGP, please advise ! :-D
It seems that BiZNET buys Read more:Exploring
Asia America Gateway AAG (3) 2008-11-09 16:43:12 Finally, AAG has a website! You may check !
But don't expect too much for now :-D It's almost similar to the TPE website, which is mainly intended for the members of the consortium. There is also no NEW information either. The website is maintained by PLDT and hosted at INFOCOM Technologies (Philippines)."The birth of the AAG will revolutionize Read more:America
, Asia
, Gateway
India's Cables : Another View 2008-11-09 07:01:18 The table and picture below show another view of cables coming to/from India
. It seems that the Indian government has set three locations for cable landing stations i.e. Mumbai, Cochin, Chennai.
Source/Courtesy Bharti (2005/2006?)
Malaysia's International Bandwidth 2008-11-09 06:54:10 Couple days ago Telegeography has reported that "TM (Telekom Malaysia
Sdn. Bhd.) set to increase backbone internet capacity". By quoting COO of TM Global (a subsidiary of TM) Rozaimy Rahman, it was said that till the end of this year TM will have 100 Gbps capacity. This will further be increased by 30% to 130 Gbps in 2009 to accomodate demand for online services.
TM is surely not the on Read more:Bandwidth
, International
Indonesian ISPs - ASN 2008-11-09 04:41:17 Indonesia has currently 200+ licensed ISPs. Several times ago I was trying to get AS Numbers (Autonomous System Number) for some of them. But I had to use a rather "hard" way :-D (e.g. one-by-one).
Is there any "easy" way to grab ASNs for a group of ISPs (say those whose "Country=ID")??
Moratel : AS 23947 | CEPATNET-AS-ID | 20031103 | 202.43.190.0/23Biznet : AS 17451 Read more:Indonesian
India : International Telecom Access 2008-11-09 01:19:11 With regard to international telecommunication (actually cable :-D ) businesses, India
has several players / facilities (as of March 2008):
International
Long Distance Operators : 14Cable Landing Stations LS : 6Cable Systems : 9Bandwidth / Capacity :
Total Designed Capacity : 18.60 TbpsTotal Lit Capacity : 587.50 Gbps (3% of design capacity)Total Protected Capacity available : 100 Gbps (17% of Read more:Access
, Telecom
Lambda Providers 2008-11-09 00:17:44 In early 2006, at APAN meeting, Yves Poppe has pointed three (early) transoceanic lambda providers (Yes, it's lambda, not just sub-wavelength capacity): Global Crossing, Level 3 and Tyco (now Tata). Currently, it shall be more than three of course. The interesting point is that demands for lambda services were initially coming from Research and Education (R&E) networking sector - in early 2000 Read more:Lambda
India : Telecom Growth 2008-11-09 00:12:46 Well, this post is actually more to "Tower" rather than "Telecom
" :-D
According to TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
):
1991- Teledensity less than 1%1991- Telecom sector opened to private operator to provide mobile2003- Calling party pay regime was implemented2004- The growth of mobile sector started to pick upGovernment announced in May 2006 to provide 250 Million Read more:Growth
Thailand - Some (ICT) Facts 2008-11-08 21:58:30 As of end 2007, Thailand
has more than 50 mn mobile subscribers (80+% teledensity - wow!) and 12+ mn Internet users.
In line with Internet users, the number of broadband subscribers was growing ; this means greater required bandwidthLiberalization of IGW (International GateWay) in 2006; there are 6 (six) international gateway operators in Thailand.After liberalization of international gateways,
Jasa Marga's Fiber Optic Link (JSMR) 2008-11-08 16:25:42 PT. Jasa Marga (JSMR) has begun developing their own fiber optic infrastructure; their first intercity optical cable links Bandung and Jakarta and it's actually ready for service since the end of 2007. Almost similar to PLN and PGN, it is initially intended to fulfill their internal needs e.g. to connect their offices, automate data collections, surveillance etc. But the cable capacity would Read more:Fiber
, Optic
Thanks For Visiting ! 2008-12-31 07:10:41 I'm sorry for a quite long inactivity :-D
Several drafts have actually been prepared, but unfortunately due to "many things around me in the last times" I didn't have chances to release any of them. This post shall be my last post for year 2008.
Happy new year for all of you. Thanks
for visiting my blog!
Excelcomindo's New Cable : SJJK 2008-11-11 01:19:33 I don't have so much information about this issue except a few things below. If I look at the statistics of my blog, I know that some of you might eventually have more information than I :-D . So why don't you share some "public domain" information ? (okay, the magic word - please!)
Owner : XL (Excelcomindo Pratama)Main contractor/supplier : Alcatel Lucent Submarine
Subcontractors : EGS Read more:Cable
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