The Future of Submarine Networks in Latin America

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The Future of Submarine Networks in Latin America

Tim Stronge

TeleGeography

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Bandwidth Demand is Strong Latin American Used International Bandwidth, 2007-12

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End-users Drive Internet Traffic LatAm Broadband Subscribers and Average Access Speeds

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Connectivity Still Focused on U.S.

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Biggest Roads Lead Northward Top 10 International Internet Routes of Latin America

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One Reason to Connect to Miami: Prices

GigE Full Port IP Transit Prices,Q2 2012

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Faster Declines in the U.S. Median 10 GigE IP Transit Price Erosion, 2009-2012

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Transport Prices are Still Costly Median 10 Gbps Wavelength Prices, Q2 2012

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Planned Cables in Latin America

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Global Network Design Trends

Francisco Moussier-Dominguez Ciena October 23, 2012

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Ciena Submarine Network Presence Latin America

Coherent Transport Field Experience SIX LATAM submarine cables upgraded 40G/100G deployed over 700,000 kilometers 2009 FIRST 40G submarine network upgrade 2011 FIRST 100G submarine network upgrade Intelligent Switching L0 & L1 Control Plane protection deployments

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Think of the Global Network… … in a new way …

Global Networks Must Optimized Data Center to Data Center Network Designs

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PoP-to-PoP Network Connectivity Rethinking “segmented” network designs

CLS : Cable Landing Station PoP = Point of Presence

CLS CLS

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Data Center

TLTE XCON TLTE

Metro/Regional Terrestrial Backhaul

SIE SLTE AMP

Cable Landing Station Wet Plant

HEAD END

Terrestrial - Submarine Network Demarcation

Data Center

AMP

PoP to PoP

NID + SLTE

ROADM

NID

Legacy Network Design vs. Tomorrow’s Network Design Terrestrial/Submarine Demarcation Point Removal

AMP = Amplifier NID = Network Interface Device ROADM = Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer SIE = SDH Interconnection Equipment SLTE – Submarine Line Terminating Equipment TLTE = Terrestrial Line Terminating Equipment XCON – Cross-Connect

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Traditional Submarine-Terrestrial Network Handoff Reliable… but there is a better way

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Next Generation Submarine-Terrestrial Network Handoff SLTE physically relocated directly into the PoP (ex. data center)

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PoP-to-PoP Global Network Design Trends Summary

Designing PoP-to-PoP global networks greatly simplifies resultant designs

Cable Landing Station network designs evolution continues to evolve

Demarcation point between terrestrial and submarine networks is blurring

Significant reductions in cost, space, power, and latency is achievable

Remove all unnecessary optical-electrical-optical stages, where possible