©2008 Tata Communications Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Confidential & Proprietary GPF 4 – Punta Cana The Internet Growth Sparks Submarine Cables Builds Sylvie

©2008 Tata Communications Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Confidential & Proprietary

GPF 4 – Punta Cana

The Internet Growth Sparks Submarine

Cables BuildsSylvie LaPerriere

Dir. Peering & Commercial Operations

Presentation deck 1 of 2

30 Jan 2009




…or the Josh title

Wet Cable Ahoy!


3CORPORATE

Internet Users in the WorldGrowth between 2000 and 2008

130%

165%

266%

305%

406%

669%

1031%

1177%

0% 200% 400% 600% 800% 1000% 1200% 1400%

North America

Oceania / Australia

Europe

World Growth Avg.

Asia

Latin America / Caribbean

Africa

Middle East

Growth in Percentage

World Internet Users

Key Markets: Asia, Europe, North America Asia users almost equal Europe and North

America combined. Growth > 400% (2000 – 2007)

Emerging markets (high user growth, low penetration)

Middle East Africa Latin America / Caribbean

Source: www.internetworldstats.com


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Growing Importance of India & China in the New World

Source: Morgan Stanley; Tata Communications Research

India27%

Africa24%China

16%

SE Asia12%

LatAm11%

W Asia6%

USA4%

Europe0%

Japan0%

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Africa

Japan

W Asia

USA

LatAm

SE Asia

Europe

India

China

Working Population 2010, millions Addition to Working Pops 2005-2010


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Growing Importance of India & China in the New World

Population Distribution (2007)

Source: Morgan Stanley, Gartner, Tata Comms Research

China20%

India17%

Other EM27%

RoW36%

Mobile Subscriber Adds (2007-10)

China25%

India22%

Other EM43%

RoW10%




Upcoming Submarine Cables in Emerging

Markets Asia

Middle EastAfrica

+ India Infrastructure


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Commencement of New Submarine Cable Projects

• Frankfurt

• Hong Kong• Mumbai

• San Francisco

• New York

• Tokyo

• London Trans-Pacific

TGN Intra-Asia

TIC, i2i & SMW 4

SMW 3 & 4; FEA

SAT3 & SAFE

Intra-Europe

Trans-Atlantic

Trans-Pacific

• Singapore

TGN Eurasia

Cable Name Connecting Ownership

TGN-Intra Asia Singapore Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines

Majority Owner

TGN-Eurasia India to France via Egypt

Majority Owner

Cable Name Connecting Ownership

IMEWE India, Middle East, Egypt, Italy, France

Consortium Member

SEACOM India, Egypt, South Africa

Initial Capacity Owner

New Cables Capacity Purchase


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Intra-Asia Networks


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Asia : TGN-IA Overview

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Day One Landing Points

Expected LatenciesOverview

Length: 6,700 km

# of Fiber Pairs: 4

Initial Capacity: 650Gbps

Design Capacity: 3.84Tbps

Speeds: STM-1/4/16 & 10G

Singapore Tokyo Guam Philippines Hong Kong Vietnam

Sin POP – Jp POP = 63msec RTD Sin POP – HK POP = 33msec RTD HK POP – Jp POP = 45msec RTD Sin POP – Vietnam CLS = 16.3msec RTD Vietnam CLS – Ph CLS = 24msec RTD Ph CLS – Japan POP = 33msec RTD

• City-to-City Connectivity

• Full Range of Service Offerings including:

_ E1, DS-3, STM-1 through STM-16 Unprotected

_ 10G Wavelength Service

_ E-1 though STM-4 Protected

_ Ethernet Services

• Lease & IRU Contracts available


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TGN-IA Complements Existing Cable Systems in Asia

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Other Asian and Pacific projects

VSNL Intra Asia cable (RFS Q3 2008) Two Indonesia-Singapore cables Hong-Kong-Vietnam (Tricom Asia, US$60’) New-Caledonia-Hawaii New-Caledonia-Sydney Australia-Guam

Pipe Networks, 1.92Tb, RFS March 2009 Australia-Hawaii (Telstra) South Asia Japan Cable RFS 2011+


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Transcontinenals….TGN – Eurasia

Tata Communications joint build with SEACom & Telecom Egypt, providing an owned route from Europe to India

• Fibre Length ~ 9,240km

• 2 fiber pairs

• Day One Capacity:

_ 160 Gbps

• Design Capacity:

_ 1.28Tbps

• Design Life ~ 25 years

• Protected transit through Egypt

• Landing Locations:

_ Mumbai – VSB

_ Egypt – transit

_ Marseille – Net Centre

• City-to-City Connectivity in Europe & India

• Full Range of Service Offerings including

_ E-1, DS-3, STM-1 through STM-64

_ Protected and Unprotected

_ Wavelength Services

_ Ethernet Services

• Backhaul is included from Marseille

• Expected RFS: October 2009


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Transcontinentals….IMEWE

Connectivity from Europe to India and other MENA countries

Expected Length ~ 14,000km

Landing Stations

Mumbai Landing - BKC

Marseille Landing – FTCity-to-City Connectivity in Europe & India Full Range of Service Offerings including

E-1, DS-3, STM-1 through STM-64 Protected and Unprotected (via other systems) Ethernet Services

Expected RFS: 1Q2010


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Africa: SEACom Cable System

Length: 13,000km Cable

Locations:

South Africa (Mtunzini)

Mozambique (Maputo)

Madagascar (Toliary),

Tanzania (Dar es Salaam)

Kenya (Mombasa)

India (Mumbai)

Djibouti (Djibouti)

France (Marseille)

Ultimate Capacity: 1,280 Gbps

City-to-City Connectivity onto the Tata Communications Networks in Europe, India, & USA

Full Range of Service Offerings including:

E1, DS-3, STM-1 through STM-64

Lease and IRU Contracts available

Expected RFS: 2H2009

First Cable system connecting E. Africa to S. Africa, India and Europe


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Africa: SAT-3/SAFE

Sister company Neotel is second national operator in South Africa

Joint Neotel-Tata international service

Both International and domestic data service

Neotel owned national long distance and metro network in South Africa provides diversity from existing networks

Johannesburg

Cape Town

Durban

City-to-City Connectivity in Europe, India, and S. Africa

Full Range of Service Offerings including

E-1, DS-3, STM-1,and STM-4

Consortium Restored on SMW-3

Ethernet Services

Backhaul is included

Connectivity Into S. Africa with Tata Communications partner, Neotel


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Africa: the three SAT’s

See: http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/SouthAfrica/index.htm

SAT-1: 1968

SAT-2: 1993

SAT-3: 2001

WASC/SAFE: 2002


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Latin America/ Caribbean

Mercosur countries SAM1 (Telefonica)

New landing of SAM1 Cable in Columbia

SAC/LAN (GlobalCrossing)Globenet Columbus Networks

completed its Caribbean Crossing (east)

MayaArcos

New systems announced for DR, NL Antilles


• 40,000 km transmission network

• 170 points of presence across India

• Covering 300 cities and towns

• High service uptimes through diverse fiber routes and state of the art Ciena core director network

• Dual Pop architecture in 4 metros

• Cost effective DWDM network

• Aggressive expansion across India

• Creation of express network connecting major metros

Tata National India Network


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Tata Metro Area Fiber Network

MAN PoP

MAN Network

• 32+ Metro Fiber Networks

• Direct Connectivity onto the NPL Network

• Full Range of Service Offerings including

_ E-1, DS-3, STM-1 and STM-4


_ Ethernet Services

• Mumbai, Pune, Delhi & NCR, Bangalore, Chennai, and Hyderabad

_ E-1 through STM-64


_ Wavelength Services

_ Ethernet Services

• Presence in Major Carrier Hotels


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Tata WIMAX Network

JamnaJamna

gargar Junaga

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Upcoming Wimax Location

WIMAX Network

• Last mile solution in 110+ Towns

• Directly integrated with the MPLS backbone

_ Reliable

_ Secure

• Service Offerings including

_ Up to 2Mbps

Wimax Location




Cable breaks part III December 19, 2008

Part I : Taiwan Earthquake 26 Dec 2006Part II: Mediterranean Cuts Jan 2008

Part III: Triple Break off Italy Dec 2008


22CORPORATE

TGN-P

HONG KONG

SINGAPORE

MUMBAI

LONDON

TOKYO

KUALALUMPUR

As of December 26th, 2006

MANILLA

Shima

Pusan

Shantou

Fangshan

Chongming

APCN

SMW-4

TIC

PALO ALTO

LOS ANGELES

APCN-2

APCN-2

APCN-2

APCN-2

APCN-2

EAC

EAC

EAC

EAC

EAC

SMW-3

SMW-3

CH-US

CH-US

J-US

J-US

MUMBAI

IN PROGRESS

EXISTING

LEGEND

Part IAS6453 Asia Backbone circa Dec 2006 | Physical Routes Diversity

FLAG FNAL

TransPac: C-US | J-US | TGN-P

Intra-Asia:

FNAL | APCN | APCN-2

| EAC | SMW-3


23CORPORATE

TGN-P

HONG KONG

SINGAPORE

MUMBAI

LONDON

TOKYO

KUALALUMPUR


MANILLA

Shima

Pusan

Shantou

Fangshan

Chongming

APCN

SMW-4

TIC

APCN-2

APCN-2

APCN-2

APCN-2

APCN-2

EAC

EAC

EAC

EAC

EAC

SMW-3

SMW-3

CH-US

CH-US

J-US

J-US

MUMBAI

IN PROGRESS

EXISTING

LEGEND

Part ITaiwan Earthquake December 26, 2006 | Cable Faults

FLAG FNAL

PALO ALTO

LOS ANGELES


24CORPORATE

TGN-P

HONG KONG

SINGAPORE

MUMBAI

LONDON

TOKYO

KUALALUMPUR


MANILLA

Shima

Pusan

Shantou

Fangshan

Chongming

SMW-4

TIC

APCN-2

APCN-2

APCN-2

EAC

EAC

EAC

EAC

EAC

SMW-3

SMW-3

CH-US

J-US

J-US

MUMBAI

IN PROGRESS

EXISTING

LEGEND

Part ITaiwan Earthquake December 26, 2006 | Remaining Cable Routes

PALO ALTO

LOS ANGELES


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Part III: Triple break – SWM4, SMW3, Flag

ONE WAY

ONE WAY

ONE WAY

Middle-East

India Singapore

Japan and USA

Euro

pe

0:00Dec. 20, 2008 Dec. 21, 2008

07:33 GMT - SMW307:28 GMT - SMW4

Dec. 19, 20088:00 16:00 0:00 8:00 16:00 0:00 8:00 16:00 24:00

20:00 GMT - S’pore-India08:06 GMT - FLAG

19:00 GMT - MENA-S’pore

08:00 GMT - S’pore-USA

09:30 GMT - India-USA




The Internet Growth Sparks Submarine

Cables BuildsSylvie LaPerriere

Dir. Peering & Commercial Operations

Presentation deck 2 of 2

30 Jan 2009




Operating Submarine Cables


28CORPORATE

Cable Laying

Specialist Ships – Laying, Repair, ROVs

Several Key Players

Cable Depots Worldwide


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Specialist Equipment

Burial capability,Work to 2500m,Most Cables now trenched offshore where permitted,Pre/Post Lay Inspections


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Cable Faults

JOLT - external aggression, anchor or skid from commercial fishing net but not actually breaking cable.

Sometimes the bend is so sharp fibers will attenuate but not break, other times cable will part elsewhere along the cable.

Planned restoration and repair required.

Shunt Fault – external aggression, friction damage has caused damage to

the cable but not actually breaking the cable. The damage extends to the core power cable causing a leakage to ground; though not always traffic affecting indicative of a larger problem.

Planned Restoration and Repair required.

Cable Break – immediate restoration and repair required

Executed by Cable Administrator and RCO/RLO.


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JOLT


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Severe JOLT


33CORPORATE

Cable Break


34CORPORATE

Cable Break – Recovered Internal Section


35CORPORATE

TGN Break – Net Material


36CORPORATE

Backhaul Systems – Terrestrial and Landing


37CORPORATE

Backhaul Systems – Terrestrial and Landing




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