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Evolution of the Middle Eastern and North African subsea cable capacity

 

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E-age 2013Tunis, TunisiaDecember 12-13th 2013

Yves PoppeDirector Bus. Dev. & Strategy

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Interconnecting Arab States National R&E Networks

• Regional connectivity of Arab NREN’s is essential to future growth • An optimal and most cost efficient topology rests on two or three regional hubs congruent with the location of the most/best populated cable landing stations and facilities . • Fujairah, Alexandria and Jeddah are the main hub locations to consider.

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Recent wave of build-out in Mediterranean and Middle-East is over. Optimal

network topologies have to be planned accordingly.

New Submarine cables entering service 2011-2014

Source: Telegeography

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Incremental lit capacity per region

Gradual transition from 10 to 100Gbps technology could multiply the amount of lit capacity to maybe five times the 2012 levels at the end of the 2013-2018 period without many major new cable builds.

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Cable status as of december 2013

• SMW-4, operational since 2005, had 3.59TBps lit at the end of 2012; upgrades have increased potential capacity to 6.48Tbps

• IMEWE in service since december 2010 had 3.66Tbps lit capacity at the end of 2012 and potential capacity of 9.6Tbps.

• TGN-EA Mumbai – Marseille in service since end 2011. 480gbps lit capacity, 8Tbps potential capacity.

• TGN-Gulf in service since february 2012; lit capacity of 760gbps, potential capacity of 2.56Tbps

• GBI in service since february 2012; 1Tbps lit capacity, potential capacity of 5 Tbps.

• FLAG FALCON operational since 2006 now has 520 gbps lit capacity and 6Tbps potential capacity.

• EIG : Egypt part completed in january 2012, 700gbps lit capacity, 2.88Tbps potential capacity

• MENA: RFS was sheduled for Q4 2012 but still waiting for completion of Egypt crossing. Initial lit capacity 160gbps, potential capacity of 4.8Tbps

• RCN and JADI: still delayed due to Syria conflict.• EPEG: RFS december 2012. 540gbps lit capacity, 3.2Tbps potential capacity

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Cable status as of december 2013

• Loukkos: Morocco-Spain, RFS april 2012. Lit capacity of 80gbps, potential capacity of 1.28Tbps.

• Jonah: Israel-Italy: RFS January 2012. Potential capacity 12.8Tbps. Lit capacity not announced

• Silphium: Libya-Greece: RFS january 2013. 70gbps lit capacity, 1.2Tbps potential capacity.

• Planned for 2014 and 2015• Didon: Tunisia – Italy: announced in May 2013 by Orange Tunisie and

Tunisia. Anticipated RFS may 2014. Has 32Tbps potential capacity.• Alasia: Syria – Cyprus. Planned RFS Q1 2014.

Potential capacity of 25.6 Tbps. Will connect to Alexandros cable• Europa: Lebanon- Cyprus, Planned RFS Q2 2015. Will connect to

Alexandros and IMEWE. Potential capacity of 25.6Tbps.• Algeria – Spain : Algerie Telecom. RFS early 2014? Capacity?

• To watch in the coming years: RCN, Seamewe-5, AAE-1, BBG, MEETS

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Newest Mediterranean cables

Maps: Telegeography

DIDON

SILPHIUM

JONAH

EUROPA

ALASIA

LOUKKOS

ALGERIA-SPAIN

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EIG

SMW-4

MENAIMEWE

TGN EA/SEACOM

Maps: Telegeography

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GBI

TGN-Gulf

FALCON

Maps: Telegeography

OMRAN

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Telecommunications arteries converging on Fujairah

FALCON

EIG

TGN GULF

TGN EA

RCN - JADI

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Gulf Light in Fujairah

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…….and the Etisalat Fujairah Smarthub

Smarthub News, November 2013 issue

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Taj-Gloriad lambda R&E network

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ANA-100 at the Terena conference in june 2013

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Thank You

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The time has come to make Arab States NREN connectivity a reality