New World Network Transit IP Services

IP Solutions Through Submarine Cables CANTO 20th June 2006

Presented by Peter D Collins, CTO & EVP Operations

Wholesale Carrier’s Carrier providing broadband transmission capacity and Transit IP services to Teleco’s, ISP’s CableTV Ops. for voice, data and video applications

A wholly owned subsidiary of Columbus Communications Inc, a privately held Barbados-based company.

Majority owner of the Americas Region Caribbean Optical-ring System ARCOS-1 Cable Network

Existing connectivity and services to 18 countries…and growing

ARCOS The only undersea fiber-optic cable network ring connecting the U.S., Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean

Well established Commercial Partnerships in the Region

About New World Network

Market drivers - increasing demand for IP

After the Dot.Com collapse in 2001, the Telecom Industry is gradually recovering and today represents an average 3% of the Global GDP

Connectivity and value added services (mostly IP based), represent the largest market segment growth followed by mobile services, and finally fixed line POTS.

The CALA region represents 10% of the world market

Worldwide there are more than 300 million Internet users, CALA represents only 16 million, low penetration provides opportunity

DSL network deployment is substantial with double the number of lines each year

Mobile telephony continues with strong growth but Mobile data services are under-developed in the region

Growth in regional TV Cable network operators investing in broadband infrastructure, provides service triple play of video, voice and internet

Future Wireless Broadband network deployment provides yet another potential demand for IP Transit.

The corporate market is the fastest growing segment for Internet and Data applications, replacing traditional Leased Line Service.

In our region Voice Over IP (VoIP) already represents 15-20% of the total international minutes market

For historical reasons Internet and the World Wide Web are USA Centric with regional demand for IP connectivity, north bound to the USA.

In our region e-commerce transactions have grown from $500M in the year 2000 to $3,500M in 2004

Market drivers - increasing demand for IP

New World Network - Goal

The Company is committed to the expansion of its high quality Transit IP network and service in continuing to meet the significant growth in customer demand.

Our ‘Goal’ it to be a premiere provider of wholesale IP capacity to the region

IP Network Development Timeline

Mar, 2006

• Second major IP core network upgrade completed

• Multiple 10GigE core network

• E1 toSTM-16 customer interfaces, including GigE.

Sept, 2005

• Columbus acquisition of NWN completed

• FTN CAPEX approved and implemented (RFS Jan 06)

• Design second major IP network core upgrade. CAPEX approved

Aug, 2002

• NWN establish inaugural IP network operation

• GigE-IP core network

• Juniper E-Series platform

• E1 to STM1 customer interfaces

Sept, 2003

• First IP network core upgrade completed

• Multiple GigE IP core network

• Higher capacity Juniper E-Series platform

• Multiple GigE new STM4 customer interfaces

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

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Mbps InMbps Out

NWN IP Traffic Growth 3 Year Profile

June 2003 – June 2006

IP Network

IP Network Deployed 2005

Customer

NAP of the AmericasSprint GigE

ARCOS-1Cable Network

OC-192

North Miami Beach POP

InternapGigE

MCIOC48Sprint +ATT

OC48

OC-192

OC-192

NWN BOCA POP

M320’s

M320’s

Multi-Tier1 OC48’s, Peering

M320’s

IP Network Deployed 2Q2006IP Network Development 3Q2006

35km

IP Network Points of Presence

Dual Juniper M320 Core Routers– Fully redundant DC power plants

– 4 independent power supplies per chassis

– Dual route processors per chassis

– Dual OC-192 core connections to other POPs

– Diverse transmission paths between POPs

– 10GigE core within each POP

– STM-4 to STM-16 customer connections available at each POP

– GigE customer connections available at each POP

– Optional 1+1 card protection available for SDH-based and GigE connections

IP Network Points of Presence

Juniper E-Series Edge Routers

– Fully redundant DC power plants

– 2 independent power supplies per chassis

– Dual route processors per chassis

– Multiple GigE uplinks into core

– Load-balancing and failover into core

– E1 to STM-1 customer connections available

– 1+1 card protection available for SDH-based connections

IP Network Points of Presence

Upstream Connectivity– Multiple Tier 1 connectivity at each POP

– Diverse upstream connectivity provides highly

redundant services to customers

– OC-48 base interface to upstream providers*

– Traffic balanced over major tier 1 backbones

– Intelligent traffic management through

advanced OSS systems**

* Migration to OC-192 Upstream connection as required

** Additional functionality installed 3Q2006

POP Hardware Line-up

Juniper M320 & ERX14XX Series Routers(North Miami Beach POP)Juniper M320 & ERX14XX Series Routers(North Miami Beach POP)

Undersea Cable IP Service Protection

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Miami

Colombia

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SDH - SNCP Switch Network

IP service is ring protected using Sub Network Connection Protection (SNCP). In the event of signal failure caused by loss on transmission on the active circuit path, protection switching automatically restores service <50ms.

(2) RX SignalPath Switch

(1) Signal Splitter

Miami

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IP Router Switching

Customer IP service protected trough traffic load balancing across two capacity pipes A&B.In the event of failure caused by transmission interruption on one circuit path, traffic is automatically loaded (switched) 100%on to alternate pipe.

X50% 100%

A B

A B

Undersea Cable IP Service ProtectionAdditional Diversity Options

Miami POP

50%0%

At the IP layer several redundancy options may be considered to enhance service protection.

X50% 100%

A B

A B

BOCA POP

Customer POP A Customer POP B

End User

USA UpstreamUSA Upstream

In this example Customer IP traffic is again protected with load balancing across two capacity pipes A&B.

Further router redundancy may also be provided with each pipe terminating in a separate physical location in NWN & Customers network.

Solution provides both route and terminal POP diversity

Undersea Cable IP Service Delivery Efficient delivery of High Capacity

Delivering Tiered Service over High Capacity Interface

STM-4, STM16 (SDH) Undersea Cable network efficiency OK, Increments of STM-1,

STM-4c, STM-16c (SDH) Undersea Cable network efficiency may be low. Whole bandwidth must be provisioned regardless of customer committed rate.

GigE (GFP) Undersea efficiency remains high whilst providing customer flexible high capacity interface. Granular use of network capacity. Increments of STM-1 up to 7 STM-1’s providing 1Gbps bandwidth.

IP Service

IP Transit Service

Quality of service

One of the best Service Level Agreements in the region

100% network availability

Less than .03 % packet loss

50ms average or less latency

Intelligent Routing

Traffic from the NWN is directly routed to all major IP backbones using an overlay network of Tier-1 providers and regional peering

Flexible billing solutions

NWN IP Transit Service is offered as full port, tiered or burstable connection, to meet the need of your bandwidth demand and business model

Scalable connections

Bandwidth available from E1 to Gigabit speeds

Built-in redundancy

Connection to major IP backbones through our state-of-the-art submarine broadband fiber optic ring network, protected at the SDH layer using SNCP path protection. Switching < 50ms.

Network Management

NWN IP Transit provides one point of contact at NWN’s Bilingual Network Operations Center (“NOC”) providing high network availability and performance Monitored and maintained 24X7

Flexible Scalable Service & Billing

Full Port : Provides customer maximum IP bandwidth according to port interface i.e. E1 ~1.9Mbps DS3 ~ 43Mbps, STM-1 ~ 150Mbps.

Burst Rate : IP bandwidth provided over a given interface e.g. STM-1 with minimum commitment bandwidth 30Mbps. Customer is able burst beyond commitment, for example 60Mbps allowing customer to instantly support ad-hoc demand for additional bandwidth.

Tiered Rate: IP bandwidth provided over a given larger bandwidth interface i.e. STM4 – GigE, with fractional amount of capacity activated. NWN and Customer can quickly add additional capacity with minimum additional network change. The perfect solution for fast expanding network demands.

IP Service – Additional Features

Domain Name Services

– Primary and secondary DNS services available as options based on hardened, secure, and redundant DNS delivery platform

– Multiple forward and reverse lookup zones, capable of hosting large allocations of IP address space

– Quick response and fulfillment of DNS updates, handled by NWN’s Network Operations Center, 24x7x365

Monitoring and Management Services

– SNMP Trap Delivery Service

SNMP trap-based alarm delivery from NWN’s network management systems to customer network management systems

Custom delivery and/or filtering of standard SNMP traps for particular customer services

IP Services – Additional Features

Security Services

– Denial of Service (DOS) Attack Mitigation

NWN supports the use of the “black-hole” community transmitted through BGP

Allows customers to selectively “black-hole” DOS-based traffic before reaching their networks

– Network Ingress Filtering

NWN is systematically configuring it’s IP core to ensure RFC 2827 compliance

Protects against spoofed-address attacks, that may result in security incidents or Denial of Service attacks

Conclusions

The Caribbean Market, has experienced a dramatic growth in demand for Internet and Data services and subsequent demand for international broadband connectivity.

Internet in the Caribbean Market will continue to require US based IP Transit connectivity as most of the access for content, portals and websites are located in the USA

New World Network is making the necessary multi-million dollar investment in expanding its core IP network enabling the company to continue to meeting Customer demand .

 

 

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