Back to basics in cross-sector infrastructure sharing ESCAP Consultation United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok October 14, 2014 Abu Saeed Khan (abu@lirneasia.net) Senior Policy Fellow LIRNEasia
Ten Key Attributes for Cloud Readiness Source: Bernie Trudel, Chairman, Asia Cloud Computing Association.
Cloud Readiness Index 2014 Source: Asia Cloud Computing Association Infrastructure 40% Regulation 60%
Data Center Risk Index 2013: Cushman & Wakefield, hurleypalmerflatt and Source8
Composition of DCR Index It’s all about infrastructure.
Infrastructure is all about right-of-way Yesterday: Telegraph lines aerially passed along the train tracks and highways High Frequency radio links required no seamless ROW Today: Securing orbital slots remains critical for satellites Spectrum is the ROW for microwave transmission Highways are favorite ROW for optical fiber transmission Optical fiber has democratized infrastructure Undersea transmission, railway signaling and SCADA. Submarine cables always need permission to enter national maritime boundary.
Infrastructure was unified in 1901
Infrastructure is segregated today
ESCAP-ITU terrestrial map in progress
Hybrid network of TTK: World’s largest Rail + Road + Sea Terrestrial length: >76,000 km. Capacity: >1.6 Tbps Peering: PLIX (Warsaw), NIX.CZ (Prague), Espanix (Madrid), MIX (Milan), France-IX (Paris), LINX (London), DE-CIX (Frankfurt), AMS-IX (Amsterdam)
India: Powertel network OPGW (Optical Ground Wire) of 25,000 km. Adding 33,000 km. Overhead. Immune to: fiber cuts, sabotage, vandalism. Coverage over 200 cities and towns. Reliability: 99.99% SLA Multiple self resilient rings of complete redundancy in backbone as well as intra-city access networks.
Powertel Sans Frontières
India buys IP transit from Bangladesh
From bandwidth to transit
BSNL should be using Powertel network National Long Distance (NLD) license. ISP Category ‘A’ license to provide internet. IP-I To provide Telecom Infrastructure
Exploiting ROW of Highway, Railway and Power transmission Connecting 32 Eurasian countries with EU through 141,000 km of standardized roadways.