Update on Singapore Open Exchange (SOX) Kerk Chun Sing

Introduction Routing scene is dominated by the 3 incumbents – SingTel, Starhub and Pacific Internet. The incumbents peer among themselves and sell local transit as a separate Internet component. Local loops are provided by SingTel and Starhub which are expensive. Insufficient competition to drive the price down

Initatives IXPs to IXPs Have explored the feasibility of linking up SOX and HKIX using C2C subsea cable. Paid peering session between interested participants in both Internet Exchanges. Pay-as-much-as-you used concept for the trial. Unfortunately, it wasn’t successful. HKIX participants are more interested in getting traffic from US.

Initatives (cont) Distributed SOX Extending SOX layer 2 to another datacentre Advantages (SOX) – have more participants in the local peering scene Advantages (Datacentre) – provide value added service to their customer and drawing new customers to their datacentre. Discussing with i-STT (Equinix) on feasibility. To bet the costly local loop – Free Space Optics (FSO).

“Breaking the Cartel” Partnership with 1-Net 1-net -> people behind S-ONE, an early initiative to create a broadband environment in Singapore. 1-net itself is an IXP Peering between the SOX participants and 1-Net. p Trial phase will start when I get back…

Ever Present Difficult to get organisation into the SOX 1) Costly local loops – deterrent to interested parties 2) Who is in there ?? - Chicken and Egg issue

Thank You Kerk Chun Sing