Back to basics in cross-sector infrastructure sharing.

1. 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

2. Ten Key Attributes for Cloud Readiness
Source: Bernie Trudel, Chairman, Asia Cloud Computing Association.

3. Cloud Readiness Index 2014
Source: Asia Cloud Computing Association
Infrastructure 40%
Regulation 60%

4. Data Center Risk Index 2013: Cushman &
Wakefield, hurleypalmerflatt and Source8

5. Composition of DCR Index
It’s all about
infrastructure.

6. 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.

7. Infrastructure was unified in 1901

8. Infrastructure is segregated today

9. ESCAP-ITU terrestrial map in progress

10. 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)

11. 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.

12. Powertel Sans Frontières

13. India buys IP transit from Bangladesh

14. From bandwidth to transit

15. BSNL should be using Powertel network
• National Long
Distance
• (NLD) license.
• ISP Category ‘A’
license
• to provide internet.
• IP-I To provide
Telecom
• Infrastructure

16. Exploiting ROW of Highway, Railway and Power transmission
Connecting 32 Eurasian countries with EU through 141,000 km of standardized roadways.