The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has invited me to speak at “Regional Expert Consultation on Connecting Asia-Pacific’s Digital Society for Resilient Development” in Colombo during 5-6 September.
There I presented that Asia’s wholesale prices of Internet bandwidth remains six-times expensive compared to the Europe and USA. Participating experts have overwhelmingly endorsed my proposal of laying fiber along the Asian Highway to build an open-access transcontinental terrestrial network.
Unleashing infrastructure synergies across sectorsAbu Saeed Khan
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We studied the economic impact of subsea cables and broadband connectivity on the DRC. Landing in 2012, the DRC’s sole cable led to transformational effects, increasing productivity and efficiency, leading to significant impacts on employment and economic growth.
Unleashing infrastructure synergies across sectorsAbu Saeed Khan
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We studied the economic impact of subsea cables and broadband connectivity on the DRC. Landing in 2012, the DRC’s sole cable led to transformational effects, increasing productivity and efficiency, leading to significant impacts on employment and economic growth.
Leading By Example
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. - Jim Rohn
Highlighted notes while studying the Course:
Advanced Computer Networks
Article: Internet backbone
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Leading By Example
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. - Jim Rohn
Highlighted notes while studying the Course:
Advanced Computer Networks
Article: Internet backbone
By: Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual online encyclopedia created and maintained as an open collaboration project by a community of volunteer editors using a wiki-based editing system. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web. It is also one of the 15 most popular websites as ranked by Alexa, as of August 2020. It features exclusively free content and has no advertising. It is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded primarily through donations.
Asia fixed telecommunications infrastructureAmbikabasa
The governments of Asian nations have long recognised – some earlier than others – that there needed to be some encouragement of private sector investment to meet the demand for the all-important capital needed in the telecom sector. At the same time, it was also generally well recognised that this strategy could not rely on local investment alone, and would inevitably mean a substantial level of foreign investment. Of course, despite this recognition, there has inevitably been some resistance within some administrations to opening up the telecom sector to foreign investors and as a consequence the level of ‘encouragement’ across the region has been variable.
While most analysts call for speeds of 100 Mbps to enable multiple streams of HDTV, Wayne says that's shortsighted. This 2006 presentation helps justify fiber-to-the-home and gigabit speeds with examples of applications that need that performance.
22. NECS 2016 _ Air connectivity_ Connecting Southeast Asia through Northeast...FICCINorthEast
Presentation made at 3rd Northeast Connectivity Summit,2016 on Connecting Southeast Asia through Northeast by Amb.Rudy Warjri, Former Ambassador of India
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With worldwide mobile backhaul connections increasing from 5 to 10 Mbps in 2009 to 50 Mbps by 2012, mobile operators, network equipment vendors and others must implement new strategies to cope with the influx. Fiber, copper, microwave, millimeter wave—each backhaul medium has its own advantages and limitations in terms of availability, cost to deploy, operational cost, speed/distance and regulatory considerations. What is the right strategy for today’s 3G and emerging 4G ecosystem, and is there any hope of leveraging today's backhaul assets for three (let alone five) years?
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Bangladesh was overwhelmed by the collapse of Rana Plaza at the outskirts of it capital Dhaka on April 24, 2013. Nearly 2,500 victims were rescued while thousands have died or remain unaccounted for. Rescue operation of this worst accident in the country’s history was equally heroic and haphazard. It demonstrated the lack of readiness in terms of conducting disaster recovery operations. The incident signals the magnitude of devastation once the country is hit by earthquake. I have tried to capture the role of mobile phone industry in this respect.
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
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Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
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Making Broadband Affordable in Asia.
1. Making broadband
affordable in Asia
Abu Saeed Khan @ RECC, UNESCAP
Senior Policy Fellow, LIRNEasia September 5, 2012
askhan@ieee.org Colombo
2. Asian bandwidth is 6x costlier
$5~$7 $5~$10
$25~$40
Source: TeleGeography
• Data exclude installation
and local access fees.
• GigE = 1,000 Mbps.
3. “Despite falling 22% compounded annually between Q2 2007 and Q2 2012, the
median price of a GigE port in Hong Kong has remained 2.7 to 5.1 times the
price of a GigE port in London over the past five years.” (August 2, 2012).
4. High, Low, and Median Hong Kong GigE
IP Transit Prices by Carrier
H
M
L
Notes: Shaded area represents price range between low and high price by individual carrier;
line shows median. Data shown are monthly price per Mbps, excluding installation and local
access fees. Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) = 1,000 Mbps. Source: TeleGeography.
5. Issues affecting Asian BW price
Fierce competition Good competition
•Coast-coast terrestrial TX •Terrestrial & submarine TX
Broadband’s
biggest barrier
Poor competition All submarine TX
6. Submarine cables are vulnerable to:
Earthquake Anchoring
& Cyclone & Fishing
(Natural) (Accidental)
Sabotage and political rivalry
(Deliberate)
7. Disasters driving the need of backup
1. December 26, 2006: Taiwan earthquake
21 faults in 9 cables. 11 ships took 49 days to repair. Banking, airline bookings and email
were stopped or delayed in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and India.
2. Jan 23~Feb 4 2008: Accident or sabotage?
Sequentially 6 cables were snapped in 12 days across the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf
and Andaman sea. What caused this series of cable cuts remains mysterious.
3. Dec 19, 2008: Mediterranean earthquake
Total downtime: 17 days. Middle East, India and Far East were affected.
4. August 7, 2009: Typhoon & undersea earthquakes
10 submarine cables were cut in >20 locations and caused an estimated US$617 million*
in damage. Up to 90% voice and data traffic was impacted across Japan, Taiwan, China,
India and South East Asia.
5. March 4, 2010: Taiwan earthquake
Victims: SEA-ME-WE 3, APCN2, CUCN, FLAG and FNAL.
*Verizon estimates.
8. Accident or Sabotage?
Sequentially 6 cables were snapped in 12 days
"We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a
deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago."
Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid, Director BDT, ITU (AFP: February 18, 2008)
11. Wanted: Redundancy and diversity
(Asia~EU via IO) (Asia~USA via Pacific)
Westbound Eastbound
49 new cables
US$6.5 billion
2008 to 2010 Source: TeleGeography
Source: TeleGeography. April 11, 2011
13. “Several factors account for the gap between purchased on used capacity,
including capacity held in reserve for restoration and redundancy, contract
structures (such as discounts on large purchases of bandwidth), upgrade lead
times, and market inefficiencies.”
14. Europe-Asia bandwidth growth (2004~09)
Series of earthquakes
2010 Middle East Telecommunication map, TeleGeography caused <3x over-provisioning
15. Pirates between Asia and Europe
“In 2011 Somali piracy cost the world economy
$7 billion and earned the pirates some $160
million in ransoms, according to a recent
report by the International Maritime Bureau.
Piracy is receding of late, but it is still a
threat.”
Reuters: August 13, 2012.
16. Business (not) as usual
NAIROBI, April 16,
2009 (Reuters)-
Foreign navies have
agreed to protect a
vessel installing an
undersea high-speed
Internet cable from
pirates off the coast
of Somalia.
17. ME~Europe is getting terrestrial
Jeddah-Amman- Regional Cable Network
Damascus-Istanbul (JADI) (RCN)
“Carriers have been seeking to introduce five undersea cable systems connected to and
across Egypt to meet burgeoning capacity requirements in the Middle East, East Africa,
and India, but have been delayed for over a year by regulatory problems in Egypt. This
has left carriers scrambling to identify alternative routes.” TeleGeography: April 11, 2011
18. Iran detours via East Europe
Express Gateway
Europe Persia
APAC to Europe via Middle East?
19. 1) 2008: Reliance and China Mobile terrestrial link.
2) 2009: Tata and China Mobile terrestrial link.
3) 2010: Bharti and China Mobile terrestrial link.
22. Asian Highway has connected:
Russia, India, China, Turkey, Central Asia, SAARC, ASEAN+2
A network of 141,000 km of standardized roadways
crisscrossing 32 Asian countries connecting EU.
23. Longest International Open-access Network
(LION) to link Asia and Europe
•
•
Asian Highway has already linked the borders.
A fully meshed terrestrial LION is waiting.
24. Targets of LION: Open-access
1) Diversity and Redundancy to all submarine cables linking
Asia with Europe and the USA via Japan through a
Terrestrial Consortium.
2) Migrate SEA-ME-WE (3 & 4) from offshore to on-shore.
Also let all private carriers to migrate.
3) No regulatory disruption. Only the licensed carriers will
access LION.
25. Advantages of LION
• Presumed ‘unfriendly’ countries are already interlinked.
– Submarine : SEA-ME-WE 3 and SEA-ME-WE 4.
– Terrestrial: Sino-Russian link (TEA) and Sino-Indian link
(Reliance/Tata/Bharti + China Mobile).
• Highly resilient due to mesh.
– Rerouting the traffic means ‘zero’ downtime.
– Installation and maintenance crew/materials available everywhere.
• Creates more opportunities for submarine cables.
– Investments in transpacific rather than intra-Asia.
– Lower latency and higher SLA at lesser cost for intl’ bandwidth.
Open access guaranteed
26. Impacts of LION
• Internet in Asia will be similar to or cheaper than the EU.
– Mobile broadband (HSPA/LTE) will grow like 2G voice.
• Smart devices and Wi-Fi offload will accelerate the data growth.
– Investments in broadband will increase.
– There will be higher ROI in FTTx.
• More international and domestic PoPs/access nodes will emerge.
Landlocked countries will have bandwidth at equal cost.
Sub-regional telecoms initiatives cannot delivered that.
Pacific islands will enjoy reduced bandwidth cost in the mainland.
• International Gateway (IGW) reforms will be accelerated.
– Usage of submarine cables’ purchased capacity will be maximized.
– Carriers will commit longer contracts.
National broadband initiatives
will require lesser subsidies.