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i W eek Presentation Alan Bacher : Portfolio Head - Internet Access

i W eek Presentation Alan Bacher : Portfolio Head - Internet Access. Elements of Neotel’s Network. Global Transit. Network services. Content / Applications. Internet Peering. Voice Interconnect. Access: Wireless. Access: Fibre. National network. Tata Communications.

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i W eek Presentation Alan Bacher : Portfolio Head - Internet Access

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  1. iWeek Presentation Alan Bacher : Portfolio Head - Internet Access

  2. Elements of Neotel’s Network Global Transit Network services Content / Applications Internet Peering Voice Interconnect Access: Wireless Access: Fibre National network

  3. Tata Communications Largest carrier of international wholesale voice minutes Presence in 195 countries, across the 5 continents Tier 1 IP network carrying 15% of the Internet’s traffic Amongst the largest owners of submarine cable capacity • A global player, delivering a new world of communications • Home base in developing markets: India, South Africa, Far East

  4. Tier 1 Internet in South Africa • Latencies to destinations globally are minimised by using shortest fibre routes to create mesh network

  5. Reliability – SAT-3 failure on 21 Jan 2010 • IP Layer provides restoration per packet • No interruption to user connectivity • Redundancy through SAT-3, SAFE, SEACOM and now EASSy • IP Traffic on SAT-3 • International IP Traffic • IP Traffic on SEACOM

  6. ZIMBABWE • METROPOLITAN NETWORKS • 4000 km in Gauteng, CT, Durban Phalaborwa POLOKWANE BOTSWANA MOZAMBIQUE NELSPRUIT PRETORIA WITBANK JOHANNESBURG SWAZILAND Ermelo Sasolburg NAMIBIA Welkom KIMBERLEY Bethlehem RICHARDS BAY BLOEMFONTEIN LESOTHO PIETERMARITZBURG DURBAN Umtata Bisho EAST LONDON CAPE TOWN PORT ELIZABETH George Connecting South Africa • NATIONAL LONG DISTANCE • 12000 km, linking major centres EASSy SEACOM SAFE Mtunzini WACS SAT-3 Yzerfontein Melkbosstrand SAFE

  7. ZIMBABWE To Zimbabwe To Botswana Phalaborwa POLOKWANE BOTSWANA MOZAMBIQUE NELSPRUIT To Mozambique To Namibia PRETORIA WITBANK JOHANNESBURG SWAZILAND Ermelo Sasolburg NAMIBIA To Swaziland Welkom KIMBERLEY Bethlehem RICHARDS BAY BLOEMFONTEIN LESOTHO PIETERMARITZBURG DURBAN To Lesotho Umtata Bisho EAST LONDON CAPE TOWN PORT ELIZABETH George Connecting Southern Africa

  8. Metro and access optical fibre network

  9. NeoMetro Link – The new onramp • High bandwidth Ethernet point-to-point connectivity in metros • South Africa’s first Metro Ethernet service, with speeds up to 1 Gbps • Optical fibre metropolitan networks and FTTC and FTTB access • Replacing leased lines as the standard connectivity for all services

  10. NeoBroadband – Fibre Broadband • The Broadband flagship in South Africa • Speed: 1 – 15 Mbps, Uncapped, Unshaped • Symmetrical up/down, low contention ratio • High Availability: Dual fibre feed to building • Flexibility: Software upgrade/downgrade • Managed Customer Premises Equipment • Simple integration into customer LAN • Multiline and single line voice service (VoIP) • Areas: Targeted buildings / office parks • Why NeoBroadbandFibre? • True Broadband performance, world class network • One provider accountable for entire service • Immune to lightning, rain, corrosion, copper theft

  11. NeoBroadband – WiMAX Broadband • WiMAX Fixed Broadband Wireless service • Down: 1 – 8 Mbps, Up: 768 kbps – 3 Mbps • Unshaped, Uncapped with Fair Use Policy • Flexibility: Software upgrade/downgrade • Optional bundled customer switch/router • Simple integration into customer LAN • Single line voice service (VoIP) • Rapid installation, with outdoor antenna • Areas: Zones in Gauteng, Cape Town, Durban • Why NeoBroadbandWiMAX? • DSL performance over wireless access • One provider accountable for entire service • Immune to lightning, rain, corrosion, copper theft

  12. Neotel’s Content Delivery Network • What is a Content Delivery Network? • Developed to cache (mirror) files across the Internet • Concept pioneered by Akamai in the late 1990s • CDNs today carry more varied traffic, including streaming • Akamai, Limelight, Level 3, Panther, BitGravity dominate • Today account for 10% of all Internet traffic, with one third video • Video is about a third of the traffic, but not of the economic value • Why use a Content Delivery Network? • Distributed servers, distributed bandwidth • Consistent local performance, close to users • Optimised for content e.g. video delivery • Only the largest players can build their own Sources: Frost & Sullivan, ATLAS Internet Observatory

  13. Thank You

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