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HAITIAN EXCHANGE POINT

HAITIAN EXCHANGE POINT. Objective: Facilitate the Interconnection of all the local ISP’s in Haiti Reynold Guerrier, MULTILINK, Chief Technical Officer President of GSIS, Computing and Statistics Support Group. Objectives.

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HAITIAN EXCHANGE POINT

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  1. HAITIAN EXCHANGE POINT Objective: Facilitate the Interconnection of all the local ISP’s in Haiti Reynold Guerrier, MULTILINK, Chief Technical Officer President of GSIS, Computing and Statistics Support Group HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  2. Objectives • Providing technical Assistance in the implementation process of an Exchange Point in Haiti • Promoting and improving the ICT sector in Haïti • To make easier ICT services and application development, particularly in Education and Health sectors, etc… HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  3. HAITIAN ISP’s Market • The 1rst Haitian ISP start operations in 1994 • Today there are 8 operational ISP’s • But, the regulator CONATEL ( National Council of Telecommunications ), has issued 12 licenses HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  4. Haitian ISP connectivity to Internet • Haitian ISP’s are all customers of regional ISP’s mainly based in the United States • Only TELECONET, a division of the public Telco company has is upstream provider in Canada • It’s mostly non redundant satellite link HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  5. Haitian ISP connectivity to Internet HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  6. Services • Dial-up • Wireless radio for SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) • Limited coverage wireless system mainly in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince (the capital) • Fractional E1 or T1/ Leased Lines for the bank sector to interconnect their branches to their central office • Only a few of them have their services available in other cities HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  7. Only Wireless POP HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  8. Interconnection • No interconnection between the ISP’s • Any communication between 2 different customers has to go twice the satellite path • Important delay • Bad quality of the connection HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  9. Consequences • Unable to support some applications like VoIP, Video Conference • Expensive where and when available (about 1500 U$ installation fee and 400-800 U$ recurrent for 128 Kbps) • Other ordinary services like Web Mail Hosting can’t be provided • Web servers are hosted overseas particularly in the United States because of better prices and services reliability • Less market for the ISP’s and the local web developers • Barriers and obstacle to the development of ICT HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  10. Interconnection study • In September 2002, RDDH (Haitian Network of Sustainable development) a UNDP project finances a Study on a possible way to interconnect Haitian ISP’s • GSIS (Computing and Statistics Support Group ) realized this study • Objectives • providing a technical and administrative solution to the interconnection issue • The Exchange Point should make easier traffic between local ISP’s ( keep the local traffic local) HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  11. Study results • Technical solution • Some management solutions • Some incentive measures • Exchange Point Hosting : Boutiliers, a hill that surrounds the Metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince and where each ISP already has at least a Point of Presence HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  12. The technical solution diagram HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  13. The technical solution (continued) • Local ISP’s could be considered as an AS (Autonomous System) with only one connection to the Internet • Each ISP will bring its own router running BGP4 and will be in charge of the maintenance • Implementation of dynamic routing required to be part of the XP • The regulator will force all the ISP’s to participate to the XP • Traffic exchange will be done at Layer 3 • RDDH looked for fund to finance the installation of the XP • Also for technical assistance in the implementation • Administratively the XP will be managed by the consortium FDS (the State Faculty of Science) / RDDH • A breakdown budget also exists for the implementation HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  14. The most difficult part • Convincing the local ISP’s of the well being of an Exchange Point • Their fear: other ISP can use their network as transit by being interconnected • My personal opinion their real is • the recurrent charges they will have to support to maintain the XP • Because they already have a lot of overhead by producing their own electricity, security and they are sharing a small market • Commercial Power is only available up to 12 hours per day • Security for every POP they have against vandalism HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  15. New environment • In December 2003 a new ISP MULTILINK started operations • Marketing policy: being the first Haitian carrier • Wholesale bandwidth/International Leased Lines/Metropolitan Leased Lines • Upstream provider: TRICOM in DR via Micro wave bridge • Installed Capacity OC-3 with Harrys Megastar radio/ but functioning on a DS3 capacity • Good prices / much better quality than Satellite links HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

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  17. New environment • Being the upstream provider for all the local ISP’s and realizing an XP de facto • Willing to host the XP • March 2005 HAINET another local ISP start buying bandwidth from CODETEL/VERIZON in DR • Objective: being a competitor for MULTILINK HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  18. New barriers • Not all of the ISP’s agreed with Multilink proposal to host the XP ( particularly HAINET ) • Political instability • Market reduction • All local ISP’s are MULTILINK or HAINET customers HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  19. Possible solution now • Peering agreement between HAINET and MULTILINK • That will not protect enough the small ISP’s • An independent exchange point still remains an issue. HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  20. Conflict • Last November has been created the first secretary state for Telecom and Information Technology but only as a division the Public Work Ministry • Role: working with all the professionals and enterprises to create the National Council of the Information Technology which was supposed to be independent of the regulator and with the objectives of defining national vision and strategies for the Telecom and Information Technology • But because of divergence of view with the titular of this ministry the post has been simply removed in the last government re-composition • Now the professional association ATHIC is fighting to get it back HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

  21. MERCITHANK YOUGRACIASOBRIGADOreygue@multilink-ht.net HAITIAN ISP INTERCONNECTION / NAPLA PERU, JUNE 28 2005

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