Saturday, August 30, 2008

Jakarta Metro Backbone

It seems that everybody in Jakarta want to have his own metro :-) Currently many companies have built their metro infrastructure to support their business, particularly in big cities such as the Greater Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung etc. These include :
  • well known telcos (TELKOM/TSEL, ISAT, XL, other?)
  • successfull ISPs (BizNET,CBN, other?)
  • VSAT network operators (CSM, Lintasarta, other ?); and
  • backbone operators (ICON+,PowerTel,Napinfo,Moratel, other ?)
Recently, PT. iForte Solusi Infotek announced, that they have finished the construction of their fiber optic network which is using (and installed simultaneously with the development of) the TransJakarta busway infrastructure (map see below). They currently offer connection/access services called M-Wifo which are basically WiFi (802.11n compatible) access and fiber bridging. To my guess, it might be a RoF (Radio over Fiber) system.

Other related public information about iForte:
  • the fiber optic backbone spans/follows 10 TransJakarta corridors
  • CAPEX : USD 10 mn.
  • Length : approx. 250 km
  • RFS : June 2008
  • Services : fiber optic connections, WiFi mesh 802.11n connections
  • Projection : +/- 2,000 cust. (connection point) each year
  • VIPs: Peter Djatmiko, Andrie Tjioe


Map of TransJakarta Busway, Courtesy of Maximilian Doerrbecker (Chumwa), taken from Wikipedia

1 comment:

Tutut Dwitoto said...

But in pratical, some buildings/data centers provider blocked some metro ethernet of some provider. Still limited choices

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