I don't remember precisely how, but yesterday my Firefox browser took me to Ochre's website. Honestly, I've never heard Ochre before, so I was a bit surprised; similar to the moment where I read about the MCS project for the first time.
Facts, Plans & Quotes (Brett O’Riley, Subtelforum):
- It will connect Singapore (possibly Changi), Jakarta and Perth
- "The proposed multi-terabit network would link Perth to Jakarta and Singapore, with initial branches to oil and gas facilities at Geraldton and Dampier"
- RFS : Q2/2010
- Capacity : 2 FP; channels ? design ? lit ?
- CAPEX : approx. USD 150 mn
- The project is "modelled on an earlier project mooted by Nava Networks that was abandoned following the 2002 market collapse"
- "It was confirmed that Asia Netcom had agreed to provide landing stations in Singapore" (ANC --> PACNET)
- "While only 10% of Australia’s international traffic originates on the west coast, service providers have become increasingly concerned about the lack of diversity and the high prices available on the current SEA-ME-WE-3 link"
Ochre's SIA (Singapore Indonesia Australia) Cable Plan; Courtesy of Ochre Services
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on 24 Januari 2008, I copied this info below from their site (but seem the website changed now):
Ochre projects that are currently being developed are as follows:
a.. A new international submarine cable from Perth, Western Australia, to
Jakarta and Singapore, with initial branches into Geraldton and Dampier to meet
projected regional and global demand for capacity.
b.. An off-shore submarine cable network to service oil and gas rigs and
facilities on the North-West shelf of Western Australia, one of the largest
off-shore exploration and production regions in the world.
http://www.ochreservices.com/people.html
Ochre Regional Operations Manager, Glenn Duhig is an experienced Telco
executive with over 30 years experience in Western Australia in key business
development roles for Telstra, ComsWest, Amcom and COMindico. He is leading the
development of the infrastructure projects in Indonesia in conjunction with
Ochre's JV company, PT Masindo and in Western Australia including managing the
relationship with the State Government and key potential customers including
the CSIRO Square Kilometre Array project.
but how if SMW3 Segment S3 (Perth - Indonesia - Singapore) plan to be upgraded ?
New cable will more expensive
Do you have new information pak?
SMW 3 is a quite large consortium (maybe 30+ telcos). Decisions about pricing and also upgrade may not an easy and fast process. So, this is the reasons, that SingTEL (and Nava Networks) several years ago want to install new cable to WA, although we all know that SingTEL is a prime member of the SMW consortium. This plan unfortunately is abandoned due to submarine cable market collaps at that time frame.
This might be an old story.I have read this several months / or maybe years ago. It is possible that the current state is different; especially if the majority of the consortium members sees significant reasons for them to change their intern mechanism/policy.
IF most of SMW3 is bi-laterally owned (a company at each end owns to theoretical mid point somewhere at sea), so SMW3 Segment S3 (Perth - Indonesia - Singapore) can be upgraded. Only need 3 parties to agree: Singtel, Indosat and Telstra. Indosat need redundancy to Australia, Singtel have shares at Optus Australia and Telstra maybe need an alternative route to South East Asia rather than JASURAUS, AJC, or Sydney-Hawaii to AAG. Is that possible?
If I remember correctly, ownership arrangement in SMW3 isn't that flat pak. Each contribution of the consortium member is converted to "points". These points are then used by a member to "pay" the bandwidth and connection he want to have. There are no segment or fiber ownerships like that we may find in recent cable deployment CMIIW. I hope I could find again the official records about this :-)
4.4 IRU Capacity Acquisition from Segment S3 :
4.4.1 NA shall notify the Southern Owners when the IRU purchase application involving Segment S3 Southern Half Capacity, pursuant to Annex 7 of the C&MA, is made and request the Southern Owners to instruct how the Segment S3 Southern Capacity will be provided in the IRU sales.
4.4.2 The MIU*KM required to be purchased by the IRU Purchaser each in the Segment S3 Southern Half Capacity and in the SEA-ME-WE 3 beyond Singapore or Jakarta shall be calculated pursuant to Annex 7 of the C&MA.
4.4.3 The Southern Owners will decide among themselves whose capacity will be provided to the subject IRU sales (single provider or mixture of multiple providers) and advise NA the arrangement. NA shall reflect such information in the Annex of the IRU Agreement.
4.4.4 The Southern Owners shall keep records of IRU sales in the Segment S3 Southern Half Capacity
http://smw3cbp.francetelecom.com/smw3/CP/CP2.htm
Are you know about BSCS (Batam Singapore Cable System) that build by Telkom Indonesia International to connect with AAG Cable ?
http://www.globalnetworks.com.au/index.html
pernah denger ini pak ?
The international sub-sea fibre optic cable network will connect Perth, Jakarta and Singapore while the domestic terrestrial networks in both Indonesia and Australia will interconnect with and provide greater capacity for telecommunications carriers, internet service providers and corporate entities to both the international and domestic networks at greater speed and at a lower cost than currently available. The international cable will also provide very important regional network redundancy and security particularly for Indonesia, Australia and all other South East Asian countries.
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