Telikom PNG's View of PPC-1

The most valuable role of the PPC-1 for Telikom PNG (TPNG) is probably to provide back up of its international link for via APNG-2 cable system (see below).

TPNG involvement in PPC-1:

• Capacity: 1 x 10 Gbps Madang (PNG) to Guam; 1 x 10Gbps Madang to Sydney
• 2 FP spur link
• 2 BU (BU4 – Madang, BU3 – Alotau - future)
• OADM Bus are the key as only a few wavelengths are required, not fibre pair capacity
• Does not require Sydney Guam traffic to route via Madang
• Without OADM BU, new cable would have needed which would have been prohibitively expensive

Madang Spur :

• Direct access to north of the PNG from Aust and Guam
• Provides international services for major industries
• Provides real time internet broadband services for educational institutions located at Madang
• Provides quality low latency links for corporate business and government agencies
• Network robustness for government’s development programs such as the major LNG plant in Port Moresby

Source Loko/TPNG

Carrier Collaboration

In many opportunities, PACNET's CEO Bill Barney has "campaigned" for collaboration. He said "Colloboration is the catalist for growth!". Agree?? Why do we need to collaborate ? Below are several noticeable things he mentioned.

• We are not completely redundant on our own - sample case Taiwan earthquake 2006
• The bits are getting bigger
• The bigger bit guys are multiplying
• Online video: traction high and increasing (08/2008 - YouTube --> 344 Mn global visitor|+50% YoY; 43 bn minutes | +99% YoY); other distribution models: Hulu, FanCast, veoh, Joost, SlingMedia, VUDU
  
• We cannot afford 'it' alone
• (especially in Asia) : the Internet population doubles every 3 years; the bandwidth per user doubles every 5 months
  

Source Barney/Pacnet

The bits - Source Barney/Pacnet

Internet Statistics

Some Internet statistics as of June 2008 (Source Vint Cerf/Google - InternetWorldStats.com ?):

• Region | Internet Population | Penetration
• Asia | 578.5 mn | 15.3 %
• Europe | 384.6 mn | 48.1 %
• North Am. | 248.2 mn | 73.6 %
• LATAM/C | 139.0 mn | 24.1 %
• Mid-East | 41.9 mn | 21.3 %
• Oceania | 20.2 mn | 59.5 %
• Africa | 51.0 mn | 5.3 %
• TOTAL | 1,463.6 mn | 21.9 %

Other things:

• 570,937,778 (ftp.isc.org/www/survey/reports/current/Jul 2008)
• 1,464 mn users (InternetWorldStats.com | June 30, 2008)