Delivering Subsea Capacity at 100G Shikhar Sarkar Director of Product Marketing April-May 2014 1
Agenda Hibernia Networks a quick intro Macro trends driving the bandwidth demand Why submarine cables & Transatlantic Why 100G for submarine Submarine challenges for a service provider Future drivers April-May 2014 2
Hibernia s Global Network Wavelength EtherReach CDN IP Transit CloudConnect Low Latency Over 200 Points of Presence 27,000 kilometers of fiber asset Wholesale Enterprise Financials Media 3
Hibernia cable landing stations Owned Real Estate with Office Space Dublin Ireland, 20,450 sq.ft. Halifax, NS Canada. 24,500sq.ft. Southport - U.K. 26,000 sq.ft. Boston, MA USA. 12,900sq.ft. Telehouse in Derry 1,620 sq.ft. and CLS in Portrush, N-Ireland. 1,280 sq.ft. Hibernia Networks 2013. Private & Confidential
Hibernia s History of Firsts to Market 2006: First to offer 10 Gbps Ethernet LanPhy capacity across the Atlantic 2007: First to offer 40 Gbps over a subsea span between US and Canada 2009: First to offer native 40 Gbps wavelength capacity across Atlantic for commercial use 2011: First to successfully trial 100 Gbps across the Atlantic on cable between Nova Scotia to England 2015: Hibernia Express, the sub 60 msec transatlantic Express route 5
Agenda Hibernia Networks a quick intro Macro trends driving the bandwidth demand Why submarine cables & Transatlantic Why 100G for submarine Submarine challenges for a service provider Future drivers April-May 2014 6
The growth of Internet traffic April-May 2014 7 IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Bandwidth Assessment, July 2012
Macro Trends Internet of Things Cloud Video Social Media Mobile Mobile Data Growth Storage Growth Cisco VNI, 2014 IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Bandwidth Assessment, July 2012 April-May 2014 8
Agenda Hibernia Networks a quick intro Macro trends driving the bandwidth demand Why submarine cables & Transatlantic Why 100G for submarine Submarine challenges for a service provider Future drivers April-May 2014 9
So, why submarine cables? More than 95% of all intercontinental Internet traffic travels via submarine cables, not satellite Fierce Telecom April-May 2014 10
Transatlantic Cable Systems Transatlantic Apollo AC-1 Yellow / AC-2 FLAG Atlantic TATA Hibernia Atlantic TAT Courtesy: Telegeography April-May 2014 11
Why transatlantic important? The two regions represent 60% of global GDP, 33% of world trade in goods and 42% of world trade in services. Between 1997 and 2002 capacity growth in Atlantic was greater than all other regions combined. April-May 2014 12
Transatlantic bandwidth market growth USE CASES Internet Private 20% 12000 10000 Gbps 8000 [PERCENTAGE] 6000 4000 2000 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Courtesy: Telegeography April-May 2014 13 Gbps
Agenda Hibernia Networks a quick intro Macro trends driving the bandwidth demand Why submarine cables & Transatlantic Why 100G for submarine Submarine challenges for a service provider Future drivers April-May 2014 14
Why 100G and beyond important for subsea Higher bandwidth at a lower price Increased ROI on fiber assets according to Light Reading, 170 operators are formally committed to the deployment of 100G networks April-May 2014 15
100G adoption happening at the backbone network level Carriers are using 100G at their backbone increasingly to drive efficiency Handoffs to customers are still predominantly 10G/1G and is expected to evolve to 100G slowly April-May 2014 16
100 Wellington 100GE Enabled 3500 Steeles 100G is increasingly used in the Hibernia backbone Edmundston Montreal Canix3 St John Halifax Coleraine Belfast Dublin CLS Southport Manchester Reading PET PAK London Amsterdam AM3 TC2 AM2 Frankfurt Interxion Toronto 151 Front Somerville Lynn Paris Telehouse hicago Cleveland Buffalo Albany White Plains Boston 1 Summer To Pakenham Pittsburgh Newark 165 Halsey New York 60 Hudson Stamford To Peterborough London Telehouse North Philadelphia To Manchester Telehouse East Ashburn Equinix Hibernia has been enabling 100G on a span/pop basis to free up channels and increase spectral efficiency Reading Slough 11 Hanbury LHC Harbour Exchange Sovereign House April-May 2014 17
Agenda Hibernia Networks a quick intro Macro trends driving the bandwidth demand Why submarine cables & Transatlantic Why 100G for submarine Submarine challenges for a service provider Future drivers April-May 2014 18
Submarine cable cuts nightmare! Large swaths of the Middle East and Southeast Asia fell into internet darkness after two major undersea fiber optic links were damaged off Egypt s coast On Saturday, a ship waiting to enter the Kenyan port city of Mombasa wandered into a restricted area and dropped its anchor, inadvertently severing a major undersea Internet and phone link to East Africa April-May 2014 19
Diversity is important April-May 2014 20
Subsea Network Challenges Difficult and expensive to build Difficult and expensive to maintain Difficult to drive throughput due to Aged cables Distance factors 21
Agenda Hibernia Networks a quick intro Macro trends driving the bandwidth demand Why submarine cables & Transatlantic Why 100G for submarine Submarine challenges for a service provider Future drivers April-May 2014 22
Beyond 100G: 400G, 1 Tb, April-May 2014 23
2014 and Beyond 90000 IP traffic 2012-2017 in PB/month 80000 70000 60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Fixed Internet Managed IP Mobile Data Cisco VNI, May 2013 24
QUESTIONS? shikhar.sarkar@hibernianetworks.com April-May 2014 25
A typical submarine Cable System April-May 2014 26
Hibernia s Transatlantic cable Built 2001, 10.16 Tb design capacity, Fully Diverse Strategic location: withstands super storm Sandy with zero downtime April-May 2014 27