Delivering Subsea Capacity at 100G

Delivering Subsea Capacity at 100G

Shikhar Sarkar

Director of Product Marketing

Santa Clara, CA USA

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

Hibernia’s Global Network

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• Over 200 Points of Presence • 27,000 kilometers of fiber asset

Wavelength EtherReach CDN IP Transit CloudConnect Low Latency

Halifax, NS – Canada. 24,500sq.ft.

Boston, MA – USA. 12,900sq.ft.

Dublin – Ireland, 20,450 sq.ft. Southport - U.K. 26,000 sq.ft.

Telehouse in Derry 1,620 sq.ft. and CLS in Portrush, N-Ireland. 1,280 sq.ft. Owned Real Estate with Office Space

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

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

The growth of Internet traffic

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Macro Trends

IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Bandwidth Assessment, July 2012

Storage Growth Mobile Data Growth

Cisco VNI, 2014

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

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So, why submarine cables?

“More than 95% of all intercontinental

Internet traffic travels via submarine

cables, not satellite”

Transatlantic Cable Systems

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April-May 2014 11  Apollo  AC-1  Yellow / AC-2  FLAG Atlantic  TATA  Hibernia Atlantic  TAT Transatlantic Courtesy: Telegeography

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.

Transatlantic bandwidth market

growth

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April-May 2014 13 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Gbps Gbps Courtesy: Telegeography

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

Why 100G and beyond important

for subsea

 Higher bandwidth at a lower price  Increased ROI on fiber assets

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according to Light Reading, 170 operators are formally committed to the deployment of 100G networks

100G adoption happening at the

backbone network level

 Carriers are using 100G at their backbone increasingly to drive efficiency

100G is increasingly used in the

Hibernia backbone

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100GE Enabled Southport

Paris Telehouse Dublin CLS Halifax Boston 1 Summer Montreal Canix3 Chicago Cleveland Philadelphia Buffalo Toronto 151 Front Ashburn Equinix Lynn Newark 165 Halsey Albany New York 60 Hudson Stamford White Plains Coleraine Reading Pittsburgh Manchester 3500 Steeles

100 Wellington Frankfurt Interxion

Belfast Edmundston London Amsterdam TC2 AM3 AM2 London Sovereign House LHC 11 Hanbury Slough To Manchester To Peterborough To Pakenham Telehouse North Telehouse East Harbour Exchange PET _PAK Reading Somerville St John

Hibernia has been enabling 100G on a span/POP basis to free up channels and increase spectral efficiency

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

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”

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Subsea Network Challenges

 Difficult and expensive to build

 Difficult and expensive to maintain  Difficult to drive throughput due to

• Aged cables • Distance factors

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

Beyond 100G: 400G, 1 Tb, …

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2014 and Beyond

Fixed Internet Managed IP Mobile Data

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QUESTIONS?

Hibernia’s Transatlantic cable

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• Built 2001, 10.16 Tb design capacity, Fully Diverse

• Strategic location: withstands super storm Sandy with