Fiber Access Case Study in Bangladesh

BtNOG 3 Thimphu, BHUTAN Sumon Ahmed Sabir Chief Technical Officer Fiber@Home Limited Connecng our Future with Light 2 Case study on Fiber@Home : 3

Connecng our Future with Light 3 Pillar of Fiber@Home : 4

IIG ITC NTTN 3 Pillar of Fiber@Home : 5

• 12th April, IIG 2012

ITC

• 5th January, 2012 NTTN

• 7th January, 2009 6

Naonwide Telecommunicaon Transmission Network License: January 7, 2009 NTTN : Open Access Network 7 NTTN : Open Access Network 8

Infrastructure Services

Passive Co-locaon Acve Network Network Facilies

SDH Ethernet FTTX Dark Fiber Space Sharing

TDM through Ethernet over FTTH Fiber Core P2P Rack Sharing SDH Network MPLS

TDM through IP/Ethernet MPLS Pseudo- through MPLS FTTB Fiber Power Sharing wire l2/l3 VPN

λ through GPON FTTC DWDM NTTN : Services 9 Bangladesh Government: 30+ Ministries/Departments 10

• Info-Sarker II: 12,000+ Links Naonwide • Metropolitan Police: 700+ Surveillance Camera • BanglaGov.Net & DC Office Connecvity • Naonal Revenue Board • Bangladesh Army

Telecom & Wimax Operators: 8+

• 2G/3G Back-Hauling of Grameen Phone, Robi, Teletalk and AirTel. • Lambda Service for Robi • Banglalion and Qubee WiMax Back-Hauling

Internet Service Providers: 250+

• Major Clients Aamra, Link-3, DhakaCom, Telnet etc.

IIG, ICX, ITC & IGW: 73+

• Mango, Aamra, Novocom, Mir Telecom, BanglaTrac etc.

Cable Operators: 23+

• UCS, Bengal, Prisma, DG21, DGJado etc. NTTN : Open Access Network 11

•384 Upazilas •1,760km+ U/G •5,000km+ local loop •7 Div HQ and 64 Dist HQ •600 Distribuon Point •4 FTTX Zones •2,500+ Building in FTTH •14,600+ House Holds in FTTH Metro 64 Districts Network

•20,530km+ Fiber •750+ Manpower •6040km+ New Expansion •50+ Full Team Plan •4 HDD Machine •Info- Sarker-III: 11,000km U/ G & Messenger Cable Deployment

Naonwide Resources NTTN : The Vital Role 12 • NTTN plays the vital role in the growth of the data industry In terms of . • Geographic coverage • Connecvity opons and modalies • Consumpon and • Consumer reach • The price tariff has been influenced by the NTTN significantly. • Proacvely expanding network naonwide, • TX service is primary business for NTTN • NTTN core focus is TX service and expansion of business through • Creang new market place naonwide. • Cumulave & focused approach for the data network. • Capitalizing on volumetric business growth & bringing the TX price lower. 13

Let’s Connect Bangladesh to the World Connecvity to Subconnent : 14

• Bangladesh is presently connected only with SMW-4. • SMW-5 will be ready for To Nepal Delhi service by March 2017. To Bhutan `

Kolkata Cox’s Bazar SEA-ME-WE3 Mumbai SEA-ME-WE4 Hyderabad IMEWE TGN Eurasia SMW4 Bangalore Chennai SMW4 SMW3 TIC Cochin One ILD Connecvity : I2I SAFE Problem……!!!!!!! 15

Internaonal Terrestrial Cable

License: January 5, 2012 Commercial: February 6, 2013 Present Internaonal Connecvity to BD: 16

Cable Name : Sea-Me-We 4

Operator : Bangladesh Submarine Benapole KOLKATA Cable Company Limited (BSCCL )

One Terrestrial Landing Staon with India. Products on ITC : 17

Internaonal Terrestrial Cable ( ITC ) :

§ IPLC : IIG/IGW/Enterprise Customer. ( Internaonal Private Leased Circuit ) § IP-Transit/Internet : IIG.

ITC Network of Fiber@Home : 18

Network Capacity : Phase A : 60 Gbps (done) Primary Secondary Phase B : 60 Gbps (done ) Phase C : 20 Gbps ( done) Phase D : 40 Gbps ( done) Phase E : 80 Gbps ( by April 2017)

Bogra Dhaka NMC Soilokupa Natore Koroa

120 Km 70 Km 114 Km 94 Km

103 Km 110 Km All Drop

40 Km 102 Km 43 Km 43 Km 63 Km 76 Km 80 Km 72 Km To INDIA Benapole Jessore Kusa Ishwardi Natore Bogra Sirajgonj Mawna Ashugonj SMW-4 Cable Linearity : 19

Dhaka Cable Linearity Marseille Cox’s Bazar SMW-4

Palermo Mumbai

Chennai

SMW-4 Singapore SMW-4 Cable Linearity : 20

Dhaka ITC Benapole

Marseille Cox’s Bazar

SMW-4

MCLS Palermo Mumbai Airtel Airtel Chennai SMW-4 TATA SMW-4 Tuas Airtel TIC Singapore Changi i2i Connecvity and Capacity: 21

Bharti Airtel TATA Comm.

Started with a 2.5gbps link in November 2012 22

Internaonal Internet Gateway

License: April 12, 2012 Commercial: September 16, 2012 F@H IIG: 23

TATA Cogent Bhar Singtel NTT EQ-IX

Fiber@Home IIG

ISP/Telco/Wimax

USER Products on IIG: 24

Internaonal Internet Gateway (IIG) :

§ IP-Transit/Internet : ISP § IP-Transit/Internet : Telco § IP-Transit/Internet : Wimax Connecvity and Capacity: 25

Chennai/Mumbai Singapore/London

Started with 622mbps capacity in June 2012 Upstream Partners : 26 Affiliaon with the Community : ITC-IIG 27

South Asian Network Operators Group 28 29

Last mile Access Metro Ethernet vs GPON 30 GPON Equipments 31

OLT (Opcal Line Terminal) Splier (1:32 or 1:64) (In Central office) (In LDP-Local Distribuon Point)

ONU (Opcal Network Unit)/ONT (Opcal Network Terminal) (In BDB-Building Distribution Box/Clients Home/ Building basement)

End Device (Laptop/Desktop/Television/Switch/Router etc.) GPON Soluon 32 Fiber to the Building(FTTB) 33 Fiber to the Home(FTTH) 34 First FTTH Project in Mohakhali 35

Ducng & Cabling Area : 23 km Total Subscriber Approx : 3000 Commenced on April 2009 Commissioned : Feb., 2010 Local Distribuon Point(LDP) 36

32 LDPs in Mohakhali DOHS All LDPs Contain Spliers Right Vendor & Right Technology : 37

Transmission :

Router :

Switch : Right Vendor & Right Technology : 38

GPON :

Power : 39

Challenges : Being a Carrier Challenges : NTTN/ITC/IIG 40 § Forecasng of Traffic Growth § 40 Lambda is not enough. § Choosing the right vendor and technology § GPON/EPON § 10G/40G/100G/400G § CWDM/DWDM § Carrier Ethernet/MPLS § Geographical Limitaon. § Revenue. § Regulatory Support. Forecasng the traffic growth 41

Dhaka STM16 (Gulshan) Uttara STM16

20km 63km 50 km 39 km

Mirpur Daudkandi PANCHDONA Kaliakoir

11km 27km 30 km 47 km

Dhanmondi Chandina RAIPURA Tangail

10km 53km 33 km 47 km

Kamarkand Motijheel Chowdhogram SARAIL KDA 18km

28km 40 km 47 km 36 km Feni Ulipur Sherpur Nowapara

28km 40 km 38 km 58 km Zorarganj Dewpara Bogra Kaliganj 48km 36 km 41 km 44 km Kumira Balagong Singra Soilokupa

28km Year 2009: 39 km 41 km Nandankanan Backbone STM-16 30 km Chowgachi Kusthia BSC 30 km 52 km

10km Poba, Boroygram 58 km CTG : Nandonkanon 15 km

Rajshahi City Forecasng the Traffic Growth 42

40 Lambda is not enough

Year 2016: Per Lambda 100G Traffic forecast made in 2012 43

70

60 In reality Present Internet bandwidth 50 consumpon in Bangladesh is 325 gbps

40

Gbps 30

20

10

0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Geo-Problem : 44

Earth Segment Disconnected by River 45

Our Objecve

{ Service : Quality of Service –> Quality of Experience } 46

Thank You.

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