Extra Cables, Extra Redundancy, and Higher Efficiency in Africa and the Center East


Final month, I had the pleasure of talking at Cairo ICT about colocation and connectivity tendencies.

I coated international bandwidth first, adopted by a rundown on bandwidth within the Center East and Africa.

Subsequent up, information facilities and interconnection hubs, with a dialogue on the place the hubs are, what makes a hub, and the way hubs develop. Lastly, I talked about end-user demand, which is essential with the expansion of web and demand.

You possibly can catch a video of this presentation and obtain my slides under.


[Transcription starts at 04:43]

If we watch submarine cables, we form of have an concept the place hyperscalers need to go, or transfer, or construct their submarine cables, or their consortium cables to attach these information facilities.

So within the subsequent three years, we’re seeing $11 billion of funding. It is an enormous, enormous quantity of development. It takes going again to the early 2000s earlier than we see development like this. So that is all introduced funding.

Why will we see this? As a result of globally, we’re seeing demand, and we’re speaking about capability rising at 20-30% a 12 months.

So, to fulfill the demand, business components like decreasing unit prices. A vital side for hyperscalers is to reinforce route variety as a result of, as we noticed with what occurred in Africa, Center East in the beginning of the 12 months—the cable cuts within the Crimson Sea and off the coast of Côte d’Ivoire—we noticed numerous issues with connectivity.

So although there are three or 4 cables per facet—long-haul cables—that go all the best way down, the hyperscalers see this, and so they say, “oh, we want extra connectivity, extra resiliency.” So we’ll be seeing much more cables coming in.

Additionally, numerous the cables are getting old out, totally on the Africa facet. A number of the cables got here in round 2010, about 2008, 2012. These cables are beginning to become older, economically nearly finish of life, so it is getting nearer.

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That is only a map—as a result of TeleGeography is maps—that reveals the latest cable methods in crimson, the deliberate cables in grey, after which all of the blue dots are mainly what number of landings per location. When you look intently, the place do you see a ton of landings over the following few years?

A number of it across the peninsula within the Center East and the northeast facet of Africa, after all, together with Egypt. And that is why we’re right here.

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This picture reveals the place all of the deliberate information facilities, hyperscaler cloud information facilities have been introduced to be constructed. And if you happen to look as soon as once more it’s very dense across the peninsula, Arabian Peninsula, and in Africa.

Now, a few issues which can be vital after we’re speaking in regards to the development and the connectivity is pricing.

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That is the weighted median of 100 GigE IP transit, mainly shopping for web, on the planet. Mainly, inexperienced is a really low value globally and crimson is a really excessive value. So we see three areas left with very excessive costs for connectivity, or IP transit, within the Center East space, India, and Australia.

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After which if we take a look at this, it is displaying the speed of decline. We see the crimson is a sluggish charge of decline and the inexperienced is a quick charge of decline.

India is declining a little bit quicker. South Africa has been declining in a short time lately, however the Center East and a few elements of East Asia are holding. After which within the U.S. and Western Europe there hasn’t been a lot of a drop as a result of costs are already so low. Maintain that in thoughts as we go ahead.


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