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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (25619)	2/28/2008 2:25:14 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

OFC: Qwest CTO maps optical’s future [discusses hurdles to be overcome before meshing becomes widespread] Feb 26, 2008 \| By Ed Gubbins \| San Diego Pieter Poll, Qwest Communications’ chief technology officer, described some of the innovations critical to the future of optical networks, but he also identified hurdles to the commercial implementation of those innovations in a speech at the OFC NFOEC show today. Qwest is seeing demand today for 40 Gb/s links today, Poll said, but the economics of the technology are still problematic. Though carriers complained a year ago at this show that the cost of 40 Gb/s needed to come down, those costs are still too high, he said. “The cost advantage on the IP side drives us to use n-by-10 GigE meshes versus 40 Gb/s pipes.” [FAC: Note, the last sentence above includes an inappropriate use of the term "meshes" when instead the official was referring to 10 Gbps "bundles" - e.g., creating a 40 Gbps pipe by combining four (4) x 10 Gbps pipes through multilinking techniques (aka channel bonding, platooning, etc.)] Cont.: telephonyonline.com ------

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (25619)	6/5/2009 7:00:32 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Eight Asian telcos to build subsea fiber optic network Higher bandwidth capacity and redundancy will benefit region known for its subsea earthquakes By Ek Heng \| Telecommunications \| June 3, 2009 A new submarine fiber optic network, known as Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG), is in the offing with a memorandum of understanding signed recently by eight of Asia’s biggest telcos. Targeted to be ready for service in 2011, the 8,000 kilometer network with a minimum design capacity of four terabits per-second will link the region’s growing economies. [...] The APG network will connect Japan, Korea, mainland China, Taiwan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. The signatories to the agreement for the development of the gateway are China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, NTT Communication (Japan), Vietnam Post and Telecommunications (VNPT), Korea Telecom (KT), Philippines Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) and Telekom Malaysia. The telcos will jointly finance and own the APG network. [...] APG Route Map: telecomengine.com Contrast: AAG Cable, also mentioned in the article: 3.bp.blogspot.com Complete article, with update notes on concurrent submarine builds taking place in the region: telecomengine.com All of which reaffirms that the Telegeography segment (during the early part) of the video presentation, Google Internet Summit 2009: Networks and Statistics Session, is all the more relevant: youtube.com ------