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Internet2 2014 Global Summit LAN Connectivity between North and South America

Pietro Valocchi – Latin American Nautilus - April 9, 2014

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Integrated and resilient proprietary backbones in Europe, Mediterranean Basin, US and LatAm

Unique footprint in the Mediterranean area via bilateral/consortium cables and MED Nautilus network

Dual protected fiber path in Europe Full IP multiservice network

51 cities in 28 countries 122 PoPs >1,000 PoPs through partners 55,000 Km fully resilient Pan-European

backbone, covering 13 countries 14,000 Km Italian Network 30,000 Km LANautilus backbone in 8

countries 7,000 km MED Nautilus backbone,

covering 3 countries 450,000 km submarines cables

TI Sparkle Singapore Pte Ltd

Focus on regions with higher IP/Data traffic

growth TI Sparkle of North America Inc.

TI Sparkle Global Network Coverage

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Network architecture

SAC & TAC Cable System 3Tbps target capacity Submarine links Saint Croix – Fortaleza Fortaleza – Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro – Sao Paulo Sao Paulo – Las Toninas Valparaiso– Lima Lima – Panama

Terrestrial link Las Toninas – Buenos Aires Buenos Aires – Santiago Santiago – Valparaiso

MAC Cable System Saint-Croix – Miami Saint-Croix – New York New York – Miami

Cooks Cable System Panama – Saint Croix Venezuela access via BU

New proprietary infrastructure planned in Miami - Saint

Croix

TX infrastructure

Santiago

Lurin

Lima

Rio

Miami

St. Croix

Panama

Las Toninas

Valparaiso

New York

BA

Rio Sao Paulo

Fortaleza

Venezuela

Santos

LAN Network LS POP

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S L T E

S L T E

North Wet Plant

South Wet Plant

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Diversely Routed LAN Owned Dark Fiber to

POP

W D M

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LAN DWDM LAN BW MGR/OTN

LAN SLTE’s

W D M

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W D M

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Full Network Management

LAN RTR’s LAN BW MGR/OTN

LAN DWDM

LAN SDH

Extension of Submarine links to the terrestrial network By separating protection control planes, terrestrial fiber cuts do not affect full ring switch.

PoP LS

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POP - Landing Station Backhaul

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Services

Santiago

Lurin

Lima

Rio TH

Miami

St. Croix

Panama

Las Toninas

Valparaiso

New York

BA

Rio Sao Paulo

Fortaleza

Santos

Facilities provided by LAN

10G links delivered on LAN infrastructure in:

Miami

Fortaleza

Rio de Janeiro

Sao Paulo

Santiago

LAN Network

LS POP

Interconnect Point

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Network characteristics

Characteristics of the submarine links Expensive infrastructures Very long segments Challenging power budget

A B km/000 St. Croix Fortaleza 4,2 Fortaleza Rio 3,5 Rio Santos 0.4

Needs for leading edge technology in order to optimize spectrum efficiency

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Technologies

Evolving technologies 10Gbps ALU DWDM technology deployed in

2000 40Gbps Ciena technology implemented in 2011 100Gbps Ciena technology implemented in 2013

Alcatel Submarine Networks baseline and initial upgrades Gen 1 Tera10 10Gb waves (NRZ) using 100GHz

spacing Gen 2 1620 10Gb waves (NRZ) using 50GHz

spacing expansion via 50/50 splitter Gen 3 1620 10Gb waves (NRZ) using 33GHz

spacing

Ciena Submarine upgrades 40G BPSK & QPSK expansion using 50/100GHz

spacing via additional 50/50 splitter 100G WaveLogic3 QPSK

Coexistence of different technologies

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Spectrum sharing

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Spectrum partition by means of optical splitters