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Steve Song (NSRC)Next Generation Optical Networks
14 Feb 2017
Fibre To The Continent
Undersea Fibre
The growth of undersea fibre optic capacity has been a catalyst for change.
The impact of technological change often takes years to
manifest
https://afterfibre.nsrc.org
The arrival of undersea capacity to African shores in 2009 triggered a wave of terrestrial fibre build-out in Africa
Available fibre maps lack
detail
Or where
detailed they lack
physical routes
Or they are in
Chinese
Or they may have
been edited once to often
Access to comprehensive fibremaps can prevent duplication, promote investment, identify coverage gaps
Good Practice Exists!
Here in South Africa, Dark Fibre Africa publishes a comprehensive map of their fibre network.
https://afterfibre.nsrc.org
AfTerFibre map represents five years of scrounging data
Open Telecom Data
There is a need for more transparency and openness in telecom data
Fibre As Infrastructure
Treating fibre as infrastructurewill lead us to different decisions about investment.
What Does Open Access Mean?
• Competition in all layers of the IP network allowing a wide variety of physical networks and applications to interact in an open architecture.
• It seeks to build on the characteristics of the IP network to allow devolved local solutions rather than centralised ones.
• It encourages market entry from smaller, local companies and seeks to ensure that no one entity can take a position of dominant market power.
• It requires transparency to ensure fair trading within and between the layers based on clear, comparative information on market prices and services.
State-Owned Infrastructure Paradox
The private sector is better at managing the asset but cannot be relied on to push prices down
Government-run networks tend to be inefficient and less responsive to the market
Diversifying Investment and Ownership
• Could the EASSy/WIOCC model work for state-owned terrestrial networks?
• If governments sold off a percentage of capacity to an SPV with financing support for small investors
Fibre has turned up the pressure on regulators to make more
wireless spectrum available
2006 Digital Switchover Decision
2007
2007
2010
Regulation Struggles to Keep Pace
With wireless in particular there is a need for more
diverse strategies
Unlicensed
Dynamic
Set-asides
Growth of Unlicensed Spectrum Use
WiFi in Africa 2016
New Generation of Rural GSM
The Internet is made of and made by people
NSRC has been building the capacity of Internet engineers in more than 120countries since 1992.
More investment is needed!
Thank you
Steve Song
@stevesong
https://nsrc.org