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Building Integrated ICT InfrastructureByron ClatterbuckChief Commercial OfficerSEACOMApril 16, 2014
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The African Telecoms / Bandwidth Landscape Has Been Transformed Over The Past 5 Years…
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The Arrival Of Submarine Systems And Rapid Terrestrial Fibre Development Has Launched An African Data Revolution
Pilot Schemes And Full Scale VAS Propositions Are Being Launched Across
The RegionInternet Usage Is Increasing Rapidly
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Ghana Kenya Mozambique Nigeria South Africa Tanzania
Throughput (kbps)2011
2008
38
650
2008 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa Internet Bandwidth (Gbps)
Source: ITU
Source: Global Internet Geography, 2013 Source: PingER, March 2012
Note: Illustrative examples
Kenya Tanzania Uganda0%5%
10%15%20%25%30%35%
Percentage of Individuals using the Internet
2009 2012
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…But Various Bottlenecks Continue To Negatively Impact Latency And Service Quality
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Access Speeds Lag BRIC Nations… …Whilst Quality Still Has Room For Improvement
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Note: MOS provides a numerical indication of the perceived quality from the users' perspective of received media after compression and/or transmission. The MOS is expressed as a single number in the range 1 to 5, where 1 is lowest perceived audio quality, and 5 is the highest perceived audio quality measurementSource: PingER, March 2012
1.4
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1.5
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0.3 0.3 0.41.2 0.8
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Overall User Experience Levels Remain Lower Than The Rest Of The World Despite Recent Improvements
2011 Throughput (kbps) 2011 Inter Packet Delay Variation (ms)
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1.7
1.0
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3.74.0 4.0
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3.13.6 3.4 3.2 3.2
3.9 4.0 4.13.8 4.0
4.4 4.3 4.2
South Africa Kenya Tanzania Mozambique Nigeria Ghana Brazil Russia India China US Japan UK
A Mean Opinion Score (MOS) of greater than 3.5 can generally support VoIP services such as Skype
2011
2008
Source: PingER, March 2012Source: PingER, March 2012
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Given These Latency Issues, International Bandwidth Alone Is Yet To Fully Unlock Demand For Internet Based Services
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Major Internet Applications Are Still Largely Unavailable In Africa Given The Limited Content Hosted Locally Within The Region
AfricaKenya South Africa BRICsBrazil Russia China India Selected Developed MarketsJapan France Germany United Kingdom Canada Japan United States
P Peering locations in mid-2013 P New peering locations added since mid-2009
Source: Telegeography, 2013
Until content in all its forms is brought to Africa, and the tools to create local content are made available, Africa will continue to lag in creativity, efficiency and revenue generating potential from the Internet
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Bringing Rich Content And Services To Africa Will Drive New Demand And Usage To Levels In Line With Other Regions
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Africa Latin America Europe North America APAC
Outside Top 5 Tunneling Marketplaces Filesharing Communications
Gaming Web Browsing Real-Time Entertainment Social Networking
Source: Sandvine, 2H 2013, Aggregate of upstream and downstream traffic
Peak Period Mobile Internet Traffic Composition
21 348 358 1,100
Monthly Consumer Consumption
(Mb):444
Delivering this internet experience to African enterprises and consumers requires multiples of the current levels of bandwidth in the region
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…Thereby Unlocking Africa’s Internet Potential
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Africa today Africa in 2025
16% Internet penetration
67m smartphones
52m Facebook users
167m Internet users
>50% urban residents online
$18bn Internet GDP contribution
~50% Internet
penetration
360m smartphone
s
600m Internet
users
$300bn Internet
GDP contributio
n
$75bn in e-commerce
sales
Source: McKinsey
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Multiple Tier-1 Upstream Providers & EU IX Peers
Cape Town
Nairobi
Dar Es Salaam
Kampala
SEACOMWACS
ASIA/EU Tier-1
Upstream via Mumbai
Multiple Tier-1 Upstream Providers & EU IX Peers
SEACOM’s IP Network – Focused on quality!
Mombasa
Maputo
Mtunzini
Johannesburg
Mumbai
MarseilleLondon
SEACOM Router
Global Internet routes through interconnection with multiple Tier-1 networks
Built in resiliency through diverse West & East Cable Systems (including own terrestrial fibre networks in South Africa between WACS CLS, CT, JHB & SEACOM CLS)
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Low latency content from leading CDN nodes deployed on SEACOM MPLS Network on African continent.
3 African networks & content
Djibouti
Amsterdam
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SEACOM IP Transit networkPeers at multiple IX’s:- LINX- AMS-IX- France-IX
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