1. Abu Saeed Khan Senior Policy Fellow, LIRNEasia abu@lirneasia.net
Rising tide of Internet growth and Shifting paradigm of connectivity
ESCAP 2nd Working Group Meeting on AP-IS Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China August 29-30, 2016
Abu Saeed Khan
Senior Policy Fellow, LIRNEasia

2. Mobile drives global Internet growth
Source: ITU, GSMA, AT Kearny Analysis (May 2016)

3. Telcos make only 17% of total revenues from the global internet economy
Source: GSMA, AT Kearny Analysis (May 2016)

4. Consequence: There is no telco on the top
Five tech groups hold $504 billion in cash between them, nearly 30% of the $1.7 trillion on balance sheets of US non-financials.
And the Content providers are laying submarine cables!

5. Content providers’ ownership of submarine cables
Google
FASTER (part owner)
Junior (sole owner)
Monet (part owner)
Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC) (part owner)
Tannat (part owner)
Unity (part owner)
Facebook
Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) (part owner)
MAREA (part owner)
Microsoft
AEConnect (major capacity buyer)
Hibernia Express (major capacity buyer)
New Cross Pacific (NCP) Cable System (part owner)
MAREA (part owner)
Amazon
Hawaiki (major capacity buyer)
Source: Alan Mauldin, TeleGeography, Rising Tide: Content Providers' Investment in Submarine Cables Continues (May 27, 2016).

6. Data centers’ synchronization driving private bandwidth demand
Source: Anahí Rebatta, TeleGeography (May 9, 2016)

7. Fact Box: Data Centers
World’s largest data center is in Langfang, China. It is 6.3 million square feet — nearly the size of the Pentagon.
There are >7,500 data centers world-wide with >2,600 in the top 20 global cities alone.
With 337 locations, London (UK) has the largest concentration of data centers in any given city across the globe.
The largest concentration of data centers in a U.S. city is within the New York-New Jersey metro area (nearly 306 centers).
Data center construction will grow 21% per year through 2018.
Source: Ciena

8. Private Networks’ share of Bandwidth usage by route, 2015
Source: Alan Mauldin, TeleGeography, Rising Tide: Content Providers' Investment in Submarine Cables Continues (May 27, 2016).

9. Private network growth outpacing Internet backbone growth...
Source: Alan Mauldin, '16 (February 19, 2016)

10. The market is getting concentrated
Source: Alan Mauldin, '16 (February 19, 2016)

11. Concentration is most extreme on Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific routes
Trans-Atl & Trans-Pac Top 5 Content Providers + Top 5 Internet Backbone vs. Everyone Else
Source: Alan Mauldin, '16 (February 19, 2016)

12. Market has redefined peering

13. Conclusion AP-IS should focus on cross-border transmission only.
It will prompt the industry to establish IXPs everywhere.
Content Providers (CPs) are as important as conventional carriers.
Data centers and traffic aggregators taken peering to its next level.
Selling of dark fiber should be a major offering of AP-IS.
Will sensitize carriers and content providers to push regulatory reforms.
Specification of AP-IS should be uniform all the way.
It should mirror the principles of consortium submarine cables.