What is Global Bandwidth?

TeleGeography's Global Bandwidth Research Service is the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of data and analysis for the wholesale long-haul networks and undersea cable market.

Content Highlights

• In depth analysis of wholesale network service providers, supply, demand, costs, and pricing
• 119 submarine system profiles
• 176 carrier network profiles
• Quarterly updates on network deployments, upgrades and consolidations

What is in
Global Bandwidth?

Supply and Demand

TeleGeography's Global Bandwidth Research Service provides expert analysis of supply and demand for long-haul network capacity and services—on land and under water, across borders and within domestic territories. TeleGeography's analysis encompasses

• Supply: bandwidth by route, city, and region
• International bandwidth usage for 64 countries
• Effect of network upgrades and new cable construction on supply, competition and pricing
• Implications of Internet video and traffic growth on long-haul bandwidth demand
• Areas of undersupply, and potential areas of oversupply
• Summary table of planned submarine cables, including cable name, route, ownership, projected capacity and construction cost, landing stations and ready-for-service dates

Costs

• Terrestrial network construction, upgrade and operating costs
• Undersea cable construction, upgrade, operating and unit costs

Construction Cost of Submarine Cables, 1998-2010

Prices

• Regional pricing analysis covering developments in North America, Europe, Asia, trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific, US-Latin America, and Europe-Asia routes and regions
• Price trends for high-speed and low-speed circuits
• Long-haul ethernet pricing developments
• Trends in distance based pricing
• Impact of transition to high capacity circuits on the effective price of bandwidth

U.S.-Latin America Demand, Revenue, and Effective Price Change, 2002-2007

Wholesale Carrier and Undersea Cable Profiles

TeleGeography's Global Bandwidth Research Service profiles 176 long-haul network operators worldwide and 119 undersea cable operators

Carrier profiles include network maps, a summary of cities and metropolitan area networks covered, and undersea cable holdings. The profiles also document carrier's service offerings, purchase options, contact information, and company background

Submarine cable profiles include cable maps, landing points, lit and potential capacity (by segment, where applicable), service offerings, contact information, and ownership background

Content Samples

What is the Networks Database?

Networks Database

Our Global Bandwidth Research Service includes a searchable networks database—a valuable online tool for understanding network geography and knowing the competitive landscape.  Use the database to quickly answer such questions as:

Which carriers connect to Dallas and Atlanta?

AboveNet, AT&T, BT Global Services, Cogent Communications, Global Crossing, Interstate FiberNet, Level 3, Mzima Networks, nLayer, Qwest, Reliance FLAG, Sprint, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, Time Warner Telecom, Verizon Business, XO Communications

Of these carriers, AT&T has most pops on its network, with 406.

What undersea cables land in China?

APCN-2, China-Japan Fiber-Optic Submarine Cable (C-J FOSC), China-U.S. Cable Network (CHUS), EAC-C2C, FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA), SeaMeWe-3, Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) Cable System-Phase 1

TPE will enter service in Q3 2008. This will increase capacity to China by 77%.

How many operators offer wavelength services in London?

44 carriers who offer wavelength services have a PoP in London.

* All answers drawn from Global Bandwidth's Network Database as of March 2008.

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