The Ethernet industry is now worth $100 billion per year, according to Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet Inventor, now UT Austin Professor of Innovation.
Infographic from Tata Communications: A visual representation of the evolution of Ethernet. Click to see enlarged version.
Henry Bohannon recaps how Ethernet has evolved over the past 40 years and how it is expected to continue to change our lives in the years to come.
In March, Tata Communications announced that it had completed the world’s first wholly owned cable network ring around the world. Here’s a sundial schematic that charts the global network of Tata Communications circumnavigating the globe.
This infographic shows the locations of earth stations, cable landing stations, points of presence and Global Meeting Exchange hubs. (click to view/download enlarged chart)
The global fibre optic network seamlessly links markets across Asia, Middle East, the U.S. and Europe to meet the rising demand for 24/7 commerce.
It is part of the Tata Global Network (TGN), which comprises one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly 1 million square feet of data centre and collocation space worldwide.
Microsoft Corp, Tata Communications, ACT Conferencing, and Kathea have joined the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC).
The OVCC is a group of leading service and solution providers creating the blueprint to deliver high-quality video collaboration that connects any vendor, any network and any device, anywhere.
23 Members of the OVCC
AARnet Pty., Ltd.
ACT Conferencing#
AT&T*
Acme Packet
BCS Global*
Bharti Airtel*
BT Conferencing*
Dialogic, Inc.*
Glowpoint
Kathea#
Masergy*
Microsoft#
Orange Business Services*
PCCW Global Ltd.
Polycom, Inc.*
Sabre Travel Network
SingTel Group
Tata Commumications#
Teliris*
Telstra*
Verizon*
XConnect
YorkTel Corporation
* the 11 founding members
# the 4 new members
Six months after the launch of the OVCC in October 2011, there are now 23 members in the independent group.
OVCC members contribute to and implement the OVCC technical and commercial blueprint, using established standards and best practices to accelerate and commercialize business-to-business video communications.
OVCC members are committed to providing video around the world to enable enterprise users to place and receive video calls beyond corporate firewalls and across standards-based and proprietary video platforms.
The first OVCC services are scheduled to launch later this year.
Service providers will develop and implement OVCC technical and commercial specifications based on industry standards, best practices and business approaches to answer the need for interconnection, addressing, signaling, interoperability and service coordination.
Interoperable, high-quality connectivity across networks and devices should allow network providers to profitably and predictably monetize their inter-enterprise video exchanges.
By making interoperability requirements invisible to the enterprise, the OVCC specification enables enterprise users to leverage video conferencing investments and enable more efficient value chains – spanning customers, distributors and suppliers – to improve the speed and efficiency of doing business.
Video collaboration stakeholders interested in closing video connectivity gaps can meet OVCC members in person at TIA in Dallas, Texas, June 5-7, or at CommunicAsia in Singapore, June 19-22.
Tata Communications has completed the world’s first wholly owned cable network ring around the world. The global fibre optic network seamlessly links markets across Asia, Middle East, the U.S. and Europe to meet rising demand for 24/7 commerce. (Update: Click here to view Infographic)
Launch of the TGN-Gulf Landing constitutes part of Tata Communications's global fibre optic network.
This is following the official launch of its Tata Global Network – Gulf (TGN-Gulf) and Eurasia (TGN-EA) cables.
The TGN-Gulf cable sub-sea cable system connects the Gulf to Mumbai, India and onward to the rest of the Tata Global Network (TNG).
“Our customers, whether a European auto-manufacturer, an Asian hotel group or a large U.S. financial services firm, need to compete in global markets and are demanding faster and more reliable worldwide connectivity,” says Vinod Kumar, Managing Director and CEO, Tata Communications. The TGN-EA cable connects Europe to India, through Egypt, bringing increased capacity, resilience and enhanced communications links to not only the Middle East, but to the rest of the world. It will initially offer speeds of up to 10Gbps.
Tata Communications is a global communications service provider that owns and operates the world’s largest subsea cable network.
TNG covers nearly 20% of the world’s Internet routes reaching over 240 countries and territories. These countries constitute 99.7 per cent of the world’s GDP.
The completion of the final link across Egypt enables Tata Communications to offer its customers unique access to a wholly-owned express route cable from Europe to India with improved latency, redundancy and scalability.
In conjunction with the company’s recently launched TGN-Gulf these routes will cater to the increasing demand for voice, video and data services in and out of the Gulf region.
“Companies and carriers in developed and emerging economies require the confidence and security delivered by a wholly-owned network such as Tata Communications’ TGN,” added Kumar.The round-the-world ring also offers city-to-city connections in contrast to more traditional networks which only link cable landing stations.
This approach is more cost-effective, flexible and provides a faster time to market delivery, as well as being easier to maintain and manage.
The 9,280 km TGN-EA system which links Europe and India, running across the Mediterranean and the Middle East, uses fibre-optic technology based on microscopic glass fibres as thin as a strand of human hair, and offers customers the lowest levels of latency with RTD around 92 msec with speeds from 2Mbit/s to 10Gbit/s available.
Singapore-headquartered Tata Communications is now designated a “Technology Supplier of Formula 1”, with category exclusive designations as “Official Connectivity Provider of Formula 1” and “Official Web Hosting and Content Delivery Network of Formula1.com”.
Vinod Kumar, MD and CEO of Tata Communications and Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of Formula One group announced the multi-year technology service and marketing agreement at a London press conference today. Photo from Tata.
Tata Communications will deliver connectivity to all 20 Formula 1 race locations over its global network, the largest in the world.
“Formula 1 requires fast and secure connectivity, because even a split second of downtime can have huge repercussions for its business, brand and reputation,” says Vinod Kumar, Managing Director and CEO of Tata Communications.It will also provide hosting and content delivery services to Formula1.com, which is accessed by tens of millions of fans around the globe.
Formula One group businesses and race locations will now be connected to the Tata Global Network (TGN), supported by secure MPLS connectivity.
Formula One Management’s IT infrastructure and Formula1.com will be colocated and hosted in Tata Communications’ data centres.
Tata Communications’ capabilities in video and content delivery networks (CDN) will enable uninterrupted, high-quality connectivity to the multi-media portal on Formula1.com.
“Connectivity and content delivery are critical issues for Formula 1 and working with the best in the business is a priority for us,” says Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of Formula One group.The (TGN) has Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific data transfer capacity of one terabit per second.
This capacity will ensure Tata Communications to fully support Formula1.com during race weekends, when the site gets on average four million unique visits per weekend, peaking at seven million over some events.
Tata Communications’ infrastructure will enable the sport’s official website to instantly scale up to cope with these significant and sometimes unpredictable traffic spikes.
Tata Communications will also provide Formula1.com with a new Managed Security Suite and will apply an additional layer of managed security monitoring to ensure an increased level of protection to Formula One Management’s IT infrastructure.
Looking ahead, Tata Communications and Formula One Management will also work in close collaboration on research and development around connectivity and the latest video technologies.
Tata Communications and nine other telecom leaders (including Telstra and Sprint) pledge their commitment today to interconnect their business video communities – driving global cross-network collaboration.
Tata Communications and nine other telecom leaders form Global Meeting Alliance
The Global Meeting Alliance is an open ecosystem that allows any service provider to connect to enterprises and institutions on all major continents, irrespective of carrier, following a similar business model to the airline alliance networks.
Peter Quinlan, Vice President, Integrated Business Video Services, Tata Communications, highlighted his company’s commitment towards “… facilitating an open, global ecosystem that moves business video from an intracompany experience to a collaboration tool with worldwide reach.”The community aims to solve shared-industry challenges to make business video available globally, simple to connect, and affordable for all.
The launch represents the largest functioning global collaboration between service providers in business video services.
Launch members include Safaricom in Africa, Telstra in Australia, Etisalat, Qtel and Mobily in the Middle East, Neotel in South Africa and Sprint, Glowpoint and TELUS in North America.
Leveraging Tata Communications’ large number of intercarrier agreements, customers of the Global Meeting Alliance members now have access to an international Telepresence network of 3rd party video endpoints, as well as the largest global public Telepresence room network consisting of 40 public Telepresence suites in 20 countries.
Singapore Headquartered Tata Communications maintained strong revenue growth across operations (for the quarter ended 31 December, 2011), with gross revenues increasing 19% year-on-year (YoY).
The main takeaways from the report are summarised below:
Commenting on the performance of Q3 FY2012, Mr. Vinod Kumar, CEO and MD, Tata Communications, said, “We are very pleased to report a healthy improvement in the operating performance of the business. Global voice has demonstrated continued improvement in volumes and revenues. The company’s global data business is scaling up as planned. Complementing our leadership in the enterprise data segment within India, we have been growing our international revenues as reflected in the enhanced uptake of our customised offerings and managed services.”For the quarter ended 31 December, 2011, consolidated gross revenues were at Rs. 36,041 million.
This is against Rs. 33,736 million in the previous sequential quarter and Rs. 30,180 million in the same quarter last year.
The Core Business accounted for Rs. 31,648 million – against Rs. 29,079 million in Q2 FY2012 and Rs. 28,535 million in Q3FY2011.
The Startup Business, primarily Neotel, posted revenues of Rs. 4,394 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2012.
This is against Rs. 4,657 million in Q2 FY2012 and Rs. 1,645 million in Q3 FY2011.
Read the detailed presentation of details from the report here.
