Asia Pacific: the third global IP traffic region.

1. Asia Pacific: the third global IP traffic region. 28 April 2004 Sturt Eastwood Director, Europe 1

2. Outline • Asia Pacific IP traffic growth. • Asia Pacific’s position in the global Internet space. • Real drivers behind IP traffic growth in the Asia Pacific region. • Asia Pacific: the centre of the global Internet?

3. Asia- Pacific 22% Asia- Pacific 29% 1991 Total Telephone Subscribers 555 million 1996 Total Telephone Subscribers 877 million Europe 36% Europe 41% Americas 35% Americas 33% Africa/ Arab States 2% Africa/ Arab States 2% Asia- Pacific 36% 2001 Total Telephone Subscribers 1’979 million Europe 35% Americas 27% Africa/ Arab States 2% Will IP Follow Telephony? (ITU World Telecommunication Indicators Database) Total telephone subscribers = mobile + fixed line

4. Top Level Regional Indicators • EMEA • Population - 1.6b • GDP per cap. - US$5,986 • Internet Access (%) - 10.9% • Broadband (%) - 0.8% • Americas • Population - 0.85b • GDP per cap. - US$15,050 • Internet Access (%) - 24.3% • Broadband (%) - 2.9% • Asia Pacific • Population - 3.7b • GDP per cap. - US$2,343 • Internet Access (%) - 5.9% • Broadband (%) - 0.7% Source: ITU, Birth of Broadband, Sept, 2003

5. International IP Backbone Capacity 386.2 Gbit/s 4.4 Gbit/s 62.1 Gbit/s 103.3 Gbit/s Source: Global Internet Geography, 2004, Primetrica

6. IP Backbone Bandwidth Growth Trends Source: Telegeography, International Bandwidth 2004

7. Routing Intra-Asia Traffic via the US 1998: 100% of intra-Asia traffic via US 70% Now: estimated 30% of intra-Asia traffic via US

8. Direct Europe-Asia Capacity Via the US RTD is 368ms Sing to London RTD is 192ms Source: Gartner IP Backbone Opportunities, 2003

9. Broadband Penetration by Region Source: Point Topic, 2004

10. So Where is the Broadband Market Going? Asia broadband rates are ten times faster than in North America and Europe. Corning, 2003 The number of Chinese Internet users connecting to the Internet over broadband connections rose by 173% during 2003. CNNIC, 2004 Top ten broadband countries by lines added Source: Point Topic Asia Pacific will continue to dominate global broadband uptake. By the end of 2004, the region will have 56.6m broadband households, topping North America 37.7m and Western Europe’s 28.7m Broadband Worldwide, 2004 Source: Point Topic

11. Broadband Pricing and Download Speeds UK $67 1M Ger. $69 2M France $48 1M Korea $35 8M Taiwan $36 3M China $24 2M Japan $36 45M $34 1.5M $45 3M $35 1.5M HK $51 6M India $36 0.06M Malay. $26 0.5M Philipp. $50 0.3M Sing. $123 2.5M Aust. $88 1.5M REACH research – typical residential broadband packages, April, 2004

12. LINX NSPIXP2 Equinix JPNAP NIXI HKIX Equinix NAP of the Americas Equinix Equinix Equinix REACH Global IP Backbone Network Trans-Pacific IP backbone Bandwidth has increased from 9.1 to 10.7 Gbit/s in 12mths Over the past year, intra-Asia IP network capacity has Increased from 6.3 to 13.9 Gbit/s During the last year, direct Asia to Europe IP backbone bandwidth has increased from 155 to over 700 Mbit/s To Hong Kong Seoul London NYIIX Shanghai KTIX PAIX Beijing Palo Alto Chicago To London KINX New York Macau San Jose JPIX Guangzhou DIX UAE To Mumbai Tokyo Newark New Delhi To Singapore Washington DC To London Miami Mumbai Bangkok GIX Dallas NIX Manila Los Angeles Chennai MIX Kuala Lumpur To London SOX Singapore Jakarta IIX Perth Auckland Sydney REACH actual customer traffic has increased 2.3 times over the last 12 months.

13. The Global Internet 2004 1998 Europe Asia USA USA Europe AP Europe USA Asia 200?

14. Thank you REACH is anAsian-focused international carrier providing global connectivity services to carriers and service providers 14