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Submarine cable in Asia: bubble or business as usual?

Product Type: Market Research Report Publication Date: Jun 26, 2008
 
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SUMMARY

Strong Internet growth and rising demand for redundant capacity in Asia-Pacific are driving renewed submarine cable investment. Some commentators have wondered if this is a bubble that is going to burst. Ovum doesn't think so, but there is potential for danger if the wrong decisions are taken over the next two years.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive summary

  • In a nutshell
  • Key messages

The Asian submarine cable market

  • Overview
  • New cable investment in Asia

The current Asian international market

  • Overview
  • International capacity
  • International traffic
  • Pricing

Supply and demand to 2011

  • Overview
  • Cost of construction
  • Drivers of demand
  • Operator strategy and future prospects

Table of figures

  • Figure 1. Global international capacity investment
  • Figure 2. Inter-regional Internet capacity, 2007
  • Figure 3. Internet capacity (Mbps) and GDP (US$ billion), 2007
  • Figure 4. Internet capacity (Mbps) and broadband lines (000s), 2007
  • Figure 5. Capacity and traffic growth rates, 2005-2007
  • Figure 6. STM-1 (155Mbps) IP transit prices (per Mbps), 2005-2007
  • Figure 7. STM-4 (622Mbps) IP transit prices (per Mbps), 2005-2007
  • Figure 8. GigE (1Gbps) IP transit prices (per Mbps), 2005-2007
  • Figure 9. Broadband connections in Asia (000s)

Submarine cable in Asia: bubble or business as usual?

Publisher: Ovum, Ltd.

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