I agree with VASWANI NAVAL that to be remain in business is major challege to all operators and to keep thier customers with them

As i think The quality of work done(whole ofc project) now will matter a lot as cable cuts/system configurations etc will effect the SLAs of operators with their customers.

Ahmad khan

Multinet has already lost its credibility in the corporate/financial services due to their unmanaged MetroNET services. Its only surviving as there are not so many FTTH providers. Sooner or later it will be all over for MultiNET.

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Jamil Ahmed

Every 2nd day you are bound to face a downtime due to unknown reasons of viral/broadcast activity which they even unable to trace.

Cant write anything more. Just pathetic!

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Jamil Ahmed

In todays competitive world spike can Take a business to the highest elevation of success or can be a disastereous so TW1 has this weakness which is in near future not avoidable.

Secondly yes the systems has an edge but to be in Business and To remain in business are different things.

Yes TW1 is in the Business but for remaining in the business they have to work beacuse The Capital cost or fixed cost is very much of the systems like Optical Fiber Cable systems plus the operative expense.To earn profitability they have to have revenue generationg accounts in good quanitity.

To have sophisticated and Moderntechnology is certainly a Big edge and may have first mover advantage but if it would be a waste if this opportunity not exploited fully as i guess in the case of TW1. Having few accounts will not serve the purpose . This will not even cover breakeven period the technology may obslete or hange.

Also as the time passes they may have to face numerous prolems of system faults.

This is just my views and opinion

Regards

VASWANI NAVAL
iamvaswani@gmail.com
03002237927

I do agreed that TWA’s have some edge as compare to anyother Telco in Pakistan but can you let us know what if TW1 under sea cable cuts down. What about redundancy, capacity and MTTR?

Multinet also have Pakistan’s biggest accounts like Wateen, CitiBank, Telenor etc for IPLC connectivity’s on SMW-4 and 100% auto swicthing backup & capacity on SMW-3.

Regards,

Salman Ahmed

-Multinet automatically falls out of the race having none of the two i.e. Original Cable NOC and Landing Station.

-Transworld can create cross connection as well as collect performance monitoring / history alarm of other than Karachi station within no time whereas in SMW3 / SMW4, they’ve to launch formal request with NOC /Network Administrator (for service creation).

-Power is also one of the very important and crtical factors in submarine cables. In Karachi both SMW3 & SMW4 is Single End Feed station as far as their Power Feed Equipment is concerned and in case of failure, they’ll have to wait for Power Reconfiguration (normally not agreed by other parties) or Fault rectification of equipment and non-restorable customers will have to suffer a lot. Transworld has Double End Feed System, in case of failure of any of PFE, other PFE will take load within no time.

-Lower RTD from Karachi to Fujairah (12.291mSec) whereas it is 91.2 (SMW4) and 21(SMW3). Transworld also has the lower latency (130 ms) up to UK than PTCL(145-160 ms).

-The good thing about being an Orascom Telecom company provides Transworld with an edge of having the Mobilink’s long haul as it very own part. If you calculate all of the above and Transworld making active sales for last 8 months capturing Major ISPs like WorldCall (which is also TW’s last mile partner in KHI), Nayatel (TW’s last mile partner in ISB), Cybernet, Gerry’s, BrainTel (also TW’s lastmile partner in LHR) plus many more and Pakistan’s biggest IPLC accounts like of Citi Bank, AT&T, Circlenet…points automatically add up on the graph for Transworld. This is just 8 months of activity inside the market. I’m very sure that this company is going to make waves as compared to PTCL or anyother for that matter. We’re all tired of the way PTCL works and operates and corporate sector is very keen to shift its business to some private opeartor.

Regards,
Bilal Mughal
bilal_mughal@msn.com

First of all let me clear one thing that TW1 is a private undersea cable project owned by Transworld associates (subsidiary of Orascom Telecom) and Transworld has no share in SEA-ME-WE-3 or SEA-ME-WE-4 Cable system.

About Multinet, a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia promotes communications solutions to carriers & enterprises in Pakistan by leveraging Telekom Malaysia’s extensive network capabilities around the globe and has entered the consumer market.

By virtue of TM’s partnership in the 20,000 km undersea cable – Sea-Me-We-4, Multinet is providing International bandwidth on TM’s behalf from past 6 months to their corporate customers in Pakistan, making Multinet the first private company in Pakistan to offer the greatest diversity for international connectivity services to Pakistan via Sea-Me-We - 4. SMW-4’s multi-gigabit system allows Multinet to offer carriers and enterprises connectivity from speeds of 64K and above. Further to Multinet ability to provide international connectivity, Multinet is currently establishing its nationwide long haul optical fiber transmission network (Project Ittehad) in Pakistan, spanning a length of over 4,100 km connecting 107 cities to overcome bandwidth limitations of the domestic market. The infrastructure is built around the latest technology including full redundancy and self healing rings. They are also investing in deploying Metro Optical Fiber Rings in major metros - Lahore, Islamabad, & Karachi in Phase I. Phase II shall comprise of 10 more cities. This shall enable them to connect homes & offices directly to the world, ensuring no third party reliance and empowers them to provide great quality of service at the customer’s premises.

I feel that they are on the right direction but they need to move fast on their long haul optical fiber project because Mobilink already started their long haul fiber and grabbing the market very easily.