Singapore, September 7-8, 2022 – Telin was pleased to participate in the 25th Submarine Networks World, held from Wednesday, September 7 until Thursday, September 8, 2022 at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore by Terapinn. Submarine Networks World is the world’s largest annual global subsea communications community gathering, offering a dedicated platform to exchange knowledge, explore the latest projects, and develop strategies and lucrative new partnerships to drive the industry forward.
Telin’s Chief Technology Officer Nanang Hendarno was featured as a panelist in a keynote panel session together with Eastern Light’s Chief Operating Officer Fredrik Hane, Datawave Network Ltd’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Wickham, Infinera’s Vice President Subsea PLM Antti Kankkunen, and Cambridge Management Consulting’s Senior Partner Aki Uljas as the moderator. The panel session was held on the second day of the conference, Thursday, September 8, 2022 at the Technology Theatre.
On the session, the panelists discussed the state of the industry: is the industry treading water or are there new network design concepts on the horizon?
Nanang shared his thoughts on the global chip shortage issue, and discussed how to optimize open SDN capability in Subsea Network as well as regulatory support. Nanang said, “The market for international bandwidth continues to shift from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps, and we expect a gradual shift from 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps. It is painful since it takes a long time to upgrade the capacity, more than 10 months. Thus, we need to plan internal capacity for a longer period (2 years) and add more capacity (20%) for spare, to secure competitive capacity pricing. We also need to ask the suppliers to have new supply chain methodologies to anticipate force majeure issues in the future which could affect submarine cable capacity fulfillment, for example COVID-19, war, geopolitical issues, and many more issues.”
Addressing industry development five or ten years from now, he added, “Many applications need huge bandwidth and interconnection between islands or regions, hence subsea cable will still carry more than 98% (EoY 2021) of international traffic and hold a very critical role in support of global economic growth.”