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Mapping The Digital Silk Road Jim Cowie Chief Scientist
ENOG 8
Baku, Azerbaijan
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Before the Internet…
Sanskrit, Persian inscriptions in Baku’s Fire Temple
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• Common paths for cultural transmission and economic trade, from China to Europe
• Established based on local need, by merchants and traders in search of profit
• Long-distance relationships that were alternately fragile and resilient
Silk Road: The Original “Network of Networks”
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Terrestrial
Sea Lanes
Not One, But 2 Silk Roads
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• Decay of Byzantium, End of Mongol Empire, Black Death
• Rise of Maritime Europe End-to-End Carriers Replaced Local Handoffs
Decline (14th c.)
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• Decay of Byzantium, End of Mongol Empire, Black Death
• Rise of Maritime Europe End-to-End Carriers Replaced Local Handoffs
Decline (14th c.)
“The MPLS Tunnel of the Late 14th Century”
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A careful replication of the ancient trade routes
Today’s Submarine Cable Map
Credit: http://www.cablemap.info/
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What About Terrestrial Networks?
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Fiber Routes Follow Railway Networks Northern Route • Russia/CIS Southern Route • Turkey, Caucasus,
Iran via Pakistan, India
Breaks of Gauge along Russian imperial frontier
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• Baku-Novorossiysk
• Baku-Supsa
• Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum
• Baku-Turkmenbasy (Some day?)
Fiber Routes Also Follow Energy Pipelines
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• Geopolitics of Caspian and Black Sea pipelines
• Every project creates potential new fiber routes
A Complex Game
Credit: Le Monde Diplomatique http://mondediplo.com/blogs/pipeline-chess-across-the-black-sea3
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• EU and APAC drive demand
• Must mitigate risks of submarine pinchpoints
• Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Iran: key terrestrial transmission routes
Spheres of Influence: Terrestrial Internet
Caucasus and Caspian nations are (literally) pivotal.
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Dyn measures the Digital Silk Road from: • Baku • Tashkent • Izmir • Istanbul • Ankara • Yerevan • Tehran • Amman • Karachi • Islamabad • Bishkek • Almaty • ….
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Packets can travel great distances from end to end
Who peers with whom, and where, helps determine customer experience
Distances Are Deceiving
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<=50ms RTT
• Baku
• Krasnodar
• Astrakhan
• Direct connection between Delta and Rostelecom 44467
Baku’s Local Neighborhood
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50-100ms RTT
Dublin
Tunis
Astana
Novosibirsk
Tashkent
“Two hops” from Baku
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100-150ms RTT
• Reykjavik
• Djibouti
• Almaty, Bishkek
• Khabarovsk
• Tbilisi, Yerevan (!)
Two Long Hops…
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100-150ms RTT
• Traffic traverses roundtrip path to Sofia, Bulgaria
• Delta, Armentel both buying transit from L3
Baku-Yerevan
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100-150ms RTT median via longhaul transit
10ms optimal via direct local transit
Baku-Tbilisi: “Only” 560km
12 Aug: Caucasus Online shifts Delta relationship from Frankfurt to Sofia
Egrisi maintains backup transit relationship with Delta
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92ms (Baku – Sofia – Tbilisi via Level3)
136ms (Baku – Frankfurt – Tbilisi via TeliaSonera)
Baku-Tbilisi: Where Do You Want To Hand Off?
10ms (Baku –Tbilisi direct interconnect)
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Direct Connection = Faster Service
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150-250ms RTT
• Vladivostok
• Dakar
• Persian Gulf
• Nairobi
• North America
Even Farther From Baku
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250ms++ RTT
• South America
• South Africa
• Australia
• South/East Asia
• This is not a good replacement for the Silk Road!
Farthest from Baku
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2. By The Numbers:
Inferring Diversity and Competition Among Regional Providers
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Basic ASN Counts, September 2014
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Basic ASN Counts, September 2014
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ASNs per Million People
“ASNs per capita” varies widely. Countries with fewer ASNs per capita may simply be at an earlier stage of development….
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ASNs per Million People y/y incr Largest Domestic, percent on-net
However, countries with fewer ASNs per person also tend to have domestic providers with dominant shares of the national market: a possible indicator of reduced competition and higher prices. They also grow more slowly.
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Single-homed ASNs, %pct 2 transits 3+ transits
Countries served by a higher than average proportion of single-homed ASNs are at higher risk of widespread Internet failure due to reliance on single large providers. Global average: • 42% singlehomed • 39% dualhomed (Sep 2014)
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Percentage ASNs with Cross Border Transit September 2014
Smaller numbers suggest that a small number of large domestic providers mediate most international transit for smaller providers
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3. Navigating the Shifting Sands
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• The 50ms footprint only covers Anatolia and Eastern Europe
• Caucasus, Levant, Gulf Regions are 100ms+ or even 150ms+
Can Istanbul Serve the Region?
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Istanbul Losing Ground to Sofia as Regional Hub
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Turkish Routes, Bulgarian Routes, Russian Routes
Sofia increasingly dominates the regional peering picture, thanks to the Black Sea cable from Georgia to Bulgaria, where content is welcome and regulation is light. Level3 is a key beneficiary of this shift. Istanbul increasingly serves only Turkish traffic bound for Western Europe and the USA.
Istanbul’s dream of becoming a regional Internet hub city seems to be fading due to neighbor politics, lack of domestic IX capacity, regional competition.
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Iran’s Internet Transit is Smart, Adaptive
Iran takes advantage of all regional transit opportunities without getting pinned down to a single supplier. • OmanTel, Telecom Italia • Turkcell/Superonline • Delta Telecom • Caucasus Online (**)
** Since March 2014
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Iran’s Connection to Sofia Routes Via Armenia
TIC Transit Shift, 24 July 2014 Ucom Armenia Transit Shift, 24 July 2014
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Azerbaijan’s Important Role As Sofia increases in importance, Azerbaijan becomes a natural crossing point for traffic across Russian or Black Sea/Caucasus routes to Western Europe. Iran subsequently becomes the leading candidate for a Middle Eastern terrestrial backbone linking Southeast Asia and the Gulf with Europe through Azerbaijan. Could this be the rebirth of a New Silk Road?
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TASIM: An Alternative Future? “Trans-Eurasian Information Super Highway” now in the planning stages Plans call for “proprietary IP/MPLS network” as a wholesale offering for telecom providers All-incumbent partners from China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey We’ll see what happens!
http://tasim.net
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Thank you!
T ş kkür edir m!
Mapping The Digital Silk Road ENOG 8, Baku
James Cowie
Chief Scientist, Dyn [email protected]