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In Africa, Terabit was a proud participant in the first public-private initiative to bring fiber optic connectivity to East Africa and has since been involved in more than a dozen fiber infrastructure projects across the continent. In Asia, Terabit has been the lead market advisor since 2012 for the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway, which aims to address the extreme bandwidth inequality in Asian markets. And around the globe, Terabit has worked diligently to develop viable business cases for providing connectivity solutions to unconnected islands, from Montserrat to the Seychelles to Rodrigues.

Terabit issued strategic recommendations, scenarios, and roadmaps to the most proactive national telecommunications regulator in the Gulf region, as part of an effort to position the country as an international ICT hub through the development of improved international telecommunications infrastructure. The project also included detailed analysis, forecasting, and benchmarking of international telecommunications infrastructure in six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and other peer markets worldwide.

For the world's largest multilateral development bank, Terabit executed a detailed analysis and forecast of markets, regulations, bandwidth demand, and infrastructure in underserved Central Asian markets. Terabit proposed three phases of network deployment and evaluated feasibility, costs, and benefits for each: Phase I, consisting of OPGW deployment within the aegis of the CASA-1000 program; Phase II, consisting of infrastructure sharing among incumbent fiber optic network operators, and Phase III, consisting of new construction.

Since 2012 Terabit has served as the primary market advisor for the United Nations' AP-IS project, which leverages linear infrastructure to improve regional connectivity. Terabit has performed detailed analysis of 29 markets, modeled traffic flows, inventoried and mapped existing networks, and identified cross-border gaps in connectivity. Terabit has also explored policy, operational, and financing options to improve regional connectivity, including public-private partnership models, as well as synergies between existing transport infrastructure and fiber optic network deployment.

Pan-Asian Connectivity: Leveraging Linear Infrastructure for Improved International Bandwidth

1st Session of the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway Steering Committee

Dhaka, Bangladesh

An examination of the weak international telecommunications infrastructure in many Asian markets and the developmental impact of low international bandwidth, the drivers of bandwidth demand, and strategies to ensure successful network development including the leveraging of linear infrastructure for fiber deployment.