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February 01, 2008
A coming building boom in Mid-East Undersea Cabl
A pair of cable cuts affecting India and nations throughout the Middle East are likely to spur proposals for more fiber optic cable in the region over the next twelve months, as well as a review of satellite capacity.
Information, not oil, is the rising coin of power for many nations. Bahrain, UAE, Qatar and Kuwait easily have the cash to spend to upgrade redundancies in their telecommunications infrastructure, and they are likely to want to move fast to get more capacity in.
Will India benefit from this building boom? Interesting question. If you want redundant connections out of the region to the East, certainly they would pass through/by India.
In an ideal world, the Gulf states would be able to pull fiber to their west than north through Iraq, then go across Turkey into Europe. But....
Who knows? I wouldn't put it past some daring(crazy) company to 1) Cut a deal with the Iraqi for a right-of-way through the country and 2) Figure out a way to keep things stable enough to lay fiber up to some connection point in Turkey. Plus 3) Pull fiber over the mountains of Turkey...
Posted by dmohney at February 1, 2008 11:52 AM