SimbaNET Malawi Overview 2016

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SimbaNET (T) Ltd -Confidential

Malawi Virtual Landing StationA Public Private Partnership Success Story


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Background

Malawi has had very expensive and unreliable bandwidthdue to lack of direct access to submarine fiber opticnetworks

The Government of Malawi (GoM), though support fromthe World Bank decided to embark on a Public Private

Partnership initiative

The GoM, represented by the PPPC (Public PrivatePartnership Commission) awarded a 10 year contract tosupply an STM4 (620mbps) bandwidth to SimbaNET

(though a tender process)SimbaNET, in turn has constructed 800km of fiberinfrastructure and a Virtual Landing Point in Lilongwe

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Public Private Partnership

The objective of the PPP is to increase investment in fiberinfrastructure, increase competition and lower the cost of

transit capacity in Malawi.

GoM (PPPC) acts as a anchor customer and pays money for

services for 10 years in advance (per milestone reached).SimbaNET has constructed the 800km of infrastructure and

a world class Cable Landing Station (Virtual Landing Point)

in order to deliver the services. SNMW is expected and

encouraged to sell services to as many people as possible.

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Virtual Landing Point Location

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Western Route to

Zambia

Northern Route to

Tanzania


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Virtual Landing Point - VLP

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Virtual Landing Point - VLP

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VLP Main Entrance

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VLP – Peering Room

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VLP – Power Room

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VLP – NOC

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VLP Details

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Meet-me room – 8 rack space

Peering Room – 8 rack space

Cooling – 2pcs 50kW underfloor cooling system

Fire Protection – FM200 detection and suppression system, underfloor and over floor

Power Backup –

DC Rectifier up to 4 hours of full load, 2pcs 60KVAGenerators on ATS

Scalability – facility can be expanded to 4 times its size andconnected via the ‘breakable wall’.

Security – Biometric readers, CCTV system, double door entry and nowindows in critical areas. Capital Hill is also HQ of government,bordering parliament

Flooding – Site is on a hill, drainage is planned, flooding is not a risk



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Cable Route & Repeater Points

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Drop Off Points

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Cable Construction Method

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Cable Construction Snapshot

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Cable System Details

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48 core ADSS Overhead Cable, on our own poles

2 cores lit with 10G installed capacity, scalable to 1000Gwith SDH card replacement per pair, or lighting up morecores.

SDH and IP PoP (MPLS, IPv6 ready) at each Repeater

Station10 Repeater Stations along the route where tappingdropping capacity is an option (Mchinji Border Points, Mchinji Town, Salima,Nkhotakota, Dwambazi, Nkhatabay, Mzuzu, Rumphi, Chilumba, Karoga, Songwe Border Point)

Cross Connection with ZESCO on Zambia side andTTCL/NICTBB on Tanzania side



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Immediate Effects

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Price of International Capacity has dropped from $36,000per STM-1 currently, to $13,600 for the same, 63% dropin price

Price of National Traffic has dropped substantially from

the current $1,500 for an E1 to $300 for the samecapacity

Traffic in and out of Malawi has two new routes viaTanzania – better redundancy, better reliability

Bordering countries also get an alternative redundantroute such as Zambia into Tanzania



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Anticipated Outcomes

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Total consumption will go from the estimated 1GB currently to3GB within the first 18 months and to 10GB within the first 4years

Penetration will increase due to affordability

Mobile networks will start focusing more on data as a revenue

streamLocal networks will start expanding to reach more markets,reach new places and carry higher loads. This means moreinvestment and more cash circulation

Other companies will start offering Internet related products

and services. This means new businesses will emerge andcreate new revenue streams.



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PPPC Press Release

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PPPC Press Clip

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Manpower

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Construction Snapshot

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Construction Snapshot

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Testing and Verification

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Peter Nyamukusa of SimbaNET, Andrew Johnson and Chimwemwe

Matemba of PPPC during the verification and acceptance testing

exercise, Dec 2015.



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Testing and Verification

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Peter Nyamukusa of SimbaNET (right) and Guangzhu Zhang of China Telecom (left), exchanging

Acceptance Test Results after successful test procedures. Nov 2015.



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Training and Capacity Building

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Training and Capacity Building

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The End

Thank you.

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