TELENOR DISCONNECTS NAYATEL

Telenor Pakistan has given termination notice to Nayatel, an Islamabad based ISP for its 34Mbps Internet Service, which means a loss of Rs 10 million in annual business for Nayatel.

The move came after Nayatel disconnected its redundant connection to the Internet backbone via TW1, reducing its physical redundancy.

Businesses in the capital (including many GSM providers) relied on Nayatel backbone for providing Internet connectivity via EDGE/GPRS. With TW1 gone, the redundancy of a second physical network was gone hence the Telenor disconnection. There have also been reports of other GSM operators to follow suit soon.

Telenor is sensibly following the practice of procuring transit bandwidth directly from the source and has shifted to TW1, which provides IP bandwidth with redundancy in Major Cities. Going directly to the source is both cost effective and resilient, optical networks have the capability to provide infrastructure to support new business technologies like 3G.

Although Nayatel has international connectivity via SMW3 and SMW4, its dependence on a single infrastructure in order to get traffic from Karachi to Islamabad is a risk. On the other hand, TW1 uses Mobilink's Fiber Optic infrastructure and has recently acquired connectivity from Multinet in order to ensure complete redundancy.

Source:http://groups.google.com/group/telecom-grid-pakistan/browse_thread/thread/d1a4146fc8b06aa8