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#+title: 2013-06-02

* Ahmed Hussein :EIPR:privacy:@personal:
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:CREATED: [2013-06-02 Sun 16:34]
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SEMEWE3 10 GB - SDH Synchronous digital Heirarchy - 1 lamda

STM1 155Mbit == 15million dollars 1999/2000

90K dollars 2004

STM4

You buy Right Of Use ROU for the cables lifetime (25 years)

 FLAG - 8 lamda

BWDM Wave division multiplexing

SE-Me-We 4 100 lamda

 TE North 160 lamda 1.6 Tbit/S

poor quality cables on land, walks next to SOMED

Saweris cable also

من أبو قير إلى سنترال الأوتو، و من الأوتو إلى رمسيس بدون تفريع قبل رمسيس

لحد 2002، لم يكن يمكن تمرير أي مرور قبل رمسيس، تغير هذا لاحقا

سنترال دولي في مصر (تقريبا وحيد في رمسيس)

المصرية للاتصالات تصل إلى Telecom Italia and At&T.

1. Trasmission circuit

2. IP circuit (two routers at two ends)

Cables cost also for 1) maintenance (yearly) and 2) restoration (backup)

FLAG installed a router in Ramsis and gives IP port. It was called Ip Hub, partnership between TE and FLAG

Second router (Hub) in Auto central

Who can buy circuits?

Problems with pricing of SeMeWE4

A. Transmission is

Cables (was a monopoly by TE until it opened in 2004 and there were five consortiums)

Landing Stations

B. Data circuits

In 2000 (or 2001), Hisham el Sherif (using his relations with army and Mubarak) took a monopoly over data NOL. 120$ million (25% TE, 25% EGIS, 25% army (Nile Venture), 25% Egyptian banks) were spend on old technologies (IP on top ATM). Due dilligance Ahmed Hussein did in 2004. It was worth 80 million pounds In MINUS because of the old systems

C. International voice

The other scandal was عبد الرحمن الصاوي and TEData and had another scandal

Nazeef said three classes of licenses:

A has right to take international circuits via TEs transmission: NOL, EgyNet, Link, Giganet+IDSC مصطفى عبد الواحد و أحمد حسين(TE data later)

B service providers without international circuits. Took from class A: Raya (bought by Vodafone later), Yalla, MenaNet and Noor باسل دلول (a fifth one never became operational)

Class C: resellers. Ahram, Akhbar and others

Classes A and B had the right to build public data networks. From EM, all the way to 10Gbit Ethernet. They had their international IP ports from abroad, or through FLAG. Ports are paid for monthly.

الجيش يأخذ القرارات. المخابرات رأيها استشاري و لها حق الفيتو

المخابرات كانت مع redundancy and avoiding single points of failure

الجيش كان مع السيطرة من خلال المصرية للاتصالات

99% of the network inside Egypt is TE

Uptill 2004, only TE had international voice license. Tarek Kamel decided operators mobile operators can also have them. He made a deal with Itisalat Egypt to buy the two losing ISPs (NOL and EgyNet for 300EGP million. They were worth zero) in place of preferential terms for international voice.

The terms were

100 EGP for each existing customer

20 EGP for each new customer. This is why Vodafone and MobiNil channel international calls through Israel. Vodafone pressured, and MobiNil resorted to VoIP. It was likely a response to the terms

TEData 30 million EGP

NOL 600 million EGP

EgyNet 120 million EGP

Linkdot net ¬30-49 million EGP

Even TE through TEData, محمد النواوي, then CEO TEData, persuaded TE that TEData is going bankrupt. Solution to agree TEData terminates international calls via VoIP, which earned TEData 1m$ per month, for two or three years. He directed most of the money towards polishing his political career

Three or fours years later, TE earned the calls cost, and TEData

cable: FALCON, cable Egypt-Italy, then Italy-Israel. Israel pressuring for closing the triangle. EGIS refuses. One explanation of cuts is Israel trying to pressure EGIS

Surveillance

Local traffic is difficult to monitor unless you are targeted. EGIS has devices in all ISPs that log authentication. Before that EGIS used to ask ISPs for users using certain posts

Narus device sold from Giza to EGIS

Cannot validate sensors

Spectronic, in the modem days. They installed devices to monitor modems. Attended as a consultant a meeting with Spectronic. They could reconstruct web pages

9 major centrals in Cairo.

TE provide:

Retail

Companies: fibre for companies

services for service providers

Almost almost no one can lay fibre but TE and the army

TE make money from:

Loop unbundling: 8 EGP/month for TE to use DSL

Transmission

local calls

international calls

TE used to make 9billion/year

now 1.5 billion/year

55K employees down to 47K

16% of land (realestate) prices goes to utilities. 4% to each utility.

اتفاق محمد عبد الرحيم مع المجتمعات العمرانية الجديدة على 1500 جنيه للشقة. تكلفة مد الخطوط للشقة قد تصل إلى 4000 جنيه، دون فرق بين النحاس و الفايبر.

اتفاق مع صبور في أحد الكومباوندز

Link and (Tele tech) Magdi rasekh have licences to build fibre for less than 5000 units

DSL Access: Hwaei, Alcatel Lucent, smaller: ZTE, Zhone

Transmission equipment: siemns, Alcatel. Hwawei is eating up the market
now

Providers: Cicso, Juliber

Mobile: Erricson, Hwawei, Alcatel smaller

Need more info on mobile and landline topologies

Lawful intercept

CERT: مكاوي

Man in the middle through agreements with CA (Ahmed Hussein had a self signed certificate on google.com)
