ANALYTICS
BY REBECCA SPENCE
Reprinted from Submarine Telecoms Industry Report – 2021/2022 Edition
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ata center providers have become an increasingly integral part of the submarine telecommunications ecosystem over the last several years. As a result, one of the biggest dynamic changes has been to place data center and colocation facilities closer to cable landing stations in order to maximize interconnection and network services. Building these facilities next to – or even as part of – the cable landing station reduces network latency and streamlines infrastructure. This type of configuration is especially attractive for cable landing stations that house multiple cable systems as they provide access to a much wider away of customers and interconnection opportunities. For instance, the cable landing facilities in Marseille, France, house thirteen international submarine cables and provide access to dozens of potential customers needing both interconnection and onward backhaul connectivity. (SubTel Forum Analytics Division of Submarine Telecoms Forum, Inc., 2020)
CLOUD ADOPTION
Cloud adoption is at an all-time high as companies continue to shift towards both cloud storage and cloud computing to drive their business. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure lead the way in enterprise adoption with no sign of slowing down. (Figure 81) These cloud services are global in nature and inevita-
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Figure 1: Enterprise Public Cloud Provider Usage, 2021 (Flexera, 2021)
In January 2020, Flexera surveyed 750 enterprise technical professionals about their cloud computing adoption. Of these respondents, 94 percent have adopted the use of cloud computing in some fashion with organizations leveraging five different cloud services on average. bly their traffic will end up traveling over submarine telecommunications cables. As a result, data center providers have become more involved with the submarine fiber industry, especially around cable landing stations where they can capitalize on interconnection and colocation opportunities – especially in those areas where multiple cables come ashore to
a single location. In January 2020, Flexera surveyed 750 enterprise technical professionals about their cloud computing adoption. Of these respondents, 94 percent have adopted the use of cloud computing in some fashion with organizations leveraging five different cloud services on average. Spending on enterprise cloud is growing sig-
