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Recently Pakistan has connected to SEMEWE4 which provides Pakistan with a redundant link in case the outage occurs again. Here is the complete story http://www.pkblogs.com/pakistan/2006/01/smw4-mitigates-total-blackouts.html Here is a case study of Internet connectivity of NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) that was done in 2004 Internet performance for NIIT, Pakistan Jan - Feb 2004
Future
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Plans
PERN2 is planned to build Gigabit fibre network with a minimum of 1 Gbps for end nodes and a core of 10 Gbps. It is anticipated that about 90% of PERN2 nodes will have fibre connectivity. It will have 8 National level PoPs connected by leased dark fibre. Three metro ring 10 Gbps networks will be established in Islamabad/Rawalpindi, Karachi and Lahore. Seven local area PoPs will be established in these networks. It will serve > 300,000 students, faculty members and researchers. Initially 85 universities and institutes will be connected. In phase I Islamabad/Rawalpindi universities will be connected at 1 Gbps. The tender as been won by Almoayed Group in January 2007 for the deployment of 10Gbps Metro Ring in Islamabad for interconnecting 18 university campuses. Expected commencement of phase I is September 2007. In phase II it will be extended to Lahore and Karachi. For the remaining five PoP cities the proposed topology is not a ring but spur only since there are very few universities initially targeted in the scope of the PERN II project. Service for phase II is expected to commence at the end of March 2008. Phase III will connect distant nodes. They will lease dark fibre and will also commence end March 2008.
HEC is planning for the PERN-2 project. Tender for the deployment has been won by Almoayed Group in January 2007 for the deployment of 10Gbps Metro Ring in Islamabad for interconnecting 18 university campuses. Initially universities will be connected with 1Gbps ethernet and will be replaced as soon the as the CPE (Customer Presence Equipment) routers with 10Gbps will be available to HEC. Mobilink has almost completed its backbone and has a submarine fibre link to its sister company TWA which will be the next national media provider after PTCL. This will be the a third undersea fibre cable project for Pakistan (SEAMEW3 and 4 are the first two and are operated by PTCL). In February 2007 Telekom Malaysia announced that the company is set to complete its US$100 million countrywide fiber-optic-backbone project in Pakistan - the largest fiber-optic network in the country - by October 2007. The backbone will link more than 75 major towns and cities in Pakistan. The project is with Multinet, a Pakistan ISP that is now a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia. A fourth company, Wateen is laying out a fiber backbone at a cost of $100M. It appears that all of this investment will provide more options for Pakistani network access.
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