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Building the enabling infrastructure for the future of international business

A team with over 35 years experience in building global telecommunications infrastructure networks, Fibre Expressway Pty Ltd (FEPL) is creating Project Koete as an unprecedented technology ecosystem. Supporting the domestic needs of Australian industry and providing a safe, scalable hub for multi-national corporations with mission critical data-centric operations in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.

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Supporting development and growth of digital networks in the offshore energy industry

  • High speed data network and transmission capacity
  • 4G/5G networks for floating and fixed oil, gas and mining assets
  • Global connectivity to facilitate remote M2M operations

Connecting the dots

A new reality for the Oil & Gas industry caused by complex market dynamics has created an urgent need for digital transformation. Price declines of more than 50 percent since June 2014...

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Secure data hub for multi-national corporations

  • Highly strategic and politically stable data-centre sites
  • 60 Megawatts combined initial capacity
  • Providing a safe back-up hub to data-centric business in Asia and beyond

A new reality

The Western and Northern states of Australia are currently underserved in term of data hosting capabilities but are geographically strategically located...

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Seismic activity and scientific ocean data

  • SMART/OBOS enabled subsea cable
  • Early warning detection of earthquake and tsunami events
  • Real time scientific data

Early detection of activity

Project Koete is designed to facilitate inclusion of a SMART (Subsea Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) / OBOS (Ocean Bottom Observation Systems) enabled subsea cable that can support qualified needs for early detection and warning...

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A unique solution to a significant and increasing global need for data and security.

In recent industry reports, revenues from data centre and hosting services are forecast to reach US$32 billion by 2023.

New DC builds in Singapore and Hong Kong will become more challenging due to environmental, space and energy constraints, as well as government moratoriums.

Darwin, Dampier and Perth offer highly strategic locations in SE Asia for transit, backup and hosting of data operations: politically stable and equi-distant from major regional data hubs.

Project Koete

Three greenfield Tier IV Data Centres in Perth, Darwin and Dampier initially providing a combined 60 Megawatt capacity.

8000km secure, carrier neutral, high speed, low latency cable linking Perth to Darwin and Perth to Malaysia via Indonesia and Singapore with a minimum of 3 fibre pairs providing unprecedented reliability.

Supporting the future of domestic industry and serving the growing requirement for secure, strategically positioned data hubs from global multinational-corporations.

A gateway from Australia to South East Asia and beyond.

Estimated to be ready for service in 2023.

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Koete: a Japanese word meaning 'To Go Beyond'

The pairing of data centres and subsea cables brings a unique proposition to the APAC data market, and to remote but resource-rich customers that have been comparitively underserved by new infrastructure.

The subsea cable from Perth to Kuantan in Malaysia connects Australian industry with existing routes to the US and Europe providing an open, secure, carrier neutral, high capacity, high speed connection to global networks.

Innovative technical design using branching units and cable landing stations in the Browse Basin and North West Shelf and along the coastline facilitates unprecedented connectivity to the off-shore industries and, for the first time, contestable onshore bandwidth north of Perth to support ISPs, Mobile Services, eHealth, eLearning

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Supporting development and growth of digital networks in the offshore energy industry

A new reality for the Oil & Gas industry caused by complex market dynamics has created an urgent need for digital transformation. Price declines of more than 50 percent since June 2014 have dominated the agenda of industry executives. Industry sector leaders are focusing on getting more out of existing assets and see “operational efficiency of existing projects” and “maintenance of assets and infrastructure” as the top two areas of increased investment over the next 24 months with “data analytics for faster, better decision-making” as the No. 1 driver for Internet of Everything (IoE).

Oil and Gas companies face a dual challenge; to reduce operational emissions whilst keeping up with growing energy demand they will need to increase both asset performance and lifetime. They will be judged both by their cost per barrel / cubic feed and their carbon footprint per barrel. The Oil and Gas industry provides a prime example of the need for “Edge computing.”

Western Australia’s offshore Floating LNG Assets are seeking global connectivity to facilitate remote Machine to Machine (“M2M”) operations from USA, Europe and Asia. Such assets can have up to 32,000 sensors that need to be monitored and controlled with an estimated ‘Data Pull’ of up to 3Tbs per day. Such M2M operations via traditional satellite with data speeds ranging from 64Kbps to 2Mbps could take up to 6 days to move one day’s worth of oil-platform data to a central repository and be fully processed (technology provider whitepaper). Most of this data is time-sensitive, pertaining to platform production and drilling platform health and safety. In fact, 37% of respondents to a technology industry survey stated that within the next 3 years, most of their Internet of Things (IoT) data will be processed at the edge of the network.

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Secure data hub for multi-national corporations

The Western and Northern states of Australia are currently underserved in term of data hosting capabilities but are geographically strategically located to capture backup opportunities from South East Asia, Europe and North America. Adding connectivity to both West Australia and Northern Territory would be beneficial to the economies of those States and Australia as a whole.

Three T4 Data Centres (“DCs”) in Perth, Dampier and Darwin with an initial combined capacity of up to 60MW address the qualified domestic needs of Australia and further provides a safe and secure Data hub for Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) with mission critical data centric operations in Asia Pacific and Europe and USA. The DCs will be paired with a dedicated greenfield subsea cable system that is designed and fit for purpose to support the data hub requirements based on researched and validated global key customer segments.

The Data Centres will also house the key enabling infrastructure to facilitate ‘local needs’ of eHealth and eLearning to Indigenous communities and, by onshoring the subsea cable via branching units, support NBN and Mobile operators to provide contestable bandwidth north of Perth and deployment of new high speed data network and transmission capacity coupled with 4G/5G networks for floating and fixed oil & gas assets and fixed mining assets.

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Seismic activity and scientific ocean data

Project Koete is designed to facilitate inclusion of a SMART (Subsea Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)/OBOS (Ocean Bottom Observation Systems) enabled subsea cable that can support qualified needs for early detection and warning of Seismic / Earthquake / Tsunami activity.

The system can also monitor the ocean environment to provide real time scientific data regarding weather and sea animal migrations to assist Fisheries Departments and Government agencies with long term studies and development.

More than a million kilometres of submarine cables form the global telecommunications infrastructure backbone for business, finance, social media, entertainment, political expression, and science. Internationally, these cables are the physical layer of the internet. The dependability of this infrastructure is so important that entire national economies are affected when problems arise.

These same submarine cables could also provide a platform for gathering deep-ocean and seabed data for a range of environmental issues. Our oceans and climate are experiencing global changes, including warming, acidification, and sea-level rise, that affect us now and in the future. A standard telecommunication system includes an electro-optical seabed cable with optical repeaters approximately every sixty kilometres. By adding environmental sensors to the repeaters, we could have access to a global network of real-time data for environmental threats and disaster mitigation.

An early-warning system for tsunamis could save lives and prove invaluable, particularly for developing countries, where the comprehensive coverage of all subduction zones is not viable. Since tsunami waves often arrive less than thirty minutes after offshore earthquakes, every minute counts.

To bring this concept to fruition, the international Joint Task Force of three United Nations agencies – the International Telecommunication Union, the World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, is working towards incorporating environmental monitoring sensors into trans-oceanic submarine cable systems.

Fibre Expressway Pty Ltd is pleased to be associated with the Joint Task Force championed by Professor Bruce Howe.

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