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A NEW ERA
IN ALBANIA
EPOKE E RE NE SHQIPERI
Mehmet Zirek Program Manager
Strategy Group,
Albtelecom & Eagle Mobile
“Cloud” in Albanian Language is the same word as “New”
Therefore the titles “A New Era in Albania” and “Era of Cloud in Albania” translate into the same sentence
EPOKE E RE NE SHQIPERI së
Mehmet Zirek Program Manager
Strategy Group,
Albtelecom & Eagle Mobile
ERA OF CLOUD
IN ALBANIA
Well almost the same...
3G implementation – second license given
Number Portability launched in May-2011
Albanian Telecom Market
Telecom Players Fixed Operator # 1
Alternative Operators # 68
ISP # 26
GSM Operators # 4
Subscriber PSTN Subscribers # 366.000
ADSL Subscribers # 63.000
GSM Subscribers # 3.900.000
GREECE
ALBANIA
(SHQIPERI)
KOSOVO
ALBtelecom & Eagle Mobile Profile
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Albtelecom & EagleMobile in process of forming the first Converged Telecom Operator and Service Provider in the country
Fixed Network Contains Infrastructure and Services in all big cities and towns of Albania
Mobile Coverage is 98.6% of population with 92% of territory
Albtelecom is the main Fixed Service Operator with significant market power
Market leader in Fixed and Mobile telecom services in terms of
Service variety
Service Quality
Infrastructure penetration
Number of fixed subscribers
Fastest growth in mobile
Mobile Network Coverage
End of 2010, the company
attained coverage by 98.6 % of
the population of the country and
92 % of the territory of the country
by providing services in the whole
Albania.
Eagle Mobile is the first telecom operator (including
fixed or mobile) in the country that has covered
Tropoja/Valbona area, a mountainous site which is
attracting touristic interest in North Albania.
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cloud computing isn’t one thing
Broadband network access.
Rapid elasticity
WORD - CLOUD
Factory IT
Software Reusability
Multitenancy
CLOUD ANALOGIES Dimension
Point of
View
Old
Economy
New
Economy
Sales Provider Hunting Farming
IT Service Customer Owner of
the Cow
Consumer
of Milk
Service IT Staff
One man
show in a
small
company
Collaboration for support
of many
Cost and
Quality Customer
Non
standard
expensive
High
Standard
with
Economy of
scale
MORE THAN HYPE
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In the last decade “Gartner’s Hype”s about emerging technologies contain more and more items related to “The
Cloud” Each time when it’s thought that enlightenment started, new concerns and risks appeared, but then
scalability, flexibility, and many advantages of this new “Big Thing” caused new series of increasing expectations.
This implies this is something bigger and more complex: It’s an ERA
HISTORICAL CONNECTION
Followed by Great Exhibition – 1851 London Crystal Palace
French Industrial Exposition – 1844 Paris Champs Élysées
What happened 160 Years ago?
Consumer products for the masses
Inter-changeable parts (exactly 160 years ago Sep.27)
Hand made Mass production
Workshops Factories
Location Independent Production
ECONOMY OF SCALE
Mass Servicing
Factory IT
Web Services
160 Years Later
•World’s Fairs originated in the French tradition of national exhibitions, a tradition that culminated with the 1844 French Industrial Exposition held in Paris Champs Élysées •The first Paris exposition immediately spawned imitators, including the Great Exhibition in London, 1851 which was open to international exhibitors from the entire world and outshone the highly successful French exhibition •Mass Servicing is the Mass Production of CLOUD REVOLUTION and Factory IT is counterpart of Factories of IINDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION; Too many similarities imply a common underlying cause: It’s ECONOMY OF SCALE
CLOUD = GREEN
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2
4
6
8
10
12
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Small LAN Medium Network
Telco Network
Cloud Data
Center
Cooling energy(w)/CPU
Direct energy(w)/CPU
Space m3/CPU
•But of course there are differences; since Industry required raw materials; greater energy for prodcution it had a massive environmental impact where as Cloud is promising less Carbon footprint then traditional IT.
CLOUD SECURITY
t1 t2 t3 t4 t0 t-1 t-2 t-3 t-4 t5 t-5
CURRENT DATA:
Uncertainity:
Moderate
Portability: Low
CSP provides security
and functionality
PAST DATA:
Uncertainity: Low
Portability: High
User can and store
data image with own
encryption for privacy
and security
FUTURE DATA:
Uncertainity: High
Portability: Low
CSP provides
functionality
The level of security and privacy of the data changes sides from Cloud side to the user side as a function of time &
uncertainity.
WHY CLOUD IN ALBANIA
Although emerging fast, the country needs “Capital” to invest in IT resources and software needed for the vital sectors:
Tourism
Hotels
Agencies, etc.
Foreign Trade
Logistics
Food and Retail
Construction and other projects
Renewable energy
Education
The most efficient way of boosting businesses in a capital scarce economy would be to build the basic infrastructure
and let IT and Telecomunications be used as utility. This is why government has announced broadband and inernet as
a high priority, and Albtelecom & Eagle started large infrastructre projects for broadband and IP
PARADIGM CHANGE
Companies are willing to use Internet but lack IT assets and support
Now that the IT investment is being converted into IT expenses
Albania has a chance to boost it’s number of businesses & companies as well as improving their IT and Telecom maturity
HUMAN ASSETS
Same sectors also require Human Capital =
IT and Telco Professionals to support these companies
Expats are costly and locals are inexperienced
Internet penetration is low (<30% in 2010) but social networking is 3x the internet penetration which shows
lack of purchase power rather than interest and knowledge
Untouched Mountains + Long Coast of Adria + History
=Tourism ?
The question mark means that the country has a very big potential but is lacking capital and IT for
the Tourism to flourish.
WHAT WE
ARE
DOING
FOR
ALBANIAN
CLOUD
NGN GIS – Asset Mng.
Billing Convergence Managed Services Fiber Optic Backbone
M-Payment
IP-TV
WHAT PROJECTS WE ARE RUNNING
NGN GIS – Asset Mng.
Billing Convergence Managed Services Fiber Optic Backbone
M-Payment
IP-TV
Content Agreement
Negotiations and Vendor
Selection is ongoing Pilot
project applied before
commercial usage. Draft
Contract and Offers are
presented to Management,
approvalTarget date:
January 2012
WHAT PROJECTS WE ARE RUNNING
Country is roughly divided into two
rings and they are connceted
towards international fiber lines.
Kosovo, Italy and Greece are the
nearby connections from which
alternative internet bandwiths will
be provided. The initial backbone
project is expected to be
completed within October. After
completion of this project
establishing transmission of NGN
project our company will have
the best network in the Balkan
region and one of the best in
Europe. As the importance of this
country is increasing worldwide,
this project has become more
strategic than before. Target date
October 2011
This project will make use of
IPMPLS technology to transform the
network into an all-IP next
generation network. Once the old
street cabinets are replaced and pop
points are integrated to the back
bone, both line capacity and
bandwith will increase as well as
ease of maintenance and operation.
This will also allow a wide variety of
VAS projects to be implemented.
Target date is June 2012
With this project solution of
the common needs of both
companies , which are
the Billing effectiveness
and cost reduction in this
area aimed at the same
time.
Target date: August 2012
A new buıilding is decided to
be constructed for the Data
Center, and a temporary
system room is located in
existing switch room.
Negotiations with two
customers are ongoing
Target date: October 2011
Payment with Mobile
Devices is increasing its
importance in all the world
and this project is
pioneering M-payment in
Albania.
Target date: December
2011
Through this project, a
critical business process
of the company :
“Resource Management “,
will reach a solution with
Geographical Information
Systems being a plus in
terms of operational use
and functionality. Target
date: February 2012
THE WHOLE CLOUD
Q&A
Thank You
Presented by Mehmet Zirek, Albtelecom & Eagle Mobile
mehmet.zirek@eaglemobile.al
The whole cloud can be thought of the super computer to which all computers will connect to operate...
Of course famous statetment of a big company executive in 1970’s that world will need at most 5 computers might be an
over-estimation by 4