RCom's unit shortlists 3 vendors for subsea cable construction

NEW DELHI: Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), the international business unit of Reliance Communications said that it has shortlisted three vendors for the construction of its India Cloud Xchange (ICX) subsea cable, which will deliver a direct Mumbai-Singapore route to bypass current outage prone terrestrial routes between Mumbai and Chennai.

"In the coming month we will finalize the vendor selection process and initiate process to construct the ICX cable which will integrate with our GCX global network infrastructure for direct connectivity to major business centers in Asia, Middle East, North America and Europe," Bill Barney, chief executive officer, Global Cloud Xchange, said in a statement.

In June last year, GCX had announced its plans for the construction of cable as part of its strategy to provide a direct subsea route to bridge an important gap in the emerging markets corridor and to meet soaring bandwidth demands of new cloud based applications and services.

It had then said the undersea cable will cost about $200 million (approximately Rs 1,260 crore), a quarter of which will be spent by the company and rest by three more partners. Two of those partners will be technology companies while the third an infrastructure partner, Barney had then said.

The new ICX fiber system will run about 5,060 kilometers between Mumbai and Singapore. It will also have a branch landing in Trivandrum and/or Chennai and will support creation of a next generation IP and Cloud environment held together with a single AS number and connecting into Tier III+ data center facilities on the ground, the company said.

Based on 100G technology, the ICX cable will be a four fiber pair system with initial design capacity per fiber pair at 80 x 100G using next generation Coherent Submarine Fiber.

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