Sify establishes undersea cable landing station in Mumbai

Sify Technologies has build an undersea cable landing station in Mumbai. The cable system will provide telecom operators and communications companies, both in India and across the globe with greater choice and resilience.

With a capacity of up to 10 terabits per second on certain cable sections, this system is designed to accommodate the rapid growth in voice and rich media traffic (internet, telephony and video) originating from and terminating in the Middle East, as well as the African and European markets.

Gulf Bridge International (GBI) has become the first to land their sub-sea cable system in India with the opening of this landing station.

''We now look forward to partnering with telecom service providers and playing a larger active role in the communication revolution that is unfolding in the Asia Pacific region, Middle East and Africa. With capacity to land additional submarine cable systems, this connectivity will open a larger market for our industry-leading managed enterprise and data centre services in the Middle Eastern market,'' said Raju Vegesna, CEO and MD, Sify Technologies.

''We forecast a significant increase in the demand for international bandwidth between the Middle East and Asia, driven by the favourable demographics and increasing economic strength in both regions. This landing station and the GBI cable will become the leading gateway between these markets,'' said Ahmed Mekky, board member and CEO of Gulf Bridge International.

Sify has also signed a Landing Party Agreement (LPA) with MENA submarine cable system SAE, a licensed telecommunications operator in the Egypt. The company spans over three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia).

MENA-SCS is a six pairs fibre cable, each pair is designed for expansion up to 96 wavelengths multiplied by 10Gb/s for each, which means an ultimate capacity of 5.76Tb/s and further scope to upgrade to 100G/S technology in order to have capacity more than 5 times current capacities.

''We believe that MENA will be able to connect India to Europe with its express fiber link in order to serve the growing demand on the Indian market. Our strategy is to provide unique services in the market to India, Asia, Middle East, and Europe customers,'' said Ahmed Khalaf, MD, MENA submarine cable system.