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A new submarine cable system – Asia-Africa-Europe (AAE-1) – in which India’s Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJio) is a consortium partner has entered service, with the company lighting up its India leg. The sub-sea cable system has a landing station in Mumbai.
RJio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries, has also launched a Network Operations Centre (NOC) for the sub-sea cable in Navi Mumbai.
The 100 GBPS technology-based submarine system stretches more than 25,000 km from Marseille, France to Hong Kong. It has about 21 cable landing stations across Asia and Europe, and will provide up to 40 terabits of new bandwidth capacity to the region.
"The new terabit capacity and 100Gbps direct connectivity to global content hubs and interconnection points ensure that Jio will continue to offer its customers the most exceptional high speed internet and digital service experience," said Mathew Oommen, President at RJio.
The other partners in the consortium cable are China Unicom, Djibouti Telecom, Etisalat, Omantel, Ooredoo and Telecom Egypt among others. AAE-1 connects Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, with Malaysia and Singapore, then onwards to Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Italy and France.
With diversified Points of Presence in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) and three onward connectivity options in Europe (via France, Italy and Greece), AAE-1 will provide the flexibility and diversity for carriers and their customers.
The cable will support increasing demand for video-centric data bandwidth and all types of communications, applications, and content within India and beyond. AAE-1 links with other cable systems and fibre networks to deliver direct access to all global markets.
AAE-1 provides one of the lowest latency routes between Hong Kong, India, Middle East and Europe with the fewest hops. The proposed AAE-1 cable system aims at enhancing telecom connectivity, providing additional capacity and speed for international traffic, it added.
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