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Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) plans to
provideadirect subsea route tobridgean
important gap in the emerging markets
corridor, a direct Mumbai-Singapore
route to bypass current outage-prone
terrestrial routes between Mumbai and
Chennai.
“With Singapore as a regional hub and
gateway for multinational companies
doing business in India and emerging
markets, the ICX cable will complement
our GCX global network infrastructure
for direct connectivity to major business
centers in Asia, Middle East, North
America and Europe,” said Bill Barney,
chief executive officer, Global Cloud
Xchange.
Based on 100G technology, the ICX
cable will be a four-fiber pair system with
initial design capacity per fiber pair of 80
x 100G using coherent submarine fiber.
This new segment will deliver termination
into theMiddle East, Europe and to the US
east coast through interconnection with
GCX's Falcon, Hawk and FA-1 systems.
Submarine cable vendors and additional
partners for the ICX subsea cable are
being finalized. Global Cloud Xchange
will announce the award of the supply
contract by the third quarter of 2014.
Mumbai to Singapore
route
The Indonesian government is planning
to invest $2.1 billion in a cable to transmit
electricity from the island of Sumatra to
the densely populated island of Java. The
move is in an effort to alleviate the frequent
power failures brought about by decades
of underinvestment in energy infrastructure.
The 500kV cable will cross a 35km stretch of
the Sunda Strait.
Minister of national development planning
Armida Alisjahbana said $1.19 billion of
the necessary funds will come from the
Japan International Cooperation Agency
(JICA), a body promoting development in
emerging economies. Alisjahbana added
that JICA could also fund the remainder,
depending on Indonesian presidential
approval.
Dedy Priatna, deputy planning minister,
stressed: “The power from coal-fired power
plants in Sumatra must be distributed so it’s
not all concentrated in Sumatra. That’s why
we need the transmission cable to Java.”
Power
for Java
Bill Barney
Dedy Priatna