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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2014
Industrynews
GLOBAL Cloud Xchange (GCX),
formerly Reliance Globalcom and a
part of Anil Ambani-led Reliance
Communications Ltd (RCom), has
announced plans to invest $200
million in a subsea India Cloud
Xchange (ICX) cable infrastructure.
The objective is to bypass the current
outage-prone terrestrial routes
between Mumbai and Chennai, and
provide a direct subsea route between
Mumbai and Singapore.
“With Singapore as a regional hub
and gateway for multi-national
companies doing business across
India and emerging markets, the ICX
cable will complement our GCX global
network infrastructure for direct
connectivity to major business centres
in Asia, the Middle East, North
America and Europe,” said Bill
Barney, CEO at GCX.
Using 100G technology, the ICX cable
will be a four-fibre pair system with an
initial design capacity per fibre pair at
80 x 100G. This new segment will
deliver termination into the Middle
East, Europe and to the US east coast
through interconnection with GCX’s
Falcon, Hawk and FA-1 systems.
“The new ICX fibre system, which
runs approximately 5,060km between
Mumbai and Singapore, will also have
a branch landing in Thiruvan-
anthapuram and/or Chennai.
“This will support creation of a next
generation IP and cloud environment
held together with a single AS number
and connecting into Tier III+ data
centre facilities on the ground,” said
Wilfred Kwan, COO GCX.
Submarine cable vendors and
additional partners for the ICX subsea
cable are being finalised.
Global Cloud Xchange – India
Website:
Plans for Singapore link New general
manager
RSCC Wire & Cable LLC has named
Christopher Venice as vice president,
general manager, RSCC Wire &
Cable, Down Hole Metal Clad
segment, reporting to Steve Bonnell,
president of RSCC Wire & Cable.
Mr Venice is responsible for the
Down Hole Metal Clad business,
which manufactures the
Perma-TEC™ lines of specialised
downhole instrument cables, utilised
globally in the oil and gas industry.
He succeeds Graeme Young, who
was recently named vice president,
market development EMEA (Europe,
Middle East and Africa) for Marmon
Engineered Wire and Cable and will
be returning to Scotland in his new
role reporting to Dennis Chalk.
RSCC Wire & Cable LLC – USA
Website: