WCA September 2014

Industry news

Plans for Singapore link

New general manager

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 : www.relianceglobalcom.com

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

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: www.rsccnuclearcable.com

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