wiredinUSA July 2014

Dedy Priatna

Bill Barney

Power for Java

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.”

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