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GCX announces India Landing; completion of India data centre
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IANS | 19 Jun, 2018
Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), on Tuesday announced new milestones in its
'Cloud & Fiber' initiative, with the confirmation of its India
Landing and completion of IDC-5, India's largest data centre, in
preparation for the new Eagle Subsea Network, which is on target to land
in India in 2020.
GCX is a subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCOM).
"When
Eagle lands in two years, it will be connected to the world's largest
cloud operators inside India's newest and largest data center," said
Bill Barney, CEO of RCOM, and Chairman and CEO of GCX.
"We are
delighted to have completed IDC-5 in time to make it an anchor on the
world's 'Cloud & Fiber initiative' which will play a pivotal role in
the hyper growth of technology expansion across the Emerging Markets
Corridor," he added.
The new IDC-5 Data Center, located at
Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC) in Mumbai, has the capacity of
40MW over its almost 450,000 square feet built-up area and 6,000-rack
capacity.
IDC-5 is a Green Data Center and IGBC pre-certified
for Gold rating. With a best-inclass design, IDC-5 has a separate
utility block for high-voltage equipment and DG sets. It is a
purpose-built facility with robust floor loading of 1,200 Kg/Sq m and
designed for Earthquake Seismic Zone 4, a company statement said.
"India
has a key strategic location in the global submarine cable network. New
cables extending to the East and West from India will help to
accommodate surging capacity demand and enhance network resiliency,"
said Alan Mauldin, Research Director, TeleGeography.
"Demand for
international bandwidth between Europe and Asia is expected to increase
nearly 9-fold between 2017 and 2023 and bandwidth linking Europe to the
Middle East is forecasted to increase seven-fold during the same
period," Mauldin added.
The Eagle express cable system, when it
lands in Mumbai, will drive 120Tbps of capacity towards Hong Kong and
120Tbps towards Europe. The new network will be based on state-ofthe-art
100G technology using next generation Coherent Submarine Fiber.
The company plans to announce the Hong Kong and European landing points in the next 60 to 90 days.
Eagle
will be the fastest Mumbai to Hong Kong route, avoiding the
outage-prone Malacca Strait. In addition, Eagle will also be the fastest
submarine route between India and key technology centers across the
Middle East and Europe, the statement said.
The Eagle cable
system will create a NextGeneration IP and Cloud environment across the
Emerging Markets Corridor into GCX's Cloud ecosystem, connecting data
centers and economies along the route to its India hub, it added.
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