Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio gets nod for sub-sea cable gateway in Bengal Top government officials present in the meeting said that the landing station is … Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio on Thursday (29/06/2017) has launched Asia-Africa-Europe (AAE-1) submarine cable system, the longest 100Gbps technology based submarine system that will stretch over 25,000 km from Marseille, France to Hong Kong, with 21 cable landings across Asia and Europe.
This routing enables AAE-1 to have one of the lowest latency as between Hong Kong, India, the Middle-East and Europe.By Connecting major carrier-neutral PoPs in Hong Kong, Singapore and Marseilles, AAE-1 members can choose their preferred backhaul providers available in these PoPs or in AAE-1 Cable Landing Stations in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe.
BBG has deployed the latest submarine cable 100Gbps transmission technology, utilizing wavelength add/drop branching units along the route, with an initial equipped capacity of 9 terabits per second. Reliance Jio Infocomm, which own pan India BWA spectrum is going to invest in making submarine cable system along with several international carriers. Boca Raton Cable Landing Station (Vodafone)
It connects Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, with Malaysia and Singapore, then onwards to Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Italy and France.AAE-1 cable system deploys state-of-the-art 100Gbps transmission technology, with a minimum design capacity of 40 Tbps.One of the unique features of AAE-1 is that whilst it terminates at two PoPs in Singapore, it also continues further into Asia via diverse terrestrial routes across Thailand connecting Vietnam, Cambodia and Hong Kong.
Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) is a 25,000km consortium cable system connecting South East Asia to Europe via Egypt, the largest submarine cable to be constructed in almost 15 years.
“We are excited about the launch of BBG as it offers not just direct connectivity in and out of India through Chennai and Mumbai but also acts as a state-of-the-art 100 Gbps extension of Jio’s 100 Gbps core network,” said Mathew Oommen, President Reliance Jio. The cables are expected to be operational in two years or early 2023. Reliance Jio announced on 18 th April 2016 the launch of a new state-of-the-art 8,100 km cable system, the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG).
Yes this is the map depicting the optical fiber network of Jio. In addition to Reliance Jio, the BBG partners include: Dialog Axiata, Etisalat, Omantel, Telecom Malaysia, and Vodafone.BBG is one of the new cable systems in the region in which Reliance Jio has invested as part of its broadband plans. BBG provides direct connectivity to South East Asia and the Middle East, then onward to Europe, Africa and Far East Asia through seamless interconnection with existing cable systems.
OLL and NEC Launch MIST Cable System Construction Google and Facebook Refile PLCN Cable Landing License Application As Mr. Mukesh Ambani said in AGM on 1st September 2016 that Jio has covered 70% of the area and the remaining 30 % will be covered in 2017.
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“This global connectivity brings key international content hubs closer to our customers, delivering a much richer experience as an important part of driving India’s broadband adoption, enabling consumers to shift away from the current high-cost low value propositions.”Providing robust, reliable, low latency connectivity, BBG strengthens one of the fastest growing global internet routes. PLCN Consortium Withdraws Application for Cable Landing License New Delhi: Reliance Jio is planning to deploy two submarine cable systems connecting Singapore and Europe, taking highbandwidth connectivity from the US’s western and eastern coasts allowing higher data speed to Indian users, two persons familiar with the matter said. MegaFon Begins Offshore Survey for the Arctic Connect Subsea Cable Project
Reliance Jio launches longest 100G submarine cable system The 4G entrant said that the project is the combined work of leading telecom service providers from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Reliance Jio has two such cable landing stations in Chennai and Mumbai and if the proposal takes a shape, Digha would be their third such facility, the source added. Boca Raton Cable Landing Station (GlobeNet)