TAG | India to get first direct cable link to the UK |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 07 May 2008 | |
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The 15,000km EIG cable is scheduled to be operational by mid 2010. It will have thirteen landings: in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, Monaco, France, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, United Arab Emirates and India and will interconnect with other major cable systems connecting Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. It will have a capacity of 3.84tbps when fully lit and provide much-needed diversity for broadband traffic currently relying largely on traditional routes from Europe to India. The builders say this is important, because of the threat of earthquakes in this region. Ihab Tarazi, Verizon Business vice president of global network planning, said the new system would enable Verizon Business to provide services with reduced latency (the time it takes data sent from its entry point in the network to reach its destination), reduced provisioning time and increased reliability." He added: "The EIG will give Verizon Business customers a second, diverse landing in France. As with SEA-ME-WE-4, Verizon Business will operate a landing station in Marseilles that will connect directly with the company's recently expanded ultra-long-haul network in Europe." EIG, will also enable Verizon Business also plans to extend its global mesh architecture to the Middle East and India. Meshing is network design that connects undersea cable systems on land, allowing for instantaneous rerouting of traffic in the event of multiple undersea cable breaks. Currently, Verizon Business operates a seven-way diverse mesh network between the US and Europe and five-way diversity between the US and Japan.
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