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Telecommunications Tata Comms taps into Pipe's PPC-1 cable
Telecommunications Tata Comms taps into Pipe's PPC-1 cable | Tata Comms taps into Pipe's PPC-1 cable |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 15 October 2009 | |
  
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Tata Communications, then VSNL, played a key role in the genesis of PPC-1. Speaking at the launch of the system earlier this month, Pipe CEO, Bevan Slattery, recounted how Pipe's discussions with VSNL, and VSNL's early involvement, had been crucial to his company's decision to build the cable. "[Pipe director Steve Baxter] and I had a meeting with Simon Cooper [now vice president, international network development, Tata Communications] in Singapore in September 2006 and we explained our plan about creating competition [in the Australian market for international cable capacity]. It was a revelation. Simon said 'We like that plan, we will support it, We will give you space in our landing station. We will do everything we can to make this project a success.' And from that point Project Runway as it then was took off." The Tata Global Network includes the TGN Atlantic, TGN Western Europe, TGN Northern Europe, TGN Pacific, TGN Intra Asia, and TGN-TIC subsea cable systems. Tata is also a partner in consortium cables including SEACOM, SE-ME-WE-3, SE-ME-WE-4, SAFE/SAT 3 and APCN 2. The company claims to be the world’s largest carrier of voice traffic.
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