Reliance Globalcom, the submarine cable arm of Reliance Communications’, has activated its Hawk sub-sea cable system in Egypt and integrated it with the company’s global network.
The integration will enable additional capacity of 20 terabits in the Mediterranean region and will enable Falcon, another submarine cable owned by Reliance Communications, to carry the same capacity between Europe and India and Europe and West Asia.
The integration will enhance Hawk’s capability to carry five million high definition quality interactive video channels simultaneously.
It will also help in increasing the bandwidth for broadband users in India and West Asia as it will serve 2.4 billion people in the region connected on the Reliance network.
Hawk capacity
The Hawk cable system, which was built by Reliance Globalcom in the last financial year to initially set up the world’s first Mediterranean Gateway and Hub at Cyprus, has demonstrated its strong resilience as it carried 180 GBPS of data during the cable cut off in Egypt and India recently.
Hawk has been designed with two routes — one express route connecting Marseille in France and Alexandria in Egypt and another local route to Yeroskipos in Cyprus.
The local route is for low latency, high-speed diverse alternate route on the Europe-West Asia segment and complements Reliance Globalcom’s Falcon and FEA cable systems.
“Our existing customer base of over 37,000 corporates in India and over 1,400 corporates in Europe and the US, along with over 200 carrier customers will immensely benefit from this lowest latency network between India, Middle East, Europe and US,” said Reliance Globalcom President and Chief Executive Officer Punit Garg.