India’s subsea optical fiber cable infra updates

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TRAI chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti suggested that recent subsea cable disruptions in the Red Sea underscore the need to strengthen the crucial infrastructure.

TRAI chief calls for 10x expansion of India’s subsea cable infra to meet surging data demand

TRAI chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti suggested that recent subsea cable disruptions in the Red Sea underscore the need to strengthen the crucial infrastructure.

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More undersea cables are needed to carry the bulk of international internet and telecom traffic to and from India, experts said.

“India’s share of subsea cable landing stations presently constitutes 1%” of the world’s total, said Aruna Sundararajan, a former Union Secretary of Electronics and Information Technology who is presently chairperson of the Broadband India Forum (BIF), an industry body for big tech firms and internet service providers operating in India.

India needs more undersea cables for telecom, internet traffic, experts say

Experts emphasize the need for more undersea cables to handle India's growing internet and telecom traffic efficiently.

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The subsea cable industry urges the government to decongest the Versova landing station in Mumbai due to high risk of failures. With India's data demand surging, the industry recommends incentivizing new cable landing sites along the coastline and declaring subsea cables as critical infrastructure. Streamlined approvals for deployment, repair, and maintenance are also sought to reduce repair times and costs.

Subsea cable companies seek decongestion of Mumbai landing spot - ET Telecom

India has 17 subsea cables (3% of the global total of 559) and 14 cable landing stations (CLS) on the mainland (less than 1% of the 1,636 CLS locations worldwide).

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