Reliance Jio, latches on to world's longest submarine cable

Reliance Jio Infocomm which has recently become the largest 4G and mobile broadband digital services provider in India, has latched on to globe-girdling telecom infrastructure. Last week it announced the launch of the longest 100 GBPS technology based submarine cable system in the world. Called Asia-Africa-Europe (AAE-1), stretching over 25,000 km from Marseille, France to Hong Kong, with 21 cable landings across Asia and Europe, including India, it will help bring 100 GBPS speeds to India.

The project is the combined work of leading telecom service providers from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Jio provides Network Operations & Management for the entire cable system: The AAE-1 Network Operating Centre, leverages Jio's facility in Navi Mumbai.

With diversified Points of Presence (PoP) in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) and three onward connectivity options in Europe (via France, Italy and Greece), AAE-1 will provide wide flexibility and diversity for carriers and their customers. It will pass through the critical hubs, serving the increasing demand for video centric data bandwidth supporting all types of communications, applications, and content within India and beyond. It will also enable Indian enterprises to deliver direct access to all global markets.

Due to its advanced design and route, AAE-1 provides one of the lowest latency routes between Hong Kong, India, Middle East and Europe with the fewest hops. ( Latency is the amount of time a message takes to traverse a system).