Tata Comm links Oman with India via undersea cable

MUSCAT, OMAN: Telecommunication service provider Tata Communications and Oman-based communication service provider Nawras announced the launch of the Oman to India TGN-Gulf cable system for voice and data.

The undersea cable will be used to route voice and data traffic from Oman to Mumbai (India) and onwards to the rest of the world, via the Tata Global Network (TGN).

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The new cable link offers capacity for broadband and high quality voice services, enabling Nawras to meet the growing demand for international voice and data services from its customers — be it in the form of calls or internet surfing, claims the telco in a release.

'We are proud to bring a new cable system to Oman in association with Nawras," says Radwan Moussalli, Tata Communications’ Managing Director, Middle East and North Africa (MENA). "The Middle East is fast establishing itself as an emerging market hotspot for business which brings with it the need for solid infrastructure and associated enterprise services that require high speed bandwidth. This launch is yet another step in our overall strategy to participate and assist in the rapid development of this key region."

The development forms part of the strategic TGN-Gulf cable project which will connect the Gulf region to the rest of the world via the Tata Global Network.

"The new cable is an exciting milestone as Nawras will now gain bandwidth to economically meet the ever-growing demand for voice and data services from our valued customers, for mobile and fixed line. It will also reduce international interconnection costs as well as national and international transmission lease-line costs, while at the same time allowing Nawras total end-to-end quality control. We can also now expand our service portfolio to include international data and transmission services." says Ross Cormack, CEO, Nawras.

The launch forms part of a strategic roll out plan to support the development of an extended portfolio of telecommunications services such as global Ethernet, MPLS-based VPN, managed security, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and global telepresence.

The TGN-Gulf project landing parties are Nawras (Sultanate of Oman), Etisalat (United Arab Emirates), Qatar Telecom (Qatar), Bahrain Internet Exchange (Kingdom of Bahrain), and Mobily (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).