How will India benefit out of EIG submarine cables?
YL: EIG provides complete route and cable landing diversity in India from SEA-ME-WE-4 and other systems. EIG will provide more bandwidth, flexibility and route diversity into India. The multinational corporations in India need the additional bandwidth, flexibility and route diversity to support their mission-critical applications and have connectivity around the clock with the rest of the world. The submarine cables we have completed over the last few years and the addition of EIG cable system will give our customers an opportunity to keep their mission critical data, video, IP and voice traffic on the Verizon Business network. CIOL: How safe are these cables as we have witnessed instances of cables disruptions in the past? YL: Individual or ring protected submarine cables could no longer meet the customers’ demands. Mission critical network requires the service provider’s network to be operational even during multiple submarine cable failure scenarios. That’s why, Verizon Business has