Internet video, iPhones, explosive growth of mobile phones in Asia, flat-rate broadband pricing… these and more have sent capacity demands on the Anywhere Network through the roof in the past year. Many of the packets these activities generate end up queuing for intercontinental transport via one or more of the Earth’s submarine cabling systems.
In London last week I had a chance to catch up on the implications of demand and approaches to submarine cabling finance from an Anywhere industry insider, Vinod Kumar. Vinod is President and COO of Tata Communications and a long-time communications sector leader. Among many other submarine cable activities, Tata Communications operates SEACOM, the big cable that recently reached the shores of East Africa from Mumbai, opening … Read More