Mumbai, 22nd August 2011: Reliance Globalcom, a leading global provider of connectivity, hosting and managed services for multinational enterprises and carriers, has become the 1st provider in Asia to upgrade its FNAL submarine network using 40G Coherent technology, the capacity is enhanced to 12 Terabytes in fastest growing market.

By upgrading its NACS (North Asia Cable System) and WACS (West Asia Cable System) routes using the Ciena Platform, Reliance Globalcom’s FNAL cable system can now support new features like 40G, OTN and 10G LAN PHY. The 10G LAN PHY services were initially launched in 2009 on Reliance Globalcom’s FA-1 submarine cable system between New York, London and Paris.

The capacity upgrade on FNAL has enabled Reliance Globalcom to bring more cost effective and cutting edge Ethernet based solutions to the region. 10G LAN PHY interfaces can be directly plugged into the customer Ethernet router port, thereby offering a significantly lower cost alternative to the customer than using traditional 10G / STM-64 interfaces. Since the 10G LAN PHY service operates at a line rate of 10.31 Gbps against 9.95 Gbps on a standard 10G, it can also offer a higher user data speed.

With the launch of this service on the FNAL cable system, the Ethernet customer applications will be delivered at 10 times the bandwidth available on a Gigabit Ethernet connection, thus increasing the transport efficiencies and capacity over existing wavelengths deployed on Reliance Globalcom’s network. The offering will help 10G LAN PHY adoption in Asia, meeting both high speed and additional wavelength requirements.

“The service will help Content Delivery Networks and Internet Service Providers to aggregate large traffic volumes in a cost effective way and at higher data speed” says Punit Garg, President & CEO, Reliance Global Enterprise Business. “The 10G LAN PHY capabilities across our FNAL and FA-1 networks will significantly lower the cost of upgrades and ongoing maintenance for our customers”.

The service will additionally provide customers the freedom and flexibility to manage their data networks. The plug-and-play Ethernet interface of 10G LAN PHY service coupled with Optical Transport Network technology will help them leverage the Ethernet technology to build and grow large IP backbones and storage networks.

Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship company of the Reliance Group. The Reliance Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 89,000 crore (US$ 19.7 billion), cash flows of Rs. 10,900 crore (US$ 2.3 billion), net profit of Rs. 3,600 crore (US$ 0.8 billion).

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of over 150 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 4 Telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes over 35,000 Indian and multinational corporations including small and medium enterprises and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers.

Reliance Communications has established a pan-India, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 277,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.