The RAMAN Cable's Impact On The Indian Market: The Sea Turns Blue
Technology: Spatial Division Multiplexing. Fibre Pairs: 16. Business Model: Consortium & Open Cable. Fibre Pair Throughput: NA. Consortium Leaders: Google, Sparkle, Omantel. Wholesale Capacity Players: Sify, Sparkle. A point: Marseille Interxion. Z point: Sify CLS, Mumbai. Raman is the cable that could break open India's tightly controlled international capacity market. The cable is named after Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman who received the Nobel prize in 1930 for discovering that some of the light traversing a transparent medium is scattered and changes both wavelength and amplititude. This happens to be why the sea is blue. This 16 pair SDM cable will link Mumbai to Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, and Jordan. Raman is striking in two respects. First, it is really an integrated part of the Blue-Raman cable that will function as an single network connecting Marseille to Mumbai and will be priced as a single, seamless capacity provider. It will bypass Egypt