Reliance Communications Ltd : Reliance Globalcom integrates Hawk cable system with Reliance Global Network

Addresses increasing bandwidth demand from India, Middle East, Europe and US

Hawk submarine cable system has already demonstrated its resilience during soft launch as it carried 180 Gbps of data during the recent cable cut off Egypt and India

Capable of carrying 5 million HD quality interactive video channels simultaneously

Connects 2.4 billion people on Reliance Global Network

Offers four diverse terrestrial crossing paths across Egypt and very low latency supporting high bandwidth intensive applications

Mumbai - April 4th, 2013: Reliance Global, the leading global provider of international wholesale tele services with a presence in high growth emerging and developed markets covering US, Europe, Middle East and Asia, today announced the activation of its Hawk submarine cable system in Egypt and it's seamless integration with the Reliance Global Network. The integration of the Hawk submarine cable system with the Reliance Global Network will enable additional capacity of 20 terabits in the Mediterranean region and will enable Falcon to carry the same capacity between Europe and India as well as between Europe and Middle East.

The integration of Hawk will enhance the capability of carrying 5 Mn HD quality interactive video channels simultaneously, immensely benefiting the broadband users in India and Middle East as it will serve 2.4 billion people in the region connected on the Reliance network.

The Hawk cable system that was built by Reliance Global last fiscal to initially set up the world's first Mediterranean Gateway and Hub at Cyprus has demonstrated its strong resilience as it carried 180 Gbps of data during the cable cut off Egypt and India recently. Hawk has been designed with two routes - one express route connecting Marseille in France and Alexandria in Egypt and another local route, with a spur to Yeroskipos in Cyprus meant for establishing a low latency, high-speed diverse alternate route on the Europe - Middle East segment, plementing Reliance Global's Falcon and FEA cable systems.

"We are delighted with the seamless integration of the Hawk submarine cable system with Reliance Global Network offering our customers greater choice, flexibility and diversity, with improved performance, on this critical route. Our existing customer base of over 37000 corporates in India and over 1400 corporates in Europe and USA, along with over 200 carrier customers will immensely benefit from this lowest latency network between India, Middle East, Europe and USA ", said Punit Garg, President & CEO, Reliance Global.

"Hawk integration is In line with our mitment to address the increasing demand for bandwidth intensive applications and it will immensely benefit billions of users in India and Middle East connected on Reliance network," he further added.

Hawk was initially launched on the Marseille-Cyprus segment to provide adequate bandwidth for local service providers who were concentrating on meeting high speed connectivity needs of emerging broadband internet users in Cyprus. Hawk was further extended to Europe and the US, which are major internet content and connectivity hubs, by building a new terrestrial ring connecting London, Paris and Frankfurt and integrating it with Reliance Global's FA-1 cable system in the Trans-Atlantic region.

Now by interconnecting with Reliance Global's cable system in Egypt, Hawk creates novel opportunities for carriers in the Middle East and India to cater to growing customer requirements for high-speed, reliable and cost-effective solutions. Hawk is the only cable system in the Mediterranean region which is fully owned and managed by a single service provider, ensuring hassle free service delivery and assurance.

About Reliance Global
Reliance Communications Limited founded by the late ShriDhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002) is the flagship pany of the Reliance Group. The Reliance Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs. 90,000 crore (US$ 17.7 billion), cash flows of Rs. 8,000 crore (US$ 1.6 billion), net profit of Rs. 3,200 crore (US$ 0.6 billion).

Reliance Communications is India's foremost and truly integrated telemunications service provider. The Company, with a customer base of about 130 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the Top 6 Tele panies 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 munications 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, prising over 277,000 kilometers of fibre optic cable systems in India, USA, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. To find out more, please visit www.relianceglobal.

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