Tata's Cables

Let's begin with a Wiki quotation :-)

Tata Communications, formerly known Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited or VSNL, is India's largest telecommunication company in international long distance, enterprise data and internet services. Part of the Tata Group, Tata Communications is based in Mumbai and has operations in over 80 cities spread across 40 countries. Tata Teleservices, one of India's largest and least congested cellular providers, is a subsidiary of Tata Communications. Through its subsidiary Tyco Global Network, it is also one of the world's largest submarine cable bandwidth providers and has the world's largest network of submarine cables. Other subsidiaries of Tata Communications include VSNL International Canada, formerly known as Teleglobe while it is the majority share-holder of Neotel, South Africa's second-largest cellular operator.

In 1986, VSNL was formed as a Government of India-owned company and 1996, Tata Teleservices was established. In 2000, Tata Group acquired controlling stake in VSNL which was later expanded to 46%. In 2007, VSNL was renamed as Tata Communications which also included Tata Teleservices.

Currently, Tata:

• has 100% ownership in 3 cable systems (TGN-Atlantic, TGN-Pacific, TIC); both TGN cables operate at >1 Tbps lit capacity
• is a leading investor in 3 consortium' cable systems (SAT3/SAFE, SMW3, SMW4)
• fully/partially owns 206,356 km fiber cable around the world
• offers a wide range of services e.g. SDH/SONET, IP, GbE, Wavelength
• offers diverse redundancy and protection capabilities; greatest diversity to and within India

Additionally, they also prepare several new cable systems:

• TGN-IA (Intra Asia) - I have mentioned this several times ago
  
• TGN-EA (EurAsia)
• IMEWE
• SEACOM
• other ?

The last three (TGN-EA, IMEWE, SEACOM) connect among other Marseille and Mumbai. Are they really three different systems ??

Tata's Cables (Operational / In Preparation); Source/Courtesy Tata