GCX’s Strategy In APAC

Jim Fagan, Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer of GCX, was interviewed by Black Swan Telecom Journal. When asked about GCX’s strategy in Asia Pac and how GCX balances current capacity and planning to bring new cables on-line, here is what Jim had to say:

It’s really about having connectivity and capacity in the key markets we are pursuing.?We want to reach growing markets and ones where it’s complex to do business.

Asia Pacific is a heavy focus and of great importance to GCX.?In Asia, we want to get customers into countries where we don’t land today.?So a key strategy of ours is to acquire significant capacity to interconnect Taiwan, Singapore, and India.

If you look at our footprint, we are definitely a go-to for U.S. OTT companies.?That includes both Facebook (Meta) and Google as well as the gaming companies, SaaS platforms and more.

Today, by the way, we have plenty of room to light up a new cable: I still have about 70% headroom to sell bandwidth on existing cables — and that’s using current technology.?

With many new cables coming and each of them taking 3 to 4 years to get deployed, GCX has plenty of room to support customers today on existing routes throughout the Middle East, APAC and into North America.

A rule of thumb says the technical life of a cable is 25 years, but we’ve done better than that.?Even for our two oldest cables FA-1 and FNAL, we don’t see any technical issues going into the 2030s, which would put them beyond 30 years life.

In terrestrial systems, no one ever asks: how old is your fiber??But when people think about subsea, everybody worries about age and capacity. Ironically, the business of data centers is building NEW data centers.?It’s just a question of when, where, and how the market is progressing.

Click to learn more about GCX in this Black Swan Article: https://bswan.org/gcx_connectivity.asp