Global Cloud Xchange

Global Cloud Xchange
Privately held
Industry Telecommunications
Founded March 2014
Headquarters Mumbai, Hong Kong
Key people
 William Barney (Chief Executive Officer)
Products Cloud X®, Infrastructure Solutions, Managed Networks Solutions, Connectivity Solutions
Parent Reliance Communications
Website globalcloudxchange.com

Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a subsidiary of Reliance Communications, offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions customized for carriers, enterprises and new media companies across the world’s largest private undersea cable system spanning more than 67,000 route km, integrated with Reliance Communications’ 200,000 route km of domestic fiber-optic backbone. With connections to 40 key business markets worldwide spanning Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East, GCX is equipped to support businesses through the deployment of next generation Enterprise solutions across its Cloud Delivery Networks.[1]

Overview

With connections to 40 key business markets worldwide spanning Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East, GCX delivers Managed Services to more than 160 countries and offers extensive VPLS-enabled Ethernet network capabilities globally.

GCX has principal offices in Mumbai and Hong Kong in addition to offices in Australia, Belgium, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.[2]

History

GCX Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of RCOM, which is listed in India on the BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited and is one of India’s largest telecommunications service companies providing wireless, wire line, long-distance, voice, data, video and internet communications services. RCOM is part of the Reliance Group, one of India’s largest business groups which has a significant presence in the telecommunications, financial services, entertainment, energy and infrastructure sectors.

Global Cloud Xchange was formed as part of the rebranding of certain businesses of RGBV, which includes FLAG Telecom Group Limited (“FLAG”), Reliance Vanco Group Limited (“Vanco”) and Yipes Holdings, Inc. (“Yipes”).

In 2004, the Reliance Group acquired and, in 2008, renamed FLAG as Reliance Globalcom Limited (“RGL”). RGL owns and operates various undersea and terrestrial fiber assets around the world, including the FEA cable system linking Europe to Asia via the Middle East and India. Before being acquired by Reliance Group, FLAG was listed on the NASDAQ National Market and London Stock Exchange. FLAG was first established in 1993 by a group of telecommunications companies led by Bell Atlantic.

In 2007, RGL acquired Yipes through one of RGL’s wholly owned subsidiaries. Yipes is a US-based Ethernet Service provider which provides Ethernet and application delivery services for global enterprises. Established in 1999, Yipes has pioneered the Ethernet technology in metropolitan area networks.

In 2008, RGL acquired Vanco through one of its wholly owned subsidiaries. Vanco is a global Wide Area Network Operator. Vanco provides enterprise clients, directly or through partners, with optimized fully managed network solutions. Vanco was established in 1988 and its original parent company, Vanco plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange before it was acquired by RGL.

In March 2014, RGL rebranded as Global Cloud Xchange under the leadership of CEO, Bill Barney, to align with the company’s strategic plan to deliver an integrated portfolio of infrastructure, data center and managed network services with sophisticated Cloud capabilities, especially across key emerging markets in Asia and the Middle East.

In July, GCX announced successful debut in the Global Capital Market by raising US$350M fixed rate notes maturing in 2019. The deal received an overwhelming response from the market, and was significantly oversubscribed.

In October and December, GCX launched transformational Cloud X platform in Hong Kong and London. This new high performance enterprise-class platform delivers applications and content across the company’s privately owned global fiber optic network.

In March 2015, Reliance Communications (RCOM), the parent company of GCX, expanded the role of Bill Barney, CEO of Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), to also oversee RCOM’s Enterprise, IDC and National Long Distance (NLD) operations in India, while continuing as Chairman and CEO of GCX.

In July 21, Reliance Communications (RCOM) expanded its next generation content and cloud delivery network – part of its subsidiary Global Cloud Xchange – to five additional cities in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad as part of a wider strategy to support future growth in the country. These Cloud Xchange nodes can help government departments access 240 times the amount of compute power currently available in Government data centers, and over 6 times the high speed storage currently available in India.

History Overview
2003 FLAG Telecom Acquired
2006 FALCON cable system commences commercial operations
2007 YIPES acquired, announced first Global Ethernet VPLS with class of service prioritization
2008 Vanco Acquired, launched VPOPs in MEA, MPLS VPN services
2009 Launched high capacity resilient global IP backbone, Multi CoS Global Ethernet and VPLS services
2010 Next-generation IPv6 deployed on Global IP backbone
2011 World’s first global Mediterranean gateway and hub in Europe set up with Hawk cable system
2013 Hawk cable system integrated with Reliance Global Network, Trans-Atlantic cable upgraded with 10G
2014 Reliance Globalcom rebranded as Global Cloud Xchange, announced plan for new cable between Tokyo & US (PCX) and between India & Asia (ICX)
2015 GCX introduces Cloud X Fusion with Google Cloud Interconnect
2015 Reliance Communications launches next generation content and cloud delivery network in 5 cities across India
2015 GCX and Equinix announce global interconnect deal
2015 Reliance Communications acquires capacity on TIC cable to expand Singapore-Asia connectivity

Global Network

The principal elements of the Global Cloud Xchange Global Network include five subsea cable systems operating on major global data traffic routes: the Trans-Atlantic route, the Europe-Asia route, the Europe-Middle East & Egypt route and the Intra-Asia route.

As of June 30, 2014, these cable systems had a total length of 68,698 route kilometres (“rkm”) and landed at 46 landing stations in 27 countries. GCX has launched India Cloud Xchange (ICX) through capacity acquired on the TIC cable to boost its connectivity between India and Singapore. GCX is also expanding through Pacific Cloud Xchange (PCX) which will connect Tokyo with the US west coast. With the added capacity on TIC and the completion of PCX, GCX will deliver further economies of scale and network cost savings to its clients.

GCX has owned as well as leased terrestrial networks with a total length of 83,432 rkm integrated within the subsea cable system. These are present in over 34 metropolitan areas across 14 countries covering major business centers. GCX also has a scalable global IP and multi-protocol label switching (“MPLS”) network provided over 27 diverse owned and leased international subsea and terrestrial cable routes, with 836 direct inter-connections to 342 third party networks.

GCX’s managed network services platform connects approximately 27,000 sites in 158 countries through a combination of leased and owned infrastructure offered through a dedicated secure IP network. Two GNOCs in Denver and Mumbai act as the global network operational centers of the GCX Global Network, the functions of which include 24-hour monitoring, network operations, restoration coordination and technical support.

Global Network Interactive Map:

Solutions

Infrastructure Solutions[3]

Global Cloud Xchange owns the world’s largest private undersea cable system spanning more than 68,000 route km of subsea fiber connecting major telecommunications hubs globally, from the developed markets in the U.S. and Europe to key emerging markets in the Middle East and Asia, including India and China.

Hosting

GCX has hosting facilities placed at various locations with open connectivity. With legacy applications, compliance and regulatory requirements and asset depreciation, the hosting facilities allow organizations to host and manage IT infrastructures in a traditional manner. The GCX global Co-location service offers hosting in global commercial centers with the benefits of direct connectivity to the GCX global network as well as to other 3rd party infrastructure.

IP Transit

GCX IP transit offerings are designed to provide wholesale Internet service with particular emphasis on delivery into and out of Asia and the Middle East.

Transmission Services

Global Cloud Xchange has a range of wholesale infrastructure products offering global connectivity into both major traditional business centers and regulated as well as emerging markets.

Connectivity Solutions[4]

GCX’s portfolio of products and services includes the security of “Layer 1”, the flexibility of “Layer 2” and the features of “Level 3” services to support business’ requirements.

Private Line

GCX’s private line services offer connectivity solutions to company premises throughout the world using high speed “Layer 1” technologies. Global reach is used to provide point-to-point connectivity throughout the established as well as developing world.

Ethernet

The Ethernet platform offers feature-rich coverage worldwide with a host of variants available to give a wealth of choice, with the capability to connect a handful of sites within the same metro area or a broad estate of locations globally.

IP Services

GCX’s IP VPN provides any-to-any connectivity between global sites. The IP VPN services offer high performance, scalable WAN connectivity to run business applications with efficiency

Managed Network Solutions

Managed Networks

GCX provides a single global network regardless of location to allow connectivity to widely dispersed areas. The global network is integrated with domestic and regional access to provide end-to-end managed networks almost anywhere on the planet.

Managed Security

Managed security services complement the managed networks in order to protect against malware, advanced persistent threats, denial of service and distributed denial of service and cyber warfare.

Managed Unified Communications

Real-time communication services are offered by combining voice and business data to allow increased control and visibility of critical communication channels.

Cloud X[5]

CLOUD X Fusion

The CLOUD X Fusion service offers enterprise grade connectivity to Ethernet or MPLS VPN from the Cloud with on-net private connectivity in more than 90 countries. A choice of bandwidths is offered to allow the incorporation of pay-as-you-go to provide clients with the option to dynamically scale service based on usage.

Cloud X Multi-Tenant

Through Cloud X portal, companies can launch 60+ out-of-the-box SaaS applications standalone or as components of complex workloads. Cloud X Multi-Tenant also allows on-demand network bandwidth provision in real time, with interoperability to 3rd party Cloud providers.

GCX offers 5 standardized compute packages with Multi-Tenant, from and entry-level package with single processor, 1Gb memory, and 50Gb of disk space to options up to 8 processors, 16Gb of memory and 500Gb of disk space.

Cloud X Private

Cloud X Private from GCX provides computing infrastructure in a secure Cloud environment, sized for workload requirements and attached directly to GCX’s global network. Standard options are available at 8Tb, 16Tb and 32Tb for block and object storage.

Cloud X Hybrid

The Hybrid option from GCX provides secure access to both Cloud X Private and Cloud X Multi-tenant Clouds simultaneously.

Industries

GCX provides managed services and service level agreements to manufacturers, global logistics providers, international financial service businesses and leading high street retailers.

Retail

GCX provides retailers with access to both shared and dedicated virtualized computing environments, which enables companies to deploy whole application server workloads. The managed MPLS VPN solutions with WAN Xtra rapid deployment options provide access to global infrastructures as well as in-country options.

GCX offers Secure Managed WiFi solutions to provide and link customer analytics to CRM systems. X-Shield Managed security solutions, Cloud X, Hosting and Managed Unified Communications solutions are also provided.

Manufacturing

GCX provides manufacturing companies with global managed MPLS VPNs, WAN Xtra to be used for “pooled” emergency connectivity, App Xpress Managed WAN optimization solutions, and the Globcal Cloud Xchange’s Cloud X platform with dedicated and shared cloud environments. IT services in new markets and X-Shield security is also offered.

Logistics

With Global Cloud Xchange, global logistics providers can gain access to mission-critical networking in remote locations with managed MPLS VPNs, WAN Xtra, Cloud X, and X-shield.

Financial Services

GCX offers financial service providers high capacity IPLCs and EPLs with low latency routes across Asia and throughout the Middle East as well as Global Ethernet with bandwidth-on-demand and usage-based billing to support data, voice and video convergence and virtualized computing.

MPLS VPN solutions provide secure IP connectivity to 160 countries world-wide, available as “wires-only” or as a full managed service. App Xpress Manage WAN optimization solutions and Secure Cloud Services include virtualized computing, cloud storage and cloud back-up.

Business Services

For Global Business Services, GCX provides end-to-end solutions on a global scale with virtualized computing & storage and more than 80 out of box cloud applications deployed directly into global networks. GCX can also provide on-net connectivity to content and software providers via enterprise class Cloud switching structure, as well as high capacity point-to-point IPLCs, EPLs and EtherLine connections into India, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

MPLS VPN solutions and secure IP connectivity to 160 countries worldwide are available as “wires-only” or as a fully managed service, and X-Shield Managed Security services provide up-to-the-minute protections.

Leadership[6]

Senior Leadership

Regional Leadership

References

  1. ↑ "Global Cloud Xchange". www.globalcloudxchange.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  2. ↑ "Offices | Global Cloud Xchange". globalcloudxchange.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  3. ↑ "Infrastructure Solutions | Global Cloud Xchange". globalcloudxchange.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  4. ↑ "Connectivity Solutions | Global Cloud Xchange". globalcloudxchange.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  5. ↑ "Cloud X | Global Cloud Xchange". globalcloudxchange.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  6. ↑ "Leadership | Global Cloud Xchange". globalcloudxchange.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.

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