Lightstorm to invest $1 bn in India & Southeast Asia to enhance its fibre and cable landing stations
- ByStartupStory | May 23, 2022
Lightstorm, an infrastructure platform provider, the company plans to invest $1 billion in India and Southeast Asia over the next three to five years to expand its fibre network capacity and cable landing stations.
It was established in 2018 by Amajit Gupta, Rajiv Nayyar, Lalit Chowdhury, Ranjan Banerjee, Raja Srinivas and Vijay Raju. The firm expects a surge in demand from telecom service providers, corporations, and startups ahead of the debut of 5G services in India, so it wants to double its number of data centres and increase its fibre capacity by more than 60% by December this year.
The Delhi-based business will also introduce a network-as-a-service model in Indonesia, Nepal, and Bangladesh later this year, as part of the investments geared at India’s thriving data infrastructure sectors, according to chief executive Amajit Gupta. He also said that in the last 18 months, we’ve built a state-of-the-art digital network in India, with over 12,000 kilometres of fibre and 200 nodes linking almost 50 multi-tenant data centres throughout the country’s five major economic areas. By the end of the year, the company also hopes to have 100 data centres and cloud locations.
By the end of the year, fibre capacity will have increased to 20,000 km, and the number of cable landing stations will have increased as well. For the Trans Europe Asia System in India, the business partnered with Cinturion Corp, a supplier of subsea and terrestrial networks located in the United States. In India, the business plans to establish a network of open Cable Landing Stations (CLSs) to launch new routes and allow impartial access to landing parties, lowering internet connection costs by eliminating reliance on a few sites and captive landing stations. India now has two major CLS in Mumbai and Chennai, which Gupta believes is insufficient. The supplier will be able to offer low-cost access to high-speed fibre capacity from open-access cable landing stations as a result of this.
Gupta also said that later this year, the firm will be launching its network in Indonesia, connecting 40 plus data centres, and offering high-quality fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure on a Network-as-a-service (NaaS) model to service providers and internet service providers in Indonesia. And will shortly connect services to Nepal and Bangladesh soon.
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