Flag Telecom, providers of undersea cable networks, announced an agreement in September with CERN and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai to provide gigabit Ethernet connectivity between the two. This milestone demonstrates how large-scale scientific projects such as the LHC unify communities around the globe.
The increased connectivity with India will enable the TIFR to collaborate fully as a Tier-2 centre of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). This Grid links more than 150 institutes worldwide in the storage and analysis of petabytes of scientific data from the LHC.
Flag Telecom owns and operates the world's largest private undersea cable system spanning four continents and 65,000 route kilometres. The world Ethernet market is expected to grow to $25 billion by 2010.