Henox plans coastal subsea cable to create new landing hubs for India

Details: John Tanner; Category: Optical & Fixed Networks; 14 October 2026; 559 views

India-based Henox IT and Data Centers has revealed plans to build a subsea cable system that will create a series of new, carrier-neutral landing hubs along India’s coastline.

The new subsea cable, dubbed Henox Crest, is designed as a coastal digital infrastructure corridor connecting key digital and international gateways across Gujarat, Mangaluru, Kochi, Chennai and Visakhapatnam.

Henox said the cable’s western hub in Gujarat will serve as a focal point for data centres, hyperscalers and financial institutions, with onward connectivity extending to the UAE, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

On the east coast, Henox Crest will interconnect with SubConnex at Visakhapatnam for onward connectivity towards Singapore, Malaysia and the US west coast, positioning India as a bridge between some of the world’s most important digital markets.

Henox said each landing point on the system will serve as an open PoP where operators can connect their networks, exchange traffic and build new subsea and terrestrial systems – turning a single point of concentration into a distributed, resilient backbone.

Henox said this will help India meet demand from AI, cloud and hyperscale data centres that will need international internet capacity, which in India is concentrated mainly into two gateways – Mumbai on the west coast and Chennai on the east coast.

By creating multiple new carrier-neutral landing points rather than concentrating traffic at a handful of established ones, Henox Crest aims to reduce single points of failure, strengthen resilience and give carriers, hyperscalers and enterprises more route diversity – which is especially key given the recent spate of subsea cable disruptions.

Henox also plans to build an integrated ecosystem of subsea cables, terrestrial networks, edge data centres and strategic compute infrastructure along the Henox Crest corridor, bringing connectivity and compute closer to emerging demand centres and enabling low-latency access to AI, cloud, enterprise and digital services, said Henox IT and Data Centers CEO Shaktivel K.

“Henox Crest is designed to create a high-speed coastal backbone that both powers the AI era and diversifies how India connects to the world – carrier-neutral, open to all, and creating new hubs where operators can build,” he said in a statement issued on Monday.

Henox also said it has partnered with APTelecom as its strategic technical and commercial partner, supporting the project across strategic planning, commercial development, ecosystem engagement and international partnerships.