for enterprises seeking to balance performance, cost and resilience.
The model draws together subsea cables, long-haul terrestrial fibre and technologies such as Optical Ground Wire networks to create multiple pathways for critical traffic.
The principle is straightforward: if one path is compromised, traffic moves elsewhere without service interruption.
Sharat emphasises the inherent value here. For latency-sensitive applications – high-frequency trading and real-time OTT streaming, for example – even minor jitter or delay is unacceptable. A well-designed hybrid network addresses that by distributing workloads across multiple geographies and cloud providers, reducing dependence on any single infrastructure or location.
“ The key advantage is diversity across geography, medium, and route,” he says.“ This is especially critical in regions like the Red Sea and Suez corridor, where repeated disruptions have underscored the dangers of relying on a single high-traffic route.”
26 April 2026