The agreement involves the development of a new cable landing station in Dhuvaran, Anand district, with a dedicated high-capacity fibre corridor to GIFT City.
Henox said the memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed at the Regional AI Impact Conference in Gandhinagar alongside Gujarati government officials and senior leaders and dignitaries from Gujarat and the UAE.
“This project strengthens India’s sovereign digital backbone and supports the vision of Viksit Bharat,” said Shaktivel K, co-Founder & CEO of Henox IT & Datacenters. “By combining a new subsea gateway at Dhuvaran with hyperscaler-ready infrastructure in GIFT City, we are delivering a path-diverse, low-latency ingress that decongests existing routes and powers India’s AI-driven future.”
The project establishes a vital new route between the Middle East and India by adding greater diversity and decongestion to India’s west-bound connectivity for the global wholesale and cloud community. By extending high-availability backhaul directly into GIFT City, the system will deliver ultra-low latency for high-frequency trading, GCCs and AI platforms operating within India’s first International Financial Services Centre.
As part of the MoU terms, Henox will act as a strategic technology partner and be responsible for designing, building and operating the cable landing station and terrestrial backhaul.
The company will work with an international consortium of subsea operators to deliver high-capacity systems into Dhuvaran while also deploying critical infrastructure in GIFT City. This will include distributed compute nodes and secure interconnection fabrics tailored for carriers and content providers.
The Government of Gujarat and GIFT City will provide land, utilities and the enabling infrastructure needed to accelerate deployment. The project is expected to create more than 1,300 direct and indirect jobs in the region across construction, operations and engineering.
Additionally, the Dhuvaran cable landing station and GIFT City edge ecosystem will form a next-generation connectivity corridor for India, positioning Gujarat as a high-value landing point for global subsea systems and a preferred hub for green AI-ready data centre growth.
“Direct international connectivity into GIFT City gives our global partners a faster, more efficient route into India’s digital markets,” added Sunil Rangwani, co-founder & CCO at Henox.
“The Dhuvaran–GIFT City corridor will provide the latency, reliability and scale that hyperscalers, fintech ecosystems and enterprise networks need to grow with confidence.”
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