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VSNL starts 3,175 km undersea cable project
By siliconindia staff writer
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Monday, 17 May 2004, 19:30 IST
CHENNAI: With broadband as next buzzword in telecommunication, Tatas-controlled Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has embarked upon a major project to create international bandwidth laying 3,175 km undersea cable between Chennai and Singapore.
The project, being implemented under the Tata Indicom banner, will lay its 100 per cent owned undersea cable connecting Chennai with Singapore which would become operational by March 2005, N Srinath, Director (Operations), VSNL told reporters in Chennai.
Initially, Tata Indicom will be able to offer 320 giga bits per seconds speed once the commercial operation commences in the fourth quarter of this financial year and the project has been designed to scale up to 5.12 terabits.
Srinath, however, declined to give the investment in the project saying "the commercial details cannot be disclosed."
"This new capacity will augment our existing capacity with two other existing routes from Mumbai and Eranakulam that offer international bandwidth to our customers. This will also help us to become the total integrated telecom service provider," he said.
With VSNL's plans to spread its National Long Distance (STD) operations aggressively across the country, the undersea cable project would give the company the required international bandwidth to offer voice as well data services to its customers.
"The new capacity would be used to meet the ever growing needs of additional bandwidth demands of our existing and new major corporate clients for their various services.
"We expect the international long distance bandwidth demand to grow and it is important to have our own infrastructure as customers prefer to do business with telecom companies that own their own infrastructure," Srinath said.
Tata Indicom has planned to offer the bandwidth to its existing customers like financial firms and banks that use it for sending and receiving huge data.
In addition the new demand is also arising from call center operations for voice and data.
The company has awarded the turnkey project to lay the 3,175 kilometer to US based Tyco Telecommunications. It will design, manufacture and install the undersea cable networks to support high bandwidth applications.
With an estimated operating life span of 25 years, the new cable will connect Chennai to Singapore from where it would be connected to US and other countries in Europe.
"Our endeavour is to enhance the robustness, uptime and reliability of our end-to-end connectivity offering to our corporate and broadband customer base at the earliest," said Srinath.
VSNL starts 3,175 km undersea cable project
Press Trust of India
Chennai, May 16
With broadband as next buzzword in telecommunication, Tatas-controlled Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has embarked upon a major project to create international bandwidth laying 3,175 km undersea cable between Chennai and Singapore.
The project, being implemented under the Tata Indicom banner, will lay its 100 per cent owned undersea cable connecting Chennai with Singapore which would become operational by March 2005, N Srinath, Director (Operations), VSNL told reporters in Chennai.
Initially, Tata Indicom will be able to offer 320 giga bits per seconds speed once the commercial operation commences in the fourth quarter of this financial year and the project has been designed to scale up to 5.12 terabits.
Srinath, however, declined to give the investment in the project saying "the commercial details cannot be disclosed."
"This new capacity will augment our existing capacity with two other existing routes from Mumbai and Eranakulam that offer international bandwidth to our customers. This will also help us to become the total integrated telecom service provider," he said.
With VSNL's plans to spread its National Long Distance (STD) operations aggressively across the country, the undersea cable project would give the company the required international bandwidth to offer voice as well data services to its customers.
"The new capacity would be used to meet the ever growing needs of additional bandwidth demands of our existing and new major corporate clients for their various services.
"We expect the international long distance bandwidth demand to grow and it is important to have our own infrastructure as customers prefer to do business with telecom companies that own their own infrastructure," Srinath said.
Tata Indicom has planned to offer the bandwidth to its existing customers like financial firms and banks that use it for sending and receiving huge data.
In addition the new demand is also arising from call center operations for voice and data.
The company has awarded the turnkey project to lay the 3,175 kilometer to US based Tyco Telecommunications. It will design, manufacture and install the undersea cable networks to support high bandwidth applications.
With an estimated operating life span of 25 years, the new cable will connect Chennai to Singapore from where it would be connected to US and other countries in Europe.
"Our endeavour is to enhance the robustness, uptime and reliability of our end-to-end connectivity offering to our corporate and broadband customer base at the earliest," said Srinath.
VSNL starts 3,175 km undersea cable project
Press Trust of India
Chennai, May 16
With broadband as next buzzword in telecommunication, Tatas-controlled Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has embarked upon a major project to create international bandwidth laying 3,175 km undersea cable between Chennai and Singapore.
The project, being implemented under the Tata Indicom banner, will lay its 100 per cent owned undersea cable connecting Chennai with Singapore which would become operational by March 2005, N Srinath, Director (Operations), VSNL told reporters in Chennai.
Initially, Tata Indicom will be able to offer 320 giga bits per seconds speed once the commercial operation commences in the fourth quarter of this financial year and the project has been designed to scale up to 5.12 terabits.
Srinath, however, declined to give the investment in the project saying "the commercial details cannot be disclosed."
"This new capacity will augment our existing capacity with two other existing routes from Mumbai and Eranakulam that offer international bandwidth to our customers. This will also help us to become the total integrated telecom service provider," he said.
With VSNL's plans to spread its National Long Distance (STD) operations aggressively across the country, the undersea cable project would give the company the required international bandwidth to offer voice as well data services to its customers.
"The new capacity would be used to meet the ever growing needs of additional bandwidth demands of our existing and new major corporate clients for their various services.
"We expect the international long distance bandwidth demand to grow and it is important to have our own infrastructure as customers prefer to do business with telecom companies that own their own infrastructure," Srinath said.
Tata Indicom has planned to offer the bandwidth to its existing customers like financial firms and banks that use it for sending and receiving huge data.
In addition the new demand is also arising from call center operations for voice and data.
The company has awarded the turnkey project to lay the 3,175 kilometer to US based Tyco Telecommunications. It will design, manufacture and install the undersea cable networks to support high bandwidth applications.
With an estimated operating life span of 25 years, the new cable will connect Chennai to Singapore from where it would be connected to US and other countries in Europe.
"Our endeavour is to enhance the robustness, uptime and reliability of our end-to-end connectivity offering to our corporate and broadband customer base at the earliest," said Srinath.