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India's Next Generation Networks

2008-12-25

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While Indian telecommunication networks have been far more advanced than in past decades, as the sophistication of its systems still needs to be improved and its penetration to rural areas could be expanded. By far. about 670,000 route kilometers (419,000 miles) of optical fibres have been laid in India by major operators. BSNL alone, has laid optical fibres in 30,000 Telephone Exchanges out of their 35,000 Exchanges. Keeping in mind the viability of providing services in rural areas, an attractive solution appears to be one which offers multiple service facility at low costs. A rural network based on the extensive optical fibre network, using Internet Protocol and offering a variety of services and the availability of open platforms for service development, which is also more known as the Next Generation Network, appears to be an attractive proposition. Fibre network can be easily converted to Next Generation network and then used for delivering multiple services at cheap cost.

In Next Generation Networks, multiple access networks can connect customers to a core network based on IP technology. These access networks include fibre optics or coaxial cable networks connected to fixed locations or customers connected through wi-fi as well as to 3G networks connected to mobile users. It is difficult to tell whether the next generation network is a fixed or mobile network and the broadband wireless access would be used both for fixed and mobile services. It would then be futile to differentiate between fixed and mobile networks – both fixed and mobile users will access services through a single core network.