Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
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Info-Tech
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Broadband BSNL gets ready to offer broadband to corporates G. Rambabu
NEW DELHI, May 12 IN what appears to be step-by-step strategy to take on private telecom operators, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is gearing up to launch its Internet protocol (IP) backbone based on multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) technology that will enable the company to offer broadband services to small, medium and large business enterprises and financial institutions all over the country. The MPLS virtual private network (VPN) service will be launched from Bangalore next week and gradually in nine other major cities including Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. According to official sources, BSNL's primary objectives in setting up the network are to provide a diversified range of services to meet the requirements of the entire spectrum of corporate customers. It will make the service very simple for customers to use even if they lack experience in IP routing, and scalable and flexible to facilitate large-scale deployment. "It will provide a reliable service, capable of meeting a wide range of customer requirements, including security, quality of service (QoS) and any-to-any connectivity," they said. "It will also be capable of offering fully managed services to customers and allow BSNL to introduce additional services such as bandwidth on demand over the same network." According to the sources, the MPLS VPN technology will allow BSNL to have complete control over parameters that are critical to offering its customers service guarantees with regard to bandwidth throughputs, latencies and availability. The technology enables secure VPN to be built and allows scalability that will make it possible for the company to offer assured growth to customers without having to make significant investments. It will also enable BSNL to provide bandwidth on demand, video conferencing, voice-over-IP (VoIP) and a host of other value-added services, the sources said. They added that MPLS-based VPNs would reduce customer networking complexity and costs and totally do away with the requirement of in-house technical workforce. Rather than setting up and managing individual point-to-point circuits between each office using leased lines, MPLS VPN customers need to provide only one connection from their office router to a service provider edge router. BSNL has tied up with various networking solution providers to provide end-to-end solution to its valued customers, including customer end (CE) routers and other networking components. Business companies can extend their LANs and computers at various locations across the country so as to inter-connect them over an IP VPN, thereby enabling online communication which can enhance business efficiency.
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