A modern carrier Ethernet network based on indigenous routers has been activated by the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) in Mumbai.
Through this network, MTNL will launch carrier-class Ethernet services to meet its customers bandwidth needs.
The Ethernet switch routers were developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and the Electronics Corporation of India Limited, Hyderabad.
The MTNL and Electronic Corporation entered into a strategic partnership for creating the network.
This would help MTNL customise services based on individual customer needs. This will also boost bandwidth demand and broadband infrastructure in the city of Mumbai.
The Principle Scientific Advisor to the Government of India R. Chidambaram inaugurated the network in Mumbai on Thursday.
The Carrier Ethernet Switch Routers were developed to answer the country’s needs towards providing secure and low-cost communications platform that would be beyond what is offered as state of the art by foreign vendors and other providers.
The ECIL made Routers in MTNL network will create a new network infrastructure for the telecom domain.
Given the recently expressed concerns about network security, the network based on these Routers will infuse new confidence given its complete reliance on indigenous technology, an ECIL press release claimed.
The key features of these routers are high speed and low power consumption.
They have been conceptualised, developed by IIT Bombay and manufactured by ECIL.
ECIL has taken up this technology as part of indigenizing telecom infrastructure.
The Chairman and Managing Director, ECIL P. Sudhakar and Chairman and Managing Director MTNL , A.K. Garg and officials from various government organisations such as BARC, IIT and NIC participated in the event.
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