Transcript Telecom Sector

TeNeT Group at IIT Madras
Driving Innovation in India
towards emerging Market
Ashok jhunjhunwala
TeNeT Group, IIT Madras,
[email protected]
India with a billion people is a large market, but
60% of Urban households can spend less than $ 6 per month on Telecom
Monthly telecom expenditure (assuming 4% income can be spent on telecom)
3.2
6
8.8
12
17
25
42
62
150
25
million households
21.2
65 million Urban homes
20
15.8
15
12.8
10
5.8
3.2
5
2.0
0.8
0.3
0.6
1040
1560
3730
0
80
150
220
290
420
630
monthly household income in $
India needs Telecom CAPEX to go down to $200 per line
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TeNeT Group at IITM took up the
challenge
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Incubated/ supported a dozen plus product companies and
worked with operators to drive down CAPEX
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Banyan Networks
Tejas Networks
Chennai Kavigal
NeuroSynaptic
Nextge
Indus technolgies
Capex per line down from $600 per line three years ago to
$350 per line
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Midas Communications
NMSWorks
Nilgiri Networks
OOPS
Jataayu
Benchmark Systems
Usha Communications
Telecom is booming in India
India will add 150 million lines in the next 7 years as CAPEX is driven
below $200
IITM - Midas
corDECT Wireless in Local Loop
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To PSTN
35/70 kbps Internet plus
simultaneous telephone
• $150 per line price
•2 million lines in 03-04
To Internet
Fiber ring
Fibre in the Loop
Last meters on copper
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Video Server
Fiber To The Building (FTTB)
IITM-Banyan
DIAS (DSL on copper)
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PSTN
Internet
V5.2
IP
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IAN
HDSU
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Always ON Internet connection on not-so-good-quality
existing copper lines
already deployed in 30 cities
IITM - nLogue
Connecting Rural Areas
Vision
Connect (voice and Internet)
Rural
Areas
and
Small
Towns all over India
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$1000 per Kiosk providing telephone, Internet with multi-media
PC, Camera, printer, power back-up for Personal Computer
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plus Indian language and video-conferencing software
Vision to Double Rural per capita GDP over the next 10 years
Multi-lingual Office Package
IITM Chennai Kavigal
IITM-NMSWorks
Network Management System
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A must with distributed deployment of
Intelligent nodes
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Convergence of Telecom and Internet
management
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Manage traffic, subscribers, subscriber
equipment and network health from
management centers
Tejas Networks
Next-Generation SDH Transport
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cost-effective transport network for
voice as well as Internet traffic
preferably on Ethernet
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Advanced software for easy
management of networks and
providing bandwidth-on-demand
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Advanced software features such as
auto-discovery and point-and-click
provisioning
NeuroSynaptic
IITM - OOPS
Video Conferencing on Internet
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Low bit-rate multi-party Video
Conferencing (audio + video + chat at 20 kbps
onwards)
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On-line lecturing at low bit-rates
Video Mail
Tele-diagnostic kit for Rural kiosk
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Low cost diagnostic kit with basic
physiological and bio-chemistry
measurements
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Measures Physiological Signals
(Stethoscope, Blood Pressure,
Temperature, ECG)
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provides software for quality
image sharing for skin, throat
and eyes and provides routine
urine and blood tests)
Softswitch Technology
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Full suite of 100% J2EE powered,
Communications Convergence
Infrastructure
Packet-Switching technology in Carrier
Grade & Enterprise Grade
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H.323 Stack and H.323 Gatekeeper
SIP Stack and SIP Proxy
Enabling wireless Internet
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SMS, MMS, WAP, SYNC
and IM
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handset software
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WAP2 browser, MMS client,
Sync client, IM Client, IOTA
client
Gateways on infrastructure
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SIM Platform, IM Server, OTA
provisioning server
Usha Communications
IITM-Nilgiri Networks
Customer Care & Billing
Rural communications software
developed in a rural setting
BlueBill: real-time billing for voice,
Internet and applications
Minnow: ISP Data Centre on redundant
Linux/PCs
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Unicorn
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Medusa
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The Mediation Suite
e-Merchant
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The Customer Care & Billing Suite
The Mobile Commerce Suite
Interconnect Billing
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The Settlement Suite
IITM - Indus Technologies
IITM - Benchmark
Educational Kits
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OFT : Optical Fibre Trainer
LAN-T : Local Area Network Trainer
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IPD
3264
816
544
408
272
163
Tx Node1 Tx Node 2 Tx Node 3 Tx Node 4 G - Offered XLoad
- Throughput
35
35
34
35
0.139
0.139
102
103
102
102
0.427
0.409
129
130
131
126
0.586
0.516
135
154
133
151
0.715
0.573
143
158
130
165
0.906
0.596
135
161
114
156
1.128
0.566
Offered Load Vs Throughput
0.7
0.6
Throughput (X)
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Machine Vision Products
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0.4
X - Throughput
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
0
0.5
1
Offered Load (G)
1.5
Indus IC Mark Inspection
Indus SOIC Inspection
Indus Bond Pad Digitizer
Indus OCR Reader
Indus Graphics LED Inspection