NEW DELHI: Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), which had earlier bagged a greenfield rural tender from BSNL to deploy broadband access across 7,000 villages, has got its contract extended to cover deployment in 25,000 villages. This marks the third broadband contract that BSNL has awarded to Nokia Siemens Networks.
The company is also parallely deploying the urban broadband access for BSNL across 20 circles. For BSNL, the deployment of the NSN multi play solutions, will allow it to deliver cost effective high speed internet access and virtual private networks among others services to its customers. The network will also enable BSNL to provide connectivity to CSCs (Community Service Centres) and other e-governance locations.
India has approximately 3.4 million broad connections, of which 1.7 million connections are provided by BSNL. With the expansion of broadband density in urban and rural areas using ADSL2+ technology, BSNL plans make more than 25000 villages broadband enabled shortly.
“Partnering with Nokia Siemens Networks would give BSNL an edge over other broadband services providers as it would be the first to cover rural areas on such a wide scale”, BSNL’s chairman and managing director Kuldeep Goyal said in a statement. “With high speed Internet service of BSNL, the rural broadband project is suitably poised to bridge digital divide and connect more than 25,000 villages in India by delivering high speed broadband services”, he added.
As part of the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks is deploying its Gigabit Ethernet-capable IP DSLAMs SURPASS hiX5625 (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers) and chassis based access switch (SURPASS hiD6615). Nokia Siemens Networks will also supply customer premises equipment that will enable BSNL to provide speeds of up to 8 Mbps using ADSL2+ for its subscribers over its existing copper infrastructure.
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