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Provider of access, long distance, data and corporate solutions,
Bharti Infotel ltd, today announced that it is working with Cisco
a pioneer and global leader in MPLS based technology and networking
solutions. The deal includes provision of state-of-the-art services
and solutions for its enterprise and corporate customers.
MPLS is a hybrid networking technology that combines high-speed
performance with security, scalability and reliability. It also
helps in the provisioning of several revenue generating services
like bandwidth on demand, managed services and intelligent routing
of voice, data and other mission critical traffic, says a company
release
Since the company has a market share of nearly 50 per cent in
the data and broadband market, the compnay hopes that move to deploy
MPLS will help to consolidate its leadership. Besides, the company
has chosen Deployed With a Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
(DWDM) based high capacity fiber backbone, i2i cable-landing facilities
for international bandwidth to offer a unique value proposition
for its customers.
According to the company release, the data and broadband group
of Bharti Infotel will be marketing these new revenue-generating
services to enterprises, corporates and other service providers.
With reduced cost of ownership for corporates and enterprises, Bharti
expects more and more of them to connect their offices, vendors,
partners and customers through the MPLS backbone, thereby increasing
the overall market size for data services in India.
The data and broadband group currently has the top 500 corporates
in the country as its customers including corporates in the BPO,
FMCG and media and entertainment sectors, says the release.
Speaking on the deployment Bharti Infotel ltd president Badri Agarwal
said, "With the advent of globalisation, there is an incessant
demand from Indian enterprises to access world class services such
as VPN, bandwidth on demand and managed networks. The challenge
for service providers like Bharti is to make these services available
at a reduced total cost of ownership. To address this, we have opted
for industry leading IP-based MPLS solution from Cisco. As an end-to-end
provider of world class communication services, we are now uniquely
positioned to offer high-speed, carrier class services to various
enterprises in the country."
Says Cisco Systems India & SAARC president Rangu Salgame, "Cisco
is pleased that Bharti Infotel has chosen its IP-based MPLS solution.
This end-to-end solution delivers significant operational and capital
cost savings to Bharti Infotel and enables them to offer world class
value-added services to address their corporate customer demands
with comprehensive security, scalability and assured quality of
service."
MPLS Powered networks offer several advantages
- Point to multipoint and multipoint to multipoint (Any-to-any)
connectivity using one single link from customer premises to Bharti's
network
- Multiple services - for e.g., VPN and internet access - can
be delivered on the same link
- A platform for rapid deployment of additional value-added IP
services, including intranets, extranets, voice, multimedia, and
network commerce
- Bandwidth on demand empowers the enterprise customer to provision
incremental bandwidth required for a specific period of time for
applications like videoconferencing
- Enhanced security to enterprise networks without the need for
encryption
- Traffic management capabilities of MPLS enables Differentiated
Class of service - Voice, video and other mission critical data
can be prioritized over other data traffic.
- Centralized monitoring of quality of service parameters like
latency, packet drops and management of VPN membership.
According to Bharti Infotel group CTO Jagbir Singh, "MPLS
based VPNs, makes it feasible to connect several hundred sites across
the network in a secured manner, which is a key requirement especially
for banks, govt. organizations etc. In addition, traffic management
capability of MPLS provides guaranteed bandwidth and enhanced Quality
of Service (QoS), critical for delivering real-time applications
like e-learning and video streaming over the IP backbone."
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