RailTel Corporation Of India Ltd.

Next Generation Network

RailTel has also rolled out NLD (National Long Distance) Services for carriage of Inter-Circle voice traffic based on the State of the Art NGN (Next Generation Network) platform. NLD backbone of RailTel has currently been rolled out in 18 cities (15 Circles) having POIs (Point of Interconnection) with all Operators including BSNL/MTNL, Airtel, TTSL, Idea, Vodafone, Reliance, etc. Additional 36 cities covering all 23 Circles shall be covered in this year. The cities under Phase-I are Bangalore, Chennai, Mysore, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Cochin, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Delhi, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Jallandhar, Lucknow, Kolkata, Bhubneshwar and Patna. With its PAN India NLD network, RailTel will be able to carry calls to even the remote and rural parts of the country.

Termed as the next step in World Communications, this NGN network has the potential to converge the traditional PSTN (voice) network, Wireless network and Data (Internet) Network on to a single Packet (IP) infrastructure. NGN is termed to be a future proof technology enabling RailTel to launch various Value Added Services(VAS) as and when market demands. Presently, this will enable various telecom operators to offer cheaper STD (National Long Distance) services to subscribers using RailTel’s NLD Network.