RailTel Expands Telecom Network
14 July 2006 , EFY News Network

Extends the optical multi-service telecom transport network of the Indian Railways subsidiary over another 5,000 km.

Friday, July 14, 2006:  New Delhi:
Alcatel has completed the 5,000-km extension of the existing optical multi-service telecommunications transport network of RailTel Corporation of India, a subsidiary of Indian Railways. The extension follows the implementation of the 11,000-km backbone network supporting multimedia communications among RailTel’s sites throughout India.

The latest network enhancement would further support RailTel’s operational and business communication requirements, such as secure voice, video and data traffic transmission. With the enhancement, RailTel can leverage significant performance, efficiency and quality of service benefits for its customers, along with competitively providing wholesale bandwidth to other telecom operators and enterprises.

For the project, Alcatel supplied its data-aware Optical Multi-Service Node (OMSN) systems, providing advanced multi-service aggregation functionality, managed by the Alcatel 1350 management suite, which supervises the entire optical networking portfolio enabling complete control over optical networks and maximizing network service revenue.

The network enhancement would ensure that existing and new mission-critical business applications, supported by Gigabit Ethernet-based connectivity, are delivered over a single, converged platform that enables reliable, real-time access to monitoring and control information.

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