Airtel joins SEA-ME-WE-6 cable consortium; anchoring 20% investment

 

Bharti Airtel on Monday said it has joined the 'Ocean ME-WE-6' undersea link consortium in a bid to increase its high velocity worldwide organization ability to serve India's quickly developing computerized economy.

Airtel said it is taking part as a "significant financial backer" in the SEA-ME-WE-6 and is mooring 20% of the general interest in the link framework, which will go live in 2025.

The 12 other consortium individuals from SEA-ME-WE-6 incorporate Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company, Dhiraagu (Maldives), Djibouti Telecom, Mobily (Saudi Arabia), Orange (France), Singtel (Singapore), Sri Lanka Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telekom Malaysia, and Telin (Indonesia).

The 19,200 Rkm (course kilometers) SEA-ME-WE-6 will interface Singapore and France, and will be among the biggest undersea link framework internationally.

In an articulation, Airtel said it has joined SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea link consortium to increase the rapid organization for India's arising computerized economy.

"Through SEA-ME-WE-6, Airtel will add a lot of 100 TBps ability to its worldwide organization," the assertion said.

Airtel has gained one Fiber Pair on the primary SEA-ME-WE-6 framework and will co-assemble four Fiber Pairs between Singapore Chennai Mumbai as a component of the link framework. Airtel will land the SEA-ME-WE-6 link framework in India at new landing stations in Mumbai and Chennai.

As indicated by the assertion, SEA-ME-WE-6 will be incorporated with Nxtra via Airtel's enormous server farms in Mumbai and Chennai to empower worldwide hyperscalers and organizations to get to coordinated arrangements and fortify India's situation as an arising server farm center point in the locale.

India bets big on 5G technology going mainstream in 2021

 

As the world steps into a new decade, 2020 will be remembered as the most disruptive year in living memory. As the pandemic spread across the world, it was telecom networks and technology services that kept people connected.

4G networks managed to keep the global economy going despite widespread lockdowns. Though global economic activity was muted, people had access to health services, education, information and entertainment over the internet while at home. But for high-speed telecom services, the global economy would have been ravaged. Industry experts say this has led to a mindset change to revive India's telecom story and also introduce future technologies faster.

Earlier this month K. Ramchand, Member (Technology), Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said that it would soon announce 5G spectrum bands for auction. That's a clear indication that adopting 5G is now a priority for the government. Most Indian telecom service providers currently lack the financial muscle to invest and build a 5G ecosystem, but the government has indicated that it is willing to start the process.

Lt. Gen Dr. S.P. Kochhar, Director General, COAI says: "5G technology is poised to open up a plethora of possibilities in terms of business models, and overall, enhanced lifestyles for one and all. We seek the support of the government in enabling the industry to play its role as an enabler of horizontal growth and a boost to the nation's economy. The 5G potential is immense and can turn the game for India and be a catalyst for the government's campaigns such as Make in India, Digital India, Atmanirbhar Bharat."

Enterprises are at an inflection point in partnering with players focusing on technical skills and turnkey solutions to drive efficiencies and building efficient and future-ready networks. According to Karthik Natarajan, President and COO, Cyient, "We are seeing significant investments in the communication network space. The current digital transformation will lead to enhanced user experience, increased operational efficiency and a competitive edge for the enterprise businesses. Our experience in design, delivery, deployment, migration, and support of network infrastructure globally makes us an ideal partner for 5G rollouts.

World's 1st 5G augmented reality glasses to arrive in South Korea for $590

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The world's first 5G-based enlarged reality (AR) glasses made by LG Uplus Corp., a significant South Korean telecom firm, will show up on the racks in the nation for $590 on August 21.

LG Uplus Corp said on Tuesday it will dispatch "U+ Real Glass" in association with Chinese blended reality item designer Nreal and chipmaker Qualcomm, boosting its 5G administrations by taking advantage of the sprouting wearable AR showcase.

The glasses will be solely offered to LG Uplus 5G clients and on select cell phones, including Samsung Galaxy Note 20.

LG Uplus said its gadget, fabricated by Nreal in the wake of joining forces with the Beijing-based startup a year ago, is more easy to understand, weighing only 88 grams and evaluated at 699,000 won ($590), reports Yonhap news organization.

The glasses, which interface with a client's cell phone through USB, can extend numerous applications as though they are on a 100-inch show.

The cell phone fills in as a far off for the gadget, however the organization plans for an update one year from now that will permit hand motions to control the gadget.

The gadget will likewise bolster LG Uplus' 5G-based AR content, which permits clients to watch exhibitions of life-size famous people.

The organization intends to dispatch a telephone call administration utilizing the gadget in the not so distant future, in association with US-based AR engineer Spatial.

Worldwide shipments of AR glasses are relied upon to arrive at 41.1 million units in 2024, contrasted and only 200,000 units a year ago, as per worldwide statistical surveying firm IDC.

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Airtel deploys cloud-based VoLTE network powered by Nokia software products

Nokia on Monday said its product items are driving Bharti Airtel's Voice over LTE (VoLTE) arrange in India.

Aspart of its 'cloudificationstrategy', Airtel will convey Nokia's CloudBand Infrastructure Software.

The system underpins more than 110 million clients, which makes it "the biggest cloud-based VoLTE arrange in India andthe biggest Nokia-run VoLTE on the planet," an announcement by Nokia said.

Airtel has sent India's biggest open cloud-based VoLTE coordinate with Nokia programming items, the announcement said including the cloud-based VoLTE organization permits Airtel to give its portable clients quicker and progressively dependable, cost-proficient call availability.

The arrangement, which will cover every one of the 22 telecom administration territories in India, utilizes business 'Off-the-Shelf' IT equipment with cloud-based Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), expending considerably less force and space contrasted with the customary 2G/3G Circuit Switched inheritance center, it said.

The arrangement empowers Airtel to let loose range by sloping down its 3G organize, permitting the administrator to utilize the opened up radiowaves to send 4G/LTE administrations for better speed and limit.

As a major aspect of its cloudification methodology, Airtel will likewise convey Nokia's CloudBand Infrastructure Software with the mean to make new income open doors for 5G and web associated gadgets, it said.

CloudBand will empower Airtel to establish the framework for 5G organizes and convey new advanced serviceswith more prominent dexterity and guarantee a dependable and high-performing system for conveying improved client experience.

"CloudBand is an open, versatile, adaptable stage that will permit Airtel to adjust organize limit as per changing utilization designs progressively and in a cost-proficient way," the announcement included.

Randeep Sekhon, CTO of Bharti Airtel, said,The nation's biggest open cloud-based VoLTE arrange is a significant achievement in Airtel's excursion. Our goal is to receive the rewards of cloud answers for rearrange our design and empower quicker conveyance of inventive administrations, eventually conveying an upgraded client experience.

Remarking on the turn of events, Bhaskar Gorti, President of No

Why China's 5G riches are outside the reach of international investors

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How can investors profit from China’s race with the U.S. for 5G supremacy? Finding the answer is as tricky as figuring out the geopolitics.

The nation’s sleepy telecom stocks came back to life after Huawei Technologies Co. CFO Meng Wanzhou was detained in Canada in early December. While the official charge was that the company had violated U.S. sanctions on Iran, many in China interpreted the action as another attempt by the American government to thwart the country’s advance in 5G. Huawei leads the world in the number of declared essential patents for next-generation wireless technology, according to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

The Chinese equipment maker’s woes have only served to spark investor enthusiasm for anything 5G. On Dec. 7, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology awarded 5G spectrum licenses to its three telecom operators, allowing them to conduct final trials before widespread commercial rollout in 2020. A month later, the government said it will issue temporary licenses in some cities as early as this year. Unlike Europe and the U.S., China is wasting no time in moving ahead on 5G.


 Shares of wireless antenna makers and state-owned China Tower Corp. have been on fire. The monopoly operator of mobile-phone masts has gained more than 40 percent in Hong Kong since early December, bringing its market capitalization to $37 billion. On Monday, when Chinese traders returned after the week-long Lunar New Year holiday, the dozen or so mainland-listed companies that manufacture wireless antennas jumped 4.3 percent. Hong Kong-listed Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Ltd. has soared more than 70 percent.