- RailTel and CloudExtel provide shared RAN options for seamless connectivity in pressured places
- Avg. person pace expertise elevated 5X to fifteen Mbps for each Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea
- Pilot challenge launched at Mumbai Central railway station demonstrated a 20% improve in information consumption
MUMBAI, India, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — RailTel and CloudExtel have partnered to launch India’s first Shared RAN solution for congested places with the target to boost the telecom person expertise.
RailTel and CloudExtel carried out the successful pilot of this challenge in partnership with Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Nokia, and the Telecom Infra Project’s NaaS Solutions Group, with very important help from the Railways, in probably the most community pressured places, Mumbai Central railway station. The outcomes have been spectacular with 5 instances improve in common person pace (from 3Mbps to fifteenMbps) for each Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, whereas the info consumption jumped up by 20%.
“Facilitating seamless connectivity and an enhanced commute experience to passengers at railway stations has been our commitment. The impressive speed and data consumption enabled by Shared RAN has validated our belief in this technology, and we look forward to scaling this in all congested areas serving passengers and telecom operators while reducing the clutter of infrastructure and energy consumption in railway stations,” stated Mrs. Aruna Singh, Chairman & Managing Director, RailTel Corporation.
Locations particularly like visitors junctions, airports, and railway stations are high-density areas for community congestion. Challenges multiply particularly in Mumbai because it is among the most densely populated cities on this planet.
“The extensive consumption of multimedia-rich content and cloud applications are the new normal and will multiply with 5G offerings. In absence of shared RAN solutions, even 5G performance will get hampered in such congested locations, thus substantially compromising the user experience. Shared RAN solutions will become an architectural foundation for upcoming 5G deployments in the country”, stated Mr. Kunal Bajaj, Founder, and CEO, CloudExtel.
TIP allows Neutral Host NaaS business mannequin deployments by selling greatest practices and supporting market trials to attain scale. Acknowledging the success of the pilot carried out at Mumbai Central railway station, Mr. David Nowicki, TIP NaaS Solution Group Co-Chair stated, “TIP applauds CloudExtel’s remarkable achievement of unlocking transformative capacity in one of the world’s most challenging urban environments utilizing a neutral-host NaaS business model. The 5x Quality of Experience improvement demonstrates why this emerging business model should become the standard at urban train stations and similar venues across the globe.”
The whole telecom panorama of India has undergone a change largely attributable to cheaper information connectivity and penetration; operators at the moment are searching for shared options to usher in price effectivity with out compromising on deliverables to finish customers. Expressing his enthusiasm to see the event on this course, Mr. Vinish Bawa, Head of Emerging Business and Enterprise India at Nokia stated, “We are delighted to partner with RailTel and CloudExtel in delivering higher data speeds and a better customer experience to commuters on Mumbai Central railways with our Multi-Operator RAN solution. Nokia also has a long heritage of working closely with major railway operators to bring the benefits of private LTE connectivity and pave the way for the adoption and deployment of Future Railway Mobile Communication Systems (FRMCS). For operators, these solutions bring cost savings and increased flexibility in their infrastructure deployments.”
About CloudExtel:
CloudExtel is India’s first full-stack Network as a Service (NaaS) supplier, reinventing digital infrastructure connectivity with enhanced protection, capability & pace. It caters to telecom operators, web service suppliers, information facilities, enterprises, and enormous content material suppliers to handle the challenges rising from the hypergrowth of knowledge consumption in India.
CloudExtel is quickly constructing scale to allow the densification of 4G networks and to facilitate the transition to 5G, whereas driving rising telecom structure by ‘cloudification’ of networks.
Through its superior community options, the corporate has enhanced connectivity in network-stressed, high-footfall iconic places such because the Golden Temple, Varanasi Ghats, Gateway of India, Jalianwala Bagh, National Stock Exchange, Mantralaya Mumbai. CloudExtel caters to twenty% of partner-deployed small cell necessities of huge Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) by 4000 websites throughout 300+ cities and districts.
The imminent world shift to Open RAN (O-RAN) and Network Virtualization is anticipated to redefine the telecom and web house. CloudExtel is about to leverage this transition. It is the first impartial host to deploy shared RAN in India, one among lower than 10 gamers globally.
About RailTel:
RailTel, a ‘Mini Ratna (Category-I)’ Central Public Sector Enterprise underneath Ministry of Railways, is among the largest impartial telecom infrastructure & ICT Solutions & Services suppliers within the nation, proudly owning a Pan-India optic fiber community overlaying a number of cities and cities and rural areas of the nation.
Along with a powerful a dependable community of 61000+ RKM of Optic fibre, RailTel has two MeitY empanelled tier III information facilities as nicely. With its Pan-India high-capacity community, RailTel is working in the direction of making a information society at numerous fronts and has been chosen for implementation of assorted mission-mode tasks for the Government of India within the telecom area. RailTel gives a bundle of companies like, MPLS VPN, Telepresence, leased line, Tower Co-location, Data heart companies, and so forth.
RailTel can be working with the Indian Railways to rework railway stations into digital hubs by offering public Wi-Fi at railway stations throughout the nation and 6100+ stations are stay with RailTel’s RailWire Wi-Fi.
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