Radius Infratel is exploring overseas opportunities. The company is looking at Asia Pacific and Africa for global expansion.
The company has already identified one country in Africa to roll out of its shared FTTH infrastructure called NANO (Neutral Access Network Operations). It is in talks with the local operators to roll out the network.
Radius’ NANO is a unified last mile that is designed to simultaneously carry all IP based services from multiple service providers (triple play and VAS), building management services (like intercom, surveillance feed, access control) and other customer specific applications like home automation to household on a single strand of fiber.
Radius Infratel has earmarked Rs 500 crore for expansion purposes in India and abroad during 2011-12. The company is utilizing equity and debt to fund the Rs 500 crore investment.
It has already invested Rs 100 crore in India where it connects around 2.5 lakh homes. The company is targeting to connect 6 lakh homes in three years. We are in the process of achieving our target,” said HS Singh, director, Radius Infratel.
We offer operational advantage in the form of single infrastructure for multiple service providers. Along with ultra high bandwidth up to 100 Mbps, consumers can avail ready information through IVRS & Web enabled services by deploying the NANO platform,” Singh added.
India’s broadband subscriber base is around 14 million. The government has ambitions plans to connect the 100 billion plus population.
The company is not expecting any incentives from the government to meet the objective of improving broadband penetration,” said Ashok Bansal, director, Radius Infratel.
The right of way should be available easily. It can be free of cost,” Bansal added.
Radius Infratel is looking at a new business model. It will consider offering bandwidth capacity to civic agencies for offering security and surveillance. Using bandwidth, monitoring of street light and traffic can be achieved.
Radius is thriving on the success of NANO. NANO uses Fiber to the Home (FTTH) as the network architecture and Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) as the technology platform.
NANO is the proprietary solution developed by Radius Infratel which allows this wired network to be shared by multiple service providers. On NANO unlimited number of service providers can simultaneously provide unlimited number of services through a single fiber, without losing their individual identities.
Shared access networks suffer due the concerns of privacy and data security. The NANO addresses main concerns in a technologically sound and tested manner. Though only a single fiber is used to deliver all services to each home / office, each service providers get an individual virtual secure tunnel. Thus, the network, despite being shared, operates as a dedicated network for each service provider.
The NANO model has already experienced success in India. At the Commonwealth Games Village, all service providers can connect to the residents through this shared network and do not need to install their own individual networks. This advanced network is pro-consumer as it gives them the choice to simultaneously access multiple services from multiple service providers – all on a single fibre and single ONT,” Bansal added.
By TelecomLead.com Team
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