Chandan Kumar, Dy. Director– Fixed Network Solution, Huawei India, on why India lags behind most countries in both quantity and quality of optical fibers installed
B&E: What is Huawei doing to develop optical fiber infrastructure in India?
Chandan Kumar (CK): Huawei currently provides innovative, advanced and highly competitive solutions to telecom operators in the country to stitch optical fiber networks end to end. This helps operators to utilise optical fiber infrastructure thereby improving the last mile connectivity problem that currently exists because of lack of optical fibers in our communication infrastructure.
B&E: What is Huawei doing to develop optical fiber infrastructure in India?
Chandan Kumar (CK): Huawei currently provides innovative, advanced and highly competitive solutions to telecom operators in the country to stitch optical fiber networks end to end. This helps operators to utilise optical fiber infrastructure thereby improving the last mile connectivity problem that currently exists because of lack of optical fibers in our communication infrastructure.
B&E: How would you compare India’s optical fiber infrastructure India with that of countries like South Korea andJapan?
CK: Penetration of optical fiber infrastructure in India is very low when compared with most other countries. For example only 10-15% of base transceiver stations (BTS/enodeB) have access to fiber. Optical fiber network in India experiences lot of fiber cuts every day, which affects operators network very badly and causes damage to the optical fiber infrastructure. Moreover, the quality of optical fiber network is not as high as that of other countries like Japan, Korea and US. Also, one big problem in India is that at many places, optical fiber cables have not been laid out properly.
B&E: What are the prime bottlenecks that India faces in its attempt to develop a world class optical fiber network?
CK: The main hurdles to developing a world class optical fiber network in India are regulatory issues like right of way, that requires the service providers to take all needed clearances from the respective owner(s) of land. It is a tedious and expensive process and hence projects become unviable. This issue needs to be looked into urgently.
CK: The main hurdles to developing a world class optical fiber network in India are regulatory issues like right of way, that requires the service providers to take all needed clearances from the respective owner(s) of land. It is a tedious and expensive process and hence projects become unviable. This issue needs to be looked into urgently.
B&E: What R&D initiatives has Huawei taken to improve optical fiber infrastructure in India?
CK; Huawei’s R&D team is engaged in exploring and developing solutions to overcome limitations of optical fiber cables. It is working to provide solutions to transport higher data traffic over optical fiber infrastructure. Huawei has developed solutions that have enabled the Indian telecom operators to transport tera bytes (TB) per second traffic on a single pair of fiber cable.
CK; Huawei’s R&D team is engaged in exploring and developing solutions to overcome limitations of optical fiber cables. It is working to provide solutions to transport higher data traffic over optical fiber infrastructure. Huawei has developed solutions that have enabled the Indian telecom operators to transport tera bytes (TB) per second traffic on a single pair of fiber cable.
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