Optical Fibre Laying Speed Needs To Go Up Nearly 4 Times To Achieve PM's Vision: Taipa

CIOReviewIndia Team | Tuesday, 05 January 2021, 13:22 IST

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For actuating Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of connecting every village with broadband within 1,000 days, optical fibre laying requires to increase almost 4 times, said by Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (Taipa) on Tuesday.

In addition to government projects like smart cities, rollout of emerging technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence, internet of things, etc., call for connecting all mobile towers in the country with optical fibre cables (OFC) stated by Taipa.

The Director General of Taipa, TR Dua, told to a media, “Prime Minister laid out the vision in August 2020, to connect every village in the country with OFC in 1,000 days. To achieve this vision, the cables would have to be laid at nearly 3.6 times the current speed, up from the existing average of 350 kilometer a day to over 1,251 kilometer a day.”

He also said that the shifting of traffic patterns, work-from-home, virtual meetings have increased data consumption in the era of the pandemic and it is needed to have a huge bandwidth for which fibre penetration is mandatory.

Dua said, “Fiberisation enables high-quality broadband which can provision a high-quality broadband with high-speed data, ultra-low latency, and limitless bandwidth with a resilient and robust infrastructure.”

As per Taipa, approximately 28 lakh kilometer of OFC has been laid in the country and 34 percent towers are fiberized till August 31, 2020.

Dua said, “To achieve the goal of National Broadband Mission – ‘Broadband For All’ and to address the demands of large bandwidth as the average data consumption for each subscriber is continuously increasing, we need to increase the fiberisation of towers from the present 34 per cent to at least 70 percent.”

This programme when successful will also facilitate telecom towers to get robust backhaul for catering to the high volume data requirement and better quality of services.

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