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Broadband Network Circle formerly known as Data networks Circle was established in the year 1988, for handling the Data Services. The Head office of Broadband Network Circle is located at New Delhi and this circle has regional units at Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai and Noida. The Circle is headed by Chief General Manager and various senior officers. Details>>

 

Broadband Network Circle has so far launched the following Services.

 

RABMN -  A low speed VSAT network was set up in 1991 for establishing connectivity to remote areas. This service was offering Data speeds of 1.2 and 9.6 kbps using X.28 and X.25 Technology

 

Inet – Terrestrial packet switching with 103 nodes was established progressively from 1991 onwards. This Network was offering X.28, X.25 and Frame Relay Services. With the growing popularity of Internet , this Technology has become obsolete and the same has been closed in 2008.

 

Internet Services - Internet Services were offered from 1996 on both dialup and leased access. The Services were initially made available through National Internet Backbone – 1 comprising of Type A nodes and Type B Nodes at 45 locations and over 400 Type C nodes spread across the country.

 

            To enhance the customer experience for providing high speed access, National Internet Backbone – 2 project was planned which has 4 Projects as given below.

 

Project 1	MPLS backbone Network
Project 2.1	Narrow Band RAS
Project 2.2	Broadband RAS and Multiplay Network
Project 3	OSS and BSS for handling all IP Services

 

Project 1 – This project was established using MPLS  technology to provide Transport Network for all the Data Services initially in 10 cities in 2003. The network was further augmented to a total of 106 nodes in 2005. This Network is presently used for supporting MPLS VPN, ILL, Broadband, Dialup, Data access from CDMA,Wi Max and 3G

 

Project 2.1 – Narrow band RAS were installed in 71 cities across the country for providing dialup services. The Network is used for supporting dialup internet ( Netone) , Dialup VPN access Network.

 

Project 2.2 – Using the MPLS Core Network, Broadband Services was launched in 2005. This Network provided Broadband Services ranging from 256 Kbps to 8 Mbps. The capacity of Broadband network was expanded under Multiplay Network. To provide Broadband Services to rural Areas , rural Broadband network is also installed. The capacity of 7.8 million has been commissioned under these 2 expansion projects.

 

Project 3 – Operation Support System / Business Support System – To support provisioning and billing of all data services, OSS / BSS Project known as Project 3 has been commissioned in 2006. Under this Project, the Primary NOC is located at Bangalore and DR NOC at Pune. There are 2 Data Centers at Mumbai and Noida under this project. The OSS / BSS Provides support for following Services

 

1. Retail Messaging,
2. Sancharnet
3. Broadband Services
4. Web Hosting
5. Message Hosting
6. Web Co-location
7. BB VPN
8. Internet Leased Lines
9. MPLS VPN
10. Wi  MAX

 

The Project3 System is equipped to support 5 million customers.

 

            This platform is predominantly being used for the Broadband Services. At Present it is catering to about 3.5 million Broadband Customers

 

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