Sterlite Technologies announces a milestone technology development in telecommunication space. Sterlite's Center of Excellence at Aurangabad, India has successfully established and tested multi-tera bit transmission over long haul network.
A successful Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) test transmission of 80 wavelength channels operating at 128 Gbit/s each spaced at 50 GHz over 1840 km of Sterlite's G.652.D OH-LITE fiber has been demonstrated for the first time in India. A significant indigenous capability is now established to transmit huge volumes of data over long distances. For example, around 85,000 movie files of 700 MB each can now be transferred from Bangalore to Kolkata in a minute.
While explaining the importance of this technology breakthrough, Dr. Badri Gomatam, CTO at Sterlite technologies, says, ''In emerging economies, there is a need to plan infrastructure for accommodating faster transmission of huge volumes of data. Our Center of Excellence focuses on end-to-end development of this capacity. Improving the quality of the preform, developing next generation optical fibers, specialized cabling solutions and enhancing network integration capability together contribute to a future proof infrastructure.''
Furthermore, the Center of Excellence has a strong focus to enhance test-bed capability to much higher data rate (e.g. 400Gbit/s per channel) and longer transmission distances. The effort is to accelerate Sterlite's vision of national competence towards Terabit scale communications for better telecom infrastructure planning at a national level and for telecommunication operators.
''This is a proud moment for us as it establishes India among a few countries globally who possess such an advanced data transmission network capacity. Sterlite is committed to building a high speed last mile broadband infrastructure capability in India to reach from urban to semi urban to the most remote rural areas'', quotes Pravin Agarwal, director, Sterlite Technologies.
Shares of the company gained Rs 1.5, or 5.07%, to settle at Rs 31.10. The total volume of shares traded was 645,257 at the BSE (Monday).
