TeNeT Group at IIT Madras

Driving Innovation in India towards emerging Market

Ashok jhunjhunwalaTeNeT Group, IIT Madras, ashok@tenet.res.in

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India with a billion people is a large market, but60% of Urban households can spend less than $ 6 per month on Telecom

Monthly telecom expenditure (assuming 4% income can be spent on telecom) 3.2 6 8.8 12 17 25 42 62 150

India needs Telecom CAPEX to go down to $200 per line

65 million Urban homes

TeNeT Group at IITM took up the challenge

Incubated/ supported a dozen plus product companies and worked with operators to drive down CAPEX

Midas Communications Banyan Networks NMSWorks Tejas Networks Nilgiri Networks Chennai Kavigal OOPS NeuroSynaptic Jataayu Nextge Benchmark Systems Indus technolgies Usha Communications

Capex per line down from $600 per line three years ago to$350 per line

– Telecom is booming in India– India will add 150 million lines in the next 7 years as CAPEX is driven

below $200

To PSTN

To Internet

35/70 kbps Internet plus simultaneous telephone

• $150 per line price

•2 million lines in 03-04

IITM - Midas

corDECT Wireless in Local Loop

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Fiber ring

Fiber To The Building (FTTB)

Video Server

DIAS (DSL on copper)

Always ON Internet connection on not-so-good-quality existing copper lines

already deployed in 30 cities

HDSU

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Internet

PSTN128 kbps

2 Mbps

V5.2

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IITM-Banyan

$1000 per Kiosk providing telephone, Internet with multi-media PC, Camera, printer, power back-up for Personal Computer

plus Indian language and video-conferencing software

IITM - nLogue

VisionConnect (voice and Internet) Rural Areas and Small Towns all over India

Connecting Rural Areas

Vision to Double Rural per capita GDP over the next 10 years

Multi-lingual Office PackageIITM -

Chennai Kavigal

Network Management System

A must with distributed deployment of Intelligent nodes

Convergence of Telecom and Internet management

Manage traffic, subscribers, subscriber equipment and network health from management centers

Next-Generation SDH Transport

cost-effective transport network for voice as well as Internet traffic preferably on Ethernet

– Advanced software for easy management of networks and providing bandwidth-on-demand

– Advanced software features such as auto-discovery and point-and-click provisioning

Tejas NetworksIITM-NMSWorks

Video Conferencing on Internet

Low bit-rate multi-party Video Conferencing (audio + video + chat at 20 kbps onwards)

– On-line lecturing at low bit-rates– Video Mail

Tele-diagnostic kit for Rural kiosk

Low cost diagnostic kit with basic physiological and bio-chemistry measurements

– Measures Physiological Signals (Stethoscope, Blood Pressure, Temperature, ECG)

provides software for quality image sharing for skin, throat and eyes and provides routine urine and blood tests)

NeuroSynapticIITM - OOPS

Softswitch Technology

Full suite of 100% J2EE powered, Communications Convergence Infrastructure

Packet-Switching technology in Carrier Grade & Enterprise Grade

– H.323 Stack and H.323 Gatekeeper– SIP Stack and SIP Proxy

Enabling wireless Internet

SMS, MMS, WAP, SYNCSMS, MMS, WAP, SYNCand IMand IM handset softwarehandset software

WAP2 browser, MMS client, Sync client, IM Client, IOTA client

Gateways on infrastructureGateways on infrastructure SIM Platform, IM Server, OTA

provisioning server

Rural communications software developed in a rural setting

BlueBill: real-time billing for voice, Internet and applications

Minnow: ISP Data Centre on redundant Linux/PCs

Customer Care & Billing

UnicornUnicorn The Customer Care & Billing SuiteThe Customer Care & Billing Suite

MedusaMedusa The Mediation SuiteThe Mediation Suite

e-Merchante-Merchant The Mobile Commerce SuiteThe Mobile Commerce Suite

Interconnect BillingInterconnect Billing The Settlement SuiteThe Settlement Suite

Usha CommunicationsIITM-Nilgiri Networks

Educational Kits

OFT : Optical Fibre Trainer LAN-T : Local Area Network Trainer

Machine Vision Products

Indus IC Mark Inspection Indus SOIC Inspection Indus Bond Pad Digitizer Indus OCR Reader Indus Graphics LED Inspection

IITM - Indus TechnologiesIITM - Benchmark

IPD Tx Node1 Tx Node 2 Tx Node 3 Tx Node 4 G - Offered LoadX - Throughput3264 35 35 34 35 0.139 0.139816 102 103 102 102 0.427 0.409544 129 130 131 126 0.586 0.516408 135 154 133 151 0.715 0.573272 143 158 130 165 0.906 0.596163 135 161 114 156 1.128 0.566

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