Tata Tele rolls out superfast broadband

[mkmkmk]

Tata Tele rolls out superfast broadband

Mumbai: Internet users looking for a high-speed broadband connection have an option now.
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra (TTML) has launched the country's first high-end, ultra-fast broadband, with speeds up to 200 times that of a standard broadband connection.
With this, TTML has become the first operator to introduce the more advanced wide area ethernet technology in place of the more common digital subscriber line (DSL) based technology for broadband.
DSL and its variants, currently in use by nearly all the telecom operators for broadband, support a maximum speed of 8 megabits per second (Mbps).
The TTML service, in contrast, will offer speeds such as 100 Mbps. No internet-based service uses such high speeds as on date.
Services like video-sharing portals use only around 0.4 Mbps for the standard version and around 1 Mbps for high quality video-streaming. Very high quality video services, such as high definition video on demand, use about 4 Mbps to 10 Mbps.
Though such services have been launched on DSL-based technologies, such as by MTNL in Delhi and Mumbai, success has been mixed as they work only within 2 km of the telephone exchange.
TTML's fibre ethernet-based technology is expected to give it an upper hand, though at Rs 10,500 per month, the price tag is a hefty one. TTML said it has already connected around 20,000 buildings in Mumbai with wide area ethernet technology and plans to leverage the network to launch high-speed products such as interactive TV and life-like video-calling for consumers.
"It is a somewhat niche product," Mukund Rajan, managing director of TTML and board member of Tata Teleservices (TTSL), said. "We are working on a host of intra-city services and will make announcements very soon."
The 1,500 km long fibre network covers all the major areas of Mumbai, but is yet to be available universally in the city. "We are expanding it beyond the 20,000 buildings connected so far," said Rajan.
The company will roll out similar services in other markets at a later stage, he added. On Wednesday, TTML also launched a 3G-based wireless broadband service in Mumbai. The service had earlier been launched in Bangalore and Chennai.

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1240291

[rhitwick]

100MBps
Wonder, how much wold be the D/L cap

[harry10]

130000 for a year is a big amount for just using internet.

[thewisecrab]

They will keep 1000 GB download limit

[tarey_g]

unlimited Plan : after 10 GB you will be charged 50 Rs per MB + a kick on your butt

[naveen_reloaded]

guys guys ,...

hold on..

this is for web hosting guys..

now i think india can set foot in hosting like bigdaddy , bluehost etc....


good move tata..

[rhitwick]

Originally Posted by naveen_reloaded

guys guys ,...

hold on..

this is for web hosting guys..

now i think india can set foot in hosting like bigdaddy , bluehost etc....


good move tata..

So, this is not for home users?

[Cool Joe]

Wow so finally we can match our western counterparts. Though I wonder how long it'll take for the prices to become affordable.

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by naveen_reloaded

guys guys ,...

hold on..

this is for web hosting guys..

now i think india can set foot in hosting like bigdaddy , bluehost etc....


good move tata..

Well, the Indian guys will never make it big in the hosting industry under bandwidth is cheaper and datacenters are well manged. And I think it will take a lot of time.

And do you really think 100 mbps is enough connectivity for a whole city network? In US datacenters, 1000 mbps is just for one box and here we want 100 mbps for the whole network.

And I suppose such implementations(intranet) are already there in large buildings, I can't see much new things here. 100 mbps can be easily supported by the regular CAT 5E cable we use for LAN.

Why do they want fibre cable for last-mile connectivity? Fibre though has much larger bandwidth, its costly. BTW our local cable operators also use fiber cable for drawing bandwidth upto their network rooms. So again I don't see much innovation or breakthrough.

Also, in the times of "wireless", why do they want to invest so heavily into last-mile fibre connectivity? Is it because the bandwodth is more

But yes, this is a good move if it works well as we can have affordable local datacenters.
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Originally Posted by beta testing

Wow so finally we can match our western counterparts. Though I wonder how long it'll take for the prices to become affordable.

Yes, you will see it only when become a grandfather

[iChaitanya]

Internet users looking for a high-speed broadband connection have an option now.

Tata Teleservices Maharashtra (TTML) has launched the country's first high-end, ultra-fast broadband, with speeds up to 200 times that of a standard broadband connection.

With this, TTML has become the first operator to introduce the more advanced wide area ethernet technology in place of the more common digital subscriber line (DSL) based technology for broadband.

DSL and its variants, currently in use by nearly all the telecom operators for broadband, support a maximum speed of 8 megabits per second (Mbps).

The TTML service, in contrast, will offer speeds such as 100 Mbps. No internet-based service uses such high speeds as on date.

Services like video-sharing portals use only around 0.4 Mbps for the standard version and around 1 Mbps for high quality video-streaming.

Very high quality video services, such as high definition video on demand, use about 4 Mbps to 10 Mbps. Though such services have been launched on DSL-based technologies, such as by MTNL in Delhi and Mumbai, success has been mixed as they work only within 2 km of the telephone exchange.

TTML's fibre ethernet-based technology is expected to give it an upper hand, though at Rs 10,500 per month, the price tag is a hefty one.

TTML said it has already connected around 20,000 buildings in Mumbai with wide area ethernet technology and plans to leverage the network to launch high-speed products such as interactive TV and life-like video-calling for consumers.

"It is a somewhat niche product," Mukund Rajan, managing director of TTML and board member of Tata Teleservices (TTSL), said. "We are working on a host of intra-city services and will make announcements very soon."

The 1,500 km long fibre network covers all the major areas of Mumbai, but is yet to be available universally in the city. "We are expanding it beyond the 20,000 buildings connected so far," said Rajan.

The company will roll out similar services in other markets at a later stage, he added.

On Wednesday, TTML also launched a 3G-based wireless broadband service in Mumbai. The service had earlier been launched in Bangalore and Chennai.

TTML’s ultra-high speed wireline broadband offering is called Power Launcher and costs Rs 10,500 per month, with 30 GB free usage.

Sources:
1) http://www.tata.com/media/reports/in...d=0ncdXNkQU9I=
2) http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1240291
3) http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/4284581.cms
4) http://www.ciol.com/News/News-Report...18309117402/0/


Anyone interested in this "superfast" 100 Mbps internet?

30 GB free usage? Go to hell!

[IronManForever]

Originally Posted by victor_rambo

100 mbps can be easily supported by the regular CAT 5E cable we use for LAN.

You gonna run that CAT cable all over the city?

[ashu888ashu888]

100Mbps and jus 30GB limit.. ??? :grrr...:

Well, it will be exhausted in jus 10 hrs.. ...wtf.... naa, im not interested
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[SpK]

OMG!!! it's like the crappiest internet plan in the world...

[shri]

Its not aimed at home users. Come on, why the hell do you need 100Mbps connection anyways? To download movies before its released, mp3 rips, games... There's some good cheap plans currently for these. You will also run out of disk space in a day. Don't be dumb people, most of us cant afford the 10k rental too.

[utsav]

Originally Posted by IronManForever

You gonna run that CAT cable all over the city?

Ye toh billi pe atyachar hogaya

[Disc_Junkie]

Originally Posted by SpK

OMG!!! it's like the crappiest internet plan in the world...

Tata ko 'tata bye bye' bolne ka tym aagaya.

[snubbed]

these are intened for corp. connections, so they won't put caps on it.

[IronManForever]

^ Yes, exactly. Caps wont make sense on 100mbps connection speeds and the like.

[Rockstar11]

Originally Posted by Disc_Junkie

Tata ko 'tata bye bye' bolne ka tym aagaya.

[comp@ddict]

Wish they just make 2MBPS Unlimited affordable for say, Rs. 500, too much to ask when you're rolling out 100MBPS huh?

[iinfi]

i doubt they have the infrastructure to provide something like this. correct me if i m wrong .... and 30 gb download cap is put up so that they can claim to be first to provide such a plan and since they dont have the infra, no one wud come fwd to use it.

[Ramakrishnan]

Originally Posted by tarey_g

unlimited Plan : after 10 GB you will be charged 50 Rs per MB + a kick on your butt

ha ha ha ha ha

[expertno.1]

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM of it companies of india is that THEY CONSIDER US FOOL , they explain their part and pose restrictions and think users will be giveing their hard earned money . go tell them we are not to support it .

its crap

I WONDER WHEN even 5 mbps unlimited will come to india .........

[shobhit kumar121]

Though it is a great offer and brilliant from competitive point of view, its not at all affordable!