Wi5 wireless broadband setting up in chennai

[roonie]

CHENNAI: Come June and Chennai would become the first Indian city to have a high speed wireless data connectivity network, thanks to the WiFi
network being set up by Zylog Systems India (ZIL), a wholly owned subsidiary of US-based Zylog Systems.

WiFi is the term used for the technology deployed for wireless local area networks (WLAN) using radio frequency waves and digital data transmission. It is a user interface network and requires a backend wireless or wired data network for operation, apart from its international bandwidth requirements. Reliance Coomunications is ZIL’s vendor for the back end fibre network and the bandwidth.

The company, which obtained a category A internet service provider license – license to operate in all of India’s DoT circles – late in 2008, will then be officially entering the ISP business in the country. Its parent already has its offshore software development units in Chennai.

“Our network gives minimum data speeds of 1 mbps, and we are regulated by TRAI quality of service norms,” said ZIL COO R Janakiraman.

Unlike traditional WiFi, which operates out of ‘hotspots’ – spots where wireless transmission equipments are fitted to provide wired connectivity to a small area around it – Zylog’s network uses a mesh network architecture, which makes the wireless network a continuous one. Popularly called a hotzone, this works much like a mobile telephony network. Zylog’s business model would be similar. The company plans to retail network subscription to individual users on a prepaid rental basis.

Interestingly, the company has deployed a hotzone all along the railway line between Chennai and Bangalore, although subscription is available only to passengers in the Shatabdi express according to ZIL’s tie-up with the railways. “We have used the railways fibre network to pull up nodes, and are in a revenue sharing arrangement with the railways,” Mr.Shivkumar said.

The network, which is on its trial run in specific areas in the city, uses 20 wifi ‘nodes’ per sq. km., enabling a user concentration of 200 at any given point of time. “A subscribed user can log on to the internet on his laptop or mobile handset with a username and a password. Only a desktop requires an additional hardware of a thumb-sized dongle,” said ZIL CTO Shivkumar J.

The company has presently set up 140 nodes in the city and aims to complete setting up 32000 nodes in five cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, apart from Chennai - by the end of the year.

“Our cost of service is minimized since we didn’t have to buy spectrum at a hefty price and assembled our own wifi equipment. These are compact – the size of a shoebox – consume relatively lower power of 20-25 mw and do not need special towers,” Mr.Shivkumar said.

It is due to these reasons that service pricing would be low to the user, Mr.Janakiraman said. The company’s total investment in the network has so far been $2 million and would go up to $4.5 million by the year-end. It has raised its funds through debt from its bankers. The company estimates its turnaround time to be about three years.

“The network has triple pay capability – voice, video and data – and can be deployed for local VoIP (voice over internet protocol) services as and when the DoT allows it,” Mr.Shivkumar said. Presently VoIP is allowed only for international calls, which ZIL plans to monetize. “Though VoIP is the other arm of our ISP business, we continue to see better business prospects and margins in the WiFi business,” Mr.Janakiraman said.

“Our long term plan is to achieve penetration in remote areas using our low cost technology, and the franchisee model would be our mode of penetration.”

Source:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/4495744.cms

And here are the awesome plans
http://www.wi5.co.in/wi5tariff.html

1mbps @ 550 Rs.(unlimited) luks gr8
And they are already functional in my area but they are not fully..Using up laptop its asking for username and password
I hope tat it will be soon finished by end june ..
Luks like after tat all plans from other networks wud be lowered too

[naveen_reloaded]

and u failed to say that 550 is INCLUSIVE OF TAX !!!!


thats awesome


take that airtel and ur f()cking Fair usuage policy

[SunnyChahal]

Not in Delhi?

[naveen_reloaded]

The service is exclusively for Home usage and not for commercial usage. Usage for more than 6 hours per day shall be commercial usage. Zylog reserves the rights to disconnect the service without prior intimation, if the usage is found to be commercial.

http://www.wi5.co.in/termsofuse.html




wait guys ...


before u enjoy

please go thru these TOU

did i get that term wrong ... or is it there like that ?


and read this tooo

FAIR USAGE POLICY


Zylog Systems (India) Limited. invites all subscribers to follow the fair usage policy given below.
Background: The Internet is the largest shared network in the world enabling people to communicate with each other and access information. In such a diverse environment it is critical that users follow a shared code of conduct which is specified by the various sites. The shared code of conduct is also applicable not only to content but also to subscribers access through access providers.

The Fair Usage Policy seeks to ensure that Wi-Fi access is affordable to the largest number of people and provides a satisfactory value based service level.

The code seeks to ensure that users who have extremely heavy usage do not reduce the quality of service to other subscribers by choking the bandwidth pipes. (This is equivalent, to a resident in an apartment block using excessive water thereby denying others their fair share while paying exactly what others pay). For heavy users therefore we recommend moving on to a data transfer range of service plans which provide dedicated speeds and enable them to meet their download requirements.

Policy : For those heavy users who however continue to remain on unlimited products and higher rates shall apply :

Customer’s who want to opt for alternate packs can contact CustomerCare. In the unlikely event of any subscriber not willing to opt for alternate packs, Zylog shall refund the unutilised value of the pack on receipt of a specific letter from the subscriber requesting for the same. Such a letter may be sent by email to customercare@wi5.co.in or by hard copy addressed to Head, Customer Care at the following address :

[SunnyChahal]

Pwned! LOL!

[naveen_reloaded]

one word to wi5


u havent started and u dont have a customer base and u come up with FUP ? and how do u know that ur pipes are blocked without even starting the service ?

so u guys think we netizens will fall for ur crap... ?

and wht do u think we will use with 1 MB connection ? send / recieve email ? U MORONS !!!!!

[roonie]

Grr how come i left the FUP...thn wi5 sux too..

[paroh]

If they are so strong to provide wireless broadband why not they make there network to support heavy broadband traffic. They just hear the word of (FUP) from other european countries and start using it in india. And to promote them self they use the word UNLIMITED .(They just fooling the people with the unlimited word)

And how will they know that some one is using it commercialy (That means they will use some spy technology on the usage of the internet) .

I think there data plan are very dangerous or u can simply say incomplete
Tariff Plan plan 550 speed 1mbps Monthly Rental (Rs.) 550 and so on plan.

Now just tell me what is 1mbps (Download or Upload)
or they just want to say Add Download+Upload=ZYLOG Wi5 crap

Now there Minimum requirement (I think they never hear or know about linux , solaris or mac)
so linux people this is great set back for u ask your parents to buy windows for you.
There is not only os set back but people using AMD processor also cannot use there services so again ask ur parents to buy intel based processor to enjoy the world of wireless intenet with FUP

Minimum System Requirement
In case of residential customers having only one PC, the WLAN USB adapter will connect to the PC that should have the following configuration: > Windows 98 SE & above
> Operating System Windows 98 and above
> RAM 64 MB or more
> USB port
> The WLAN USB Adapter supplied by Wi5 are compatible with most popular operating systems. Run the installation CD that accompanies the WLAN USB Adapter for better compatibility.
> Any Pentium Machine with Windows 98 SE and above
Of course, better the PC configuration; the performance of graphics-based services like Gaming, etc will be better.


And i think that most of the people will like to use internet 24hrs a day.

@ naveen_reloaded i think they just read your post now there is no mention of 6 hours a day

32. The service is exclusively for Home usage and not for commercial usage. Zylog reserves the rights to disconnect the service without prior intimation, if the usage is found to be commercial.

[naveen_reloaded]

@paroh

yeah they removed it..nasty b@as......

they still think we are nuts and fall for the sparkling plans... dumb sh!ts

also they removed the plan page , some say they alteres FUP also .. i didnt read thru..


but to all...





this goes for evrything




whtever u buy , if it has term of use ..... please please go thru... thats where they get us caught....