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1. PRESENTATION
BY
RAILTEL
CORPORATION OF INDIA
LIMITED
( Your Connectivity Partner to the World)

2. RailTel’s Foray
in
Telecom Business

3. Formation of RailTel
• RailTel
– Railway Budget 2000
• Announcement for formation of telecom corporation
– Formed on 26th September 2000
– Authorised capital of Rs. 1000 crore.
– PSU fully owned by Railways
– To build nationwide multimedia broadband
telecom network for commercial exploitation
– Assets
• Railway’s ROW for establishing OFC network
• OFC based telecom assets of Indian Railways
(transferred to RailTel).

4. Objectives of RailTel
• Expeditiously modernise Railways
– Operational and
– Safety systems.
• Create a nationwide broadband telecom and multimedia
network
– to supplement national infrastructure
– to spur growth of
• telecom,
• internet and
• IT enabled value added services - in all parts of the country
especially rural,remote and backward areas.
• Significantly contribute to realisation of goals and
objectives of NTP 1999.

5. Licenses and services
• RailTel has IP-I, IP-II , ISP & NLD licenses and is
offering following services:
– Infrastructure leasing
– Bandwidth leasing
– ISP services (Class A)
– VPN services
– NLD (Voice Transit)

6. RailTel’s Present
BusinessTelecom
Dark Fibre Co-location
Service Providers ISPs
Towers MSOs
Leasing of
Telecom
Service Providers
Infrastructure Govt
ISPs Domestic Corporates
RailTel MPLS - VPN
Leased Lines
Govt SMEs
Corporates Banks
Internet
Leased Lines
ISPs Corporates Govt Educational Instt

8. Railtel’s Network & Plan
• Focus on long distance band-width
• Build nation-wide OFC network of 45,000 Route KMs OFC
connecting 4,000 stations using STM16/DWDM
• 28,000 RKM of STM 16 network in place in multiple layers
(Backbone Layer), Multiple Self healing rings with Multi
service SDH systems
• Edge (at 40-50 Kms PoP) of STM 4 and Access layer ( at
every Station) of STM1 with Ethernet Interfaces
• All station equipped with 155 Mbps BW& 10/100 Mbps
ethernet ports
• DWDM 10500 KM implemented and another 12500 KM under
implementation
• NGN based NLD network in 18 cities (15 Circles) implemented
and another 36 cities under implementation
• Expansion of MPLS VPN Network from 40 cities to 81 cities.
• Local Access Network (OFC/WiFi/WiMAX) in 150+ cities
• Managed Telecom Services on Railway towers

9. DWDM
STM-16 (2.5 GBPS)
Stns of commercial importance
STM-4/16 Imp. Stns 50-60 kms
STM-1/4 Every stn 8-10 kms
10/100 MBPS
Ethernet
OFC SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

10. Last Mile/ Access Network
• 1000+ microwave towers
• More than 3400 OFC POPs functional
• Co-location facility at all OFC POPs
• Deploying 100 cities MAN network either by
swapping fibre or building own OFC network
• OFC connectivity to MSC and BSCs of
service providers in 100 cities.

11. RAILTEL’S CUSTOMERS
INDIAN RAILWAYS
M/S. TATA TELE SERVICES M/S. BPL MOBILE
M/S. BHARTI CELLULAR M/S. VODAFONE
M/S. IDEA CELLULAR M/S. BSNL
M/S. AIRTEL M/S.AIRCELL DIGILINK
M/S. VSNL (Tata Communications)
M/S. SPICE

12. Why RailTel – Choice of Telcos
• 65000 Kms of Secure and Seamless ROW of Indian Railways
– ROW passes through central business districts of cities
– Readymade Infrastructure
• Huge Bandwidth
• Pan India Coverage
– Extensive Rural Coverage
• Access to physical infrastructure like office space, Power
Supply and Human Resource
• Existing Network Transferred From Indian Railways
• No Burden Of Legacy Network- Network State Of The Art

13. Why RailTel – Choice of Telcos
• Low Cost of Maintenance and availability of Manpower for the
same by leveraging the relationships with Indian Railways
• Lower Operational Cost through Economies of Scale and
choice of technology ( IP- based Technology)
• Experience in operating Telecom Network
• Better Quality due to Intrinsic Strength in Operation and
Maintenance. Quick Customer support (due to Railway’s
excellent work culture)
• Demand for redundancy due to never ending road expansion
by NHAI
• Fast Speed in rolling out network
• Neutral Player
RailTel’s USP- Delete Inconvenience, Insert
Delight

14. RailTel’s
MPLS-IP
NETWORK

15. MPLS-IP Backbone
• Country wide IP backbone
• Routers- 40 locations covers
– metros,
– mini metros and
– other important cities of the country.
• Services to be offered
– MPLS IP –VPNs
– Layer 2 VPNs
– Bandwidth on demand
– Corporate leased lines
– VOIP
– Internet Bandwidth Services
– Managed network services
– Unified messaging services
• Extend IP services to 3400 POPs on SDH network

16. MPLS-IP Backbone (contd)
• Network Architecture
– Simple to implement
– Scalable as demand grows
– Flexible to accommodate complex
customer requirements
– Capable of offering full gamut of IP VPN
services
– IP V6 ready

17. MPLS-IP Backbone (contd)
• Network Topology consists of
– High end Core routers (4)- M20 of Juniper
– Core routers (9)- M 20 of Juniper
– Core routers connected in mesh topology using
STM 1 connectivity (being upgraded to GBE )
– Edge routers (25)- M 10 of Juniper
– Edge locations (25) dual homed into one or more
core locations over 100 MBPS Ethernet links
– 3000 POPs connected to MPLS backbone on
ethernet over SDH

18. RailTel MPLS Network – A New
Paradigm
• Assured Service Uptime & Availability
( Performance Management Reports available)
• Support for “off the shelf” network devices like
Cisco, Juniper etc
( Device Configuration Management)
• Open, Carrier-grade Environment – scalable,
recoverable, and extendable

19. 40 MPLS POP Locations
Delhi Mumbai Kolkata Chennai
Ambala Nagpur
Ahmedabad Coimbatore
Roorkee Patna
Pune
Allahabad
Bhopal Raipur
Jallandhar
Guwahati Surat
Bangalore
Kharagpur
Goa Secunderabad
Bilaspur
Tatanagar
Indore Kanpur
Chandigarh
Trivandrum
Jabalpur Ludhiana
Cochin Vadodara
Jaipur
Lucknow
Calicut Vishakapatnam
Varanasi Madurai
Bhuvaneshwar

21. Support/Help Desk Services
• 24X7X365 Days Telephonic Support for Premium
Services.
• On Site support for critical problems.
• Faster Response time depending upon the level of
services customer opts for.
• Standard 8X5 Telephonic Support for Other services.
• 24 Hours online support via email for all services
• Escalation procedures for timely resolution of
customer grievances.

22. Managed Network Services by RailTel
• RailTel can provide Managed Network Services to it’s
customers , addressing the following areas:
– Uptime Statistics & performance of the client network
elements like:
• Servers
• Routers
• Switches
• SNMP based managed Objects
– Remote Troubleshooting of the Customer Backbone
– Help-Desk Support & generation of Trouble-Tickets.
– Security Threats Monitoring of the Customer Network.
– Monthly or Quarterly Reports on the Network Performance
& Faults.