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BSNL's Broadband service -- DataOne was launched officially on 14 January, 2005 simultaneously in the metros of Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
BSNL's DataOne is supposed to provide data at speeds between 256Kbps and 2Mbps, 4.5 times faster than the regular dial-up. BSNL also promises to add Video on Demand and Broadband TV like services. The rollout that began on 14 January 2005 is expected to cover 200 cities in the next two months.
While at the launch of DataOne at Chennai, Shri N Ram, Editor – The Hindu said that the existing 7 million Internet userbase was very small when compared to the 90 million Internet users in China. It's also been observed that all the Internet users in China were virtually Broadband users. Continuing with his speech, he said "The success of Broadband in these countries can be attributed to the Broadband policies designed by those countries. Similarly to ensure the success of Broadband in India, we too need to have an effective policy that would ensure its penetration into the rural areas while making it popular in the urban India."
DataOne services, launched on 14 January 2005 shall be provided on the existing copper infrastructure. Subsequent to high speed Internet service, other services such as VPN, multicasting, video conferencing, video-on-demand and broadcast application shall also be added. Broadband service will be provided through the deployment of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line technology. ADSL allows copper telephone pairs to be used to provide a Broadband connection. It provides 'always-on' Internet that is automatically established once the PC and ADSL modem are switched on.
The broadband network will consist of different sizes of Digital Subscriber Line Access multiplexers (DSLAMs) which represent first point of presence for broadband customers. The DSLAM shall provide access upto 20 Mbps based on ADSL/ ADSL 2plus ITU –T G992.1/G992.3 and G992.5. They are connected to LAN switches, which aggregate the traffic coming from all DSLAMs of a city into a Gigabit Ethernet link over dedicated fiber. The network shall be centrally managed from Network Operating Centres (NOC) located at two sites one of them being the master at Bangalore and the other disaster recovery site at Pune.
BSNL's DataOne is supposed to provide data at speeds between 256Kbps and 2Mbps, 4.5 times faster than the regular dial-up. BSNL also promises to add Video on Demand and Broadband TV like services. The rollout that began on 14 January 2005 is expected to cover 200 cities in the next two months.
While at the launch of DataOne at Chennai, Shri N Ram, Editor – The Hindu said that the existing 7 million Internet userbase was very small when compared to the 90 million Internet users in China. It's also been observed that all the Internet users in China were virtually Broadband users. Continuing with his speech, he said "The success of Broadband in these countries can be attributed to the Broadband policies designed by those countries. Similarly to ensure the success of Broadband in India, we too need to have an effective policy that would ensure its penetration into the rural areas while making it popular in the urban India."
DataOne services, launched on 14 January 2005 shall be provided on the existing copper infrastructure. Subsequent to high speed Internet service, other services such as VPN, multicasting, video conferencing, video-on-demand and broadcast application shall also be added. Broadband service will be provided through the deployment of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line technology. ADSL allows copper telephone pairs to be used to provide a Broadband connection. It provides 'always-on' Internet that is automatically established once the PC and ADSL modem are switched on.
The broadband network will consist of different sizes of Digital Subscriber Line Access multiplexers (DSLAMs) which represent first point of presence for broadband customers. The DSLAM shall provide access upto 20 Mbps based on ADSL/ ADSL 2plus ITU –T G992.1/G992.3 and G992.5. They are connected to LAN switches, which aggregate the traffic coming from all DSLAMs of a city into a Gigabit Ethernet link over dedicated fiber. The network shall be centrally managed from Network Operating Centres (NOC) located at two sites one of them being the master at Bangalore and the other disaster recovery site at Pune.
http://www.bsnl.co.in/newsdetailed.php?news_id=188
http://www.bsnl.in/bsnlnews.asp?intnewsid=45348
Tariff: http://www.bsnl.co.in/service/dataone_tariff.htm
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Photos I shot of the announcement and ad in yesterday's and today's Economic Times:
I have been paying Rs. 650 per month (installation charge was Rs. 1200) for 64 kbps (advertized speed, the real download speed is like 3 kBps, absolutely sucks) ever since I moved back to India and now BSNL is offering 256 kbps for only Rs. 500 (Rs. 500 modem charge). Great deal! I am going to subscribe starting February.
please wait we are waiting to launch 
