TeNeT Group at IIT Madras Driving Innovation in India towards emerging Market

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TeNeT Group at IIT MadrasDriving Innovation in
India towards emerging Market

• Ashok jhunjhunwala
• TeNeT Group, IIT Madras, ashok_at_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
65 million Urban homes
India needs Telecom CAPEX to go down to 200 per
line
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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 to350 per line
• Telecom is booming in India
• India will add 150 million lines in the next 7
  years as CAPEX is driven below 200

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corDECT Wireless in Local Loop
IITM - Midas

• 35/70 kbps Internet plus simultaneous telephone
• 150 per line price
• 2 million lines in 03-04

Fibre in the Loop Last meters on copper
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DIAS (DSL on copper)
IITM-Banyan

• Always ON Internet connection on
  not-so-good-quality existing copper lines
• already deployed in 30 cities

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Connecting Rural Areas
IITM - nLogue

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

• 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

Vision to Double Rural per capita GDP over the
next 10 years
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Multi-lingual Office Package
IITM - Chennai Kavigal
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Tejas Networks
IITM-NMSWorks

• 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

• 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

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NeuroSynaptic
IITM - OOPS

• 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)

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• 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, SYNCand IM
• handset software
• WAP2 browser, MMS client, Sync client, IM Client,
  IOTA client
• Gateways on infrastructure
• SIM Platform, IM Server, OTA provisioning server

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Usha Communications
IITM-Nilgiri Networks

• 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
• Unicorn
• The Customer Care Billing Suite
• Medusa
• The Mediation Suite
• e-Merchant
• The Mobile Commerce Suite
• Interconnect Billing
• The Settlement Suite

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IITM - Indus Technologies
IITM - Benchmark

• 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