Bharat Sanchar Nigam Restricted (BSNL) has awarded Tejas Networks a further buy order price Rs 107 crore. The order is for transport 4G Radio Entry Networks (RAN) for added websites. Tejas Networks, a Tata Group firm is supplying the RAN gear that BSNL is utilizing to deploy homegrown 4G in India.
Throughout the Q3 FY24 earnings name, Arnob Roy, Chief Working Officer at Tejas Networks, mentioned, “On the wi-fi section, we continued to ramp up our BSNL 4G RAN shipments, and a number of other thousand methods have been shipped that are a mix of single and dual-band radios in Band 1 and Band 28.”
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In accordance with an ET report, Tejas Networks has additionally began supplying the backhaul gear of IP/MPLS routers. Throughout the earnings name, the COO mentioned that this can be a undertaking of a number of hundred crores for deploying greater than 15,000 routers. This undertaking will allow the backhaul community of BSNL 4G nationwide.
Final yr, Tejas Networks received a Rs 696 crore PAN-India deal from BSNL for supplying the TJ1400 sequence routers. The Indian authorities pushed BSNL to launch 4G utilizing homegrown tech solely. For this, TCS (Tata Consultancy Companies) and ITI Restricted obtained an advance buy order (APO) of about Rs 19,000 crore to deploy 4G in 1 lakh websites.
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As soon as BSNL launches 4G all through the nation, the state-run telecom operator will improve the present community to 5G as properly. The report mentioned that Roy confirmed there’s a BSNL tender which incorporates the 5G improve of 40,000 websites. However that’s distant from right here. To go in direction of 5G, BSNL first wants to succeed in its 4G deployment aim of 1 lakh websites all through India.
Tejas confirmed that the gear it’s offering to BSNL for 4G has undergone in depth trials for round a yr in Punjab.
