Gujarat-based optic fibre maker, Polycab India Limited has bagged BharatNet initiative by Tamil Nadu FibreNet Corporation Limited (Tanfinet), under ‘Package – A’, at a cost of Rs 509-crore, to deploy 16,500 kilometres of fibre network within a year's time frame.
Under the Tamil Nadu initiative, Polycab’s work would involve site survey, design, fiber laying, integration and commissioning as well as operations and maintenance to enable gram panchayats in the bounded districts with a minimum scalable bandwidth of 1Gbps.
As per the agreement conditions, Polycab would also set up a state NOC (Network Operations Centre) at Chennai to integrate all village blocks under the project, including those under the other three packages.
Ashish D Jain, Executive President & COO, Telecom Business at Polycab India, said, “We have been given the all-important responsibility of a Master System Integrator (MSI) by the TamilNadu FibreNet Corporation, to implement the BharatNet Phase-II project in nine districts under Package A in Tamil Nadu at a cost of Rs 509 crore, under the master service agreement.”
He further added, “We have asked to provide end-to-end connectivity with high-speed bandwidth using optical fibre cable in 3,095 gram panchayats (village blocks) across 9 districts of the state under Package A," Jain said, adding that of the 16,500 kilometres of cable laying, 85% of it, would involve overhead or aerial deployment.”
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