India : The Bandwidth Hotspot

Since a long time India historically has an important position in the world (of everything). This continues for our current information age, where India surely plays a major and growing role. I would say, India is a kingdom, specifically a "bandwidth" kingdom :-)

According to Telegeography, as of end 2007, India has 36 Gbps Internet bandwidth, serving traditional telecom/data users as well as the emerging 3.4 mn broadband customers.

Some other facts:

• Solely Tata has a massive terrestrial optical infrastructure that spans over 40,000 km (NLD - 400 th. km all ??) and connects to neighboring countries (Pakistan, Nepal, China) and to all major international cable landing stations (SMW3, SMW4, FEA, TIC, etc.)
  
• Tata has over 100+ national private line PoPs, offering a full range of services (E1 to STM64, fastE, GigE) with flexible arrangement (monthly, annual, IRUs)
  
• Tata has pan-india coverage with dual line maintenance, covering 300 major cities; their network is at-least take ring architectures to become India's the most vibrant domestic network
  
• Tata also offers comprehensive cable redundancy with capacity on (almost) all cable coming into India
  

Some Facts about India (Source/Courtesy Telegeography); taken from Bill Barney/Pacnet

Indian Fiber Optic Networks (Source/Courtesy Tata)

Indian International Fiber Optic Connections (Source/Courtesy Tata)