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

1. TeNeT Group at IIT MadrasDriving Innovation in India towards emerging Market Ashok jhunjhunwala TeNeT Group, IIT Madras, ashok@tenet.res.in

2. 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

3. 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 to$350 per line • Telecom is booming in India • India will add 150 million lines in the next 7 years as CAPEX is driven below $200

4.  To PSTN To Internet Fiber ring Video Server Fiber To The Building (FTTB) IITM - Midas corDECT Wireless in Local Loop • 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

5. Always ONInternet connection onnot-so-good-quality existing copper lines already deployed in 30 cities   128 kbps V5.2 PSTN IP Internet 2 Mbps IAN HDSU IITM-Banyan DIAS (DSL on copper)

6. IITM - nLogue Connecting Rural Areas • $1000 per Kioskproviding telephone, Internet with multi-media PC, Camera, printer, power back-up for Personal Computer • plus Indian language and video-conferencing software Vision Connect (voice and Internet) Rural Areas and Small Towns all over India Vision to Double Rural per capita GDP over the next 10 years

7. IITM - Chennai Kavigal Multi-lingual Office Package

8. 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 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 IITM-NMSWorks Tejas Networks

9. 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) NeuroSynaptic IITM - OOPS

10. 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

11. 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 Usha Communications IITM-Nilgiri Networks

12. 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 IITM - Indus Technologies IITM - Benchmark