Airtel builds the backbone for digital Uttar Pradesh

Bharti Airtel (Airtel) said that it has designed and implemented a future ready state wide area network (SWAN) for the Government of Uttar Pradesh as part of government of India’s e-Governance initiative. UPSWAN 2.0, which is one of the largest of its kind in India, was launched by the Deputy CM Dr Dinesh Sharma.

Alok  Sinha , Additional Chief Secretary (Commercial Tax, IT & Electronics), said: “Under the leadership of our PM Mr. Narendra Modi, a digital transformation and empowering its citizens, through e-Governance is undergoing. UP is making rapid strides towards becoming fully digitally enabled, and ensuring that government services reach every corner of the state over a digital backbone. We are pleased to partner with Airtel in this journey and congratulate them on building this key network infrastructure.”

UPSWAN 2.0 comprises of 885 points of presence (PoPs) across the state and is designed to provide secure, high-speed connectivity for delivery of government services to citizens over a closed user group network. This modern network infrastructure digitally connects all state headquarters, district headquarters, block headquarters & tehsil headquarters across Uttar Pradesh and empowers them to deliver Government to Government as well as Government to Citizen services in a quick and seamless fashion.

All state headquarters will be equipped with upto 10 Gbps connectivity while district, block and tehsil headquarters will have upto 10 Mbps connectivity. A dedicated network operations centre has also been set up in Lucknow to monitor the network performance. UP state wide area network 2.0 goes live with Integrated solution comprising of 885 PoPs with MPLS bandwidth will connect state, district, block and tehsil headquarters across the state.

Airtel has provided end to end solution for this large scale digital infrastructure including MPLS, Internet Bandwidth, Network Hardware Equipment, Security Firewalls, System Integration and Managed Services.

Ajay Chitkara, Director and CEO, Airtel Business, said: “We are delighted to be able to contribute to the digital India vision and partner with the government of Uttar Pradesh in their digital transformation agenda. UPSWAN, which compares with the best in class networks, will become a digital backbone for the state and help in building a truly connected UP. On behalf of Airtel, I would like to thank the State administration for giving us this opportunity.”