Tejas wins ET Innovative Product Award

Tejas Networks Ltd triumphs a Economic Times (ET) Innovative Product Award 2011 for its Packet Optical Transport (POTP) product, TJ1600. Sachin Pilot, Hon'ble Minister of State for Telecom & IT, Government of India gave away the award in Mumbai. ET Telecom Awards recognizes performance and felicitate the innovators of the telecom industry. The Innovative Product award recognizes products that have resulted in increased customer base, increase in revenue or profitability and changed market dynamics in telecom.

Sanjay Nayak, CEO & MD, Tejas Networks Ltd, expressed, "We are delighted to win this prestigious award, especially since we were benchmarked against innovative telecom equipment offered by leading global vendors from around the world. Our innovative Future Ready transmission products enable customers to scale their networks for massive data growth, driven by mobile internet, video and business services, while maintaining a large and growing customer base for voice traffic." He further stated, "We are seeing tremendous success with our POTP products with deployments in Indian and international telecom operator networks. In India, leading operators like Airtel, Aircel and other leading 3G operators have installed TJ1600 successfully, addressing over 250 million subscribers”.

Arnob Roy, President Engineering pointed out, “Tejas POTP portfolio enables service providers to seamlessly transition 2G/2.5G networks serving all-voice traffic to 3G/4G networks serving predominantly data traffic at their own pace." He also mentioned, "TJ1600 is a POTP product that can be deployed as a 100% native TDM box today and can be smoothly migrated to a 100% pure-packet box in the future on the same shelf, thus making it a truly scalable and Future ReadyTM platform”.