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With Cisco's support, Airtel to deploy 5G-ready optical Ethernet fiber for enhanced network availability

Airtel has launched a 5G-ready, 100G IP and optical integrated network designed to enhance network capacity, and scale with Cisco support.

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Airtel has launched a 5G-ready, 100G IP and optical integrated network designed to enhance network capacity, and scale.

In an effort to boost network availability and also be 5G-ready, telecom major Bharti Airtel has collaborated with Cisco to launch India’s first automated Ethernet Over Fiber Network to help more people connect to, and do more with the Internet.

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Airtel has launched a 5G-ready, 100G IP and optical integrated network designed to enhance network capacity, and scale. Airtel says that this deployment is part of Airtel’s initiative to build a 5G ready network that continues to serve the growing demand for high-speed data services in the country.

This new IP over Ethernet over Fiber network is claimed to be the largest hyper-complex brownfield network transformation of its kind in India, collapsing multiple legacy domains to build a flatter, simpler and automated 5G-ready IP network for enhanced customer experiences. It integrates Cisco IP and optical solutions along with segment routing to more easily extend services in rural communities while significantly improving network availability and creating cost efficiencies.

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It has been explained by the companies that simple, flexible and self-healing architecture is built with an agile, programmable and software-defined platform to deliver exponential mobile internet growth. It has already realized significant speeds with scale to enable new, advanced B2B and B2C services. The open standards architecture with automation brings in efficiencies for new and legacy infrastructure, eliminating manual touchpoints in a brownfield environment.

According to Anand Bhaskar, Managing Director, Cisco Service Provider Business, India and SAARC, Cisco is helping Airtel deliver a highly-scalable IP and optical network throughout India that enables broader mobile access to connect more people and more businesses who can do more with the internet. Cisco is doing this to support Airtel to transform its network to be modern, adaptable and scalable to accommodate the phenomenal mobile growth in India.

Commenting on the collaboration, Randeep Sekhon, CTO, Bharti Airtel, said, “Our ongoing collaboration with Cisco is critical in helping us to be 5G-ready, collapsing multiple legacy domains to build a flatter, simpler and automated network with more bandwidth to support internet services and the endless growth in consumer and business applications people rely on every day.”

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