corDECT WiLL

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corDECT WiLL designed to connect developing
countries ashok jhunjhunwalaTeNeT Group, IIT
Madras, Indiaashok_at_tenet.res.in
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Challenges in Developing World

• Developing World has very small teledensity
• waiting to be connected
• Internet is Power
• Key Challenge
• can they afford it?

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Take India as an example
Monthly telecom expenditure (assuming 4 income
can be spent on telecom) 3.2 6
8.8 12 17 25 42
62 150

• 60 (37 million) of Urban Indian households can
  spend less than 6 per month on Telecom

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Rural India can spend even less
Monthly telecom expenditure (assuming 4 income
can be spent on telecom) 3.2 6
8.8 12 17 25
42 100

• 75 (119 million) households can spend barely
  3.2 per month on telecom

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Low CAPEX required

• Developing countries have very low Average
  Revenue per User (ARPU)
• less than 6 per month or 72 per year
• An Operator can profitably serve these
  subscribers only by
• reducing capital expenditure (CAPEX) per line
• need CAPEX of under 200 per line
• as opposed to 600 CAPEX prevalent

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corDECT designed towards this

• TeNeT group of IIT Madras and Midas
• have a vision to enable India get 200 million
  telephone and Internet connections
• need to bring down CAPEX per line to 200
• Access contributes to 65-70 of per line CAPEX
• took up design, development and commercialisation
  of technologies for this
• corDECT Wireless in Local Loop
• specially designed for urban as well as rural
  areas
• OPTIMA Fibre Access Network
• to connect dense urban areas

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corDECT Wireless in Local Loop
E1 (V5.2) voice
To Exchange
DIU RAS
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WS
To Intenet
IP

• two lines
• 35 kbps Internet access telephone connection
  supporting fax, PCO and speakerphone
• Always On Internet Connection in near future
• premier Internet Service at 70 kbps

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WS-IP Wallset with external antenna
External Antenna for Enhanced Range of 10 Km
(LoS) and 25 Km with a repeater
35 kbps (premium 70 kbps) Internet traffic
plus simultaneous voice

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corDECT Wireless in Local Loop
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To PSTN
Total per line cost of 150 - 200 1 million
lines under deployment
To Internet
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corDECT - System Architecture
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corDECT - System Architecture
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Multi-Wallset to serve lower income group
cuts the per-line cost to half Shared Ethernet
port for Internet access Always On connection in
near future
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Relay Base Station (RBS)

• 25 km range with RBS in sparse rural areas
• uses DECT frequencies
• no frequency planning needed

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Network Management System

• SNMP based system
• Graphic User Interface enabled
• Fully secure network with access delegation at
  the DIU
• Complete management of all OMC functions even
  from remote locations
• Remote monitoring and processing of alarms,
  faults, configuration and account management.

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specially designed for small towns

• fully loaded DIU Power requirements 12 Amp
• BSD Power requirements 1 Amp
• scalable system 300 lines and above viable
• DIU CBS backhaul cost 20 of per line
  cost
• less than 100 sq ft space needed for a DIU
• each wallset provides two lines
• a telephone and a Internet access line

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corDECT will continue to dominate this market in
future

• PRESENT STATUS
• corDECT is lowest cost solution for the
  developing markets
• Capex 150-200/line
• providing a voice connection and a 35/70Kbps data
  connection
• Low upfront investment less than 20K to start
  service in a town

• FUTURE
• corDECT RD driving
• Cost /line down to 100
• Data rate of up to 100 kbps for each channel
• up to _at_ 2MB shared download
• Spectrum efficiency increase by a factor of 3
• corDECT will continue to outpace 2.5 - 3G
  technologies in fixed-wireless space

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Driving Commercial Internet Connections in Rural
India

• Can Rural India Afford Internet Connections?
• For commercial viable connections, one needs
• Technology
• Business Model
• Organization
• Driving Applications

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How does one serve people with incomes of less
than a dollar a day?

• Lower Connectivity cost
• Aggregate demand

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Lower Connectivity cost

• CAPEX cost of telephone line was 600 plus in
  India barely two years ago
• required ARPU of 20 plus per month to break even
• affordable to barely two percent of Indian
  households
• Innovative Technologies and better buying has
  reduced CAPEX to around 325 per line
• moving towards 200 per line enabling 50 of
  Indian homes to afford telecom
• rural connectivity cost reduced from 1500 to
  about 300 per connection

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Aggregate Demand

• in 1987 less than 5 of urban households had
  telephones
• 7 years wait for a telephone
• coin-box street telephones did not work
• long distance charges too high even for top
  income families
• Entrepreneur-driven telephone booths (STD PCOs)
  introduced
• night time long distance charges reduced by a
  factor of 4
• Today
• 950,000 STD PCOs covering every street of
  smallest town
• generate 25 of total telecom income
• 300 million people use these PCOs

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How does one connect Rural India

• India has 600,000 villages
• 650 million people
• Need
• Technology
• Sustainable Business Model
• Organisation which thinks and acts Rural
• Driving Applications towards Rural Prosperity

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Technology

• BSNLs Contribution on the average one fibre
  connected rural exchange for every 150 sq km
• a wireless system with 10 - 15 km range at
  existing fibre connected exchange would cover 80
  - 85 of villages in India
• CorDECT Wireless in Local Loop Developed by IITM
  and Midas Communications, Chennai
• provides a telephone line and Internet connection
  in 30 Km radius

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corDECT Wireless in Local Loop
IITM - Midas

• A telephone line and a 35/70 kbps Internet line
• 150-200 per line price
• 1 million lines being deployed in 03-04

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Organisations with Innovative Business Models

• N-Logue A Rural Service Provider
• aggregate demand into a kiosk using
• corDECT Wireless in Local Loop
• ISP in a box Minnow
• Reliable power back-up
• 1000 (including taxes) per Kiosk providing
  telephone, Internet, multimedia PC with
  web-camera, printer and 4 hour power back-up for
  PC
• plus Indian language software
• set up by a village entrepreneur on the line of
  STD PCOs
• needs only 60 per month to break even

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n-Logue Deployment Strategy
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What is the monthly income?

• STD PCO 20
• Children learn typing
• all kinds of on-line and off-line education
  10
• Kiosk is a photography shop 6
• also a video parlour on weekend evenings 6
• email and browsing
• voice mail and video mail 10
• e-governance access
• connect to taluka Government office for
  services 4
• and much more

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Word-processor in Indian Languages
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Multi-lingual Office Package
IITM - Chennai Kavigal
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Mundi . . . .

• A 60 year old from a villagenear Melur
• Palaniamma had lost vision in both eyes since 2
  years
• tie-up with Aravind hospital -- Doctors confirmed
  that vision can be restored in at least one eye
• IITM trying to develop Remote Diagnostic tools
• Blood Pressure, Sugar Iron, ECG Monitor,
  stethoscope
• at total cost of 200

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Crop comparison

• Top Ladies Finger Diseased with yellow
  mosaic
• Below Post treatment
• Saving of 3,000 for the farmers
• Cost of information 0.40

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E- Dr Vet ?

• In Attapati village , Priyas chicken was limping
• Photo sent to Veterinary college
• Identified as Curled toe paralysis
• Cost for process
• Earlier 4
• This case 0.40

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The Power of multi-party video communication
IITM - OOPS
Low bit-rate Video Conferencing (audio video
text at 20 kbps and more)
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Can Kiosks become Micro-banks?

• TeNeT and n-Logue working with ICICI
• Remote Bill Payment
• Rural ATM
• Micro-finance
• Remittance
• Credit and Product Marketing is one of the
  biggest requirement of Rural India

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Do we have a model for sparser areas?

• Fibre not available in 15 of areas in India
• Only about 50 to 100 villages in 20-30 Km radius
• less population per village
• less available money
• Technology Innovation
• Business Innovation
• finance and buying/selling may make even larger
  sense

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ISRO-IITM
For inaccessible Rural Areas
lt-- 64 Kbps
2 Mbps --gt
128 Kbps --gt
3.8 m antenna
2.4 m antenna
PSTN

• 8-10 voice channels 64/128 kbps Internet
  satellite backhaul
• Each hub supports 16 to 20 remote sites with 2
  Mbps downlaod
• 200 corDECT 200 backhaul cost per
  connection

Internet
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To Sum Up

• Developing countries require unique solutions
• low CAPEX, OPEX
• rugged, low power
• corDECT designed to meet this need
• requires adaptation in different situation
• TeNeT / Midas team has done well in coming up
  with technical / business innovations
• is today the best fixed wireless solution
• will remain so as new RD comes with 2.5G / 3 G
  corDECT offering