Alphion to deply GPON access network solution at IIT Kharagpur, India

Dec 12, 2011


Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been playing a crucial role to promote growth of fiber optics in India for the past many years. Students coming out of IITs are the most preferred ones in the technology jobs in India and abroad. Indian Institute of Technologies offers Master courses in Optoelectronics.

IIT Khargpur is one of the prestigious engineering colleges in India where Alphion Corporation will provide its GPON based access network solution for deployment across the campus. This fiber optic deployment will interconnect departments, centers, schools, classrooms and residences within the IIT Kharagpur campus while linking it with the pan-India NKN (National knowledge network), which is the multi gigabit network for providing a unified high speed network backbone for all knowledge related institutions in India.

IIT Kharagpur was established on 1951 and currently has 29 academic departments. The campus area is around 2100 acres.There are seven old IITs in India – IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Rourkee and IIT Guwahati. The new nine IITs are IIT Indoore, IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Ropar, IIT Mandi, IIT Varanasi, IIT Patna, IIT Rajasthan, IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Hyderabad.


The initial pilot program was deployed in 2009 that has demonstrated the capability of GPON technology to deliver world class network services according to the Institute officials. This new campus wide deployment will extend the network to cover existing and new housing, classrooms, office space and open areas.

The press release from Alphion says their
GPON solution will provide a wide spectrum of broadband services in the institute campus that includes e-education, internet, cable video, IPTV, telephony, campus security and WiFi hotspots. This optical fiber network connects to all hostels, enables WiFi hot spot connectivity, will be used to video stream course-ware to students and provides coverage to 30,000 people.

Alphion Corporation has been a major player to promote the growth of Fiber to the home services in India. Alphion has won major supply contracts from BSNL in the past. They develop, manufacture and market communications systems, subsystems, integrated and discrete photonic components based on their proprietary Qlight technology platform.

Alphion products are sold world wide to service providers and OEMs in the Fiber-to the-Premises (FTTP), telecommunications, CATV, fiber optic sensing, test & measurement, medical imaging, and defense system markets.

For more details, visit Alphion Corporation

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