Reliance Jio to construct 2 other submarine cable system after BBG and AAE-1

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swatkats said:
Reliance Jio will be deploying two next generation cables to support the growing demand for data in India. The project will be completed in partnership with several global players and SubCom, a world leader in undersea cable supply.
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When I first read it, I was too happy but then I got to know that It's between Chennai and Singapore for trans pacific and not Digha to Singapore.
Would have reduced the ping by at least 25ms for users in this region.
 
Anurag Bhatia said:
Let me clarify a bit: Railtel uses Airtel as it's transit provider and that's a important but small part of overall network.
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Thanks for clearing this out, when I was doing a traceroute to some website,in one of the hops, it was mentioned as static.airtel.com and airtel broadband.,Also in my place, the fiber of railwire comes from an airtel tower, So I thought that railwire is using airtel's fiber network. I dont know that these much stuff happen within an ISP.
 
Nithishsaba said:
Also in my place, the fiber of railwire comes from an airtel tower,
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Interesting. It would be unusual if your actual traffic is via Airtel BTS for the Railwire connection. Though remember that Airtel as a provider stands out when it comes to availability as well as pricing in a large part of India for wholesale and thus many small players use them. Your LCO might have used them or partially using them in another network.

Airtel offers circuits from its towers but there is no option for colocating stuff at their BTS (at least for smaller ISPs). So during fixed wireless case people just lease rooftop in the same building or nearby and put a small WISP tower. As ISPs are moving to fibre, they now put OLT in place of WISP tower but again quite near to Airtel BTS. So see if fibre actually comes BTS or it's just the same/nearby building holding your ISPs infra.
 
JB701 said:
@Anurag Bhatia

Any books you can recommend where we can read more about this stuff? Preferably in Indian context.
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Not sure there are that many books. May be industry is more closed, many things are very localised and may be things are too recent to appear in a documented book like format. That's one of the reason few of us are pushing for INNOG to have more documented localised version of various things.



Some of good places for content on networks and backbones:
  1. Dr Peering Playbook - covers peering, interconnection in great detail
  2. YouTube channel of some of good NOGs like NANOG, UKNOG, NLNOG etc (and they publish slides for all those talks. You should be able to find those on their website easily).
  3. INNOG (Indian NOG) - We are doing an annual conference and regular tech sessions for the community and they are open, free to attend and anyone can join in. For last conference you can find slides, presentations etc here but for tech sessions we typically do not record to keep them informal and promote discussions. Feel free to attend those. They are announced on mailing list besides other usual chat about operational issues.
  4. NANOG mailing list - quite active mailing list with discussions around operational stuff. Though primarily from North American region but quite international. You can checkout their archives as well.
  5. If you are interested specifically about Wireless ISPs which do point to point / point to multipoint fixed wireless - WNDW - Wireless Networking in Developing World has good content. Although in Indian cities FTTH deployment is increasing massively as high density favours it in many of the cities.
 

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