What is Bharat AirFibre?

[Sushubh]

BSNL launches Bharat AirFibre for villages: Here’s what you need to know - tech - Hindustan Times

Bharat AirFibre and BSNL’s FTTH service BharatFibre sound similar but differ on the grounds that the FTTH service uses wired technology to provide broadband services while Bharat AirFibre will be wireless.
What this essentially means is that Bharat AirFibre will be launched on the unlicensed spectrum and since it is unlicensed and not being used by any other service, it would mean low interference and better relay quality. BSNL has also said that they will be using line-of-sight radio waves to deploy this service and provide call-centre services to the villages.

 

[vu3knb]

Can't see any information about this in BSNL website. Not sure how it differs from WiMax. I heard from one of the BSNL official that they would be pulling the big switch of WiMax in Feb 2020 as it is not economical and consumes lot of electricity etc., not sure if that has been done or not.

 

[invisible007]

how much speed it gives on AirFibre ?
and what are the plans

 

[JB701]

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[vu3knb]

BSNL AirFibre seems to be a kind of WiFi Hotpsot one designed for apartment complexes , offices etc. Had a call with one JTO , he told this to me. He also don't have much clarity though.

 

[vishalrao]

I recently saw a youtube video (cant find it now) showing air fiber is last mile uplink wireless to a regular fiber OLT in a building and finally FTTH for customers of kerala rail housing society.

Since the society has a railway line and highway next to it, they cannot provide regular wired fiber so using air fiber.

If I find that video I will post it here.

 

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[vishalrao]

Here is the video, even though the speaker says "wifi" it is NOT wifi, it is a 1 gbps wireless link:


Source

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

It's 1gbps P2P link made using ubiquiti dishes.

 

[Realme]

Will it be able to hold up the QoS? or just another vapor-ware rollout by govt?

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

If they are using ubiquiti gear then it'll be probably fine.
I've heard ubiquiti P2P links having uptime over a year without single connection drops.If they're core network is fine then it'll work fine.

 

[igloo]

Will it be able to hold up the QoS? or just another vapor-ware rollout by govt?

For rural areas it works fine as density is low.
Its used by isp in Australia rural.
With p2p tech growing cheaper its more of one time investment which obviously bsnl can afford.

 

[Ameen]

Will it be able to hold up the QoS? or just another vapor-ware rollout by govt?

It was tried and tested in ernakulam

 

[invisible007]

how are the speeds and ping in this . ?
is it same like bsnl Fiber connection

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

Only the last mile is p2p.
Wireless P2P links will add only 2-4 ms latency. So it'll be more or less similar to bsnl fiber.

 

[invisible007]

@vignesh_venkatesan can u provide me plans ?