The technology revolution in India is rapidly changing making it a hot destination for many global companies with immense opportunities for investments across verticals including telecom, services, BPOs, manufacturing, retail, automobile, and infrastructure. India is the second fastest growing economy in the world and over the next five years more than USD 150 billion will be invested in infrastructure with estimated 30 percent of it goes into IT deployment.

Industry believes India is ready to scale new heights to the next stage of emerging technology revolution, which is simmering hot in India. Some of the key drivers for the same include adoption of technology trends like VoIP, IPTV, and business needs like data centers and BPO operations. Enterprises today are in very dynamic situation with need of high bandwidth environment. They must deploy NGN to maximize user productivity, demonstrate cost-efficiency, and streamline existing business processes. Internet-based applications are changing the business dynamics with benefits of Internet applications becoming clear and definite. Enterprises are leveraging the Internet infrastructure to deliver remote application access, considering the enormous cost-cutting potential of using public networks.

One of the factors for deployment of NGN is the massive growth of data and voice network market on IP technology hence rise in competition based on open standards and architectures. This enables to develop and offer new services at low cost and speedier deployment, giving more flexibility at low investments with higher scalability and migration capabilities. Customer is benefited with various independent options on standard platform in the form of services and usability with all applications viz. data, voice, and multimedia.

Service providers are migrating from their voice and data services to a converged services platform, with Ethernet playing a key part both as a service and as an infrastructure. Add video into the mix and the challenge to the metro network increases substantially. A converged Ethernet network must leverage its installed base for multiple purposes hence establishing the need for a scalable, flexible, manageable, and secure metro Ethernet solution to make this migration feasible. Operators have to rethink network strategies to make friendlier and flexible infrastructure in terms of technology and needs for quicker migration to deploy new services faster but more importantly at lower cost and to defend their investments on ROI model.

All over IP (including VoIP): New value added services will be mostly IP based offering high speed Internet (HSI) access for existing PC customer, business access start with underserved SOHO segment with same infrastructure, and residential entertainment (gaming/video/entertainment to everybody).

With increase in number of services on voice, data, VoIP, video, multimedia, gaming, and HDMI, the need for high speed and bandwidth is increasing. With exponentially growing revenue generation potential, new services add on more devices and complexity and in turn add the support level. These challenges would erode into the bottom lines hence the ISP need to restrategize the challenges to increase revenue and maximize margins.

Offering optical network architecture, which can give high speed and bandwidth with low cost deployment can maximize the revenue and offer the best services to the market. The services that can be offered to end-user include high speed Internet, DTH, VOD, HDTV, VPN, VoIP, e-learning, and VDSL services.

Driving forces for NGN will be service providers, telecom companies, utility companies, and government agencies. NGN will be critical factor for economic development, reduction in administration costs, and good living conditions. New applications are driving investment across the industry. Technology is evolving quickly to match the new applications springing up each day and requires as well new products, which needs to have high quality, foolproof system security, modularity, scalability, and compatibility.

Today, fiber is being deployed much deeper into the network, for both business and residential. Demand for high-speed voice, data, and video services is escalating, and there should be enough bandwidth reserve for future data flow. Times have changed; we need to gear up to NGN as India has always been driving force to implement new technology to offer the best.