Bharat Broadband Network Limited

(BBNL)

NOFN – A Game Changer

Agenda

• Need, Vision

• Resources

• Technology

• Execution

• Project Management

• Operations

• Roadmap

• Impact

Role of Broadband in Nation Building

• India ranks 122 out of 192 nations in respect of fixed Broadband

penetration (with only 1.1% penetration against global average of 9.1)

(china 55, Malaysia 74, Korea 5)*

• India ranks 106 out of 192 nations in respect of mobile Broadband

penetration (with only 4.9% penetration against global average of 22)

(China 75, Malaysia 83, Korea 4)*

• India ranks 121 out of 157 nations in respect of ICT Development Index

(China 78, Malaysia 59, Korea 1)^

• India placed at 118 out of 192 countries in terms of UN e-Governance

Development Index based on 3 components namely online service,

telecom infrastructure and human capacity

* UN Broadband Commission report , ^ITU

Role of Broadband in Nation Building

• Broadband has the potential to touch and empower our lives both in urban and rural areas, More so in RURAL area where bulk of 70% people live

• Easy access to Broadband will lead to democratization of information

• Broadband will enable the delivery of services universally in key sectors of Health, Education, Commerce and Governance.

• It has been estimated that every 10% increase in broadband connectivity leads to 1.38% increase in Gross Domestic Product.

• Rapid growth of mobile sector has seen teledensity increase to more than 70% from barely 2% in 2000. However Broadband penetration is still lagging behind at 2%.

Inclusive Growth of Broadband

• Limited availability of Broadband connectivity has created a

digital divide. Urgent need for inclusive growth through

Broadband

• Need to touch the Bottom of pyramid: through resonance

of Policy, Regulation and Government Action.

• Government investment needed to connect the unconnected.

• Create a National Broadband infrastructure or Digital Highway.

Optic Fiber is the way forward to provide high speed and

reliable Broadband. Resources should be pooled.

• Solution should be tailored to Indian conditions

INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SETUP

Population 1.17 Billion 72% Rural

Area 3287263 Sq. Km

States + UTs 28 + 7

Districts 640

Blocks 6382

Village Panchayats 250000

Villages 638619

Existing Fibre Reach/Coverage +

10,00,000 Km

BBNL Interconnection

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OPn OP1

GPs

BLOCK

DISTRICT

BBNL PoP

CENTRAL NOC

Existing

Networks

BBNL PoP

PoI at Block

PoI at GP

BBNL

Domain

Access

Domain

Access

Provider’s

PoPs

To be arranged

by User SPs

Interconnect Agreement

between BBNL and User SPs

Retail Customers

NOFN - Bridging The Gap

• Fill the gap upto the aggregation layer by creating the National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN)

• Existing fibers and core network to be leveraged by leasing from existing operators, so as to avoid duplication.

• No. of Village Councils to be covered 2,50,000

• Incremental cable needed to be laid 5,00,000 Km

• GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) technology to be used

NOFN

• Project to be carried out by Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL), a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Government of India.

• Estimated cost of the project is Rs 20,000 Cr

• Govt. of India to fund the whole project through the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF).

• State Governments are expected to contribute by way of not levying any Right of Way charges

• IT and other infrastructure investment by other stakeholders

• Very ambitious NOFN Project implementation time.

NOFN Planning

1. BBNL to be a lean and flat organization. Therefore, Outsourcing model to

be used extensively for both project execution and operations and

maintenance.

2. Emphasis on management through technology. All operations to be

carried through Centralized NMS. Project Management Tools to be

extensively used. Primavera from Oracle selected for the purpose.

3. Survey work allocated to 3 PSUs – BSNL, PGCIL and RAILTEL

4. Centralized tenders for OFC and GPON equipment while cable trenching

and laying work allotted to 3 PSUs.

5. Similarly, MOUs signed with CDOT for NMS and NIC for GIS

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NOFN Planning

1. GPON technology decided by Technical advisory committee

2. Only incremental fiber to be laid to minimize cost. Planning tool also to be

used to plan and optimize the routes.

3. Survey to be the central activity in planning and execution.

4. TEC GRs to be followed as far as possible.

5. Pilot done to understand issues that will crop up

6. NOC planned to monitor and manage the whole network centrally

7. GIS planned to asset mapping and tracking centrally

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Projected Roll out Plan

• 31/03/2015 - 50,000 GPs

• 31/03/2016 - 150,000 GPs

• 31/12/2016 - 250,000 GPs

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NOFN – PLAN for

PHASE 1

BSNL – Ph-I Roll Out Plan

BSNL – Ph-I Roll Out Plan

PGCIL – Ph-I Roll Out Plan

RAILTEL – Ph-I Roll Out Plan

NOFN - Current Status Item By Status

Free Right

of Way

MoU between

DoT, BBNL and

States/ UTs.

All States/UTs signed except Tamil Nadu and

Lakshadweep.

Survey BSNL, Railtel &

Powergrid

Completed

OF Cable BBNL Available for Phase-1

GPON

equipment

BBNL PO issued. Equipment type approval and

validation done. Partial delivery started.

Delivery speed slow

DUCT 3 CPSUs Order placed for mostly phase-1. Deliveries

delayed and slow

Trenching &

Duct laying

3 CPSUs 30,000 km of trenching and duct laying

completed. 19

Technology - GPON

BBNL ODN

PoP (At Block Level)

Existing OFC

Existing Dark Fiber to be made available to NOFN by participating CPSUs by commercial arrangement to BBNL (Participating Companies are BSNL/ RAILTEL/ PGCIL)

Joint Points

Incremental OFC

Splitters

Tapping is proposed at Joint point

Incremental OFC

Gram Panchayats

Gram Panchayats

Optical Fiber Cable (Existing / Proposed) routes for connecting

Panchayats in Sidlaghatta Block-I

1

2.5

km

2F Y Hunasenahalli P

Y Hunasenahalli

BTS

0.1

Km

1 F

1 F

2 F 2 F

Chintamani Exch

H Cross Exch

3.3

Km

1 F

1.4

Km

Jangamakote P

0.1

5 K

m

1.6

5 K

m

0.4

5 K

m

Jangamakote

Exch

Melur Exch

0.0

5 K

m

1 F

P = Village Panchayat

E = Exch

= OLT

= Splitter 1:2

= OCLAN

= Splitter 1:4

GPON

GPON

NOFN NMS Architecture

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

MONITORING/ASSURANCE BILLING ENTERPRISE/

ERP

SERVICE LAYER SERVICE

PLANNING/ DEVELOPMENT

PROVISIONING/ CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT

SERVICE PROBLEM

RESOLUTION

SERVICE QUALITY MANAGEMENT

NETWORK/ RESOURCE

LAYER

NETWORK PLANNING/

DEVELOPMENT

NETWORK/ CONFIGURATION PROVISIONING

NETWORK INVENTORY

MANAGEMENT

NETWORK MAINTENANCE

AND RESTORATION

NETWORK DATA MANAGEMENT

TAMS (ASSET

MANAGEMENT)

NETWORK ELELEMENT

LAYER

CNMS™ LEGACY MEDIATION

CNMS™ STANDARD MEDIATION

CNMS™ INTERFACES

TOWARDS OEM /SERVICE-

PROVIDER NMS/OSS

NOFN NMS Services

NOFN CNMS™ Introduction

CNMS™ monitors and manages NOFN network/devices from a centralized

location. CNMS™ supports multi- vendor multi technologies in NMS/EMS/OSS

domain.

CNMS™ supports the NMS features of different Network Elements of NOFN GPON

( OLT/ONT) and other technology Network Elements adapted by NOFN.

CNMS™ supports fiber management of FDMS, Cable, Joint, Route and System

configuration, Fibre Provisioning as per access/capacity requirements.

Bandwidth Provisioning features.

Using CNMS™ NOFN, the administrators can configure and provision the NOFN

Network Elements (OLTs and ONTs or other technology NEs ) to address the

service provider's bandwidth requirements.

NOFN CNMS™ Introduction Contd..

The fault management services ensures the network is quickly recovered following a failure.

The performance management services pro-actively monitors the network for QoS and helps for network planning.

Security management services ensure authentication/authorization needs.

Accounting log management provides the comprehensive details on NOFN network management activities and administration.

User friendly graphical management views, customer views, Graphical views per Service Provider.

NOFN CNMS Compliance

Support for NOC and hierarchical deployment architecture.

Compliance to standards: ITU-T, TMF, NGOSS, OSS/J, Generic communication platform.

Generic mediation support (TMF /legacy mediation).

Multi-platform solutions.

Flexible database support.

Multi-tier components based architecture.

Multi-vendor support for all networks.

Supports GIS MAPS, GRAPHICAL VIEWS, Fiber management.

NOFN CNMS™ Features

Performance Management Features.

Provisioning bandwidth management.

CNMS Fault Management features.

Advanced Fault Management features like:

Root Cause Analysis,

End-to-end alarm collections at the centralized location across all Service

Providers NOCs/EMSs.

Co-relation filtration & Alarm reports at corporate and regional levels.

Trouble Ticketing & Messenger alerts system

Reports

Customer Satisfaction Reports (SLA)

Availability Report

Error Report

Compliance Reports

Customized Reports

Historical Reports

Dashboards

NOFN Accounting Mgmt. & Alert System

Accounting Management

Log Management

User activity views like NOFN bandwidth configuration

User activity reports based on various filters

Messenger

Support for E-MAIL, SMS

Integration with alerts, alarms , configuration notification

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BBNL GIS BUILDING

• Application for Viewing for each of the survey

– For BBNL/ Stake holder

– For Public

• Application for editing for each of the survey

– For BBNL/ Stake holder

• Tools/ applications for Data Capture/ Preparation/ QA & QC

• Dash Board application

• Mobile based application

• GIS as a service to be consumed by other applications

NOFN GIS MAP

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OFC Core

Layer

Broadband Eco-system - NOFN An opportunity for all

D I S T R I C T c

B L O C K

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Cable

Op.

TV at

Home

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GPO

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Device

TV/DT/LT FTTH

Enterprise/

Intitutional/

Individual

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Deskto

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Laptop

Tablet

Smart

Phone

Content

Internet

Cloud

Applicatio

ns

Mostly

BSNL

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BSNL

& Pvt

Telcos

(Some

) &

Railtel

in NE

COA

X Fibre

Fibre

Fibr

e

Mobile

Tower

(3G/LTE-

4G)

All TSPs/ISPs

(BSNL/TSPs/Rail

tel/PGCIL)

Wireless

NOFN Usage

• On NOFN, e‐health, e‐education, e‐governance

& e‐commerce and other services will ride.

• Constraints - Availability of relevant

applications and content, suitable customer end

devices, costly bandwidth, challenges related to

power availability, investment, literacy, skills

and affordability

• Need to trigger Ecosystem that will

open up new Rural markets and facilitate

delivery of e-services to rural population

Triggering Eco System

• Create critical mass through G2C service

delivery

• Enter Network anywhere, exit anywhere

• POI at Demand Point

• Bharat Broadband Network – without Broadband

service delivery

• Single window and reduced cost of Bandwidth

• Network Effect & Virtuous Cycle

NOFN and NOFN - Overlay

NOFN Approved

Build network from Block down to GP

100 Mbps connectivity at each GP

All 100 Mbps available for use by all

Proposed Overlay

Backward aggregate to provide PoI at District

Extend to connect government institutes at GP

100 Mbps connectivity at each GP

50 Mbps reserved for Government use

Community Wi-Fi within 300 meters of

GP

Bandwidth for Government services 50 Mbps available for

use by other service providers

Architecture

Service Provider’s Cloud

OLT

GP

GPON Network (Block-GP)

DHQ PoP

OLT/Block PoP

GP PoP

ONT ONT

Network Appliance Fiber (Beyond BBNL) Fiber (O/H) Fiber (BBNL Leased

ONT

600 PoI at District Level

10,000 PoI at Block Level

MPLS-TP Network (District to Block)

2,50,000 PoI at GP Level

Institutions

Access Network at GP

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Proposed Overlay Extension

Proposed Overlay Extension

NOFN

What It Entails

• Capex of about 4900 Cr and Opex of about

2500 Cr

• An anchor customer to help create this

platform.

• Long-term commitment

• Involvement and collaboration of many

stakeholders.

• Synergy between various programs, initiatives

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What It Achieves

• Provide Broadband access to the community in all 2.5 Lakh GPs, fulfilling the objective of “Broadband For All”.

• Address the issue of affordability of Broadband

• Deliver e-panchayat and other e-governance services at Panchayat level

• Raise education quality by covering 2.5L schools

• Save on health care and show citizens how broadband helps improve their quality of life

• Provide cheaper bandwidth between District to Block through single window, single tariff, helping B2B and B2C initiatives in rural areas.

NOFN – Road Ahead

• NOFN an important pillar of Digital India

vision

• Tardy Progress a cause of concern

• Committee appointed to suggest road ahead

– Implementation strategy

– Technology options

– Usage

– Business models

NOFN Impact

• Citizens

– E-services, Democratization of information

• Sectoral

– Improved connectivity, Data Growth, Indigenous

Technology

• Business

– Job creation, Industry Growth, GDP growth

• Societal

– Bridging the digital divide

Help Achieve Vision

of

Digital India

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Thank You

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Risk Analysis

• Risks

– Permissions/ ROW not available (may impact 5-10% cases)

– Monsoon (may delay digging work in some areas by 25%)

– Tenders may get delayed (add 25% to activity completion)

– Difficult terrain/areas adding delay to normal completion time

– Inventory mismatch

– Technical deviations/difficulties leading to delays

– Cost over run leading to delays/ non-execution

– Non-performance by vendors/contractors

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Rural Market – Some Facts

• Rural India housed 75 per cent of all new

factories built in India in the last decade

• Factories in rural regions currently account

for about 70 per cent of all new

manufacturing jobs

• Spending in rural India during the period

2009–2012 rose by US$ 69 billion to urban

India’s US$ 55 billion

• Global information and measurement

company Nielsen estimates that the FMCG

market in rural India will scale US$ 100

billion by 2025, from the current US$ 12

billion

42 million rural Households avail

banking services as compared to 27 million

urban HHs

Rural India consumes about 46% of all soft

drinks, 49% of all motorcycles and 59% of

all cigarettes