POWERGRID - TELECOM

June 2016
POWERGRID An Overview

VISION
World Class, Integrated, Global Transmission Company with Dominant Leadership in
Emerging Power Markets ensuring Reliability, Safety and Economy

(through100% subsidiary POSOCO)

Credit Ratings
tonal
Domestc
Interna

Transmission Lines MVA & S/S Operating Parameters

1,29,407 ckm 255,668 MVA Availability: > 99.5%

961 Nos. 207 Nos. Reliability: 0.53 trippings/ line

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POWERGRID An Overview
ISO 27001:2013 - Communicaton
System

ISO 9001:2008 Quality

Management System

ISO 14001:2004 Environmental

Management System

PAS 99:2006 Integrated

Management Registraton

OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupatonal

Health & Safety Management System

ISO 22000: 2005 Food Safety

Management System

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Telecom - Licenses
ISP -
NLD IP - I
National Long A Internet
Service Infrastructure
Distance
Provider Provider
Operator
Category A

Registraton
License No. 10- License No. 820-
Certficate No.
15/06-BS-I (NLD-05) 709/2003-LR
62/2002

05th July 2006 29th May 2003 07th November 2002

License to install, Certficate to

operate, and establish and
maintain the NLD maintain the assets
Service Network License to provide such as Dark Fibers,
and provide NLD internet services Right of Way, Duct
Services within the across India. Space and Tower for
territorial the purpose to
boundaries of the grant on
country lease/rent/sale
basis

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Network Spread & Reach
POWERGRID (Telecom) network and services are available at all over the
country (All Circles) and is set for huge growth
Tie up
Existing Telecom Future
with State
Backbone Network Expansion
Electricity
Network Reach Plans
Boards
33,766 Kms Backbone Network UPPTCL (Uttar Pradesh)
Microwave Replacement = 9614
No. of Backbone/Points of BSPCL (Bihar)
Pan-India Total Backbone Km
Presence (PoPs) including
Network = 36,563 Km ULDC Expansion = 18686 Km RVPNL (Rajasthan)
Substations = 595
HVDC & Other Projects = 5466
Km WBSETCL (West Bengal)
HPSEB (Himachal)
Total OPGW Network =
26,087 Km CSPTCL (Chattisgarh)
OPGW (Telecom & ULDC) No. of Customer Locations 122 additional cities &
HVPNL (Haryana)
= 21,663 Km Served = 1428 Towns (PoPs)
OPGW (SEB Line Leased OPTCL (Orissa)
& Laid) = 4,424 Km
KSEB (Kerala)
Total UGOFC Network = TANTRANSCO
10,476 Km Total Installed Capacity =
UGOFC/Aerial Network 3200 Gbps Capacity Planned 4550 DVC
(Telecom) = 4,263 Km Capacity Sold (including Gbps EPD, Sikkim
UGOFC/Aerial (3rd
rd Party Protection) = 3100 Gbps
Lease) = 6,213 Km Others under approval

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POWERGRID Telecom Network

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 Technology Options
Equipment
SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy)
DWDM (Dense Wave Digital
Multiplexing)
IP/MPLS (Multi Protocol Label
Switching)

OPGW
OPGW
24 F OPGW
24 F OPGW

Repeater
POWERGRID Tower with JB POWERGRID
S/S
S/S
SDH/ SDH/
OADE Tower Tower OADE

Approach Cable
U/G OFC U/G OFC
24 F 24 F
Shelter
City PoP
DH Access Eqpt. DG set SDH Access Eqpt.
City PoP
Intracity Intracity

Ring N/W Ring N/W

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Telecom Services Offered

Managed Services

WiFi Services

IP Transit Services

Data Center Services

Three ter architecture

Dual home connectvity in Backbone to avoid

Single point of failure
Resilient & Secure Network Design to cater to
real tme critcal Power Transmission
applicatons

2 Mb 10 G Layer-2 & Layer-3 VPN ports

Configurable Class of Service to suit data

critcality

Network Scalability to 500 Gbps in core and

10Gbps/port

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MPLS Network
Eight (8) CORE router locations to ensure high availability in MPLS
backbone
MPLS routers at about 150 PoP locations.
Each Edge/access router connected to minimum two (2) up-
stream routers via different paths to ensure No Single Point of
Failure in the network.
Bandwidth Availability: Core and Edge network is designed at
10Gbps and access is designed as 1 Gbps at present. Network is
future scalable to 40 Gbps in core.
Backbone Agnostic Design: Network built on dual backbone
makes it highly reliable and sturdy.
MPLS services available at all existing PoP locations of covered on
existing SDH/DWDM network.
State-of-art Main Network Operations Centre (NOC) at New Delhi
and Disaster Recovery (DR) NOC at Hyderabad.
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Peering for Internet Business
Peering with NIXI
Delhi (NOIDA - Netmagic) 1Gbps
Chennai 1Gbps
Mumbai (Cyquator)- 1 Gbps
Peering with Google
Delhi ( Bangla Sahib TCL ) 1 Gbps
Chennai ( Bharti) 1 Gbps
Mumbai ( GPX) 10 Gbps
Peering with Microsoft
Chennai (Bharti) 1Gbps
Peering with Mumbai Convergence Hub
Various Content Providers like Amazon, Akamai, Microsoft etc.
Peering with NIC
Protection to NIXI peering at various locations
Access to Govt. websites, databases, datacentres

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International Connectivity
POWERGRID is now offering Domestic
leg for India - Bhutan International
Connectivity on two different routes
for high reliability.
Bongaigaon(India) Galephu (Bhutan)
Link (50Km)
Siliguri (India) Malbase(Bhutan) Link
(98Km)
International Connectivity established
to Bangladesh through its
transmission line between Berampur &
Behramera
POWERGRID is also in the process of
establishing International Connectivity
to other neighbouring countries Viz.
Srilanka (through undersea cable &
OPGW), & Nepal through its power
transmission network.
POWERGRID is considering application
for International Long Distance license
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NOFN
National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project a Govt. of India
initiative is world largest rural broad band connectivity project
through optical fiber.
Under NOFN project, around 6600 blocks of India in around 650
districts shall be connected to 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats of
respective blocks by utilising existing fibre of BSNL, RAILTEL and
POWERGRID. Incremental fibre shall be laid wherever required
Approx. 6 Lakh Km new incremental fiber to be laid.
Minimum 100Mbps bandwidth at each Gram Panchayat
BBNL (Bharat Broadband Network Limited)- a SPV has been set up
for establishment, management and Operation of NOFN project.
Initial cost of project was around Rs. 20,000 Cr funded by USOF (DOT
).
Work allocation: BSNL (70%), RAILTEL (15%), POWERGRID (15%)

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NOFN Status so Far
Survey work had been completed and approved by BBNL for
entire scope of project (36000 GPs)
Under Phase-I of project 9510 GPs are to be connected by
laying around 22,000 Km of Under Ground Fiber in total 462
blocks in Telengana, Odisha, Jharkhand & HP.
Contracts for fiber laying has been issued to executing
agencies to connect 7019 GPs in 341blocks. Balance 2491 GPs
have been included in scope of phase-1 work recently.
Accordingly, tendering activities for award of T&L contracts are
under process.
As on date incremental Fiber laying has been completed for
4562 GPs after laying OFC of 10723Km.
Trenching and ducting for approximately 14,966 Km have been
completed till date which includes 2541Km of T&L work in AP.

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Thank You
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The Power to Connect