Overview

Andhra Pradesh State FiberNet Limited, AP State FiberNet Limited, or APSFL is a fully-owned entity of the Government of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to t ...

, India, started in October 2015. The project aims to provide affordable end-to-end broadband, wifi connection, internet facility, cable television, and phone connectivity in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The project was announced by

N. Chandrababu Naidu Nara Chandrababu Naidu ( born 20 April 1950) is an Indian politician and current leader of opposition of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was also the leader of the opposition of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 2004 to ...

and was launched by the

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on December 27, 2017 in a ceremony conducted in the capital city of

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. It is owned by the

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, but has a partnership with

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. The project seeks to provide accessible

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connectivity on a non-discriminatory basis to households and corporate users, including an expansion of internet access for users in rural areas. Its main aim is to provide 15 to 50

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unlimited connections to all residents of

Andhra pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to t ...

, and 100 Mbit/s to 1

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connections to businesses. The APSFL network also provides

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with over 200 channels and a landline telephone connection for free and unlimited calling to AP fiber phones within

Implementation

The A.P. Fiber Grid Phase established a high-speed

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network infrastructure across the state, funded by the Electricity Department. 24-core all-dielectric self-supporting cables were to be wrapped around electrical poles and laid for a length of around , featuring back-end electronic systems set up at points of interests. Currently there are 2,449 sub-stations throughout the state. Only of the fibres were laid prior to June 2016, despite the target of . The target was eventually met in September 2020. A network operations center has been commissioned at

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to look after the project in the state.

Network

The network utilizes a ring-like architecture that is distributed across all 13 districts of

. It is a 1.3 Gbit/s dense

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based optical fibre network arranged in a state ring with each district ring as a 100G DWDM subnet. As of September 2020, APSFL has over 970,000

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. Over 3,000

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, and government offices are connected to the network. It provides an average speed of 200 Gbit/s to its users.

References

{{State agencies of Andhra Pradesh State agencies of Andhra Pradesh Companies based in Visakhapatnam Telecommunications companies of India Indian companies established in 2015 Telecommunications companies established in 2015 2015 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Government agencies established in 2015

Overview

Implementation

Network

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References