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Tekelec to upgrade BSNL networks

— PHOTO: ANAND PARTHASARATHY

SYSTEM UPGRADATION: (Left): A BSNL engineer checking the Integrated Signal System nodes just installed. (special arrangement). (Right): Frank Plastina, CEO of Tekelec which supplied the nodes, flanked by Wolrad Claudy, Managing Director, responsible for Asia and Rajesh Kaul, Managing Director for India, at the special briefing for The Hindu.

BANGALORE: A full slate of Internet Protocol (IP)-based service — and the ability to retain the same number when one changes telecom providers — might not happen in India tomorrow. But when the largest land line provider, BSNL, invests an estimated Rs. 100 crore in upgrading networks with state-of-the-art signalling systems, which facilitate all this and more, one can assume that such customer-friendly value additions are very much on the national communications road map. The incumbent operator is busy installing 24 nodes of Eagle 5 Integrated Signalling Systems (ISS) from Tekelec, across substantial sections of BSNL’s networks, which serve 40 million landline and 30 million wireless mobile subscribers.

This is one of the largest single shipments in recent times, for the North Carolina ( U.S.)-based networking provider. In a briefing for The Hindu here, only a day after the deal was announced in New Delhi, Tekelec’s Chairman and Managing Director Frank Plastina explained that the technology, which came with the buy, would allow BSNL to map telephone numbers to IP addresses — a prerequisite before so-called plain old telephone systems or POTS can offer Internet-driven services. Mr. Plastina said Bharti had also acquired this number portability muscle from Tekelec. Reliance and the Tatas had acquired Tekelec technology to IP-enable their services.

Rajesh Kaul, Tekelec’s Gurgaon-based Managing Director for the India region, said the turnkey order from BSNL was won in partnership with the public sector ITI, to whom Tekelec would transfer the technology for indigenous manufacture beyond the initial order quantities.

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