Tatanet wins TCIL order

Mumbai: Tatanet, a division of NELCO Ltd, has bagged an order from Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd (TCIL) to supply Satcom equipment for a pan-African e-network project.

The network will provide telemedicine, tele-education and other services to 53 member countries of the African Union and VVIP connectivity (VoIP and Video Conferencing) among the heads of States.

Tatanet bagged the supply order for Satcom equipment from TCIL, a Government of India enterprise under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, which is implementing the multimillion dollar pan-African e-network project on turnkey basis, funded by the Ministry of External Affairs.

Mr Kaushik Mandal, Vice-President – Sales (Enterprise and Turnkey Projects) and Programme Management, Tatanet, said, “The opportunity to set up such a complex network is very exciting and we look forward to the challenge. This project has many firsts and provides us the platform to showcase our skills in the field of system integration and Satcom project.”

The network will also support e-governance, e-commerce, infotainment, resource mapping and meteorological services.

Tatanet will build a satellite hub station with a full-fledged data centre at Dakar in Senegal, Africa, and a studio in India with facilities to connect seven reputed Indian university centres (IGNOU included) with various specialised study courses catering to the diverse student communities in Africa. The network will also assimilate 12 super-speciality hospitals in India to provide tele-consultation and Continuing Medical Education (CME) services.

The network will be scalable to support growth of users and applications, with capabilities to integrate with other compatible broadband technologies.

Tatanet is a satellite communication project systems integrator and VSAT service provider. It commenced operations in December 1995 primarily to provide wireless broadband connectivity to the Tata group of companies. It entered the commercial market in 2003.