Indigenous telecom gear manufacturer Tejas Networks yesterday announced that it had bagged a purchase order of $13 million from a leading telecommunications service provider based in South East Asia. The company however refrained from naming the service provider.
“We are delighted to be chosen for this prestigious project that will enable a sizable rural population to experience the tangible benefits of high-speed, reliable and affordable wireless internet for the first time. Tejas was selected because of our cutting-edge products, as well as our vast experience in timely rollouts of large-scale broadband access and optical transmission networks around the globe, including Government of India’s BharatNet and Railway WiFi projects.”
Sanjay Nayak, Managing Director and CEO of Tejas Networks
Tejas Networks as part of the purchase order will supply and install TJ1400 ultra-converged broadband products (TJ1400UCB) in order to extend high-speed broadband services to underserved rural communities in the region wherein the telecommunications service provider operates. Tejas expects to complete the project within the next 12 months.
“Tejas’ T1400UCB product allows rapid rollout of broadband services on optical fiber, wireless, or copper media as per available infrastructure at highly affordable costs,” added Sanjay Nayak.
“We are excited that Tejas has been selected as the primary telecom equipment supplier for this challenging project. Ubiquitous and affordable broadband has become a necessity in modern life and is a critical tool to deliver advanced services such as telemedicine, e-education, online banking, ecommerce and e-governance services. TJ1400UCB leverages our unique software-defined hardware™ architecture to seamlessly integrate state-of-the-art broadband access technologies and high-capacity packet transmission services in one shelf with the added benefits of unified management, space reduction and power savings to achieve a cost-effective rollout,” said Kumar N. Sivarajan, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Tejas Networks.
