Idea Cellular shines on deploying commercial 100G DWDM network

13 May 2013 Evaluate

Idea Cellular is currently trading at Rs. 129.85, up by 2.40 points or 1.88% from its previous closing of Rs. 127.45 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 127.35 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 130.30 and Rs. 126.60 respectively. So far 90,000 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 136.90 on 02-May-2013 and a 52 week low of Rs. 72.05 on 09-Aug-2012.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 134.80 and Rs. 124.85 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 43,042.00 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 45.88% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 22.06% and 32.06% respectively.

Idea Cellular, India’s fourth-biggest cellular carrier, in collaboration with Huawei, the information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, have successfully deployed commercial 100G DWDM network in Idea’s Optical Back Bone Network to enhance network capacity and robustness by many folds. The equipment supplied by Huawei supports 80 channels with capacity of each channel as 100G at spacing of 50GHz.

The mobile operator had deployed Phase-I of the pan-India, OTN based DWDM network ready for all IP on its backbone Network in 2011 based on Huawei supplied system. As part of Phase-II of optical back bone network in 2013, Idea has now deployed 100G DWDM system, releasing its advantages over 10G or 40G.

Idea Cellular, an AV Birla group company, provides Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)-based wireless service at the pan-India level; it is present in all 22 telecom circles.

 

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