Valiant to offer Routers, Firewalls and Switches for Bharatnet, Power Grid and Railway projects
Posted On: 2021-01-14 21:45:46 (Time Zone: Arizona, USA)
Valiant has completed fully indigenous design of Routers, Firewall, IEC 61850-3 complaint Ethernet Switches along with its exclusive range of related cyber-security products which it shall be offering for the forthcoming Bharatnet, Power Grid and Railway projects.
A very large opportunity exists for indigenously designed and manufactured Routers, Firewalls and IEC 61850-3 complaint Ethernet Switches. Currently only foreign made products of similar specifications are being offered in the Bharatnet project.
Bharatnet, (also known as Bharat Broadband Network Limited) is the world s largest rural broadband project to provide connectivity to all 250,000 gram panchayats, covering nearly 625,000 villages in India.
6906 Ffill the gap: The need for WiFi access by all people has sharply risen to access most services. Tribune photo
Subir Roy
Senior Economic Analyst
The government has decided to set up public WiFi hotspots across the country which will bring broadband Internet services within the reach of the common man, both financially and physically. This has the potential to bring about a major change in the lifestyle at the grassroots level by making WiFi available to ordinary citizens if, of course, the rollout takes place with reasonable speed in the foreseeable future.
The need for WiFi access has sharply risen in recent years with online verification needed to access various services. The ration shop owner has to access data online to verify ration cards offered and offtake records. Besides, with the Aadhaar card becoming near universal and biometric verification needed at every step, all need quick and reliable access to the Internet. Most recently, the pandemic has highlighted the
PM- WANI is the right tool to achieve the objectives of creating millions of inter-operable Wi-Fi Hotspots in India : Consumer Voice Advisor
It took almost seven years after the internet was first thrown open to the public in 1995 to reach 1 percent of India’s population, and another nine years for this figure to cross 10 percent.
Dec 18, 2020 10:29:50 IST
The Union Cabinet, on 9 December, approved the establishment of public Wi-Fi networks across the country. It was really heartening to see that most of the suggestions given (by the writer of this column) to the TRAI during the consultation process initiated in 2016, were heeded. Public WiFi will be provided through Public Data Offices (PDOs) via a Central government scheme called the Prime Minister’s Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI).