Nokia and Airtel partner to deploy next-gen optical transport network across India

Nokia today announced its partnership with Bharti Airtel to deploy a next-generation optical transport network that will transform India's digital infrastructure and provide additional capacity, higher reliability and lower cost to enable superior services for the telco's customers.

The revamped optical network will allow Airtel to potentially deliver faster and more reliable broadband services and be ready for new use cases, the Finnish firm said in a press release.

Under this partnership, Airtel will utilize Nokia's 1830 PSS-x OTN switches in its National Long-Distance Network connecting major cities across India. The solution enables the telco to seamlessly upgrade its legacy transport switching infrastructure across its pan-Indian network footprint to address the exponential growth in traffic demand whilst improving both the performance and reliability of its network.

"As a world leader in OTN, our technology will help Airtel to increase the capacity and features of Bharti's optical transport network to meet growing bandwidth demand driven by the enterprise and hyperscaler segments. It will also provide the service level performance to meet the strict SLAs from Airtel customers," said Chandan Kumar, Head of Optical Network Business Centre for Nokia India.