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corDECT
is the major Indian Innovation in the area of broadband wireless
communication, it is the only Wireless Local Loop system that
provides simultaneous Voice Telephone and Internet at 35/70
kbps to every subscriber . It has the cheapest capital investment
and operational cost amongst all the Wireless Local Loop systems.
It is a brain child of TeNeT group of Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras and Midas Communication Technologies of
Chennai. The people behind this major Indian innovation are,
Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Dr Bhaskar Ramamurti, Dr Devendra Jalihal,
Dr K Giridhar, Dr R.Arvind, Dr Hema A Murthy, Dr TG Venkatesh,
Dr AN Rajagopalan, Dr CS Ramalingam, Dr David Koilpillai,
Dr Hari Ramachandran, Dr R Manivasakam, and Dr Anil Prabhakar.
In
India, corDECT is manufactured under license by; Crompton
Greaves, Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), HFCL
and Shyam Telecom Ltd. One of most successful and early installations
of corDECT has been in the African island nation of Madagascar.
corDECT is operational in the city of Tamatave (formerly Toamasina)
for over two years now, and subsequently it has been installed
in the cities of Sambava and Anthala. Fiji telecom installed
corDECT to serve its subscribers in the island of Ba, far
away from the capital Suva. In the course of the last couple
of years corDECT was tested by telecom standardization bodies
in Argentina, Brazil, Europe (ETSI), Kenya, Angola, Tunisia,
Nigeria, and was cleared for induction in their respective
networks. Currently, there are field trials underway in Iran,
Egypt and Yemen. Commercial corDECT systems are also operational
in Argentina, Brazil, Tunisia and Nigeria. Outside of India,
corDECT is manufactured under license by BBS Access in Singapore
and by Omniacom in Tunisia. corDECT will be manufactured soon
locally in Brazil too.
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