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| Type | Public |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 26 October 2015 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Andhra Pradesh |
Key people | P. Goutham Reddy (Chairman) M. Madhusudhan Reddy (managing director) |
| Services | |
| Owner | Government of Andhra Pradesh |
| Website | www |
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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 26 October 2015 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Andhra Pradesh |
Key people | P. Goutham Reddy (Chairman) M. Madhusudhan Reddy (managing director) |
| Services | |
| Owner | Government of Andhra Pradesh |
| Website | www |
Andhra Pradesh State FiberNet Limited, AP State FiberNet Limited, or APSFL is a fully-owned entity of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, started in October 2015. The project aims to provide affordable end-to-end broadband, wifi connection, internet facility, cable television, and phone connectivity in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. [1] The project was announced by N. Chandrababu Naidu and was launched by the President of India on December 27, 2017 in a ceremony conducted in the capital city of Amaravati. [2] [3]
It is owned by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, [4] but has a partnership with Cisco Systems. [5] The project seeks to provide accessible Broadband connectivity on a non-discriminatory basis to households and corporate users, including an expansion of internet access for users in rural areas. Its main aim is to provide 15 to 50 Mbit/s unlimited connections to all residents of Andhra pradesh, and 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s connections to businesses. The APSFL network also provides Internet Protocol television with over 200 channels and a landline telephone connection for free and unlimited calling to AP fiber phones within Andhra Pradesh.
The A.P. Fiber Grid Phase established a high-speed optical fiber network infrastructure across the state, funded by the Electricity Department. [6] 24-core all-dielectric self-supporting cables were to be wrapped around electrical poles and laid for a length of around 23,000 km (14,000 mi), featuring back-end electronic systems set up at points of interests. Currently there are 2,449 sub-stations throughout the state. [7] Only 16,000 km (9,900 mi) of the fibres were laid prior to June 2016, despite the target of 22,500 km (14,000 mi). The target was eventually met in September 2020. A network operations center has been commissioned at Visakhapatnam to look after the project in the state. [8] [9]
The network utilizes a ring-like architecture that is distributed across all 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh. It is a 1.3 Gbit/s dense wavelength-division multiplexing based optical fibre network arranged in a state ring with each district ring as a 100G DWDM subnet.[ clarification needed ] As of September 2020, APSFL has over 970,000 users. Over 3,000 schools, universities, and government offices are connected to the network. It provides an average speed of 200 Gbit/s to its users. [10]
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