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Company type | Public |
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Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | 26 October 2015 |
Headquarters | , India |
Area served | Andhra Pradesh |
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Owner | Government of Andhra Pradesh |
Parent | Ministry of Infrastructure and Investment, Government of Andhra Pradesh |
Website | APSFL official website |
Andhra Pradesh State FiberNet Limited (abbreviated as 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, wi-fi connection, internet facility, cable television, and phone connectivity in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. [3] The project was announced by N. Chandrababu Naidu and was launched by the President of India on 27 December 2017 in a ceremony conducted in the capital city of Amaravati. [4] [5]
It is owned by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, [6] but has a partnership with Cisco Systems. [7] 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. [8] 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. [9] Only 16,000 km (9,900 mi) of the fibers 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. [10]
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. [11]