tele.net successfully hosted its second annual conference on ?OFC Networks in India? on July 18 and 19, 2013 at Imperial, New Delhi. The two day conference examined the key trends in the OFC market, growth drivers of the industry, the challenges and the future of OFC Networks in India.
The conference was attended by more than 75 delegates from different factions of the industry. The event was sponsored by Sterlite Networks and Corning Optical Fiber, India.
The key sessions of the conference included: Key Trends and Outlook, Telecom Operator?s Perspective, New Products and Technologies, Status of National Optical Fibre Network project, Infrastructure Providers? Perspective, OFC for Providing Last Mile Connectivity, R&D Initiatives in Broadband and Communication Technologies, FTTH Market in India, Energy Efficiency in Optical Networks, Applications on OFC and State Initiatives.
The key speakers at the conference included Dr Badri Gomatam, chief technology officer, Sterlite Technologies; Anil Tandan, group chief technology officer, Idea Cellular; Jatinder Pal Singh Sehdev, senior vice-president, network services group, Bharti Airtel; Rakesh Kapur, executive director, core network, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited; Sivakumar Nagarajan, manager, sales and application engineering, Corning Optical Fiber, India; N. Ravi Shankar, additional secretary and administrator, Universal Service Obligation Fund; Suresh Kumar, group general manager, NTP, Railtel Corporation of India; Vijay Jain, chief operating officer, Sterlite Networks; B.M Baveja, senior director and group coordinator, R&D, CC&BT, Department of Electronics & Information Technology; Kuldeep Goyal, director, FTTH Council and executive director, Radius Infratel; Harshad Sardesai, head ? global applications engineering, Sterlite Networks; Puneet Sharma, head, optics competence centre, Alcatel Lucent; Vinay Ravishankar, head, optical technical marketing, Cisco; Madhu Kiran, consultant, Technology SeMT, Government of Andhra Pradesh and Sandeep Ahlawat, head, SeMT, Department of Information Technology, Government of Delhi.
