Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), which had earlier bagged a greenfield rural tender from BSNL to deploy broadband access across 7,000 villages, has had its contract extended to cover deploy ment in 25,000 villages.

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), which had earlier bagged a greenfield rural tender from BSNL to deploy broadband access across 7,000 villages, has had its contract extended to cover deployment in 25,000 villages. NSN is also deploying urban broadband access for BSNL in 20 circles. As part of the contract, NSN is deploying its Gigabit Ethernet-capable IP Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer, the SURPASS hiX5625 and its chassis-based access switch, the SURPASS hiD6615. It will also supply customer premises equipment that will enable BSNL to provide speeds of up to 8 Mbps to subscribers using ADSL2+ technology. This can be done over BSNL’s existing copper infrastructure.