KSEBL - OFC Networks

Digital Panchayath Last Mile Connectivity

Digital Panchayath

• The Digital Panchayat Last-Mile Connectivity Model,anchored at BharatNet-connected gram panchayats (GPs),would provide government and public internet access atthe village cluster and village level.

• This would first be field-tested at Anad Gram Panchayat(Nedumangad Block, Thiruvananthapuram). It could thenbe replicated at BharatNet-connected panchayats acrossKerala: transforming Kerala into India’s first fully-connecteddigital State.

MECHANISM: ANAD/SABARKANTHA HYBRID

The Model would hybridize two key initiatives: the KeralaState Electricity Board’s Anad pilot, connecting PanchayatBhavans to government offices with overhead fibre (onKSEB poles); and the Sabarkantha Zilla Parishad’s (Gujarat)community Wi-Fi initiative.

The Model would use revenue-sharing mechanisms to tietogether several Connectivity Partners – each providing aconnectivity-related network service or infrastructurecomponent. This would occur at different levels: from blockto village cluster, village, or home.

CONNECTIVITY PARTNERS

The connectivity partners fall in three broad categories: providing(and receiving revenue share for):

1. Infrastructure provisioning and access: BBNL, KSEB, Gram Panchayats; localcable operators (LCOs).

2. Service provisioning: RailTel (which possess an ISP licence);

3. Marketing and retailing: Self Help Groups (SHGs, under Kudumbashree), PrimaryAgricultural Cooperatives (PACS), Akshaya Centres and CSCs, etc.; coordinatingwith RailTel.

These are outlined in two components: delivery model, and revenue / cost-recovery model. and theRevenue-sharing agreements (including specific share allocation percentages) would be negotiatedat a later date.

KSEBL- Last Mile Connectivity Proposal

• Our project aims to bridge the connectivity gapbetween gram panchayaths and Government officesin Panchayath Area

• Dark Fibres will be provided for Optic FibreConnectivity from Gram Panchayaths to 20 selectedGovernment institutions from 10 Govt departmentsin the concerned panchayath area.

• The total number of Government Institutionsbenefited through this project will be around 20880in 1044 Gram Panchayaths with an estimate amountof 212 crores which is arrived considering theinferences from the pilot project.

Benefited Govt. Departments

Education

Revenue

Animal Husbandry

Information Technology

Civil Supplies

PWD

Health

Social Justice

LSGD

Agriculture

Home

Forest Irrigation

Why KSEB for

LMC?

Demonstrated Projects

ROW & Wide network in All

GP

Licensed Carriage services

Anad GP Pilot success with -22dB Power Level at end offices

Competent Team

Ability to Back up with Own

OFC

OFC Network Owned by KSEBL

• 24 fibre optic cable from Kanhirode (Kannur) toVydyuthibhavanam, Thiruvananthapuram through the 220kV substations.

• The 8 fibres are reserved for the use of KSEBL and the restare proposed / leased to independent telecom serviceproviders and PGCIL.

• Used for the effective management of interconnected gridoperation, export/import, power exchange etc. of theKerala Power System.

• The network is also used presently for providing 4 Mbpsconnectivity for video conferencing at three locations.

Proposed OFC Network

• OFC Network through the EHT / HT transmissiontowers of KSEBL connecting all substations of andabove 33 kV as per CEA guidelines.

• The project is expected to be completed within aperiod of 2 years from the date of tendering.

KSEB Data Center• Data Centre having an overall area of

4500 sq. ft is set up at VydyuthibhavanamTrivandrum. It is one of the biggest in thestate of Kerala and is having a capacity foraccommodating 48 Server racks whichincludes 10 racks for future scalability.

• Data Centre hosts the Servers/ storage/networking equipments of RAPDRPApplications, Customer Care Centre andSCADA project.

• The Data Centre has been setup in allaspects according to PFC guidelinesinsisting on tier-III standards in order toensure end- to-end redundancy withouthaving a Single Point of Failure andsuccessfully put in service on 20.02.2014

KSEBL- Data Centre

Disaster Recovery Centre(DR) is being setup at InfoPark, Cherthala in order to provide redundancy

for the Data Centre. Both DC And DR confirms to Tier-III standards.

Why 24 Fibre for Back bone

network ?

• Cost variance from 24 F to 6/12F is negligible @Rs 10 per meter

• Can support Future expansion economically

• Gestation delay for upgradation can be avoided

• More reliability through redundancy

• Ability to Support Integration and aggregation of multiple vendors/service providers

Statewide Rollout-Overview

• 24 F ADSS - 6000 km

• 6 F ADSS - 6000 km

• No of offices - 20880 offices

• Total capital -212 Cr

• Operational Expenditure-6 cr/year(Rs. 240/

Month per office)

• Project Execution Period -18 months

• Reliable & Resiliant communication network

to the rural population

Sl.No

.Particulars Amt for one GP Amt for 1044 GP

A Material

1 24 FADSS OFC Cable 330000 344520000

2 6 FADSS OFC Cable 270000 281880000

3 ONT and end Termination 178000 185832000

4 Hardwares for stringing 330848 345405312

5

Hardwares for

communication equipments

including spares

92943 97032492

1201791 1254669804

16% SOC 200747169

Material Total 1455416973

B Labour

1 Hardware fixing on poles 21450 22393800

2 stringing 211200 220492800

3 Splicing & termination 122630 128025720

232650 370912320

10% Supervision Charges 37091232

Labour Total 408003552

Net Amount 1863420525

Capacity Building & Project

Management @4%74536821

Survey & Design @10% 186342052

Grand Total 2124299398

Per km rate for laying OFC including end

termination1.7 lakhs

PROJECT COST SUMMARY

Advantages of the Proposed

Network

• Reliable Network can be formed by integrating

• Existing 220/110 kV network through SS( 539.5 kM)

• Proposed 33 kV and Above Network(5100 kM)

• Proposed Last Mile Connectivity G-PON network -LT&HT( 12000 kM)

• Scalability of LMC network can be increased through the above integration.

• Wide area network for Enterprise Management and future requirements

• Reducing third party ISP Services thereby increases the reliability & performances

Multi Stake Holder Model

NOFN network BBNL

ROW & LM Carriage Services

KSEB

ISP/TSP Partner

Rail Tel

GP Community

Partner

Billing & CC

services

Future Integration Model

Operational Model

Part A: Delivery Components and Role

Distribution

Backhaul, bandwidth provisioning, and

affiliated services

Block level

RailTel would act as service partner: bulk-provisioning bandwidth, as

well as services including OSS (including network management),

BSS (including CRM, plan enablement, billing, etc.), under a

revenue share model.

Railtel would provide enterprise-standard SLAs (such as 99.9% uptime,

24-hour fault-rectification, etc.)

To deliver these services, RailTel would extend connectivity from their

nearest sub-district POPs nearest to block-level OLTs. A RailTel

partnership with KSEB could be explored, to extend this fibre

overhead on KSEB poles.

Middle-mile infrastructure

• : Block to GP. BBNL would provide middle-mile infrastructure over BharatNet fibre, from its block-level OLTs to GP-level ONTs. It would also provide operations and maintenance (O&M) services for its fibre and GPON electronics. BBNL would receive revenue share for the use of BharatNet fibre (which would inter alia pay for O&M, etc.)

• BBNL fibre would therefore extend RailTel internet services as far as the panchayat.

Second-last mile infrastructure

• GP to Sub-GP / Village Clusters. KSEB would extend fibre on itselectricity poles from BharatNet ONTs at Panchayat Bhavans, to 15different government offices (including primary healthcare centres,schools, vaidyashalas, anganwadis, etc.).

• This would serve two functions:

a) Government services: Ranging from streaming educational content, through

telemedicine services, to e-governance applications – could either be hosted onState Data Centres (as a WAN); or delivered via internet. (The NationalInformation Infrastructure [NII] initiative could provision government-usebandwidth and customer premises equipment [CPE] – this is outlined below.)

• b) Public internet services: Above and beyond government services, KSEB fibrecould also extend RailTel bandwidth to Wi-Fi hotspots centred on thesegovernment buildings. RailTel would install and maintain Wi-Fi equipment.Arrangements could be explored to share NII-provisioned towers, etc.

.

Last-mile infrastructure

• :GP to Villages and Homes

Gram Panchayats would build towers on top of GP buildings, and thosebuildings under PRI control. They would be trained and expected tomaintain these towers. RailTel could install Wi-Fi equipment on thesetowers, offering both hotspots (on the 2.4 GHz band) and point-to-point last-mile connections (on the 5.8 GHz band).

• GPs would receive revenue share for access to their towers: generatinga steady cashflow in perpetuity for GPs, in return for building inertinfrastructure.

Marketing and retailing

• Borrowing from the Sabarkantha model, marketing and retailing couldbe conducted by SHGs (as a designated entrepreneurial activity,synchronised with Kerala’s Kudumbashree initiative), PACS (as part ofNABARD-funded transition to Multi Service Provider status, diversifyingtheir product range beyond fertiliser etc.), AkshayaCentres, etc

• Both SHGs and PACS have the advantage of ‘early-adopter’ customers,among their own members and their acquaintances, with whom tokick-start demand and awareness. Moreover, the programmaticreplication of SHGs, PACS, AkshayaCentres across Kerala provides anexcellent State-wide base forscaling up marketing activity, in pace withservice rollout.

• Alternatively, LCOs could tap KSEB POPs to retail RailTel bandwidth toindividual homes. This would build on existing, extensive LCO networks.Again, they would be compensated on revenue-share basis.

OPERATIONAL MODEL

| PART B: REVENUE, PROVISIONING, AND

COST RECOVERY

Cash Flow

• Baseline cashflow to government or public sector infrastructure

providers up to the sub-GP (i.e. village cluster level) – GPs, KSEB, BBNL –could be resourced under Union Department of Electronics and Information Technology’s (DEITY’s) National Information Infrastructure (NII) initiative. NII would provision bandwidth and CPE (possibly including towers) for government use. (Thiruvananthapuram has already been designated an NII pilot district.)

• This cashflow would deriskinvestments by infrastructure providers, who could design or optimise CAPEX and OPEX financing arrangements to it.

• Over-the-top cashflow would be provisioned through revenue-share

arrangements with RailTel (who will manage billing).

Phase I

• Making NOFN work for Digital services to

Government offices around GP along with

near by Hot Spot wi - fi services to Public

as a first step to realization of Digital India

• Phase II • Expansion of LM network and Wi-fi spots and

Home connectivity through demand response

model

Phase I

• Making NOFN work for Digital services to

Government offices around GP along with

near by Hot Spot wi - fi services to Public

as a first step to realization of Digital India

• Phase II • Expansion of LM network and Wi-fi spots and

Home connectivity through demand response

model

Implementation

• BBNL / NII – GOI- can fund the phase I

with appropriate revenue sharing schemes

among multi stake holder at last miles

• Phase II methodology also need to be

finalised on revenue sharing model with

initial funding from GP

• Internet Service Provider to position and

provision different service requests

including CTV

Thank you

Standards For Stringing Fibre Through KSEB

Pole

A minimum ground clearance of 3050 mm shall be

maintained for Fiber cables taken along the street.

When fiber are drawn across the road, a minimum

ground clearance of 5800 mm shall be maintained.

A minimum vertical clearance of 1200 mm shall be

maintained for fiber cables from the lowest power

conductor.

The pole clamp assembly shall be fixed to the utility

pole, such that a minimum horizontal clearance of 130

mm is maintained between the bearer fiber and pole.

ANAD PILOT PROJECT OVERVIEW

Sl.No. Particulars QuantityAmount

124 F G.652 ADSS Areal OFC cable Suitable for

100 m Span4.0 km 1,50,240

26 F G.652 ADSS Areal OF cable Suitable for

100 m Span4.8 km 136008

3Hardware Fittings (Communication) Splitter,

Splice Box, ONT ,etc184733

4 Hardware Fittings (Fibre Stringing) 25493

5Total Labor Charges For stringing and fixing

cross arm286907

6

HW for stringing Fibre(Cash T, Cross arm,

suspension Clamp, Tension clamp, SS Strap,

Crimping Tool,etc.

(Supplied free of cost by SICAME INDIA

Connectors pvt ltd),

202281

7 Distribution strengthening 1,30,000

Total 11.2 lakhs

Per kM rate for stringing fibre 1.27 lakhs