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Time of India
3 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Tejas Networks CEO Anand Athreya quits
NEW DELHI: Homegrown telecom gear maker Tejas Networks Friday said its managing director and chief executive officer (CEO), Anand Athreya , has resigned from the company due to personal reasons. Athreya will be relieved from the position of MD & CEO effective close of business hours on June 20, 2025, Tejas Networks said in a regulatory filing. 'It has been my privilege to work at Tejas and I want to take this opportunity to thank you and the Board of Directors for their guidance and support. I also want to thank the Executive Team at Tejas for their leadership and the entire team at Tejas, for their warmth and "can do" attitude,' Athreya said in his resignation letter to N Ganapathy Subramaniam, chairman, Tejas Networks. Consequently, the Bengaluru-headquartered vendor has entrusted Arnob Roy , currently the executive director and chief operating officer (COO) of the company, with the additional responsibility of CEO, as per the regulatory filing. The development comes at a time when Bangalore-based Tejas, a part of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven consortium, is deploying 4G and 5G radio access network or RAN for state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). Industry sources told ETTelecom that a few hiccups in BSNL's 4G network deployment, including IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) issues, led to his exit following a performance review by the telecom department (DoT). BSNL plans to deploy 1 lakh towers as part of its commercial 4G foray. Communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia recently said that nearly 93,450 towers have been installed for the telecom carrier's 4G network. Athreya, who has over 27 years of experience, joined the homegrown vendor in 2023 from Juniper Networks. He was the executive vice president (EVP) & chief development officer of Juniper Networks since 2017 and had served as senior vice president of the Routing Business Unit for three years prior to that. He was with Juniper Networks from 2004 until November 2022.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
RISC-V can open up locked CPU market: Ananant Systems
NEW DELHI: The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has the potential to open the tightly locked central processing unit (CPU) architecture, enabling startups and companies to develop chips for various customised applications, said a senior executive of Ananant Systems . Currently, SoftBank-backed chipmaker Arm Holdings licenses its RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) technology to chipmakers like MediaTek and Qualcomm, who then develop processors for smartphones and tablets, while Intel and AMD's x86 CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) architecture powers general-purpose laptops and personal computers. Open-source RISC promises to lower the cost of developing affordable chipsets for specialised applications, such as artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing and wireless signal processors, Chitranjan Singh, founder & CEO, Ananant Systems, told ETTelecom in an interview. 'For the last few decades, the CPU architecture has been closed, and there has been no open-source architecture suitable for some of the huge use cases. So, RISC-V is very fit for standalone microcontrollers and embedded applications,' he said. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, with in-house intellectual property (IP), chip design , semiconductor products, software, and systems, said its digital signal processor (DSP) chip uses RISC-V. CISC processors come with a large instruction set with complex instructions that can perform multiple operations in a single cycle, compared to RISC, which has a smaller instruction set with simpler, more easily executed instructions, making the technology suitable for applications where high-performance, simplicity and efficiency are the main criteria. '...with RISC-V, we can efficiently add a co-processor with specialised instruction sets for particular use cases of wireless signal processing and AI inference,' Singh said. 'Given the adaptability of the architecture, our product will be suitable for other applications like small cell and private 5G.' READ MORE | Ananant Systems working with major local OEMs to develop BSNL's 5G chip But despite the potential of RISC-V, its uptake has been slow. The executive attributed this to a lack of software ecosystem, adding that it may take 10-20 years to build a sizeable software segment that can run on this architecture. The startup is developing a 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) chip, which it says offers more efficiency and cost-savings over the incumbents. It is in discussions with state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 's ( BSNL ) vendors to this extent. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) in 2022 had launched the Digital India RISC-V, or the DIR-V programme, to enable India to realise self-reliance in semiconductors and microprocessors. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the then minister of state for electronics and IT, had said that RISC-V has emerged as a strong alternative to Arm and Intel x86 in the last 10 years, having no licensing encumbrances, enabling its adoption by "one and all in the semiconductor industry, at different complexity levels for various design purposes". Notably, IIT Madras and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) have already developed the SHAKTI Processor and the VEGA Processor, respectively, based on RISC-V.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Captive 5G, commercial 4G & cost efficiencies to drive BSNL's future revenues: Robert Ravi
NEW DELHI: State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ( BSNL ) expects widespread availability of its commercial fourth-generation (4G) services and cost-efficiencies to drive top-line growth in the next few quarters, a top official said. 'We are undertaking several initiatives to improve cost efficiencies and reduce overheads. Additionally, our next-generation 4G services will see expanded coverage in the coming months. We are also exploring emerging business opportunities such as captive 5G networks for enterprises and leveraging advanced technologies for automation and digital transformation," BSNL CMD Robert J Ravi told ETTelecom. Further, Ravi said that these efforts together are expected to "significantly drive future revenues and strengthen BSNL's position" in the evolving telecom landscape. The public sector telecom operator clocked a net profit of ₹280 crore in Q4FY25, rising sequentially from ₹262 crore in Q3FY25. It cut down loss by 58% to ₹ 2,247-crore in FY 2025, from ₹ 5,370-crore in FY 2024. Commercial 4G network-based data services contributed nearly 6% of the telco's overall revenue in Q4FY25. Recently, the public sector telco, in partnership with a Mumbai-based startup Tidal Wave , deployed a captive 5G network for a few Coal India mines using the 2500 MHz spectrum band. The top official also said that the state-owned telecom carrier is also "looking at bundling affordable data plans together with smartphone offering", and is in talks with homegrown original device makers (ODM), as a part of its strategy. The telco is largely rolling out next generation networks on the 700 MHz frequency range with both top mobile chipset providers - MediaTek and Qualcomm - supporting the spectrum band. READ MORE | Homegrown Tidal Wave, BSNL deploy private 5G network in Coal India, eyes public sector business The telco is rolling out 4G services in partnership with Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services-led consortium that includes Tejas Networks and state-owned Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT). Tata Sons holds a majority of stake in Bengaluru-based Tejas Networks, which is providing radio access network (RAN) to the telco's ambitious 4G and 5G rollout initiative. Last week, BSNL awarded a Rs 2, 903.22-crore follow-on order to N Ganapathy Subramaniam-headed TCS for planning, engineering, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and annual maintenance of 18,685 4G network sites. BSNL, however, is expecting to increase its revenue by at least 10% once it deploys the next generation network nationwide. BSNL CMD Robert J Ravi talks on telco's 5G expansion, use cases
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Business Standard
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
Battling losses and loans, one state-owned telco pulls ahead of another
BSNL and MTNL have needed state support but their financial trajectories are now diverging Jayant Pankaj Listen to This Article The Department of Telecommunications recently approached the Finance Ministry once again to seek funds to help repay the mounting debt of MTNL, which provides telecom services in Delhi and Mumbai. BSNL, which provides services in the rest of the country, has needed help as well, marking the two state-owned telecom companies' financial distress. From FY15 to FY25, BSNL reported cumulative net losses of Rs 85,001 crore. MTNL's losses were Rs 31,814 crore (as of December 2024). However, there is a contrast in the companies' recent financial trajectories. BSNL, short for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, is turning around: it reported net
Time of India
3 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
India poised to become 'data capital of the world': Jyotiraditya Scindia
India is poised to become the "data capital of the world" in the coming years, said Union Minister of Communications, Jyotiraditya Scindia . A major factor underpinning this growth is the drastic reduction in communication costs. The Minister noted that the price of one GB of data has fallen from 287 rupees just 11 years ago to just 9 rupees today, representing a 97% reduction in costs of communication. Comparing this internationally, Scindia said that India's data cost of 11 cents per GB is only 5% of the world average of $2.5 per GB. "India, I believe in the next five years will become the data capital of the world in the time to come," Scindia said, speaking at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Annual Business Summit 2025 on Friday. Scindia said that India is now globally recognized as a digital-first economy, a shift largely led by the advancements in its telecom sector over the last decade. He cited significant growth in connectivity, with mobile subscribers increasing from around 800 million to 1.2 billion, making India the second-largest mobile market globally. Internet users have risen sharply from approximately 250 million to 974 million, while broadband users have jumped from a mere 66 million to nearly 940 million, he said. The Minister also pointed to India's progress in achieving self-reliance in technology, mentioning the successful development of an indigenous 4G telecom stack. This makes India the fifth country globally with this capability. The indigenous technology is currently being deployed on BSNL 's network, with close to 94,000 towers already installed out of a planned 100,000. He also noted that BSNL has posted a record net profit for the second consecutive quarter after 18 years.
