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Telecom Infrastructure – The Growth Story 6th December 2018 V Sridhar President, Network Infra Projects, Reliance Jio

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Jio Revolution = A Meaningful Digital Movement

“We are not creating a brand. We are

creating a movement…

A movement that’s not about Reliance,

but what we want to do for people. A

movement for millions of Indians”

Mukesh Ambani

Jio will start a movement

that will give Indians the power to make their dreams possible. Slide No: 2

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Jio transformed India from 2G Nation to 4G Nation

Mobile data consumption in the country up from 20 cr GB/month to nearly 370 cr GB/month

Cost of data down to less than Rs 15/GB from Rs 250/GB and almost all smartphones now shipped are 4G-VoLTE enabled

World’s largest mobile data network (3.3 Exabyte per month)

Fastest 100 Mn subscribers in 170 days

Pre Jio Post Jio

Source: Facebook

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Salient features of Jio Network Architecture:

1. One of the Largest 100G Core Networks Globally

2. Voice, Video, Data, Mobility – All IP – Enabling Next Gen

services

3. Mesh Network – Higher resiliency and availability

4. Rich & Strong Spectrum Position

5. Multi purpose, Scalable, Giga n/w right from customer

location

6. Automation for Network Deployment & Optimization

Planning for Jio Infrastructure Rollout

• Voice driven

• Value Added

Services

• Infra closer to central

facility

Conventional Network

• Data driven

• Digital Services &

Ecosystem

• Infra closer to end

consumer

Future Ready Network

Network Infra

Fibre Intracity

Fibre Intercity

Tower Facility FTTx

Building Blocks:

Edge is getting Smarter & Smaller and moving further out

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Ground Probing Radar & Cable Locator Machine

• To predict Underground utilities & Power cables

• Prevents damage to Public Utilities during HDD/MT

• Creates GIS record of sub – surface utilities

Micro Trenching

• Designed to cut 50 mm wide slot in

asphalt road with immediate restoration

• Minimal disturbance to public

Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD)

• Drilling upto 4 m below surface

• Drill length of upto 250 meters

• No damage to surface

Structured Aerial

• Fast tracks execution in dense

areas

• EB poles and/or own Jio Poles

Fibre Rollout Techniques

Mechanization of T&D and Cable Blowing for faster execution by deploying:

1. Ground probing Radar, Pipe & Cable locators / detectors

2. HDD Machines, Micro Trenchers and Sub Surface Utility Examination (SUE)

3. Structured Aerial Cabling and Accessories

4. Cable blowing machines & Ribbon Splicing machines

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Tower Deployment Techniques & Innovation

1. Ground Based Mast (GBM) - all equipment within Tower

2. GBM using Micro-Piling foundation technique

3. GBT with Integrated Equipment Platform

4. Use of Li-Ion battery

5. Cell on Wheels (CoW) / Cell on Platform

Cell on Wheels GBM with Equipment inside

Various Camouflage designs have been deployed suiting local conditions such as Pine Tree, Palm Tree, Lotus Type structure, etc.

Micropilling GBT -Eqpt. Platform Lotus Pine Tree

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Facilities – Aggregation Nodes (AGx), Data Center and NOC

Network Operation Centre (NOC) Data Centre (DC)

Salient Features of NOC Design

• NOC Area: 1.60 lakh sq. ft.

• Control room has ergonomically designed Consoles for 24 x 7

Operations

• Digital Light Processing (DLP) Cube and LCD Display Screen in

Control Rooms.

• Redundant power supply for every workstation with DG Backup

Server Hall with racks & cabling

DG with Stack

Green Field Development over an area of ~ 2 lakh sq. ft.

99.982 % Availability with Tier 3 Rating (TIA – 942)

Free Cooling to take advantage of atmospheric conditions

ISO 27001: 2013 (Information Security Management System) and

ISO 20000: 2011 (DC Facility Management) certification

IDC Mumbai

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N/W Infra Project

Execution

Network Planning

Design & Engineering

Procurement & Contracting

Supply

Chain

Organization & Leadership

Operation Centers

Automation & Dashboards

Project Management

Project Execution at Reliance Jio

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E2E EPCO model with in-house engineering, innovation & supervision to achieve ‘First Time Right’

Central Planning, Strategy & Control – Decentralized Execution

Customer focus and work backwards from Business goals and Targets

Mechanization of field activities for faster execution

Simplification of work processes & Real Time Problem resolution

Automated Tools for scale, speed, productivity and digital information capture

Dashboards and simple & dynamic reports to manage large / multi-location project

Effective cascaded managing systems and organization / team effectiveness

Financial engineering, Value Engineering and cost optimization

Long term Jio-Partner relationship building leading to faster execution with quality

Key Elements for project success at Reliance Jio

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Source: data.worldbank.org

Internet Penetration Growth

Indian Internet Users have increased substantially – however more is to be done especially on Fixed Broadband

• Internet User Growth

(in last 17 Years)

India from < 1% to 34%

Added 450 Mil users

Developed countries >90%

Highly populated country like China 55%

Source: internetworldstats.com

• Fixed Broadband User Growth

• (in last 17 Years)

India at low 1%

Developed countries >30%

• India vision 2022 – 50% HH on Fixed

Broadband

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Areas of Improvements for Faster Telecom Infra Rollout

1. ROW Permissions

SLA

Standardized Charges

Implementation of DoT Guidelines

2. National / State Highway Road Expansions & Impact

3. Digital map of Underground utilities & services

4. No Objection Certificate (NOC) for Towers

5. Electricity Board Connection availability & reliabillity

6. Municipal Corporation & Government Sites for Tower /

Facilities

Better coordination & alignment

within Stakeholders

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Thank You