Fiber optic key to India's growing telecom infrastructure

Several industries are interested in investing in India as the telecommunication infrastructure improves. The Hindu Business Line reports that even U.S. backed international firms are intrigued by the the business opportunities that exist in a India with full access to broadband. Much of this shift is being driven by Indian consumers themselves. A growing market for 3G and 4G mobile connectivity, parallel to the expanding Indian middle-class, has created incentive for much of India's anticipated telecommunications growth.

Expansions to India's telecommunications infrastructure are likely to incorporate hybrid-coaxial networks to ease the costs of implementation. Hybrid-coaxial networks make use of fiber-to-copper media converters to connect existing copper installations to new optic fiber wires. This networking strategy offers many benefits including reduced costs for installing all-new optic fiber systems. This flexibility offers new solutions for connecting high-speed Internet toIndia's rural and suburban neighborhoods; the high costs of fiber-optic cable is one of the largest barriers preventing broadband connections from reaching every corner of India.

Perle has an extensive range of Managed and Unmanaged Fiber Media Converters to extended copper-based Ethernet equipment over a fiber optic link, multimode to multimode and multimode to single mode fiber up to 160 km.