Smart Connectivity Creates Smart Townships

The entire IT industry is abuzz with the concept of end-to-end solutions and convergence of IT, telecom and networking, which will together pave the way towards developing smarter cities or townships. Most vendors--whether IT, telecom, cabling, networking or enterprise applications or others are bitten by the bug-–that of creating  smarter cities and developing infrastructure corridors.

TE Connectivity has also been bitten by the bug and has transitioned itself from being a cabling vendor primarily focused on passive components to providing end-to-end connectivity and convergence solutions.

About $50billion worth equipment will be connected to the cloud and that will require convergence of all components, by 2030.

The strong urge to create smart townships across regions in the country as influenced KK Shetty, Director, India & SAARC,Enterpriseand Telecom, TE Connectivity India, to take up the task.

“We, as a company, have spread ourselves to providing an entire range of solutions—including passive components, wireless, intelligent cabling, datacom, Fibre to the Home, and Distributed connectivity solutions to residential complexes, among others, to enable villages and towns to have access to connectivity and bandwidth,” says Shetty.

The idea, according to Shetty, is to develop infrastructure corridors across various regions and effective campus networks and residential complexes,thus offering a unique delivery model.

Shetty strongly believes that Fibre to the Home will soon meet subscribers’ inexhaustible requirement of bandwidth-hungry applications, thus changing our way of life--the way we work, live and play!

As a design, Shetty has plans to partner with consultants and also OEM vendors such as HP, IBM, HCL, Wipro, etc., and top system integrators such as Netsol, ACS, AVS, to name a few, towards working on the smart township project, and to establish expertise from each domain.

“It is a global phenomenon and we cannot be laggards; it is estimated that by 2030, about $50billion worth equipment will be connected to the cloud and that will require convergence of all components.”

Since it is a Green project, Shetty believes that most CIOs are adaptable to the changes that are happening and aligning their IT road map with the smart city phenomenon, going in for huge turnkey projects.  “Like adoption of the cloud, adoption of the cabling and passive component industry, too, is taking to the pay-as-you-use model,” says Shetty. 

As part of the smart township model, CIOs will be provided all the services including building management services, asset management, utilities related infrastructure, connectivity management and so on.

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