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 at
the village cluster and village level.

• This would first be field-tested at Anad Gram Panchayat

(Nedumangad Block, Thiruvananthapuram). It could then
be replicated at BharatNet-connected panchayats across
Kerala: transforming Kerala into India’s first fully-connected
digital State.
 MECHANISM: ANAD/SABARKANTHA HYBRID

The Model would hybridize two key initiatives: the Kerala

State Electricity Board’s Anad pilot, connecting Panchayat
Bhavans to government offices with overhead fibre (on
KSEB poles); and the Sabarkantha Zilla Parishad’s (Gujarat)
community Wi-Fi initiative.

The Model would use revenue-sharing mechanisms to tie

together several Connectivity Partners – each providing a
connectivity-related network service or infrastructure
component. This would occur at different levels: from block
to 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; local

cable operators (LCOs).
2. Service provisioning: RailTel (which possess an ISP licence);
3. Marketing and retailing: Self Help Groups (SHGs, under Kudumbashree), Primary
Agricultural Cooperatives (PACS), Akshaya Centres and CSCs, etc.; coordinating
with RailTel.

These are outlined in two components: delivery model, and revenue / cost-recovery model. and the
Revenue-sharing agreements (including specific share allocation percentages) would be negotiated
at a later date.
 KSEBL- Last Mile Connectivity Proposal
• Our project aims to bridge the connectivity gap
between gram panchayaths and Government offices
in Panchayath Area
• Dark Fibres will be provided for Optic Fibre
Connectivity from Gram Panchayaths to 20 selected
Government institutions from 10 Govt departments
in the concerned panchayath area.
• The total number of Government Institutions
benefited through this project will be around 20880
in 1044 Gram Panchayaths with an estimate amount
of 212 crores which is arrived considering the
inferences from the pilot project.
Benefited Govt. Departments
Social
Education LSGD
Justice

Revenue Health Agriculture

Animal
PWD Home
Husbandry

Information Civil
Forest Irrigation
Technology Supplies
 Demonstrat
ed Projects

Ability to
Back up ROW & Wide
with Own network in All
GP
OFC
Why
KSEB for
LMC?
Competent Licensed
Team Carriage
services

Anad GP
Pilot success
with -22dB
Power Level
at end offices
OFC Network Owned by KSEBL
• 24 fibre optic cable from Kanhirode (Kannur) to
Vydyuthibhavanam, Thiruvananthapuram through the 220
kV substations.
• The 8 fibres are reserved for the use of KSEBL and the rest
are proposed / leased to independent telecom service
providers and PGCIL.
• Used for the effective management of interconnected grid
operation, export/import, power exchange etc. of the
Kerala Power System.
• The network is also used presently for providing 4 Mbps
connectivity for video conferencing at three locations.
 Proposed OFC Network
• OFC Network through the EHT / HT transmission
towers of KSEBL connecting all substations of and
above 33 kV as per CEA guidelines.
• The project is expected to be completed within a
period 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 Vydyuthibhavanam
Trivandrum. It is one of the biggest in the
state of Kerala and is having a capacity for
accommodating 48 Server racks which
includes 10 racks for future scalability.
• Data Centre hosts the Servers/ storage/
networking equipments of RAPDRP
Applications, Customer Care Centre and
SCADA project.
• The Data Centre has been setup in all
aspects according to PFC guidelines KSEBL- Data Centre
insisting on tier-III standards in order to
ensure end- to-end redundancy without
having a Single Point of Failure and
successfully put in service on 20.02.2014

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
 PROJECT COST SUMMARY
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
Hardwares for
5 communication equipments 92943 97032492
including spares
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
74536821
Management @4%
Survey & Design @10% 186342052
Grand Total 2124299398
Per km rate for laying OFC including end
1.7 lakhs
termination
 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
ROW & LM
Carriage
Services
KSEB

Billing & NOFN ISP/TSP

CC network Partner
services BBNL Rail Tel

GP
Community
Partner
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 its
electricity poles from BharatNet ONTs at Panchayat Bhavans, to 15
different 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 on
State Data Centres (as a WAN); or delivered via internet. (The National
Information Infrastructure [NII] initiative could provision government-use
bandwidth and customer premises equipment [CPE] – this is outlined below.)

• b) Public internet services: Above and beyond government services, KSEB fibre
could also extend RailTel bandwidth to Wi-Fi hotspots centred on these
government 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 those
buildings under PRI control. They would be trained and expected to
maintain these towers. RailTel could install Wi-Fi equipment on these
towers, 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: generating
a steady cashflow in perpetuity for GPs, in return for building inert
infrastructure.
 Marketing and retailing

• Borrowing from the Sabarkantha model, marketing and retailing could

be conducted by SHGs (as a designated entrepreneurial activity,
synchronised with Kerala’s Kudumbashree initiative), PACS (as part of
NABARD-funded transition to Multi Service Provider status, diversifying
their 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 to
kick-start demand and awareness. Moreover, the programmatic
replication of SHGs, PACS, AkshayaCentres across Kerala provides an
excellent State-wide base forscaling up marketing activity, in pace with
service rollout.
• Alternatively, LCOs could tap KSEB POPs to retail RailTel bandwidth to
individual 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
Amount
Sl.No. Particulars Quantity

24 F G.652 ADSS Areal OFC cable Suitable for

1 4.0 km 1,50,240
100 m Span
6 F G.652 ADSS Areal OF cable Suitable for
2 4.8 km 136008
100 m Span
Hardware Fittings (Communication) Splitter, 184733
3
Splice Box, ONT ,etc
4 Hardware Fittings (Fibre Stringing) 25493
Total Labor Charges For stringing and fixing 286907
5
cross arm
HW for stringing Fibre(Cash T, Cross arm, 202281
suspension Clamp, Tension clamp, SS Strap,
6 Crimping Tool,etc.
(Supplied free of cost by SICAME INDIA
Connectors pvt ltd),
7 Distribution strengthening 1,30,000
Total 11.2 lakhs
Per kM rate for stringing fibre 1.27 lakhs