{"id":8889,"date":"2022-12-30T07:51:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T07:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irctcportal.in\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2022-12-30T07:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T07:51:53","slug":"railtel-to-launch-railwire-broadband-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/railtel-to-launch-railwire-broadband-service\/","title":{"rendered":"RailTel to launch Railwire broadband service"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">Aiming to provide seamless state-of-the-art communication network, RailTel \u2013 the telecom arm of Railways \u2013 will launch Railwire, a high capacity broadband service, in rural and remote areas of the country.<\/footer>\n<footer>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\">RailTel to launch Railwire broadband service<\/h2>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u201cRailwire will be launched across the country. Our aim is to reach out to rural and remote areas of the country at affordable rate,\u201d RailTel Managing Director B.K.Bahuguna said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Railwire service has been launched as pilot project in limited areas of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala having over 6,000 customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRailwire service has been designed to provide an open source content delivery platform for providing various services including Broadband Internet, IP telephony, e-HealthCare, e-Education, and other content driven services like gaming, video on demand services to individuals and small and medium business segment using cable operator\u2019s infrastructure,\u201d Bahuguna said.<\/p>\n<p>RailTel has built nationwide optical fibre cable (OFC) based broadband and multimedia network using railway\u2019s seamless right of way with the objective of modernising rail network.<\/p>\n<p>RailTel has constructed about 42,000 km of OFC network in the country, and work on another 7,500 km is in various stage of completion. The OFC network presently reaches to over 4,200 towns and cities, including rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its expansion plans, RailTel is exploring ways to facilitate broadband through WiFi at railway stations for convenience of passengers. (Courtesy: Business Std.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aiming to provide seamless state-of-the-art communication network, RailTel \u2013 the telecom arm of Railways \u2013 will launch Railwire, a high capacity broadband service, in rural and remote areas of the country. RailTel to launch Railwire broadband service \u201cRailwire will be launched across the country. Our aim is to reach out to rural and remote areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[726,4],"tags":[840],"class_list":["post-8889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian-railways","category-irctc","tag-railtel-to-launch-railwire-broadband-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}