C-DOT MAX-NG boosts NGN Services

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C-DOT MAX-NG boosts NGN Services 
It has been recently announced that the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), in close cooperation with BSNL, has upgraded the First Rural Exchange Centre at Kittur from C-DOT RAX to MAX-NG for NGN services, while celebrating its 25 years of establishment on 7th August, 2012. The upgradation of MAX-NG would be implemented through the BSNL network across the country within 2-3 years, upgrading around 2.5 crore exchanges, both urban and rural.
  
Earlier on Tuesday, C-DOT celebrated the completion of 25 years of India's first C-DOT RAX at Kittur (Karnataka) and the function was held simultaneously at C-DOT Centres. Adviser to the Prime Minister on PIII in Delhi along with C-DOT's Executive Director Shri V. V. R. Sastry chaired the function in Delhi. Shri Vipin Tyagi, Director, C-DOT, and Shri P. Raghavan, CGM, BSNL, Karnataka, chaired the event at Bengaluru. The event at Kittur was chaired by Shri Jayant Bhatnagar, Director, C-DOT, and Shri B. Krishna Sarma, GMTD, BSNL, for Belgaum/Hubli. Senior officials of the government, BSNL, MTNL and PSUs and industry associations also graced the occasion. 
Shri Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Prime Minister on PIII, said, "The first phase of the telecom revolution has ended. We have 900 million phones. The second part of the telecom revolution is about to begin. This includes broadband networks connecting 250,000 Panchayats via optical fibre. It is about transforming education, health, governance and the delivery of public services. This phase is going to be much bigger."
Shri V. V. R. Sastry, Executive Director, C-DOT, expressed, "It is a remarkable moment for all of us at C-DOT, when we celebrate the glorious 25 years since our first centre at Kittur was established and brought smiles for the rural parts of our country. The MAX-NG programme will breathe fresh life into the fixed line infrastructure and bring to the people of NER, VoIP and Broadband services, giving a fillip to business in rural India."

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