What is the bandwidth advantage talk about at Kochi (Kerala)?
Kochi has some of the cheapest available bandwidth in the country. It has the advantage of being located at the landing points of both satellite and submarine cable links. Both Sea-Me-We 3 and SAFE international submarine cables land at Kochi. Not only is bandwidth abundant, it is cheaper than at other locations. VSNL offers a 2 Mbps Internet leased line for Rs 12.5 lakh at Kochi. A 2 Mbps IPLC link costs Rs 40 lakh here. Nasscom has rated Kochi as one of the top two destinations in India for bandwidth intensive IT-enabled services. VSNL’s International Gateway Exchange with 15 Gbps capacity is located next to the Cochin Special Economic Zone. Recently VSNL unveiled the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE submarine cable station in Kochi. With this, Kochi is one of the 16 landing points across the world for the submarine cable. The cable system has an ultimate capacity of 120 Gbps that enables it to convey a total of 5.8 million simultaneous telephone channels. VSNL operates a facility in the zone under t
