PON & GPON

I’m a new Subscriber of ‘Satellite @ Internet India’, subscribed it in the Converging World Exhibition held in Kolkata. The article on GPON by Motorola is very useful. I know about this PON & GPON a bit but the way your Magazine has covered it, I really liked it. Over the past decade optical networks have provided the foundation for the growth of the telecommunications market through the supply of ever increasing bandwidth aimed at meeting growing requirements from both voice and data networks. Enormous investments have been made in metro and core networks, but growing bandwidth requirements in the Local Area Network (LAN) have outstripped supply, creating a chasm known as the access bottleneck. Motorola’s PON solution is designed to meet the stringent QoS and high bandwidth requirements of ultra-broadband triple play carrier networks. Our high capacity architecture enables carriers to break the broadband barrier and deliver revenue rich real time services such as IPTV, high speed broadband, gaming services, Video On Demand, VoIP services etc.

                                                                           Nikunj Kishore Dey
                                                                       Bangalore

Community Radio plays a vital role

I’m a new subscriber of your very popular Magazine ‘Satellite @ Internet India’. This is the 1st issue which I got and found it very informative & interesting. Especially the focus article on ‘Community Radio’ was superb. It is well understood around the world today that community communication offers significant opportunities for real empowerment of people. Community Radio is a versatile and low-cost medium that carries the promise to protect and promote the cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity of the country. Despite rapid technological changes in telecommunications in the last few decades, radio broadcasting remains the cheapest mode of information dissemination, catering equally to the needs of the right and poor, rural and urban masses and reaching the remotest parts of the country. Among the various modes of radio broadcasting, especially community radio has an important role to pay. Due to its focus on local concerns and aspirations and the interactive nature of its programming, community radio can be a powerful medium for education and development. I also believe that it plays a vital role in the country’s socio economic and cultural development.

Santosh Prabhu
 Alipore, Kolkata

Reality Shows for netizens ?

It’s good to know that reality TV now hitting the cyberspace. The marketers and advertisers try to marry the popularity of reality TV shows in India to the growing use of the Internet. Apart from the Ibibo and Zee’s tie-up, several companies, such as Campus18, the digital arm of media conglomerate Network 18 Fincap Pvt. Ltd, the local arm of global software solutions provider Microsoft Corp., Yamaha Motor India Pvt. Ltd, Bharti Airtel Ltd and online news and entertainment company Rediff.com India Ltd’s media sharing platform, iShare, are all planning similar moves. Campus18, for instance, has announced a nationwide hunt for the best video talent where participants who are between ages 18 and 25 years can upload their three-minute original video on the contest site and thereafter be selected, judged and christened the winner, all on the Web, and by their peers online. Similarly, Microsoft also plans to roll out its initiative in the next month. Tentatively called Office Makeover, and aimed at promoting Microsoft Office software, the show requires participants to send in a video clip on Microsoft’s site, stating why their workplace is in need of a makeover. The winner would eventually win a makeover for their workplace, courtesy Microsoft.
                                          
                                                                 Sanjiv Maharana
                                                                  Gopalpur, Orissa