Larsen & Toubro to now manage communication network of armed forces

The final step was taken when L&T secured a coveted order to create the software backbone that ill manage the AFN

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has been chosen to manage the military’s ultra-modern communications network, called the Armed Forces Network (AFN), which will enable the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force’s 414 bases across the country to talk and exchange dates securely.
 

Since Independence, all communications between the service headquarters in New Delhi, theatre command headquarters in locations like Udhampur, Shillong and Kochi and further to corps, divisions, brigades and air and naval bases and logistical units were carried out via decades-old landlines, radio relay, radio and troposcatter links.
 

Now, a 60,000-kilometre long, pan-Indian, optic fibre cable (OFC) network will soon