Applogic Offers Wireless Services

Applogic Systems, claimed to be the first wireless Internet provider in the Asia Pacific region, announced the launch of its Internet services for commercial use.

The services will be operational by June-end in Hyderabad. In the first phase, the coverage will be extended to, first, Andhra Pradesh, and then to Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Delhi and Bangalore. In the second phase, services will be made available to all major cities in India, Singapore and some other countries in the Asia Pacific region.

The company has entered into an agreement for a six mega hertz (3 mega hertz uplink and 3 mega hertz downlink) satellite connectivity with Intelsat, and will use RSA 40bit encryption for secured data transmission.

 

"Though other new technologies, namely cable modems and digital subscriber line (DSL), provide high speed Internet access that are much better than dial-up connections, they can give ideal connectivity only within 1,000 m from the exchange. Bandwidth manageability in these technologies is also very poor. These difficulties have been successfully overcome in the wireless technology," claimed Venkat S Meenavalli, managing director, Applogic Systems, at a press conference here.

In the US, leading DSL company Time Warner promised a speed of one mega byte per second (mbps) but were able to provide just above nine kilo bytes per second, said Venkat.

According to him, a 64 kilobyte per second connection from Applogic costs Rs 12,000 per annum, whereas a leased line from other Internet service providers costs approximately Rs 40,000. A DSL connection costs around the same amount. "With an increase in our connections, we will further try to reduce the cost to consumers," Venkat said.