Tulip IT Services Ltd

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Tulip IT Services Ltd

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Tulip IT Services Ltd is an INDIA based data communication services provider company. Tulip’s product port folio includes network integration, which not only includes designing and developing networks for its clients but also managing them.^[1]

Besides this Tulip is also engaged in wireless connectivity which provides a range of point to point and point to multi-point wireless applications. Tulip’s network covers more than 1,000 cities and towns, has over 50,000 links for approximately more than 600 customers, that include organisations across all verticals such as BFSI, telecom, logistics, retail, the government and manufacturing.

What adds to the company’s credibility is the quality of the network it has been successful in roviding to the interiors of many states. Tulip’s worth mentioning Akshaya project in Malappuram district of Kerala is based on last mile connectivity model which provides an area wide data connectivity network with an always-on internet model that runs on fibre and reaches connectivity to the last mile on wireless in much less cost and time. According to a Frost and Sullivan report, Tulip IT is the largest MPLS VPN service provider with a market share of 28%.

Tulip was also short-listed as one of the 6 finalists in the Asia Innovation Awards by the Wall Street Journal at GES Singapore for its innovative use of wireless on the Last Mile.^[2]

[edit] Rural Connectivity

Tulip IT Services was selected as the service provider for Malappuram after they came up with a cost-effective and terrain-friendly last-mile solutions for the Akshaya Internet community centres housed there.

All the options for connectivity, like fibre, cable and leased line, were explored by the state. Given the undulating hilly and highly vegetated terrain of the place, wireless emerged as the most feasible option in terms of cost and logistics in the deployment of the network.

Malappuram now has a well-considered hybrid connectivity infrastructure, through a mix of wireless technologies like WipLL, Vine and 802.11.b WiFi with multiple redundancies. The backbone redundancy was provided through fibre. ^[3]

The 550 Akshaya e-centres are connected in a LAN environment, which, in turn, are connected to a network operating centre (NOC). The NOC have direct connectivity with the Internet backbone. The NOC infrastructure would ensure browsing at no cost to users in the network. This would mean that the entire district is converted into "a small wired office" seamlessly inter-connected with linkages to three world-class purveyors of the technology. Each Akshaya centre now caters to the needs of 1,000-1,500 households, enabling each to benefit from the advantages of Internet connectivity. The Malappuram experiment is only a pilot, to be replicated in phases over the entire State. As the locations of these centres are strategically planned and spatially distributed, they will form a powerful network to guide and support the e-governance initiatives, community development interventions, e-commerce and information dissemination. ^[4] The connectivity infrastructure which is established through the Akshaya project, i.e., network and backbone, network centre, software, Internet access and management, can also be used to connect, apart from Akshaya centres, all panchayat offices, village offices and departmental offices spread across the district.

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