This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Kailem Anderson, Vice President, Global Products, Blue Planet

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Global IT infrastructure and services company NTT has announced the launch of a new data centre campus, Noida 2, and the opening of its first data centre on the campus.

Spanning six acres, the campus will support a planned capacity of 52.8 MW critical IT load in two data centres.

The campus is in Noida’s data centre corridor within the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), one of India’s largest and fastest-growing economic centres. It is carrier neutral, interconnected with NTT’s other data centre locations for minimal latency and offers seamless access to top-tier public cloud providers.

Its advanced features include high levels of automation that monitor and optimise facility performance and resources like power and water.

The first data centre, delivered this week, will support 22.4 MW IT load with an area of approximately 28,000 square metres. NTT says this is the first data centre campus in India to incorporate seismic dampers, ensuring uninterrupted operations even during significant seismic events.

NTT’s Global Data Centres division has now expanded its India footprint to more than 265 MW with 18 data centres across Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru. 

NTT Global Data Centres employs advanced liquid cooling technologies, such as liquid immersion cooling and direct liquid cooling, ensuring clients can deploy the latest AI and high performance computer platforms in its data centres.

This news underlines continuing Indian data centre expansion, and the growing importance of the Indian market for many major players. As Doug Adams, CEO and President, NTT Global Data Centres & Submarine Cable, puts it: “India is a priority region in our global strategic roadmap of consistent capacity expansion in existing and new data centre markets.”

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An industry agreement intended to address industry digitalisation and automation in private networks across Indonesia has been signed by wireless transport and access solutions company Aviat Networks, and mobile operator Smartfren Telecom.

The partners aim to deliver high speed, ultra-reliable wireless connectivity, private wireless indoor and outdoor networks, and industry digitalisation and automation services to private network customers across Indonesia.

As private LTE and 5G network growth continues, this partnership will, we are told, leverage the capabilities of both companies to deliver IoT technology, 4G/5G private networks, and ICT solutions to Indonesian private networks and enterprises including hospitals, agriculture, mining, buildings, oil/gas companies, factories, smart cities and other vertical industries.

The objective of the agreement is to capture this market opportunity by enhancing the companies’ competitive positioning, and better serving Indonesian clientele through pre-sales and solution engineering, joint sales and market opportunity development, and integrated customer service and support.

As a result of its recent acquisition of NEC’s wireless transport business, Aviat says it is now the leading wireless transport provider in the Indonesian market and offers a comprehensive portfolio of wireless transport and access solutions, along with a local presence throughout the country.

Aviat will serve as solutions provider for all equipment and services related to Smartfren’s private networks offering.

With approximately 36 million subscribers at the end of 2022, Smartfren is the number four mobile operator in Indonesia and one of the ten largest in Southeast Asia.

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The government of Pakistan has established what it calls the Telecommunication Appellate Tribunal, an entity aimed at swiftly addressing and settling disputes within the telecoms sector.

The new body, which has come into being via the Telecommunication Appellate Tribunal Ordinance of 2023, will be composed of three members, including the chairperson, who must either be a judge of a high court or an advocate with 15 years’ experience in the field. One of the members must possess a master’s level professional degree in an area of technology. The other member should have a similar qualification in finance, economics or a related subject.

They can all serve a four-year term, with provisions for reappointment, ending either at the age of 68 or when a term is not renewed.

All ongoing appeals and cases related to the IT and telecom sector being dealt with in the high courts will be transferred to the Telecommunication Appellate Tribunal within a month. Appeals against any decisions made by the Tribunal must be filed at the Supreme Court within sixty days.

The Express Tribune news service says that the establishment of the Tribunal has been a longstanding demand of the telecom sector.

Its duties will include deciding on approved appeals from operators against the decisions of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The hope is that this will happen within a 90-day period, as opposed to the slow process of going through the High Court.

This tribunal concept already exists in the country; one has been established to handle disputes in the power distribution sector.

This is an interesting and potentially positive initiative but, of course, only time will tell if the new system, as is hoped, addresses historical inefficiencies and sets a precedent for efficient dispute resolution.