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STL strengthens Global Key Account Management with the appointment of Global Sales Head
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STL strengthens Global Key Account Management with the appointment of Global Sales Head

Jan 12, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Anand Agarwal, #Global Sales Head, #Group CEO, #Sandeep Girotra, #STL

Pune, India STL, an industry-leading integrator of digital networks, announced the appointment of Sandeep Girotra as its Global Sales Head. In his new role, Sandeep will be responsible for driving the company’s order book and revenues across portfolios, customer segments and geographies. In this role, Sandeep will be a part of the Executive Committee of the company.

With the world witnessing an accelerated digital transformation in the last few months, the digital networks industry is now driving a convergence of wired and wireless technologies for high bandwidth, hyper-responsive networks. STL, being at the centre of this unprecedented opportunity, has transformed into an Account-Based Organisation and is driving tremendous customer value through a solution-based approach and deep engagement. Sandeep’s appointment is in line with this strategic shift and will bolster STL’s efforts to realise the digital dreams of its customers across the globe.

Prior to joining STL, Sandeep was associated with Nokia for 24 years. For the last 10 years, he held multiple executive roles such as Head of India, Head of Asia Pacific and Japan, and Head of Global Sales Transformation. A well-recognised expert in the technology sector, Sandeep has played an instrumental role in delivering formidable financial performance for Nokia India. He is also credited with driving customer intimacy across markets and building agile market-facing organisations.

Commenting on Sandeep’s appointment, Anand Agarwal, Group CEO, STL, said: “As a digital networks integrator, our key account partnerships fuel our business growth as we craft customised and innovative solutions for their core business objectives. Sandeep’s expertise in building long-term partnerships and driving customer value in the digital space will play a pivotal role in establishing us as a solution provider of choice as well as elevate our customer engagement. I welcome him to the STL family.”

“STL has created a niche for itself in the digital networks space with its next-gen converged solutions and the time is opportune for us to scale this business across segments and geographies,” said Sandeep Girotra. “I believe India-based global technology leaders like STL will play a defining role in the future of digital networks. I look forward to driving STL’s future growth journey while creating value for our customers and us.”

News, Technology

STL launches Garuda, a smart 5G indoor small cell

Dec 22, 2020 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Access Solutions, #CTO, #Executive Vice President and General Manager, #Liam Madden, #Rajesh Gangadhar, #STL, #Wired and Wireless Group at Xilinx

Pune, India: An industry-leading integrator of digital networks, unveiled Garuda, a smart 5G Indoor small cell. With Garuda, STL continues to play an instrumental role in building an indigenous 5G ecosystem and enabling its customers to provide enhanced 5G experiences in the future.

A game changer for the technology landscape, 5G will enable many data intensive real-time applications. However, 5G signals will require closer proximity to mobile devices, creating a need for short range networks. Such access raises questions regarding coverage at a premise level. Garuda indoor small cell solution addresses these challenges by using devices as cellular access points, providing 5G grade coverage to meet the burgeoning data demands of the end users. STL Garuda offers a low cost and agile means for faster 5G readiness, improving the economics for Digital Service Providers and enterprises.

STL Garuda seamlessly complements the network capacity, density and coverage of macro networks, and can serve as a single board optical-to-radio interface solution for 5G low power pico cell applications. Leveraging the Xilinx adaptable radio device platform that offers full programmability while delivering high-performance and cost/power effectiveness, this O-RAN 7.2x split small cell can handle more than 30 concurrent user devices and can be backhauled across several kilometers. Moreover, it can be installed within 30 minutes and deployment can be as seamless as that of a simple Wi-Fi. Garuda is equipped with inbuilt Low-Phy layer functionality, small form factor and an integrated four channel MIMO support omni-antenna to cater to the ever-growing demand of data networks.

Here are the salient features of Garuda, which make it ideal for 5G indoor coverage:

  • Open interfaces: Fully compliant with O-RAN specifications for vendor neutrality
  • Energy efficient: Ensures lower electricity consumption for telcos and enterprises
  • Plug and play solution: Can be seamlessly installed under 30 mins
  • Ease of deployment: Supports both power source DC and PoE++

Xilinx, a leading provider of solutions in 5G, offers wired and wireless products designed to perform today and remain adaptable for the needs for tomorrow. STL Garuda incorporates the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSOC device.

“By being adaptable with full programmability, Xilinx’s world-class 5G radio solutions are a cost-effective and efficient way to deploy 5G O-RAN  for a wide variety of wireless network environments,” said Liam Madden, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Wired and Wireless Group at Xilinx “Our platforms combined with STL’s know-how, architecture expertise, and market reach will enable the Garuda RU system to deliver the high performance and scalability required for any 5G network rollout.“

We are incredibly excited to launch Garuda and we believe it will play a significant role in driving 5G experiences for consumers by creating a dense environment for indoor coverage with the required speed, capacity, and low latency,” said Rajesh Gangadhar, CTO, Access Solutions, STL. “This technology has been indigenously developed in India as a part of our Atmanirbhar Bharat initiatives. Garuda is a next-gen product with an open interface that is not only cost effective, but also creates a new ecosystem for service innovation.”

Technology

STL makes way for smarter, more seamless connections with the launch of Wi-Fi 6 Access Point solution at IMC 2020

Dec 12, 2020 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Dr. Badri Gomatam, #Group CTO, #Sterlite Technologies Ltd, #STL, #Sushil Rawat, #VP RAN Platform at Rakuten Mobile

New Delhi:  STL (Sterlite Technologies Ltd) , an industry-leading integrator of digital networks, launched a carrier-class, high capacity outdoor Wi-Fi 6 Access Point (AP), for high-density deployments, in the presence of Sushil Rawat, VP RAN Platform at Rakuten Mobile, during India Mobile Congress 2020. STL’s Wi-Fi 6 AP enables service providers to deliver a wide range of innovative offerings to their customers with speed, scale, and efficiency.

In densely crowded outdoor environments, like stadiums and airports, the demand for bandwidth accelerates by ~10X. This can lead to spotty connections with high interference and low quality of service. STL’s Wi-Fi 6 AP is an intelligent device that does level 1 processing at the edge and enables seamless Wi-Fi experience and management. Designed to reduce interference and congestion in high-density environments, STL’s WiFi-6 AP enables service providers to leverage carrier-class Wi-Fi as an integral part of their heterogeneous network services, to offer high-speed public connectivity.

The solution complements 5G to bring the same level of performance in terms of speed and latency in an unlicensed spectrum, which will drastically improve the quality of public connectivity.

These power-packed features cater to the growing demands of crowded wireless environments:

  1. Large bandwidth support – upto 160 Mhz
  2. Enlarged coverage – Supports dual radio (5 & 2.4G) support
  3. Increased data throughput – 12 antenna chains for Dual Band (8×8 in 5G / 4×4 in 2G)
  4. Customized antenna design – to meet any specific capacity & coverage requirements
  5. Ease of deployment – Supports both power source DC and PoE++
  6. Legacy compatibility – Seamlessly works with both optical and copper backhaul

A comprehensive, easy to use toolset under a single umbrella, STL’s Wi-Fi 6 AP’s smart offloading delivers optimal wireless performance through stronger, steadier, and more efficient wireless connections.

Launching STL’s Wi-Fi 6 solution at the IMC 2020 event, Sushil Rawat, VP RAN Platform at Rakuten Mobile, said, “When we talk about ubiquitous connectivity in outdoor environments, intelligent and dynamic networks are at the core of it.” The industry needs an integrated solution that leverages Wi-Fi 6 technology to provide carrier-class connectivity in dense environments. We are excited` to see STL developing such a solution which promises to deliver a powerful and immersive Wi-Fi connectivity experience for high-density deployments.

Speaking about the STL Wi-Fi 6 Access Point launch, Dr. Badri Gomatam, Group CTO, STL said, “Globally, service providers are reinventing and innovating to provide the best experience to their customers. In the coming decade, public connectivity will play a major role in the network landscape. In line with our purpose of transforming billions of lives through digital networks, we have developed this integrated Wi-Fi 6 solution, which will provide high speed and low latency communications in high-density environments.”

Business World

STL to acquire Optotec S.p.A, a leading Optical Interconnect Company

Nov 3, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Claudio Mega, #Dr. Anand Agarwal, #Optical Interconnect Products, #Optotec, #STL

STL (NSE: STLTECH), an industry-leading integrator of digital networks, today announced the signing of definitive agreements to acquire Optotec S.p.A, a leading Optical Interconnect Products Company based in Italy.

Optotec, a privately held company, provides a complete range of Optical Interconnect Products for Telecommunication, FTTH and Cloud Networks in Europe. Optotec, under its patented technology, has an end-to-end portfolio ranging from Outside Plant (OSP) to Central Office (CO) to Customer Premises (CP) that would complement STL’s “Opticonn” offering of optical fibre and cables for a truly integrated products portfolio. Optotec has a strong legacy in Optical Interconnect portfolio of over 20 years and shares long-standing relationships with marquee European telecom operators.

The transaction is structured to acquire 100% of Optotec’s shareholding on closing at an enterprise value (EV) of €29Mn (29 Million euros). The deal will be financed by a mix of internal accruals and foreign currency debt instruments. The Closing of the transaction is subjected to customary regulatory approvals.

The acquisition will create a solid springboard to offer a complete bouquet of solutions to customers across Europe, India and the Middle East.

“As the investments by Operators in fibre network infrastructure accelerate to support next-gen services like 5G, FTTH and edge cloud, the combination of STL and Optotec will provide our global customers with an enhanced array of innovative products and technologies.

Claudio Mega and his team have developed an impressive product portfolio and established a market-leading position for Optotec. Most importantly, both Optotec and STL have a similar value system and philosophy of technology and innovation, making this acquisition an ideal fitment into STL family” – Dr. Anand Agarwal, Group CEO

“We at Optotec are incredibly excited to work with STL to scale our business and expand our customer base. STL, with its global customer access and extensive industrial scale, is the perfect partner for our growth journey” – Claudio Mega, Optotec CEO