Arun 795 Report post Posted June 4, 2004 (edited) This is the Control Room of Reliance Infocomm, called Barco Control Rooms, which is the undisputed market leader in control rooms, provides a 225m² total display solution for Reliance Infocomm at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC), Navi Mumbai. Reliance Infocomm is a telecom industry giant and the first company in the world to roll out such a large geographical network using only one National Network Operations Center (NNOC).The significance of a single NNOC is that all services, including billing, databases and customer relations, can be managed centrally. This approach substantially reduces the cost of network management. Reliance Infocomm launched its mobility services in 104 cities on December 28, 2002, when it kicked off operations. Reliance will soon reach 709 cities. In Reliance’s selection process for a control room provider, crucial issues like control room design and functionality of modern NNOC’s were evaluated. Barco was selected thanks to its market leadership position in projection technology and proven expertise in display wall control systems. With telecom reference sites all over the world, Barco was able to clearly illustrate its extensive project, system and user experience (Man/Wall Interface). Other factors that undoubtedly reinforced Barco’s predominance included Barco’s comprehensive iCare program monitoring the status of its installations worldwide as well as Barco’s customer services, ranging from 24/7 telephone support to on-site training & support. In the main NNOC, Barco installed a dual set-up on the left and right hand side of the center, with each side having three display sections each consisting of 67” DLPÔ projection displays in respectively 6x4, 8x4 and 6x4 configurations. The total configuration comprises 160 modules, equaling nearly 126,000,000 pixels in a single control room, and a total screen surface of almost 225 m². The projection engines/controlware link was implemented in a fully digital way. Barco also equipped additional rooms totaling over 36m². Next to the main NNOC in Mumbai, Barco implemented a Situation Room (67” modules in a 3x2 configuration) and a Security Control Room (67” modules in a 5x2 configuration) and a back-up NNOC (67” modules in a 5x2 configuration) in Hyderabad. All these control rooms were implemented at the same time, making this Barco’s biggest single project implementation. In a slightly curved configuration, the display spans almost the entire length of the NNOC’s two opposing walls. Barco’s 225m² total display solution integrates projection technology, controlware and wall management software. Barco enables the dynamic visualization of network monitoring applications and web-based supervision of the network’s routers and switchers, as well as the simultaneous display of 4 video and 2 RGB sources per display section. Barco’s screen-scraping software allows the content of the operators’ PCs to be replicated on the display walls. The controlware was selected, among other reasons, because of its upgradeability, offering Reliance the most future-proof front-end available. The project approach was unique in that the whole project, from concept to engineering, was executed in only 4 months. REAL, the Reliance EPCO Wing (Engineering Procurement Construction Operation) offered strong implementation capabilities and unique execution skills in all areas whereas Barco provided full support in engineering, installation and commissioning activities. REAL personnel participated actively with dedicated teams to achieve excellent Engineering & Construction Standards. The first floor of the NNOC also features a visitor’s area for corporate presentations to high profile government and corporate visitors from India and abroad. A bridge is suspended from the ceiling of the NNOC allowing visitors to pass through the NNOC without disturbing the day-to-day operations. After the successful implementation of this worldclass project, Reliance is now planning to further extend the centralised control room concept to its other business divisions. Picture courtesy: Varun More pics coming soon ! Edited July 7, 2004 by city02 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greens 21 Report post Posted June 4, 2004 (edited) at the end of the day, customer care matters, not this gizmos... Edited July 7, 2004 by city02 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harsh 1 Report post Posted June 5, 2004 and that care is never enough fot a customer because.... yeh dil mange more .....!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
city02 63 Report post Posted June 5, 2004 ohh look at all those pretty lights and colours... now they just have to get it all to work properly! PS: I have split the above image since it was too wide, here is the 2nd part... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arun 795 Report post Posted June 5, 2004 The dimension of the pic is too big for the page to hold, thats why you have to scroll to the right. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greens 21 Report post Posted June 5, 2004 Even we need big screens to watch those big screens. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arun12 0 Report post Posted June 7, 2004 at the end of the day, customer care matters, not this gizmos... Agreed 100% Its the customers who make a compny like this rather than company making customers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
niket 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2004 The Reliance Network: A bird's eye view Shilpi Das Reliance Infocomm has made adequate technological provisions to ensure uninterrupted network service to cope with the ever increasing number of users. The network management and the related equipment at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC), Mumbai, from where the All India network of Reliance India Mobile (RIM) is monitored, projects that. The backbone of the RIM network is the optical fibres network that spans a total distance of 95,000 km across the country. These fibres help to carry voice and data traffic across the network. Built using high capacity G655 fibre optic cables, they can manage a total bandwidth of 9,200 Gbps. Even so, Reliance has plans to multiply the bandwidth by several times in the not-so-far future. Situated at various locations, are several Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), which receive and transmit mobile signals to and from Reliance IndiaMobile handsets. There are 3600 such BTS towers across the country, whose concentration varies with the density of users. A call made from a Reliance IndiaMobile handset to another Reliance IndiaMobile handset at any other location, is transferred through these BTS towers on Reliance IndiaMobile's "transport" network till it is transferred to the receiver. However, a single BTS tower can only handle a specific number of calls. So highly populated cities like Mumbai have more BTS towers than any thinly populated ones. According to Reliance, the CDMA 1X technology used by them, helps them handle 5 to 6 times more customers per tower than a conventional BTS tower used by any GSM operator. Every region of the country which has Reliance network, is linked through a 'Ring Architecture' which promises to provide security and route the calls/data through a different route if any part of optical fiber is broken. In order to supply uninterrupted service of network, special measures are taken in the National Network Operations Centre (NNOC) in DAKC, which monitors the All India Reliance network on a 24x7 basis. Set up in an area of 110,000 sq. ft., it is designed to ensure provision for new connection, detect network faults and degradations conclusively ensuring several measures of remedy. The large video walls around the hall allow experts to view and locate the region of the fault. The physical division of the monitors correspond to several operational groups like voice information, data information, and actual physical infrastructure. According to Reliance, once a fault occurs and is detected in NNOC, it gets resolved within the next four hours. Also, in case of a cable rupture or network faults anywhere around the country, the fault can be pinpointed with an accuracy of 15 meters. Besides this, NNOC also has a Situation Room, which is equipped to handle any crisis or outage in the network. For example if there is a threat for interrupted network service due to severe weather, then this Situation Room comes into action. Besides this there is an NNOC in Hyderabad which provides backup service if there is a glitch in DAKC. Recently, Reliance has been named as the 'Most Promising Service Provider' of Asia Pacific region and awarded by Frost & Sullivan. Witnessing the whole network management of Reliance at DAKC, the Technology and the infrastructure, such accolades don’t come as a surprise. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ashokjp 15 Report post Posted June 16, 2004 Damn Good One... Well i liked those pics.. It gives a HI Fi Look to the whole review.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
city02 63 Report post Posted July 7, 2004 Found some more images: PS: I've also resized/split all the images above so there is no horizontal scrolling needed (at least on my monitor). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anujit 0 Report post Posted July 7, 2004 nice buildings but we need more pics of their signal towers!!! those are the things that are really hard to find!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
city02 63 Report post Posted July 7, 2004 How's this for a tower image? It was a little tough since I had to 'print screen' from a video so its grainy... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
city02 63 Report post Posted December 6, 2004 Here is a map of the 'city': Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tanveer 59 Report post Posted July 28, 2005 (edited) Got an E mail from a friend who claims these pics are from DAKC infocomm office! Not very sure but looks really good! check these I think arun had posted some a long time bacK Edited July 28, 2005 by tanveer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deepu 0 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 This came as an email to me also some months back!!! The subject read like this " Looks like NASA but its Reliance" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Puneet 0 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 I guess its the National Network Operations Center (NNOC) at DAKC. Seemingly, all of RIC's network is managed from this central facility. Also, RIC was inaugrated from this very place, when Pramod Mahajan had called up A. B. Vajpayee on December 28, 2002. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SexyGurl 0 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 I'd love to work from this office ... but off course, the salary needs to be in line with the looks of the office Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Puneet 0 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 Then you can safely forget about it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
@ksh@T 20 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 really the subject line is worth,........ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ghostrider 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2006 The pay is best as per the industry standards, the company compensates guys well enough to deter attrition.. the guys am talking about are the ones that run the show... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lostjournal 7 Report post Posted March 22, 2006 this is awesome...really greaT.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
::Hitesh:: 1,763 Report post Posted February 20, 2010 "i know i am digging very old post !" gr8 photos ! gr8 info ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted February 20, 2010 Wah Hitesh Bhai.....kya purana thread dhoondh nikaala hai dost......! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACS 130 Report post Posted February 20, 2010 I too was surprised to note all the good talks on the facility etc. & thought it was no big deal in today's world! Dekha to 6 saal purana post tha & i had began reading from 1st post Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vishalmcp 8 Report post Posted February 22, 2010 "i know i am digging very old post !" gr8 photos ! gr8 info ! thanks for digging friend, all the photos are mind blowing..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
