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The Bharti group is also involved in a joint venture with Singtel to build and operate a submarine fibre optic network between India and Singapore. This incidentally is the world's largest (in terms of bandwidth) submarine cable system with a capacity of 8.4 Tbps.

Technology:

Airtel Broadband is powered by DSL technology. DSL provides blazing-fast, secure Internet access and can be delivered to both homes and to businesses. Delivered right through a regular telephone line, data rates can vary from 128Kb to 8Mb per second depending on the type and cost of the service.
Airtel's installation typically involves a standard phone line plugged into a USB modem (also known as the CPE), which in turn is plugged into the PC. DSL routers are also available, but are offered only with select plans. The PC needs driver software to use the modem. Airtel, upon request, also supply Ethernet based modems which are generally recommended over their USB counterparts.
The default USB modem being provided by Airtel is one manufactured by Realtime Systems, which runs on a Conexant chipset. Older installations came with a Tera-100U manufactured by Terragate Inc. A guide is available to getting the latter working on Linux.

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# DSL modems are available for outright purchase or rent. DSL routers are also similarly available only on select plans. The applicable charges listed below are a guide only:

* Modem Rent: Rs.99/Month
* Modem Deposit (NOT always refundable): Rs.500
* Modem Outright Purchase: Rs.2000
* Router Rent: Rs.199/Month
* Router Deposit (NOT always refundable): Rs.1000
* Router Outright Purchase: Rs.3600

# Additional downloads (where applicable) are charged at varying rates that usually range between Re.1/MB to Rs.2/MB.

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