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Time of India
4 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Starlink, Cisco team up for satellite-ready Wi-Fi routers
NEW DELHI: Elon Musk-owned Starlink has validated Wi-Fi routers designed and developed by Cisco Systems, to handle satellite-based traffic following a pilot program with the networking gear maker, which is also set to partner with the UK-based Eutelsat OneWeb and the US-based Viasat for a similar initiative. 'Cisco Systems is likely to be working with OneWeb and Viasat, after a successful demonstration and validation with Starlink, to route space-based wireless traffic seamlessly through terrestrial network operators,' an industry source told ETTelecom. San Jose-based networking equipment maker has demonstrated integration capability with backend satellite providers following a trial with Starlink, so that a telecom service operator who wants to use satellite connectivity as an option, could pull up the document, and make an instant connection. Cisco worked closely with Starlink to combine telemetry into its solution, allowing telecom service providers to have end-to-end visibility and enabling them to offer a service guarantee to end users, the person privy to the developments said. 'There was no easy way until now to trace the traffic and service from a terrestrial network to a non-terrestrial network,' he said, adding that Cisco's Wi-Fi routers are now tweaked and improved to support space-to-earth broadband services, irrespective of a carrier. Chuck Robbins-headed Cisco's satellite-enabled routers provide two-way satellite communication and offer support for multicast and unicast traffic. Billionaire Musk-owned Starlink has partnered with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio and Sunil Mittal-driven Bharti Airtel, to offer space broadband services in India's rural and remote regions. Early this month, an American multinational satellite operator received authorisation from the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (In-Space) to provide commercial satellite-based communication services in the country. Starlink's monthly subscription is likely to start at a ₹3,000 monthly payment plan and one-time installation charge of about ₹30,000 for hardware, including a router cost, for subscribers in India. The Starlink India debut may also mark a limited-time promotional tariff at $10 (about ₹850) per month for unlimited use. However, SpaceX's connectivity arm would need to establish ground infrastructure and secure radio waves from India's wireless planning & coordination wing (WPC). With Jeff Bezos-led Amazon's Kuplier Systems also vying for the Indian market, the space-to-earth digital connectivity landscape is becoming fiercely competitive. In 2022, Ambani's Jio Platforms and Luxembourg-based SES partnered to offer gigabit fibre internet services while rival Bharti Global invested $1 billion in the UK-based OneWeb, which merged with French group Eutelsat in 2023, to form Eutelsat OneWeb. Musk's Starlink, and other satellite operators that have satellite systems in low-earth orbit (LEO) offer better connectivity, bandwidth and latency to end users. Starlink makes up nearly 65% of all active satellites worldwide with a constellation of more than 7,800 small satellites in low-earth orbit, communicating with respective ground transceiver stations, as of June 2025. The satellite internet market is expected to grow by more than 100% to reach $33.44 billion in the next five years as compared to 14.56 billion in 2025, with broadband consumers likely to swell from the present 6.2 million to 15.6 million by 2030, according to industry statistics.
Time of India
25-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Transforming security for AI-enabled networks: Cisco's Kevin Wollenweber
NEW DELHI: The US-based Cisco Systems said it is working aggressively to transform the security landscape for artificial intelligence (AI)-backed networks following the multinationals' efforts to evolve network technologies. 'We will continue to evolve those technologies. We are transforming security for AI-enabled networks. Today, most of our firewall policy enforcement technologies are done at the edges of the network itself,' Kevin Wollenweber , senior vice president, Cisco Systems, told ETTelecom. Recently, Chuck Robbins-headed Cisco has revamped its security portfolio, making deployment more flexible for its customers and partners. The San Jose-based company said that it enforces AI security at the network level, decoupling AI deployment from security. The executive said, 'We have tied the security of the models into our identity technology so that we can look at your IT infrastructure and understand who is running what models.' 'So, at Cisco, we have been very careful about the usage of AI, and launched AI Defense , early this year.' Designed and developed for enterprises to build, deploy, and protect AI applications, Cisco AI Defense security solution, a part of cloud platform, focuses on AI deployment and monitoring AI usage across the organisation and is capable of detecting vulnerabilities and bringing security policies into effect. 'Our AI Defense product ensures the right level of capabilities to protect the application," Jeetu Patel, executive vice president at Cisco, separately said. Earlier, Cisco expressed its ambition of convergence between networking and security. In January this year, the networking and AI security company unveiled AI Defense, to safeguard AI transformation within enterprises.
