By: Mylaraiah JN, Director- Sales, Enterprise Business, India & SAARC, CommScope
Propel helps maximise existing infrastructure investments while intelligently and effectively preparing for future applications
As part of our CommScope NEXT organic growth initiative is continued innovation, we continue to increase our investment in technologies that will fuel growth for CommScope for years to come.
Mylaraiah JN, Director- Sales, Enterprise Business, India & SAARC, CommScope
With increasing digitization in India, several industry reports have indicated an equivalent data centre market growth. How is CommScope planning on addressing the rising demand for data centre capacity?
Increasing adoption of connected devices and online services coupled with the government of India’s digital push, has given a boost to India’s digital economy. With technological advancements, India is witnessing a surge in data consumption, arising the need for additional data centres. The impending 5G roll is also expected to impact the data centre market. According to ICRA Limited, the Indian data centres industry’s capacity will increase five-fold as it is expected to add an overall 3,900-4,100 MW of capacity involving investments of INR 1.05-1.20 lakh crore in the next five years.
As the data centres are crucial assets in the data-driven economy, the industry must pay close attention to energy consumption and space requirements as we progress toward terabit speeds. Realising the challenges, CommScope recently launched Propel, a high-speed fiber platform designed to assist data centre managers in meeting the exponential rise in demand for computing power. Propel helps maximise existing infrastructure investments while intelligently and effectively preparing for future applications.
How is a CommScope helping data centres manager to adapt to the evolving data centre landscape in India and globally?
With increasing internet penetration, large and small enterprises have also incrementally started utilising cloud computing to simplify data storage. We have witnessed consumers adopting streaming services and AI applications by employees, students, nurses, enterprises, local communities, and government organisations, resulting in increased data centre needs. By investing in strategies to significantly enhance data centre capacity, the industry continues to respond to a growth in economic activity online.
At CommScope, we have introduced Propel to address the evolving data centre landscape. With this technology, leading-edge network architectures will deliver greater capacity to end devices more effectively, thereby saving time and energy and significantly lowering the cost per gigabit. Propel facilitates the migration to Terabit speeds by providing reliable connectivity and robust network infrastructure that aligns with rapidly emerging data centre applications, enabling faster, more efficient access to data. Propel introduces 16-fiber cabling to support the fast-growing 400 Gbps and 800 Gbps speeds and emerging 1.6 Tbps speeds.
Propel modules are available in four interchangeable sizes with matching cable constructions to scale applications with system architectures easily. All components have an ultra-low loss for optimal performance and a specific QR code for performance tracking and online instructions.
How modernizing the data centres could impact the economic growth of the country?
With digital transformation, India’s data consumption is expected to grow at a CAGR of about 72.6 per cent to 10,96,58,793 million MB by 2022, according to a study by Assocham-PwC. As a result, individuals and businesses are turning to the cloud to store this massive amount of data to access it as needed. Moreover, as per a 2022 EY-NASSCOM cloud survey, 67% of large enterprises have accelerated their cloud adoption, 39% of medium-sized and 38% of small companies have embarked on their cloud journey. Digitalization has modernized the data centres and as a result, the role of data centres is expanding to analyse data more quickly and provide analytical insights.
Enterprises have already started investing in edge data centres as it enhances security, allows data to flow at high speed with minimal latency, reduces costs by bringing data closer and ultimately supporting mission-critical applications and digital services.
These changes showcase the altering profile of the data centre ecosystem. According to JLL, the rise in the data centre industry will make India a global hub and is expected to create an economic value of $1 trillion by 2025.
What are CommScope’s future investment plans?
As consumers and data-driven enterprises use more bandwidth and migrate to the cloud and mobile applications, the rate of change in networking has accelerated. We are redefining how we connect and changing the network architecture required to support customer demand due to the exponential growth in video and mobile data consumption. As this transformation continues, CommScope is uniquely positioned to offer its industry-leading combination of innovation, solutions portfolio, global production, and quality control to support enterprises’ growth and success.
As part of our CommScope NEXT organic growth initiative is continued innovation, we continue to increase our investment in technologies that will fuel growth for CommScope for years to come. In 2022, the core businesses will invest approximately $600 million in R&D and new product introductions.
